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Emmis Sells WTHI Building, Demolition Pending

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

The three-story structure that houses Emmis' country station HI-99 (WTHI-FM) and sister station, 105.5 The River, as well as the LIN-owned WTHI-TV for 57 years (they had been leasing the space from Emmis for five years), will be torn down and be replaced by a parking lot for an adjacent building. The demolition is scheduled to take place in about a year.
http://tribstar.com/news/x977555553...razing-of-historic-WTHI-TV-and-radio-building

Reminds me of that Pretenders song... "Well, I went back to Ohio Street... but my stations were gone..."
 
DToTheJ said:
The three-story structure that houses Emmis' country station HI-99 (WTHI-FM) and sister station, 105.5 The River, as well as the LIN-owned WTHI-TV for 57 years (they had been leasing the space from Emmis for five years), will be torn down and be replaced by a parking lot for an adjacent building. The demolition is scheduled to take place in about a year.
http://tribstar.com/news/x977555553...razing-of-historic-WTHI-TV-and-radio-building

Reminds me of that Pretenders song... "Well, I went back to Ohio Street... but my stations were gone..."
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Aw, and it was such a pretty building...
 
I assume that the "pretty" remark is sarcasm?
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
I assume that the "pretty" remark is sarcasm?
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Yes it was sarcasm. I drove by it at my master's graduation in 09 in a tour through town. I am very impressed at the improved appearance of downtown TH since I was in school there in the late 70s. The transformation of the ISU campus is overwhelming. The expansion of ISU across 3rd street will be great, but I'm concerned a bit about traffic pattern disruption. Now if we can just get ISU to start a full fledged engineering school, it will become a full fledged university (no I don't care about competition to private RH).
 
When I attended ISU in 1978 we had several tours of the famed building. The FM was still stereo rock I think. Large deadly Scully reel to reels, a 55 machine, and a yard board with a stereo statesman.

The tower on top of the building was a real chunk of hardware.

Where are they moving to? Channel 2 building anyone?
 
ChiefEngineer said:
When I attended ISU in 1978 we had several tours of the famed building. The FM was still stereo rock I think. Large deadly Scully reel to reels, a 55 machine, and a yard board with a stereo statesman.

The tower on top of the building was a real chunk of hardware.

Where are they moving to? Channel 2 building anyone?
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In 78 they had two Diplomat boards. One mono and one stereo. They FM was "FM100" and beautiful music. Highest rated in town then. The Scully reel to reels were hooked to a Gates automation with 3 carosels. The AM was in the window on the world room and was country then. The tower is still there and has been since '54. It's the main HI99 tower and will stay.

TV may go to 8th and Ohio. Rumor has it that Garmong will build for them. They may get all of their micro wave stuff off of the downtown tower and go fiber to the Farmersburg site.

Emmis is selling everything but the tower to Thompson Thrift and radio will rent office space.

Its not a bad building but the Hulmans were never known to spend allot on anything so it has run down over the years. Emmis doesnt seem to have done allot since they took over. It still says AM on the building and the River isn't even mentioned.
 
Youre right BUTTON PUSHER. Sounds like a sweet deal! Ive heard that Emmis will build state of the art studios. But the landmark tower will remain for years to come. That thing is the tallest structure in downtown proper. Emmis will still own the tower, LIN will vacate, and Emmis will rebuild their studios just about 200 feet from where they are now...Doesnt sound so easy for LIN. Well deserved for the station that has been number 1 for twenty some years!
 
Hope it's a good experience for them. Emmis was a fun place to work until that fancy new building/studio complex was built. I hope and pray that history doesn't repeat itself in TH. State Of The Art studios are a poor swap for a work environment that's no longer enjoyable.
 
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