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ESB vs. CONDE NAST SITES

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OldChicago

Just curious, as someone who does not live in the area for this group, who (both radio and TV) transmits from Empire State, and who uses Conde Nast. Are there any other sites used for TV/radio transmissions. Who will move to the new World Trade Center?

Old Chicago
 
All of the commercial-band class Bs in the market are at Empire except 94.7, which is across the Hudson in New Jersey. So is WQXR (105.9B1). 4TS is home to the main transmitters of WBGO (88.3B1), WKCR (89.9B1), WNYE (91.5B1) and a booster for WFMU (91.1). It also houses auxes for roughly half the Empire FMs.

On TV, 4TS is home to WNYE (RF24) and a bunch of auxes.

ESB is somewhat preferred to 4TS, wherever possible, because it's a few hundred feet higher and less surrounded by similar-height buildings that can cause multipath. But the mast space at Empire is quite limited and can't easily handle directional antennas, and that's where 4TS is useful. (It's also useful during blackouts, since it has much more auxiliary power capacity than Empire.)
 
Yes, I was unclear there - WQXR is on Empire along with all of the commercial-band Bs except for 94.7.
 
The new Channel 3 allocated to "Middletown Township, NJ" (Monmouth County) is supposedly going to use the Conde Naste/4 TS location to transmit from. With 10kw visual transmitting on Channel 3, they probably will not even reach their city of license without pixelating if you could pull it in at all. Of course, the name of the game is "must carry" status on cable and not broadcasting a rimshot signal to the Jersey Shore.

-Mike
 
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