First Broadcasting 103.9 Tower

[stewie]

Some of you may remember when First Broadcasting purchased 103.9 and moved it into Sacramento. They spent considerable cache build a tower where highway 70 and 65 meet to bring 103.9 off the Buttes. I drove that route over the weekend and noticed that tower is no longer. Anyone know when it was taken down and why? Seems like vertical real estate is big business, I was surprised to see it missing from the horizon.

 

[jammerdave]

I don't believe that particular tower ever came to be. When 103.9 was moved from the Wheatland site, it went directly to the tower at the Newcastle exit off of I-80. First had made arrangements to sell to Bustos, and before that transpired, Salem made a deal with Bustos for it. I was the Chief at Salem for 9 years.. Bustos got 94.3 Jackson, and 103.3 Grass Valley in a swap for 103.9.

dave

Some of you may remember when First Broadcasting purchased 103.9 and moved it into Sacramento. They spent considerable cache build a tower where highway 70 and 65 meet to bring 103.9 off the Buttes. I drove that route over the weekend and noticed that tower is no longer. Anyone know when it was taken down and why? Seems like vertical real estate is big business, I was surprised to see it missing from the horizon.

 

[jammerdave]

Sorry, I didn't read your post correctly. I was thinking of a different site that they had proposed near Newcastle. Dunno why the wheatland tower went away. It was there just for them. They never had shore power brought to it, it just ran on a genset. There was nothing else on it...

df

I don't believe that particular tower ever came to be. When 103.9 was moved from the Wheatland site, it went directly to the tower at the Newcastle exit off of I-80. First had made arrangements to sell to Bustos, and before that transpired, Salem made a deal with Bustos for it. I was the Chief at Salem for 9 years.. Bustos got 94.3 Jackson, and 103.3 Grass Valley in a swap for 103.9.

dave

Some of you may remember when First Broadcasting purchased 103.9 and moved it into Sacramento. They spent considerable cache build a tower where highway 70 and 65 meet to bring 103.9 off the Buttes. I drove that route over the weekend and noticed that tower is no longer. Anyone know when it was taken down and why? Seems like vertical real estate is big business, I was surprised to see it missing from the horizon.

 

[stewie]

Sorry, I didn't read your post correctly. I was thinking of a different site that they had proposed near Newcastle. Dunno why the wheatland tower went away. It was there just for them. They never had shore power brought to it, it just ran on a genset. There was nothing else on it...

df

I don't believe that particular tower ever came to be. When 103.9 was moved from the Wheatland site, it went directly to the tower at the Newcastle exit off of I-80. First had made arrangements to sell to Bustos, and before that transpired, Salem made a deal with Bustos for it. I was the Chief at Salem for 9 years.. Bustos got 94.3 Jackson, and 103.3 Grass Valley in a swap for 103.9.

dave

Some of you may remember when First Broadcasting purchased 103.9 and moved it into Sacramento. They spent considerable cache build a tower where highway 70 and 65 meet to bring 103.9 off the Buttes. I drove that route over the weekend and noticed that tower is no longer. Anyone know when it was taken down and why? Seems like vertical real estate is big business, I was surprised to see it missing from the horizon.

Jammer Dave,

Didn't know they never ran shore power to the site. If I recall it wasn't painted so the lights were on 24/7. The must have been a pain to go up there and fill a genset to keep tower lights running. Shame to see a tower go to waste.

- An Old Friend