How many towers does WBZ-AM have?

[Bill from White Plains]

I-Heart could probably use one of their existing sites as a backup, if necessary. This is likely not a big deal.

 

[Deleted User]

The tower on back of Revere Beach Parkway, the old KISS building is not owned by them and 1430 is assumed to be going bye bye anyway. 1090 is already diplexed on that stick, adding a 3rd AM so close in freq is not cost effective IMHO


I'd be surprised if WRKO's Burlington Tower farm is theirs, I bet American Tower kept it when ARS sold to CBS and WRKO ended up with Entercom due to IIRC ownership caps at the time.

AM 1200 is part of a 5 tower complex array, I don't see another AM going in there in any way, shape, or form.

107.9 is on the Pru IIRC, 94.5 is out on one of the 128 towers, not exactly conducive for AM or cost effective.

101.7 is back in Medford IIRC, up near the old Malden Hospital, from my recollection of that tower you are not getting any AM stick on it.

If anything they move it to Hull.

 

[CTListener]

If anything they move it to Hull.

That makes no sense since the big danger to the existing Hull site is extreme coastal weather. Why would you put the backup at the same site?

 

[davideduardo]

AM 1200 is part of a 5 tower complex array, I don't see another AM going in there in any way, shape, or form.

Putting a non-directional AM into a tower that is also part of a directional array is very simple. Plus they likely own the facility, so the only cost is putting in a transmitter and building a rejection network / combiner for one tower.

 

[jlehmann]

Putting a non-directional AM into a tower that is also part of a directional array is very simple. Plus they likely own the facility, so the only cost is putting in a transmitter and building a rejection network / combiner for one tower.

I thought iHeart sold all their TX sites to Vertical Bridge a few years ago? Also, I don’t think they own the 1200/1330/1600 site. If any of the stations own it, and not a tower company, it’s probably 1600 WUNR, as they were the only station there back before it was rebuilt for all 3.

 

[Deleted User]

That makes no sense since the big danger to the existing Hull site is extreme coastal weather. Why would you put the backup at the same site?

has the weather ever taken Hull down? '

not that I know of, Hull goes off to work on the tower and transmitter, never for weather that I know of.

Down in Brant Rock, the generators for businesses are mounted on pads above the 100 year storm level of tides, we have water going over the sea wall all the time, and debris in the streets, the generators run as long as there is diesel in the tanks

 

[Deleted User]

I thought iHeart sold all their TX sites to Vertical Bridge a few years ago?

BINGO we have a winner, I Heart doesn't even own the tower in back of the old Kiss building where Total Traffic is, and that is the 1430 AM transmitter.

Half the problem with 1090 was they owed well over 350K in rent to the folks that owned the vertical real estate, and that was Vertical Bridge

1090 is diplexed with 1430

 

[davideduardo]

I thought iHeart sold all their TX sites to Vertical Bridge a few years ago?

They sold a "select group" of towers to Vertical Bridge. Those not appropriate for additional usage were apparently not part of the sale.