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It's Fox 5 and the 590 AM Site This Week on Fybush.com

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RoddyFreeman

Scott Fybush's Atlanta visit continues this week with trips to WAGA-TV (FOX 5) and the WDWD-AM (Radio Disney/590) transmitter site.

The FOX 5 visit was shortly before 1)the station went HD) and 2)the digital transition. So lots of activity, especially testing the new HD control room, was going on. Engineer Jim Atkinson, who gave us a tour, was very generous...um make that extremely generous with his time. (We loved the restrooms and broom closet.)

We met our friend and 590 chief engineer Russell Smith at his transmitter site in Powder Springs. I had never before been able to locate the road to the gate, but Russell provided the secret directions. At the time, the station was about to boost daytime power to 12,000 watts. This was several months before last September's rains, which flooded the transmitter building.

The link is http://fybush.com/featuredsite.html.
 
Yeah I've noticed he's been featuring Atlanta over the past few weeks. I've always enjoyed fybush.com. I've even got my Fybush calendar proudly displayed across from the copy machine at the station.

I had the pleasure of meeting Scott at the NAB Radio convention in Charlotte back in 2007. Nice fellow. 8)
 
Hey, thanks!

Here's the permalink to the WAGA/WDWD installment, in case anyone's reading this thread after next Friday:

http://www.fybush.com/sites/2010/site-100521.html

One of the real joys in putting these up is the information I find out from readers after the fact. I'm about to go back and update the WQXI/WSTR installment to include the little-known trivia (to me, at least) that the 94.1 aux site on Bishop Street was the old WQXI-TV 36 tower during that station's brief life in the fifties. (Thus explaining why Rounsaville had that site available when he bought 94.1 and made it WKXI.)

I'm also told, though I haven't confirmed it independently, that this is the site where WCON 550 operated before going dark as part of the WCON/WSB merger. Anyone else hear that one?
 
Awesome pictures! Really nice article.

I was actually surprise that Fox 5 still has their Master Control here in Atlanta, I thought it would of been HUB'ed out by now.
 
I too have only seen the WGST site from outside the fence, but nonetheless, it was a very interesting-looking site. It's real close to WAOK which is another interesting looking site. Word of caution, neither one of those towers are in very nice neighborhoods. From the outside, WGST site sort of looks like a penetentiary.
 
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