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Sandy

WFMU (91.1) is still off the air. Last I heard, there was still no power at their West Orange transmitter. They are broadcasting online. Their Jersey City studios suffered lots of electrical and water damage. They also had to cancel the annual WFMU Record Fair which was supposed to take place this weekend at the Manhattan Pavilion, so they are losing out on the funds they would have raised from that.

WNYE (91.5) has been a dead carrier since Tuesday morning.
 
94.7 WFME was off-air for awhile (broadcasting a signal with no audio) at about the same time as the WFMU outage noted above.
 
boiseengineer said:
So it's a good bet they were really under for Sandy.
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Yes, they were. Salem has sent engineers from LA to New York to help rebuild the facility.
 
Re: WCBS coverage Better than Z100???

xmusicmatt said:
Everyone is praising Z100 for their coverage...
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The person that Harrison quoted in his newsletter praising Z100 was none other than Walter "FM News" Sabo.

Draw your own conclusions.
 
Re: WCBS coverage Better than Z100???

johndavis said:
xmusicmatt said:
Everyone is praising Z100 for their coverage...
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The person that Harrison quoted in his newsletter praising Z100 was none other than Walter "FM News" Sabo.

Draw your own conclusions.
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'nuf said.

Speaking of WCBS, are they still on generator? One of the morning men mentioned walking into a dark building.
 
STA request:

WMCA IS AUTHORIZED TO OPERATE ON 570 KHZ WITH 5.0 KW DAY AND NIGHT USING A THREE TOWER ARRAY (DA-1). THE WMCA SITE IS FLOODED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY. WATER DAMAGE TO THE TRANSMITTER WAS SEVERE, THEREFORE WMCA IS CURRENTLY OFF-AIR. A NEW TRANSMITTER HAS BEEN ORDERED.

FOLLOWING THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW TRANSMITTER, IT IS REQUESTED THAT WMCA BE PERMITTED TO OPERATE AT REDUCED POWER AND/OR PARAMETERS AT VARIANCE TO PERMIT THE COMPLETE RESTORATION OF THE WMCA FACILITY....
 
Yikes! I know that site well, it's in the water on an average day with walkways out to the tower bases.

I can't imagine what it looked like with a 12' storm surge on top of an astronomically high tide and high winds.
 
Ike Hull said:
WFMU (91.1) is still off the air. Last I heard, there was still no power at their West Orange transmitter. They are broadcasting online. Their Jersey City studios suffered lots of electrical and water damage. They also had to cancel the annual WFMU Record Fair which was supposed to take place this weekend at the Manhattan Pavilion, so they are losing out on the funds they would have raised from that.

WNYE (91.5) has been a dead carrier since Tuesday morning.
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I especially feel bad for WFMU. While I'm glad nobody was hurt there, the transmitter and main studios are a total loss I hear

Guess I'll be writing a bigger check this month.....
 
Just noting for reference since its time has passed: the Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together benefit 1-hour concert special on NBC that aired at 8pm ET on Fri. 11/2 also aired on NYC area radio stations:

WAXQ 104.3 - horrible on-air audio - think old pre-AAC low bit rate stuff; similar to satellite radio feeds when conditions are wrong.
---plus, cut out of Bruce Springsteen's performance at tail end of show which ran past 9pm ET by about 1 minute; likely Q104.3 (and/or Clear Channel/iHeart?) had an "alarm clock shutoff" set for precisely 9pm.

WKJY 98.3 - better audio

WBBR 1130 - OK for AM radio

Didn't get a chance to listen online to compare.
 
WNYC(AM) is back on, but WMCA is still off. WNYC came back on at around 6 PM Friday with a temporary 1 kW non-directional signal.
 
570 WMCA and 1190 WLIB are finally back on now. Like WNYC(AM), WMCA is probably transmitting a reduced power non-directional signal until they can get the antenna tuning equipment repaired.
 
stewie said:
boiseengineer said:
A picture of the WNYC site's here:
http://www.radioworld.com/article/-stagnitto-a-view-from-new-york/216191
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Interesting... The loss of P2P T1's for STL. No microwave backup I guess?
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Before 9/11, the main STL path to the AM site went from the Municipal Building to 1WTC and then microwave to Kearny. I don't know whether the microwave path was ever replaced, but last I heard there was a backup STL path available to Kearny via the PRSS satellite system. That may not have helped if the dish at Kearny was damaged, too.
 
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