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Television or Radio Towers

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Are there any markets where a location is best suited for TV or Radio towers, but cannot be built due to local oposition from the local government or environmental groups? I've only know one area in Maui Hawaii that their old site for TV and Radio was the best, but they have to move down to lower part of the mountains because it effect the Astrology monitoring system.
 
I forgot exactly where the tower site was supposed to be for WCGO (then WONX) Evanston, IL, but the COL was supposed to change to Carol Stream, IL, & the tower site was gonna be located around that area. If I'm not mistaken, the FCC approved the move, but the area around the proposed tower site of then WONX was denied by the local government. It would have allowed the station to increase their power to 20 or 25kw during the day, & I think 10kw at night. Since the local government denied the station's request for the new tower site, WONX withdrew their CP, & decided to upgrade at their existing site in Evanston, IL, & keep the COL as Evanston. They however got the power increase they wanted, but not as big of an increase though, by sacrificing 1580 WKKD Aurora, IL, 1600 WMCW Harvard, IL, & 1600 WCGO (original WCGO) Chicago Heights, IL (WMCW & the original WCGO were daytime only stations with light bulb wattage at night). There's not much land in the city of Chicago to place directional AM towers, & the WGRB site is the only one I know that is in Chicago with directional towers.

For TV, WYIN had plans to locate their transmitter from their site in Lake Dalecarlia in unincorporated Lake County Indiana to the Sears Tower in 2003. The FCC approved the request, but it was WTTW & WYCC that was against the move, claiming that a station licensed to Gary Indiana would take away pledge dollars from them, while getting discounts on PBS programming, due to WYIN being licensed to Gary Indiana, while WTTW & WYCC are licensed to Chicago, & pay full price for programming. WYIN would also have had coverage similar to WTTW & WYCC, that they would have had a full market signal. WYIN withdrew their request, only because the cost to lease on the Sears Tower was too much money, & the other skycrapers weren't affordable either.

For FM radio, I haven't come across many cases where the government has blocked a station from locating at any specific site. For stations licensed to Chicago, all stations licensed in the commercial band are either on the John Hancock or Sears Tower (WDRV is the only one located on the Aon Center).
 
I am aware of a case in Ohio where local opposition prevented them from constructing a cell phone tower
near a school because the parents were concerned about the reported link between cell phone radiation
and brain tumors.

(uhh.....the concern has to do with the handset being 1/4 inch from your skull....not three watts coming
from 200 feet in the air!)

Also when WPXI in Pittsburgh moved their studios off Television Hill to the new space on I-279 they wanted
to move the tower there as well. Locals nixed that with complaints that it would be an "eyesore" (even though
two other stations have towers within half a mile, and have had for decades!)
 
I understand that the town of Cedar Hill, Texas, where many Dallas/Fort Worth broadcast towers are located, prohibits white strobes at night. All towers must flash red beacons.

Interesting FYIs from the city's website: Cedar Hill has the highest concentration of radio and television antennas in the country with 14 towers. The town has the highest elevation between the Red River and the Gulf of Mexico (880 feet above sea level), which provides a clear reach into Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding areas.
 
Dave said:
For FM radio, I haven't come across many cases where the government has blocked a station from locating at any specific site. For stations licensed to Chicago, all stations licensed in the commercial band are either on the John Hancock or Sears Tower (WDRV is the only one located on the Aon Center).
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Aon Center? Oh, OK, you mean the new Standard Oil Building. ;D

(Damn, I've been away from Chicago for too long.)
 
Wait I know in the San Francisco area theres been arguments over if Cell Phone transmitting Towers, Radio XTMR and TV XTMR's cause cancer. I'm not sure what happened after the protests.
 
Dave said:
For stations licensed to Chicago, all stations licensed in the commercial band are either on the John Hancock or Sears Tower (WDRV is the only one located on the Aon Center).[/color]
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What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
 
I heard channel 37 was for radio astrology.
So when we communicate with the aliens for 'the first time,' we won't have to go through the whole "What's your sign?" icebreaker. We can go straight to the good stuff!
 
cool. Bet it would make a great place to do some radio dxing considering there isn't a lot of transmitters to mess things up. All that effort just for "astrology".... ;)
 
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