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Waterbury 1590 History (was WFNW 1380 ...)

And hello again. Thanks for the response freightliner. I will get in touch with you through the WICH website. As for WQQW. Fred Santore had that station humming with some of the best AM audio I ever heard. I believe it was an RCA Ampliphase XMTR. When I was in Roswell at KBCQ AM 1020, we had a 50KW Ampliphase XMTR and that delivered very clean audio too. This was back in the days before the FCC forced NRSC 10Khz brick wall. AM audio today is just not the same as it was before the NRSC stuff. And don't get me started on AM IBOC...
 
>As for WQQW. Fred Santore had that station humming with some of the best AM audio I ever heard. I believe it was an RCA Ampliphase XMTR.

I agree, John. Fred was able to get the highs out of that old transmitter. Two pictures of that 1941 transmitter are at http://www.hartfordradiohistory.com/WQQW__WBRY__W1XBS_.html

>John Tomasiewicz (sp?) was indeed a CT broadcast engineer in the 60/70s. I believe he worked at WIOF and perhaps WPOP.

John Tomasiewicz was chief engineer at WBRY/WTBY for many years before he was chief at WWCO-AM-FM. He moved CO from Bank Street to Middlebury in 1971, and moved FM (renamed WIOF) from Middlebury to Prospect two years later after Merv Griffin sold the AM.

WBRY in 1952 applied for the Channel 53 license that went to WATR. Clipping at http://bill1820.com/radio/wbry-wanted-ch53.jpg

WQQW PAMS Philadelphia Story 1973 jingles at http://bill1820.com/radio/wqqw-phili-story.mp3
 
freightliner said:
Mike,

I believe it was the owners of adjacent-channel WWRL (1600) in NYC that purchased the license of WQQW and took it dark in order to allow WWRL to relax their pattern. I could be wrong, but I also recall hearing something where this later allowed co-channel WARV in Warwick RI to upgrade.
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The demise of the 1590 in Waterbury was beneficial to WARV simply because of the lack of skywave interference. WARV had upgraded from daytime-only ND to 24 hour DA-2 with 3 towers back in the late 80's. I was working for their sister station, WFIF, back then, and it was exciting news for all of us in the company.
 
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