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WDJO Pays OverDue Rental Fee For Towers

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By the way, My good friends at WDJO came up with $11,000 to pay their overdue rental fee for their towers on Hamilton County property adjoining the Ronald Reagan highway.
 
I still do not understand the logic behind leasing land for a directional AM array. That's just asking for trouble. A directional AM is not something where you can click your heels together, and move it somewhere else.
 
I think this was done during the regime of John Thomas. He was behind the eight ball and had to take the only thing he could get and afford at the time. Hence, the undersized towers. Please correct me if I'm wrong
 
Actually leased land arrangements are not that uncommon. Recently KHJ in LA had to move because they no longer owned the land under their towers or the building for that matter. Viacom-CBS owns the building and chose to develop the valuable real estate under the AM towers for the station they didn't own. WSTV in Steubenville went silent over a dispute with the owner of the land their tower was on. There are many more out there.
 
CBS had nothing to do with the KHJ move other than being the next-door neighbor. When the AM station was sold off, the transmitter moved out of the studio building into a new purpose-built building around the corner on Fairfax. The parcels of land were separated. I forget who ended up with the transmitter site, but it wasn't CBS. I've been in the former transmitter space in the Venice Blvd. building, and it's now a conference room with a nice view of where the towers were.
 
Scott Fybush said:
CBS had nothing to do with the KHJ move other than being the next-door neighbor. When the AM station was sold off, the transmitter moved out of the studio building into a new purpose-built building around the corner on Fairfax. The parcels of land were separated. I forget who ended up with the transmitter site, but it wasn't CBS. I've been in the former transmitter space in the Venice Blvd. building, and it's now a conference room with a nice view of where the towers were.
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The expert and on site visitor come to the rescue again. I envy you the opportunity as I have always been fascinated by transmitters and tower sites. Though observing them is a lot more fun than operating them. Especially the old beasts. There is a lot of history there and few stations remain on their historical real estate.

Thanks again Scott. :)
 
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