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WENS TV

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PHIL Z

In a 1961 Broadcasting Mag. I saw an Article "WENS Opposes move to Channel 22". It Stated that Channel 16 was being moved to Channel 22, So a new TV Station on Channel 15 in Youngstown could be Built. Any Info?
 
By then, it was moot since WENS had been dark for several years. After their tower fell and they replaced it with a shorter one, it was all down hill after that.
 
hypwr said:
By then, it was moot since WENS had been dark for several years. After their tower fell and they replaced it with a shorter one, it was all down hill after that.
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Legend has it that after the tower fell (in 1955) they replaced it with a tall wooden pole. I don't know if that
story is true or not, but maybe you do.

Really, it was downhill from the start for WENS, because UHF viewership was so low back then. It was worse
for the original channel 53, WKJF-TV, which was gone in less than a year.

WENS retained their construction permit after going dark in 1957. It was modified to specify channel 22 once
WQEX occupied channel 16 (using WENS' old transmitter), but the station was never rebuilt.

C.
 
cingram said:
hypwr said:
By then, it was moot since WENS had been dark for several years. After their tower fell and they replaced it with a shorter one, it was all down hill after that.
Click to expand...

Legend has it that after the tower fell (in 1955) they replaced it with a tall wooden pole. I don't know if that
story is true or not, but maybe you do.
Click to expand...

I'd heard a similar story regarding WOKU-FM in Greensburg, that the antenna was on a telephone pole.
 
WENS put up a shorter guyed tower. However, they may have used a pole until that was accomplished. Their tower fell the same night that WLOA's self-supporter fell. A number of stations used telephone poles to support FM antennas. W75P was on a phone pole up by Pitt Stadium until they constructed a Blaw-Knox self-supporter.
 
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