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WNWR 1540

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I am under the impression that this station no longer has it transmitter site on Ridge Av. is that correct? Which was 50kw day & 250 watts night from a 3 tower array.

I ask because I am seeing info that it is still there but on "google streetview " I see new houses instead, what the Philly TV antenna farm in the background? Also on the FCC website I can't pin down what they are up to, it seems they were at low-power until a new site is built . . . if they still are at low-power where they operating from and where will the new site be located ?
The FCC website also says they are at 50kw / 250w???

Wait . . . looked closer at FCC website, in an application found coordinates, looks like they are using a single tower on Consohocken Av,in Philly. Looks like they are on 1340 WHAT's tower for now.
It also seems that they might be staying at this site and low power, but can't pin that question down, will they eventually get a new site and higher power . . . anybody know ?

Al
 
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I believe there was an application at some point for WNWR to move to now-sister station WHAT's tower. Not sure if that ever came to be though.
 
I believe, from WNWR's filings with the FCC, that they are currently operating from WHAT's tower non-directional with 1.2 kW days and 7 W nights, pending completion of a construction permit for more power. The CP requested today appears to be a replacement for one that was filed in 2019 and expired last month.
 
Perhaps one or two of you Philos Delphi folks can help me out with this tower-site question ?

When I worked in Philadelphia I'd pass three towers while going 'south' on 95. Fatefully, it seemed to be only at night when I passed them. The three-in-a-row sticks were near exit 13 or 14, near FDR Park. Perhaps the towers were off Penrose Avenue, parallel to 95 at that point.

WURD ? WPGR ? Other?

Tia !
 
WURD has been in the Schuykill river bottoms, in the refinery district south of the city, since the 1950s. That's sorta close to the I-95 exit you mention, but it's still a couple miles. Here's a map of where they were: Google Map There are currently two towers, it looks like there were 5 in years gone by.

WPGR/WNWR 1540 historic tower site (1950s to late 2010s) was in the northwest corner of Philadelphia County, across the Schuykill river from I-76.

So I haven't found the answer, but I've eliminated a couple of options :)
 
They first signed on as WFLN AM, 1kw-d, highly directional to protect a Delaware signal, 3 towers never anymore. Sold to a talk show guy who flipped it to Delaware Valley Talk, WDVT, then some Baptist preacher bought it, changed it to gospel, WURD standing for Word 900. Soon he took down two towers I believe one fell and stood on the air 24/7, of course the FCC did nothing. Mega then bought it erected two stand alone towers and received night authorization at lower power. Then Cody the crook Anderson and his cronies borrowed 2 million from the city under mayor Goode, which was never paid back and leased it from Mega who moved the Spanish signal to 1310. I think Leeaves now owns or leases it. For 1kw they seem to get out much further then the WFLN days, making it all the way to the shore, their FM translator is a true flamethrower for 250w going east. (I INCLUDED A PHOTO FROM 1964 OF THE THREE TOWER ARRAY AROUND THE 61ST CURVE)
 

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Thanks, folks!
Pennsy can be a confusing state that way, lol, even for a NYC boy like me who lived well within signl range of that vast AM tower dynasty in North Jersey.
According to Radio-Locator, our local WPPA is listed as having three towers. R-L is probably correct, with 3 towers in use during the day and three at night. But they are different towers. WPPA has FIVE towers, like the '5' on a die. None of them are lit at night.
R-L also claims that WKOK Sunbury uses five towers at night. If so, we've only ever seen three towers blinking. The wife and I drove around the back of those sticks once and heard WKOK's signals cannabalizing themselves, so there was no mistake.
Lol again. Once more, R-L plus two other sources have maps I can't figure out. The WKOK's 1000-watt nighttime lobe on all three maps has WKOK's night power going -- where else? -- darn near to Philadelphia.

But yeah ..... those three sticks off 95 I saw gotta be the WURD of the very late Eighties I saw.
Mercy bow-coops !
 
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