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WTBS Tower coming down?

Quote from: artsutton on Yesterday at 05:06:58 PM
Quote from: DuckBlue on Yesterday at 11:34:50 AM
When the tower went up, Eathel Holley installed a new antenna and higher power transmitter at the channel 17 tower for his station WLTA-FM, which is now WNNX. Didn't he have his radio studios there? At the time, WLTA was easy listening and they played Seth-Thomas clock chimes on the hour and half hour. I once heard someone refer to the station as "Seth."

Here is some "clock" history in Georgia radio.

What is now 590 WDWD(AM) in Atlanta was earlier WPLO and before those calls was WAGA. It operated on 1450 then 1480 (1941) in Atlanta before moving to 590 in the 1940s. Prior to Atlanta, it was in Athens using the call sign WTFI. Originally WTFI went on the air in Toccoa at Toccoa Falls Institute (now Toccoa Falls College) as a 500 watt full time station on 1450. The year was 1927. Bulova Watch Company bought the station when it was operating in Athens and moved it to Atlanta then sold it to Storer Broadcasting that placed WAGA TV on the air. WAGA-FM is now WVEE.
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While trying to "connect the dots" to the history of the tower, I found a very unofficial, but interesting, timeline HERE that ties Atlanta to St. Petersburg, FL through Toccoa.

And before I found that, I ran across a listing in the 1968 Broadcasting Yearbook for WNEA/1300 in Newnan showing Eathel Holley as president of the station.

For a couple of months in 1968, I had a brief stay in a long-gone boarding house on 14th street up on a hill between the Peachtrees run by a nice lady who always had her radio tuned to a new radio station (WRNG/680) with a new and unique format (talk - imagine that ;)). I could look out my window and see the tower where the top half had been taken off and a sign put up facing north which flashed "WAGA - (time) - (temp)". (I'm sure WAGA didn't need the tower when they moved out to Briarcliff Road.) I don't know when they took off the top half of their tower or when Turner (or the previous owner of ch. 17) put a taller one back up again.

Is history repeating itself? Will we wind up with half a tower with a Comcast sign on top? Will the weekend hippies again take over the 10th/14th/Peachtree St. area?

Stay tuned...
 
RoddyFreeman said:
590 and 103.3 were sisters, both owned by the PLOugh drug company (now part of Schering-Plough). Not sure when Plough got out of the picture, or when 590 and 103.3 parted ways (with 590 to ABC/Disney and 103.3 to Infinity/CBS).
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Jabba, 103.3 had a couple of owners between Schering-Plough and Infinity--DKG and Summit.
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I knew there were other intervening owners, didn't know who they were. Thanks for the info.
 
It would be cool if the tower was replaced with something like THIS. It would kind of beef up the skyline, too.

(I mean, if Cincinnati can do it..... ;))
 
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