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I noticed on some old topo maps of Columbus a five tower array just to the SW of Port Columbus airport (off 10th street) marked as "WWIU Towers." Old aerial photos show it to be 5 free standing towers. They're long gone now. I assume these were for airport communications? Anyone know?
 
My guess this was a typo on an old map. The predecessor to WTVN is WAIU, which operated on 640 from the 20's through the late 40's; when the station traded around frequencies to get 610, 640 landing in Akron. The WAIU calls disappeared before the war, but, by then, they may have already ended up on the topos & were just carried through.

I have WAIU listed at 500 watts in '32, suspect when they moved to 610 after the war the 4 tower box array was built, with the fifth tower daytime.

The present site is six towers and located due south of downtown near Route 23 and I-270. Pair of three towers running E to W, the NW tower is much taller than the others because it once housed WTVN-TV and 96.3; 93.3 is now on that tower.
 
You know...I was wondering if this was for the old 640 WAIU. It's a five tower box array with a center tower. Pretty close to the airport though. It was there intact in 1957 and then just one tower was there in 1971. Gone after that...peaked my curiousity.
 
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