Re: About Mount Greylock TV....

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 27 Dec 2001 at 19:24, Laurence Glavin wrote:

> By now, many of you have received your Fybush-O-Gram, the classy 
> Tower Photo calendar.  I was perusing all the pix, icluding the 
> current channel 19 tower on Mount Greylock, Mass. (Several years ago, I
> hiked up the mountain to view the tower directly; I won't do it
> again...the trail is slow and winding, it takes all day!)  Scott mentioned
> that Massachusetts' highest peak (as opposed to Massachusetts' highest
> pique: exorbitant taxes!) was once home to a pioneering UHF station:
> WMGT-TV, listed on the calendar as channel 71.  Well, a couple of years
> ago, WCVB''s "Chronicle" show did a story on that outlet, and my
> recollection was that WMGT was on channel 74.  So I did a google search
> and came up with a site that includes a morgue of UHF stations, and WMGT
> was on it...and yes, it was on channel 74.  The URL for search purposes
> is:  http://www.geocities.com/radiojunkie1/index2.html 

I also remember it on channel 74.  Then it moved to channel 19, still as 
WMGT.  Then, a storm blew down the tower, and it went off the air.  When 
it came back, it was WCDC, relaying WCDA and WCDB, in Albany and Hagaman, 
N.Y., which later bacame WTEN.

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