Re: WCSH signing off

["NH RADIO" <NHradio@mailandnews.com>]

I Have been getting a Less than the usual good Signal from WCSH for the last
week or so. Im wondering if they are operateing at reduced power. WMTW and
WGME are still comeing in as good as they did before (i just dont like their
news). id appericate any info that anyone might have. i dont think its my
Antenna but im not sure....

Take care,

Steve in Ossipee, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sid Whitaker" <sid@javanet.com>
To: "Cooper Fox" <fox893@yahoo.com>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: WCSH signing off


>
> The tower with the "considerable height" out by Sebago Lake is probably
> the new WMTW-TV tower, recently constructed in Baldwin, ME---about 1
> mile from the WCSH tower on Winn Mountain. It's a big tower---I got a
> look at it recently and it appears to be taller than the WCSH tower,
> which is about 1400 ft. Waterfront property owners on the eastern shore
> of Sebago now have two large VHF towers to gaze at---perhaps the
> additional tower will make Sebago an even greater tourist attraction.
> (For reference, the tallest tower around, the WGME-TV--WBLM-FM tower, is
> on the eastern shore of Sebago, off Route 302 in Raymond.)
>
> BTW, not sure about the WCSH late night sign-offs...my guess is either
> transmitter maintenance or DT TX installation. I know WCSH's DT
> transmitter was ordered early last summer---our GM and CE said it was
> the biggest purchase order they'd ever signed for!
>
> As far as I know there's nothing else on the WMTW-DT tower. The WCSH
> tower is also the longtime home of Maine Public Radio's 90.1 FM---the
> calls escape me for the moment---WMEA?  On a historical note, the
> current WCSH tower is the station's third tower in its 45+year history.
> The original tower, from which Channel 6 signed on in 1953 (or 4) still
> stands atop Blackstrap Mountain in Falmouth. (It is now used as an
> emergency backup). In the 1960s WCSH moved the transmitter to its
> current site on Winn Mountain...the first tower at the site collapsed in
> a massive ice storm in the mid 80s. That tower was replaced with the one
> you see up there now.
>
> Sid Whitaker
> WCSH 6
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> not speaking for the station...
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