NERW 2/4: WMTW Leaves Mount Washington

[fybush@gwind.pair.com]

------------------------------E-MAIL EDITION-----------------------------
--------------------------NorthEast Radio Watch--------------------------
                             February 4, 2002

IN THIS ISSUE:

*NEW HAMPSHIRE/MAINE: WMTW Leaves Mount Washington
*NEW YORK: Shakeup at Entercom/Buffalo Ousts WBEN's Smith
*MASSACHUSETTS: Pats Win!

-----------------------------by Scott Fybush-----------------------------
-------------------------<http://www.fybush.com>-------------------------

*A 48-year legacy of television broadcasting from the highest point in
the Northeast is coming to an end within days, as WMTW-TV (Channel 8)
shuts down its transmitter atop Mount Washington, NEW HAMPSHIRE in
favor of a new tower west of Sebago Lake in Maine.

The move itself is no surprise, at least if you've been reading NERW
for a few years now, but the timing is. 

Some history, first (with more to come on Wednesday at Tower Site of
the Week): Four years after pioneering FM station WMNE (ex-W1XER, one
of FM inventor Edwin Armstrong's initial sites) shut down, Mount
Washington returned to the airwaves, on August 31, 1954, with the
first broadcast of WMTW-TV, licensed to Poland Spring, Maine, some 48
miles away.