RE: Sunday Globe Magazine article on Jerry Williams

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

I can't swear to it, but I think you've got that wrong. 
Post NARBA (3/31/41), CFRB was on 860 and remained there 
until a few years later, when the CBC acquired CJBC, 
which was on 1010. The CBC forced a frequency swap with 
CFRB. (This was prior to the establishment of the CRTC; 
the CBC was kind of like Saturday Night Live's floor wax 
_and_ dessert topping; the CBC was a network _and_ a 
regulatory agency. It's not as if they were impartial.) 
1010 is a Canadian clear channel. Today, the dominant 
Canadian Class A station on 1010 is CBR in Calgary. But 
CFRB is also supposed to be a Class A, even though 
interference from WINS makes CFRB's nightime secondary 
service essentially a joke.

Anyhow, WLW's 500-kW days preceded NARBA and I don't 
know where CFRB was on the dial when WLW ran 500 kW. As 
far as I know, however, WLW never had to reduce its 
night power because of any Canadian station. What WLW 
had to do, though, was to directionalize to protect 
first-adjacent CBF in Montreal. Imagine, 500 kW 
directional! Presumably, WLW sent the equivalent of 1 
million watts to the south or southwest from an array 
that consisted of the Blaw-Knox diamond tower and a 
presumably shorter tower of a different design.

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> Also of note is that during the time that WLW was running the 500kW, at
> night (when it would have *REALLY* mattered) they had to reduce power back
> to 50kW because of interference caused to CFRB in Toronto.