Tower hunter (cont'd)

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:17:09 -0400, "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net> said:

> P.S.:  Still no word on the oldest.  I'm still thinking WFEA, though WZON
> (nee WLBZ) is a possibility too.  It sticks in my mind that WZON's major
> tower (affectionately called "Bertha," I'm told,) was built when the station
> moved from Dover-Foxcroft to Bangor in 1929.

The Antenna Structure Registration database shows 33 towers in New
England which were built before 1941.  They are:

1933-01-01	WICC
1933-01-01	Yankee/Armstrong tower, Paxton
1934-01-01	WDRC
1938-01-01	WATR
1939-01-01	101 West St., Springfield
1939-01-01	WTIC
1939-03-30	WTAG
1940-01-01	WEEI
1940-01-01	WHJJ
1940-01-01	WKNE
1940-01-01	WMKI
1940-01-01	WRKO
1940-07-27	WBZ
1940-09-01	WZAN

(Directional arrays have been merged.  A date of January 1 should be
taken to mean "date unknown".)

Here are the dates for 1941 to 1951, by the way:

1941-02-01	WGIR
1941-10-01	WTAG tower 4
1945-01-01	910 New Britain, whatever its current calls may be
1946-01-01	WACE
1946-01-01	WKXL
1947-01-01	WGGB-TV
1947-01-01	WLAM
1947-06-10	WRIB
1947-09-01	WSKI
1947-12-01	WEZF stl tower
1948-01-01	WHYN
1948-01-01	WILD (former)
1948-01-01	WJAR
1948-01-01	WJIB
1948-01-01	WPRO-FM
1948-01-01	WROL
1948-01-01	WSRS aux tower, Paxton
1949-07-01	WXNI
1949-08-01	WBSM
1950-01-01	990 Providence, whatever it is now
1950-01-01	WBZ aux tower, Brighton
1950-03-01	WEIM
1951-01-01	WPRO
1951-01-01	WUNR

For the entire U.S., you have these early towers:

1923-01-01	KBPS (doubtful)
1924-10-01	WNDE
1925-01-01	KGO tower 1
1925-01-01	WJBC
1925-02-01	WKBF
1926-12-01	WWVA
1927-01-01	Boone (Iowa) Biblical Ministries
1927-01-01	KGHL tower 1
1928-01-01	WIVK

-GAWollman