So Near And Yet So Far

[Dan.Strassberg]

Don't you mean WBUD 1260? There is no 1310 in the Trenton area,
although there are several 1310's in NJ (Asbury Park, Camden,
Parsippany--IIRC). There is a 1300 in Trenton (used to be WTNJ, but
that was a long time ago). The reason I know this is that the Trenton
1300 used to be on 1310 MANY decades ago, and it was part of a
three-way time-share on 1310 with Asbury Park and Camden. The FCC
broke up that time-share in the '60s--or maybe even the '50s--by
turning the Asbury Park and Camden stations into what were then called
Class IV AMs on a Class III channel and moved the Trenton station to
1300 as a 250W daytimer, which must have been a very rare--maybe
unique--Class IID AM on a Class III channel. (Class IIDs could run
250W; Class IIIDs were required to run at least 500W; there were
no Class IV daytimers.) With the help of directional antennas, Asbury
Park and Trenton became true Class IIIs (now Class Bs), but Camden
remained a Class IV until all Class IV AMs were reclassified as Class
Cs. A bit of NJ radio history there, long forgotten by almost everyone
except probably Scott Fybush and me.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: So Near And Yet So Far


> In a message dated 12/17/2008 12:02:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> boston-radio-interest-request@tsornin.BostonRadio.org writes:
>
> ""So I  thought
> I'd go out to the transmitter site, which is at the end of a dirt
> road
> perpendicular
> to the main drag, Pelham Road.  There was a truck  blocking the
> street and it
> wasn't from Costa-Eagle;  it was for  workers cleaning up the area.
> One of
> them said, yes, all the  RESIDENCES in the area got their power
> back, but
> Public
> Service of NH was  not yet restoring power to BUSINESSES along the
> street;
> oops, the ONLY  business for a couple of miles IS the WCCM
> transmitter.""
>
> Why don't radio station's have back up power anymore? I notice this
> especially with AM stations. Last week we had a sub-station blow up
> in Neptune,  NJ
> and WHTG 1410 and WBUD 1310 were off the air during the  outage.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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