Felger leaving ESPN Boston

Scott Fybush scott@fybush.com
Mon Jul 14 09:58:16 EDT 2008


Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:58:03 -0400, "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net> said:
> 
>> Garrett: Since you live in Framingham, you are probably never reminded
>> of WCRN's major problem inside of Route 128--SERIOUS phasing between
>> skywave and groundwave.
> 
> That's true.  But when I hear people talking up signals like 1260, I
> feel the need to remind people that more than half of the market is
> located west of 128.

Which raises an interesting question: given the rules then in effect (25 
mV/m over the main post office of the COL), if you'd been a consulting 
engineer in the thirties or forties who happened to be possessed of a 
population map of Greater Boston circa 2008, where would you have put 
your big AM transmitters in those halcyon days before NIMBYism?

I'm thinking WHDH got it just about right...

s


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