WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?

[Dan.Strassberg]

In this part of the country, high-band VHFs (7-13) were normally
allowed 316 kW @ 1000' AAT, but the New Haven 8 was an exception
(AFAIK, the first of several exceptions in the Northeast). But wasn't
it a unique exception? Weren't the others (6 New Bedford--and yes, I'm
quite aware that 6 was a low-band VHF--and 10/13 Albany are the ones I
can think of) all short-spaced to co-channel stations, whereas New
Haven was short spaced to first-adjacent 7 and 9 in the New York City
market. As a result, I believe that New Haven was limited to 316 kW @
500' AAT. So how high (above ground) was the Channel 8 New Haven
antenna? Does the Hamden tower still stand? If so, who is using it
now? And isn't Hartford at a somewhat higher elevation than Hamden?
Wouldn't that have made for reception problems for 8 in Hartford? Did
8 refrain from moving to Meriden Mtn (which is farther from NYC than
Hamden is) because doing so would have short-spaced it to Poland
Spring? Mt Washington is in the northern New England allocation zone
and minimum spacings (as well as maximum equivalent antenna heights)
are greater for it than for stations in more populous parts of New
England.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?


> Not to pile on here, but WNHC-TV/WTNH was never in Hartford --
> always
> New Haven, and always AFAIK transmitting from Hamden, just north of
> the Wilbur Cross Parkway.>
> -GAWollman