WAR OF THE WORLDS

[Dan.Strassberg]

The WEAF site may have been in Port Jefferson but the air talent always referred to it as being in Port Washington. The site (let's just call it Port President ;>) was a fair distance further from the five boroughs than High Island is but WEAF/WNBC/WRCA et al, used a simple two-tower array ro mildly enhance the signal to the west. Also, the path to the Bronx, northern Queens, and Manhattan's east side was salt water all the way. What with solid granite in Manhattan, the signal on Manhattan's west side was not good, notwithstanding the high power, low frequency, favorable DA, and all of the salt water.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott Fybush 
  To: Dan.Strassberg 
  Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org ; Sid Schweiger 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:46 PM
  Subject: Re: WAR OF THE WORLDS


  On 7/11/2012 12:22 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
  > But WAS it Bound Brook? Scott Fybush says Wayne. Gets confusing because
  > of two NYC stations use (at different times) of the WABC calls. So we
  > are left with the question of which WABC was in Bound Brook (even though
  > neither station had the WABC calls at that time) and which WABC was in
  > Wayne (even though neither station had the WABC calls at that time, either).
  >

  There is no question. The history is very clear on this. The station 
  that was in Bound Brook until 1943 was the 760/770 Blue Network facility 
  then known as WJZ and today known as WABC. (It's still using the tower 
  from Bound Brook, in fact - in 1943, it was dismantled and moved to the 
  current site in Lodi). The station that was in Wayne from 1932 until 
  1940 was the 860 CBS facility then known as WABC and today known as WCBS 
  on 880.

  (NBC's 660, meanwhile, was moving around Long Island from Bellmore to 
  Port Jefferson before diplexing on High Island with WCBS in 1963.)

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