WCAP On The Move, WLLH Lowell Going Dark?

[Kevin Vahey]

CBS first used Norelco's at Studio 50 but switched to Marconi and that did
not address the issue.

The Marconi Mark VII's always had a washed out look as it was a 4 tube
design. WXPO got the cameras at a discount as the new RCA TK-44 which was a
3 tube plumbicon Norelco clone and RCA was promising a quick delivery. WSMW
in Worcester went that route and the cameras were fine.

WXPO had other issues including a transmitter location that was suspect and
by the time the Chief Engineer was replaced there was no money left to fix
the issues.

A major part of the station's plan was to become a local production house
for commercials but the RF issues made that impossible as other stations
refused to air commercials taped in Lowell.

http://eyesofageneration.com/the-heart-of-the-magnetic-field-problems-for-cbs-studio-50in-one-of-todays-ea/


On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 8:00 PM Mark Watson <markwats@comcast.net> wrote:

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> >Mark, when was the transmitter moved from the 'Giant Building' at >Market
> and Dutton? I'm thinking it was around the time WSSH moved >to Woburn
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> The WLLH tower on the roof of the Giant Store building at 4 Broadway,
> corner of Dutton Street was taken down in 1986 after both WLLH & WSSH moved
> their studios, WSSH as mentioned to Woburn and WLLH moved to studios in the
> newly built Lowell Hilton hotel, which later became the Sheraton Inn
> Riverfront. Then they moved to 44 Church Street for the last few years of
> Arnold Lerner’s ownership. WXPO studios were on Dutton near Market, just a
> block away from the Giant Store. I knew about the RF issues that wreaked
> havoc with WXPO’s cameras but didn’t know that CBS had RF issues at the Ed
> Sullivan Theater. How did CBS get around that?
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