Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH As valuable as the land has become under many AM transmitter sites around the country, there aren’t many spots where the land is so valuable that it makes economic sense to go to the difficulty and expense of combining three AM signals into a single antenna system. There’s the […]
Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH This week’s Tower Site of the Week features two latecomers: one of the nation’s newest public radio operations and one of the last major mountaintop sites to be developed for broadcast use, all along the scenic central California coast. We start with the public radio station: KCLU-FM (88.3 Thousand […]
Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH “Ventura Highway, in the suuuuuuun-shiiiine….” – America, 1972 OK, if you want to get technical about it, that big early-seventies AM radio hit was actually about a southbound drive down US 101 from Lompoc, not the route we were taking heading north from Los Angeles on a sunny April […]
Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH “From beautiful downtown Burbank…” For two generations of TV viewers, “Burbank” was shorthand for more than just a white-bread city in the San Fernando Valley. It’s meant the studio lot at the corner of Olive and Alameda Avenues, home to NBC’s West Coast operations from 1955 until just a […]
Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH For any given broadcast market you can think of out west, there’s a mountaintop or two where the TV and FM broadcasters have congregated. A few weeks ago in this space, we took yet another drive up Mount Wilson near Los Angeles – but on that trip in April […]