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Site of the Week 6/22/2012: KRE/California Radio Historical Society, Berkeley, CA

Jun 22, 2012 Comments Off by

Editor’s note: This week’s column was originally presented September 2, 2011. It’s here again this week because this beautiful museum is now fighting for its life, thanks to the bankruptcy of its landlord, Inner City Broadcasting. The California Historical Radio Society needs to raise $750,000 within the next week or so to make a last-ditch [...]

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Site of the Week 2/24/12: California’s Inland Empire and High Desert, 2010

Feb 24, 2012 4 Comments

Careful readers of all of our Tower Site of the Week visits to southern California all these years may have noticed a pattern: almost all of our tours of Los Angeles-area sites take place in April. That’s not just because April is usually a congenial time to visit the Southland – after all, almost any [...]

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Site of the Week 2/17/12: A Smattering of Los Angeles Sites

Feb 17, 2012 9 Comments

Our April 2010 visit to Southern California really did pack a lot into just a couple of days – not just the studios we showed you last week, and the KRLA 870 site we showed you the previous week, and Flint Peak, as profiled late last year, and KFI, as profiled back in 2010 – [...]

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Site of the Week 2/10/12: Los Angeles Studios, 2010

Feb 10, 2012 1 Comment

Sometimes, our travel for Tower Site of the Week doesn”t go well – connections are missed, engineers are deep in crisis mode, and we find ourselves leaving a market without having managed to see everything we came to visit. But other times, everything clicks into place brilliantly – and so it was in April 2010, [...]

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Site of the Week 2/3/12: KRLA 870, Glendale, CA

Feb 03, 2012 5 Comments

Over the years, we”ve chronicled many of the interesting AM sites in and around Los Angeles, but until April 2010, one of the most unusual sites eluded us. Sure, we”d seen the KRLA (870) site up on Eagle Rock in Glendale plenty of times while driving around the area, but we”d never gotten up close [...]

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