Site of the Week 3/9/12: Clear Channel Hudson Valley

Mar 09, 2012 2 Comments by

If you bought a copy of the 2011 Tower Site Calendar, you’ve already seen one of the sites we saw during a whirlwind tour up and down the Hudson Valley back in June 2010. The historic and scenic tower farm atop Mount Beacon was on the cover of the calendar, and we’ve featured it here [...]

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NERW midweek update 3/7/12: WBEC Drops Rush

Mar 07, 2012 2 Comments

It’s a busy week in NERW-land, indeed. Some of the stories you’ll be reading much more about in the next NERW: In western MASSACHUSETTS, WBEC (1420 Pittsfield) made national headlines Monday when it became the second station to drop the Rush Limbaugh show amidst the furor over Limbaugh’s comments last week. “The nature of Rush’s [...]

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NERW 3/5/2012: Who’ll Get Toronto’s Open 88.1 Signal?

Mar 05, 2012 1 Comment

In this week’s issue: 22 broadcasters queue up for 88.1 in Toronto – More new FM in Cottage Country – WNED completes WBFO purchase – Yanks land Worcester County outlet – WLAD/WDAQ set to move by SCOTT FYBUSH *Who wants one of the last big-market FM signals to become available in CANADA? Just about everyone, [...]

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Site of the Week 3/2/12: Oswego, New York, summer 2011

Mar 02, 2012 3 Comments

It has long been our policy here at Tower Site of the Week to honor fallen towers with a special installment right away…that is, if we have a “before” photo of the tower in our collection and if we find out about the tower’s collapse relatively quickly. That first “if” can be hit-or-miss; the second [...]

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NERW midweek update: WNED/WBFO schedule released

Feb 29, 2012 4 Comments

*The sound of public radio in western NEW YORK will change dramatically Thursday afternoon at 4. That’s when public broadcaster WNED will officially begin programming WBFO (88.7 Buffalo), WOLN (91.3 Olean) and WUBJ (88.1 Jamestown), the signals it’s acquiring from the State University of New York for $4 million. It took until Tuesday afternoon for [...]

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