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Site of the Week 12/10/2021: Northeast Pennsylvania and the Catskills

Scott Fybush by Scott Fybush
December 10, 2021
in Free Content, New York, Pennsylvania, Tower Site of the Week
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Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH

By the time the late spring of 2021 rolled around, we were getting more than a little eager to be on the road for anywhere other than upstate New York. It’s not that we don’t love our home turf, but the road was calling, loudly – and so we were eager to meet up with RadioInsight’s Lance Venta and head down through the mid-Atlantic states to spend some time in Virginia, seeing some new sites and sharing them with you… which we’ll do, starting next week.

WDNH/WYCY
WDNH/WYCY
WDNH/WYCY
WDNH/WYCY
WPAU/WBYH
WPAU/WBYH

Along the way, though, we took advantage of some sunny weather to spend an afternoon along the New York-Pennsylvania state line, up in the Catskills and the Lake Wallenpaupack region of northeast Pennsylvania.

Commercial radio around “Lake Wally” is entirely in the hands of Bold Gold, a regional chain that stretches from the Scranton market into the Catskills, and it’s mostly on one tower near Beach Lake, east of Honesdale. Here’s where we find WDNH (95.3 Honesdale), WYCY (105.3 Hawley) and W282BF (104.3), one of several translators for Bold Gold’s “Wayne Pike News Radio,” WPSN (1590 Honesdale).

WPAU/WBYH
WPAU/WBYH

Up on a steep hill overlooking Lake Wallenpaupack (and it’s a lovely view, indeed), a drive through a resort home community brings us to a county-owned tower site that’s home to several smaller FMs that are part of larger networks. WPAU (91.5 Palmyra Township) is the one-bay antenna on the left side of the tower, relaying public radio WVIA from Scranton, while WBYH (89.1 Hawley), on the two-bay antenna on the right, is part of the huge “Word FM” Christian network that stretches across much of eastern Pennsylvania. (There’s also another WPSN translator up here, on 102.5.)

WJFF's riverside home
WJFF’s riverside home

Back across the state line we go, to visit two sites belonging to public radio WJFF (90.5 Jeffersonville). These nice folks (who also happen to be Fybush Media clients) are in the midst of moving their studios, which have been located for many years just off Route 52 east of Jeffersonville, in a little house right on the banks of Callicoon Creek near a hydropower dam.

We couldn’t get inside, alas, because of COVID protocols – but we’ll get back there for sure in the next few months before WJFF moves eastward down Route 52 closer to Liberty, where it’s moving to a larger space in what used to be a farm store just downhill from its current transmitter site.

WJFF's new building
WJFF’s new building
WJFF's new building
WJFF’s new building

We were able to get inside this building to snap some “before” shots of the big empty space before it gets divided up into an air studio, production room, office space and a sizable open community room that can be used for live performances and meetings.

WJFF and WGWR
WJFF and WGWR
WSUL 98.3
WSUL 98.3
The former W233AH
The former W233AH

Looking up the hill from the side of the new WJFF building (there’s also a big lawn where they can do outdoor performances in nice weather, and a second building being used for storage), we can see up to the hill where WJFF recently moved its antenna. This site is also home to WGWR (88.1 Liberty), part of the regional Sound of Life network.

From here, we continue down Route 52 into Liberty and then down Route 17 to Monticello, where WJFF had a translator, W233AH (94.5), mounted atop a vacant building right along Broadway, the main drag through downtown. That translator has since gone silent (Interested? Give Fybush Media a call!), but you can say you’ve seen it now.

WSUL 98.3
WSUL 98.3
WYNY 1450
WYNY 1450
WYNY 1450
WYNY 1450

Right along Route 17 on the east side of Monticello, there’s a big tower that’s home to WSUL (98.3), part of Bold Gold’s cluster on the New York side of the line. We’d seen it for years driving back and forth on the highway, but had never traveled up the steep side streets that lead to the hilltop site and the cluster of prefab enclosures at its base.

And with some daylight still remaining and no huge hurry to get to our overnight stop outside New York City, we make our way south out of Monticello on Route 42 and then 97, the roads that end up hugging the Delaware River down into Port Jervis, New York, then continue along the river on US 209 for a few more miles into the pretty tourist town of Milford, Pennsylvania.

Without having planned it this way, we end up in Milford almost exactly on the tenth anniversary of the town’s first and only radio station – it was in May 2011 that Bud Williamson added what’s now WYNY (1450) to his ownership group, which also includes WDLC (1490) in Port Jervis and WABD (96.7) down the river in Lehman Township.

WYNY operates from the Port Jervis studios, so all that’s here on this skinny tower east of downtown is the AM station and an 88.1 translator that formerly relayed Bud’s jazz network, WJZZ (88.1 Montgomery NY). There is an FM translator on 106.9 for WYNY’s “Lite” AC format, but it’s at a separate site uphill closer to I-84.

Thanks to the staff of WJFF for the tours!

SPRING IS HERE…

And if you don’t have your Tower Site Calendar, now’s the time!

If you’ve been waiting for the price to come down, it’s now 30 percent off!

This year’s cover is a beauty — the 100,000-watt transmitter of the Voice Of America in Marathon, right in the heart of the Florida Keys. Both the towers and the landscape are gorgeous.

And did you see? Tower Site of the Week is back, featuring this VOA site as it faces an uncertain future. 

Other months feature some of our favorite images from years past, including some Canadian stations and several stations celebrating their centennials (buy the calendar to find out which ones!).

We still have a few of our own calendars left – as well as a handful of Radio Historian Calendars – and we are still shipping regularly.

The proceeds from the calendar help sustain the reporting that we do on the broadcast industry here at Fybush Media, so your purchases matter a lot to us here – and if that matters to you, now’s the time to show that support with an order of the Tower Site Calendar. (And we have the Broadcast Historian’s Calendar for 2025, too. Why not order both?) 

Visit the Fybush Media Store and place your order now for the new calendar, get a great discount on previous calendars, and check out our selection of books and videos, too! 

 

And don’t miss a big batch of Catskills and NE PA IDs next Wednesday, over at our sister site, TopHour.com!

Next week: On the road to Virginia

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