Radio World loves to receive photographs that capture the allure of radio. Over the last few years, we’ve put out multiple calls to our readership asking for pretty pictures of their facilities, and they have not disappointed! Want to share your own tower pics? Email them to [email protected].
Views From on the job
While working up in Boston, Jeff Hugabonne, a senior engineer for CACI International, sent us the following photo of WBZ NewsRadio’s tower site. He writes: “Who says radio towers aren’t pretty?” Read a new feature story about Hugabonne and a Connecticut LPFM here.
Day to Night
Just prior to the winter setting in, Joshua Mann, chief engineer at Manchester Media Group, snagged these side-by-side shots of WFEA(AM)’s 1931 Blaw-Knox tower in Merrimack, N.H.
Powered-Up Poppies
Mike Worrall, engineering director for KCSN/KSBR Radio (which is owned by California State University, Northridge) had his own photo to share from his digital archives … this one with a wealth of florals.
He writes: “The California state flower is the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), shown here in abundance. This was the site of station KSPN, 710 kHz in North Hollywood, Calif. — formerly KMPC. The site still exists, but has recently been sold to make way for housing development.”
Interesting historical footnote from Worrall: From 1942 through the mid ‘90s the station was owned by ‘The Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry.
Standing Tall
Finally, John Schneider, otherwise known as “The Radio Historian,” shared this shot of WTAD’s towers in Quincy, Ill., on what he describes as “a crisp, Midwest winter day.”
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