Thanks to some good planning by the always-resourceful Mr. Fybush,
your photographer was able to schedule a week of vacation in January
visiting some of the most interesting sites in the New York City area.
Scott is working on the FM sequel to The Airwaves of New
York (McFarland & Co., 1998), the definitive history of AM
radio in the New York market, and between his research for that and
his other contacts in the engineering community, he was able to line
up for us a fabulous set of tours. Our sincerest thanks to the
station personnel who gave significant amounts of their time to show
us their facilities: Jim McGivern at Emmis; Jerry Mehrab at HBO;
Richard Ross at Hispanic Broadcasting; and Mike Erickson, Dick James,
Dan Lohse, and Mark Olkowski at Infinity.
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| WSAH tower |
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| WADS transmitter building |
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| WMNR tower |
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| Sunday Brunch at the Blue Star Diner |
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| Cinemax tape library, Hauppauge |
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| The Back End of HBO Master Control |
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| Some of HBO's eleven uplink dishes |
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| More dishes at HBO |
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| HBO master control |
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| Downtown Manhattan |
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| The East River from Empire |
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| The Hudson River and Jersey City |
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| Processing for the Emmis stations |
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| Emmis transmitters |
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| Looking up at the Empire mooring mast |
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| WFAN/WCBS tower, High Island, Bronx |
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| 660/880 Backup Tower |
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| 660/880 insulators |
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| Top of 660/880 Tower |
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| High Island Caretaker's House |
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| 660/880 Doghouse |
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| WCBS license |
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| WCBS backup transmitter |
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| WCBS processing and monitoring racks |
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| WCBS phase adjustment thingummy |
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| Blurry photo of WCBS main |
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| 660/880 Base Insulator |
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| ASRNs at 660/880 Tower |
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| 660/880 Guy Anchor |
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| WFAN Main and Backup Transmitters |
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| WPXN Temporary Facilities, First Mountain |
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