Tag: Towers
Monday roundup: Minn. station settles over tower collapse; a good news director is hard to ...
Plus: Jacobs talks radio trends, and Wolf Hall keeps the codpieces small.In maintaining towers, stations face higher costs, lack of space
If any part of the broadcast plant ever merited the label “necessary evil,” a top nominee would be the tower. Expensive to maintain, ...Changes to FCC rules ease requirements for tower owners, tenants
Pubcasters who own broadcast towers are about to get regulatory relief thanks to a FCC decision that closes the books on a ...What’s that up there? (page 2)
AM: still used by several dozen pubcasters AM radio uses the low frequencies where radio began, which have much longer wavelengths. While FM ...What’s that up there?
Talk about collaboration! A typical FM/TV tower can be home to dozens of antennas for stations and other spectrum users. Five full-power TV ...KUNI tower recovers from ice storm
Iowa Public Radio’s KUNI-FM in Cedar Falls is again broadcasting at full power after several weeks of suffering from ice-storm damage. The ...How to stop more towers from collapsing
At Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting in upstate New York, Alice Recore put $1.2 million into reinforcing and preparing WCFE’s 30-year-old tower for ...Peace declared in the great Bronx tower war
At a feel-good press conference May 13, all parties hailed the resolution of a decade-long fight over the tower of Fordham University’s ...While rhetoric flows, WFUV and opponents seek alternative tower site
Fordham University’s WFUV-FM and its opponents across the street at the New York Botanical Garden have been quietly pursuing an alternative site ...Court gives WFUV fifth victory for its tower plan
New York state’s highest court early this month unanimously upheld WFUV-FM’s right to complete the radio tower on Fordham University’s Bronx campus, ...Make it shorter and hang flags from it
The New York Botanical Garden, still fighting the completion of a nearby 480-foot tower for WFUV-FM, told the FCC late in October ...Nothing’s easy in the Bronx, where botanists are tough
Fordham University’s WFUV has withstood for the third time a neighbor’s challenge to its plan to complete a 480-foot transmitting tower on ...Federal agency will help station build new tower despite broadcasts of Mass on Sundays
With its new transmission tower half built, WFUV-FM in New York City now has some more money to pay for it, after ...
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