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Site of the Week 4/6/2012: Cleveland’s Seven Hills/Parma Tower Farm, revisited
Way back in 2004, this column featured an extensive look at the many tall towers that dot the landscape of Parma, Ohio, just south of Cleveland. Go ahead and hit that link – you’ll get peeks at most of the AM, FM and TV sites that serve this very sizable and interesting market, not to [...]
Site of the Week 3/30/12: From Kingston to Catskill, June 2010
It’s taken us four Tower Site of the Week installments to cover all the ground that we surveyed in real life back in June 2010, when we spent three very busy days traversing New York’s Hudson Valley in the company of our longtime tower-hunting colleague Mike Fitzpatrick of NECRAT.us. In our first three installments, we’ve [...]
Site of the Week 3/23/12: Lower Hudson Valley, June 2010
As Mike Fitzpatrick of NECRAT.us has noted in a comment on an earlier installment in our ongoing recap of a very action-packed June 2010 trip to broadcast facilities up and down New York’s Hudson Valley, two determined tower-hunters can see a lot of sites in just three days, if they put their minds to it [...]
Site of the Week 3/16/12: Illinois Mountain, Highland, NY, 2010
Along the Hudson River’s majestic journey from Albany down to the New York City suburbs, there are plenty of decently damp spots to locate AM stations. But finding just the right location for an FM signal to cover the long, narrow valley is a bigger challenge – and in all our years of traveling through [...]
Site of the Week 3/9/12: Clear Channel Hudson Valley
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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