[BC] Re: Transmitters in houses

[Mark Earle]

KTHT 790 kHz. in Houston, Texas had a house at the transmitter site for  
years,  when they moved the AM directional to another site with more towers  they 
built a new house next to the transmitter building.  Louis Jelly was  the 
transmitter supervisor as I recall and he and his wife raised three or four  kids 
all the way thru school at those two sites.  Station later on became  KULF.
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Became KBME at some point. Through much of 2004, and a few years before that, it was running "music of your life" type stuff, but during the day, done live and local by Paul Berlin. When the stuidos were consolidated and moved, the new studio had to get a turntable installed for Paul's use.

Let's see.

KODA 99.1 bought KKRW 93.7
Then we bought 1230 KNUZ and 102.9  changed calls to KKPN

Paul "came with" teh KNUZ/102.9 aquisition and ended up over time on 790, as Clear Channel ended up owning it.

To the original topic: One of the engineering staff still occupied the house at the "new" 790 site, as late as 2004. He may still be living there, for all I know. The site has.. let's see. An Ampliphase not connected, a working tube radio of some sort, and a Harris DX solid state. Runs about 5k TPO as I recall. 

CC owns 950 AM KPRC and put a Harris DX in that facility after the site was flooded. They also have KTRH 740 at 50k and it runs a DX-50. The KTRH site has no house, but is a FEMA site. It does have a kitchen, shower/ bath, small studio, etc. 



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