[BC] Another view from above

[Bill Brister]

Bob:

Yes, the original WGNO-TV tower is on top of the Trade Mart. It was
activated in October of 1967. The transmitter was in the Master Control
area. It was on the air until we built the new tower a few miles north of
Chalmette that is referenced below. We signed the new tower on in January
1981.

The Trade Mart tower is still there. I left in Dec. 1981. They eventually
moved half of the transmitter in the Trade Mart to the new site for backup.

Bill Brister


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Bill:

Was WGNO-TV's transmitter site downtown on the roof of the 
Trademart before the tower referenced below was constructed?

Bob Stroupe


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bill Brister" <bbrister at sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:13:14 -0500

>There is a lot more broadcasting in that picture of WTIX in New
Orleans.
>Back out one notch and at the very top edge of the screen you can
see
>WGNO-TV 26 with a 1049' stick. That's the one in the bend of Bayou 
>Bienvenue. Just to the right of WGNO is WLAE-TV 32 with a similar
sized
>stick. Then look ESE and across Paris Road and the white spot on
the island
>is WNOL-TV 38. You have to take a boat ride to get to that one.
There are 3
>other stations in this vicinty but they are several miles south
and east of
>Paris Road.
>
>Bill Brister
>Houston, TX
>Chief of WGNO when that tower was built in 1980.
>
>
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>One more, WTIX in New Orleans......690, 10kw-d, 5 kw-n and the DA
in a salt 
>marsh. Gotta love it.
>
>http://google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans&ll=29.963644,-
89.959016&spn=0.010600,0.
>015664&t=k&hl=en
>
>
>
>Douglas B. Pritchett
>dpritchett1 at comcast.net
>
>
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