[BC] Auxiliary Facility back to Main Facility

[Kevin Tekel]

Dana Puopolo wrote:
> The irony is the way WCBS got an aux on Empire. Seems that their lease
> was about to expire on Empire and since they had already moved to WTC,
> they had not planned to re[new] it. The person who was in charge of
> notifying the Helmsley Group (Empire landlord) forgot to send the
letter.
> Thus, the lease automatically renewed. That person got fired for their
> 'incompetance'. THEN...the WTC was bombed (the bomb in the North tower
> basement). All the NY television stations were off for over a
> day - except for WCBS, who simply switched over to Empire.
>
> The rest - and 9/11/2001 is history.
>
> I wonder if that guy ever got rehired and/or given the million dollar
> bonus he deserved....

Even more of a bonus should've been given to the engineers who kept
WCBS-TV's vintage 1966 Harris transmitter at Empire up and running in the
wake of 9/11.  They had it putting out an excellent color picture with
full MTS stereo sound!




		
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