[BC] Auxiliary Facility back to Main Facility

[Bernie Courtney]

except for the first few days after 9/11when they were running the audio out
of phase :x

and if I'm recalling all the stories I heard about WCBS post 9/11 I think
they flew in an engineer who'd retired from WCBS and moved down south
somewhere. Apparently he was the only one who knew that transmitter inside
and out and they wanted him there to make sure it stayed on the air, since
at the time I think there was only one ch2 transmitter in that room.

On 11/17/05, Kevin Tekel <amstereoexp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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