[BC] Auxiliary Facility back to Main Facility

[Robert Meuser]

You skipped the part about the cavity burning up - Harris custom building a 
replacement brought into the city by military escort since Manhattan was still 
shut down.

R

Bernie Courtney wrote:
> 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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