[BC] Westinghouse at NAB - WPEN?

[brew@theMode.com]

I wrote and Randy Shaffer replied:

>> At some point the Westinghouse was removed and an MW-5 put in for the
>> main, with the RCA becoming the standby.  That's when I heard the
>> rumour that it was operating at the NAB convention.  I remember being
>> puzzled about that, I don't think Westinghouse was selling transmitters
>> then, and hadn't been for a long while.

> Didn't WPEN do a complete tower overhaul in the mid- to late 70's? I
> thought WPEN was off the air for a week or two while the work was done.
> Is that when the MW-5 was installed?

That I don't know, but I find it hard to believe that a major market
station would go off the air for a few weeks, especially back then. There
is always a way to get *some* kind of signal on the air, even if it's
lower power.

I note that the old Overbrook site where I worked appears to be the
current Day site, which is, and was, 5 kW N-DA, but now a different night
site is 21 kW DA, but I think that came along much later.

I guess there is now only a single tower at the Overbrook site?

brew - Bruce Schiller at CBS-TV NY Master Control Maintenance and WA2ZST