Subscribe to continue reading
Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content.
Category: Radio
-
For those of you who are not in the know, and are not from the United Kingdom; ITV, along with Channel 4 are the UK’s two private television network’s; as opposed to the BBC’s television service; along with it’s domestic radio service and international radio (World Service); are owned, operated; and controlled directly by the British government.
Below is a video of ITV promos and identifications from December, 1989.
Occurrences in the United Kingdom in the year 1989 that are as equally important as ITV running these promos and identifications as of this time are: Land Rover having introduced the Discovery, and the Discovery having gone into production for the very first time this year; how many Range Rovers Land Rover had sold this year, this being the last year that the conventional Land Rover would be known as the Ninety & One Ten before it would be given an actual name-Defender a year later; how many conventional Land Rovers the company had sold this year; the Honda/Acura Legend-based Rover 800 passenger car having replaced the SD1 (which had shared many parts with the Range Rover) a few years earlier in 1986; how many cars Volkswagen/Audi had sold in the UK this year (including Golfs, Passats; and Transporters), and how many cars Daimler-Benz had sold in the UK this year (including UK sales of the W201, W140; and W126).
Furthermore, more occurrences in the United Kingdom in the year 1989 that are as equally important as ITV running these promos and identifications as of this time are: how many Fiestas, European Escorts, Sierras, Scorpios, Transits; and P100s Ford’s European arm had sold in the UK this year.
-
WBXL-FM transmitter site in Baldwinsville, New York.
I’m not sure if this is an additional transmitter and tower that WBXL-FM transmits from, if this is a cellular phone tower; of if this is a microwave tower.
-
Jamie McCarthy (son of J.P McCarthy-longtime morning announcer for WJR-AM, a 50 Kw AM/Mediumwave station owned by the Goodwill Company, then by Capital Cities Communications along with WKBW-AM in Buffalo, New York; and when Capital Cities Communications had merged with ABC, the merged company had opted to keep WJR-AM/WHYT-FM and sell WXYZ-AM/WRIF-FM) had just recently produced a documentary about his father on WTVS-TV that is to be networked nationally by the entire Public Broadcasting System (PBS) television network.
J.P McCarthy, during the tail end of the Goodwill Company owning the station; was infuriated over not having received a pay raise at WJR-AM, wanted to do radio ads for the Stroh’s Beer (and Ice Cream) company but couldn’t while simultaneously keeping his job at WJR-AM; so he had moved to San Francisco and taken a job at ABC’s KGO-AM, where he had taken it’s morning shift ratings from #18 to #3 in the ratings. Then, when Capital Cities had purchased WJR-AM; the General Manager of the station had explained to the upper management of the new owners as to why J.P McCarthy was let go, and so J.P was then hired back with a pay raise and the opportunity to do radio commercials for whichever company he wanted.
A writer, producer, and actor with 20 years of experience in the marketing and communications field, Jamie McCarthy most recently served as the director of integrated production at Goodby, Silverst…
Source: About Jamie Mccarthy Goodby
-
Radio transmitter sites within Detroit city proper:
98.7 WBFG-FM:
The call letters WBFG painted on the smokestack for the chimney:
Transmitter site for WKMH-FM/WKNR-FM/WNIC-FM:
A transmitter site located near 7940 Intervale Street in Detroit city proper:
Radio transmitter sites within the Detroit suburban area:
WKMH-AM/WKNR-AM:
WXYZ-TV:
http://www.bing.com/mapspreview?&cp=r2b9bq81w723&lvl=18&dir=180&style=b&v=2&sV=1&form=S00027
WJBK-AM (this transmitter site had been meticulously built by Storer Broadcasting):
https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r14rgx8202r0&lvl=18.33&dir=0.03&sty=o&form=LMLTCC
CKLW-AM in Windsor, Ontario, Canada across the international border:
CKLW-FM’s tower is located to the right of the “stick” that CKLW-AM transmits from.
Another view of CKLW-FM’s tower:
WWJ-AM transmitter site:
WWJ-FM and TV transmitter site:
https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r2dk8x81zm3w&lvl=18.27&dir=357.7&sty=o&form=LMLTCC
WJLB-AM:
-
This is one of the transmitter sites in Pakistan that Arthur’s parents Jane & David Read visit in the Arthur movie for adults.
ISLAMABAD: The historical radio transmitter on Wagah border, which survived two wars with India, has now been saved from being removed in a land procurement
-
The Noblejas, Spain transmitter site; one of many transmitter sites that Arthur and his parents travel to Spain at some point in time in the Arthur movie for adults.
-
The Allouis, France and the Issoudun, France longwave, mediumwave, and shortwave transmitter sites that Arthur and his parents visit when they travel to France at one point in time in the Arthur movie for adults.
View of the front entrance of the Allouis transmitter site as of 2010:
The Issoudun transmitter site:
Video of the Issoudun transmitter site:
-
As DXers and Ham Radio operators, we occasionally receive gifts along with the QSL card or letter from the national or international mediumwave or shortwave radio station.
In the case of this mediumwave station in Carl Edward’s hometown of Columbia, Missouri-KLIK-AM, I had personally received a coffee mug along with a QSL letter from the Chief Engineer of the Cumulus Media-owned AM/Mediumwave stations.
Carl Edwards should personally realize that anything broadcasting and Ham radio-related, the world of DXing, broadcasting, and Ham radio operations; the exam required by the FCC in order to receive a Ham Radio license and there being 3 classes/levels of Ham radio license that you can receive depending on how much testing you take (the result being how much radiated power you can operate on depending which one of the 3 levels you have a license for); and spending time in a transmitter site for a commercial radio or terrestrial television station is much more important than anything sports and fitness related.
The world of DXing, broadcasting, and Ham radio operations gives Carl Edwards a reason not to do his ridiculous backflips and a reason to transform him from being fit and muscular to being fat and overweight.
In this case-KLIK-AM, Carl Edwards should realize that me personally receiving the signal of one of the mediumwave stations in his hometown is more important than anything sports and fitness related.
Fellow Missourian Jamie McMurray should also realize that KZRG-AM in his hometown of Joplin, Missouri is also more important than anything sports and fitness related.
Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray should both realize that 50 Kw WHB-AM in Kansas City, Missouri and KMOX-AM in St. Louis, Missouri, 10 Kw KCMO-AM in Kansas City, Missouri and 5 Kw KCSP-AM also in Kansas City, Missouri are much more important than anything sports and fitness related. And Clint Bowyer (hailing from a town in Kansas not too far from the Missouri border) should realize that these radio stations are more important than him attending sporting events. 50 Kw mediumwave stations KFAQ-AM in Tulsa, Oklahoma and KYFR-AM in Shenandoah, Iowa can be received in Clint Bowyer’s hometown of Emporia, Kansas. 10 Kw mediumwave stations KGGF-AM in Coffeyville, Kansas; KKOW-AM in Pittsburg, Kansas; KFTI-AM in Wichita, Kansas; KEXAS-AM in Excelsior Springs, Missouri; 25 Kw KYYS-AM in Kansas City, Kansas; 5 Kw mediumwave stations KYFR-AM in Shenadoah, Iowa; KMBZ-AM in Kansas City, Missouri; KSAL-AM in Salina, Kansas; KNSS-AM in Wichita, Kansas; KMAJ-AM in Topeka, Kansas; 1 Kw mediumwave stations KJCK-AM in Junction City, Kansas and KKOY-AM in Chanute, Kansas; and KTOP-AM in Topeka, Kansas can all be received in Clint Bowyer’s hometown of Emporia, Kansas. Even little 630 watt KFH-AM in Wichita, Kansas (which signed on in 1922), little KJRG-AM in Newton, Kansas, little KOFO-AM in Ottawa, Kansas; and little KMAN-AM in Manhattan, Kansas can be received in Clint Bowyer’s hometown of Emporia, Kansas.
EPSON MFP image -
Below are the surroundings of the BBC Dodford, England mediumwave transmitter site.
Dodford, just a short drive from Daventry; was were the mediumwave transmitter and tower was moved to sometime in the 1950’s to avoid any HF/shortwave interference from penetrating into the mediumwave station’s signal.
Arthur and his parents do visit this site frequently while they visit their friends at the Daventry shortwave transmitter site in the Arthur movie for adults.
-
More photos of Ken Squier and his radio station:
Minivan owned by Ken’s radio station as it’s mobile broadcast vehicle:
-
Some people may refer to Ken Squier as a Vermont broadcasting legend, up there with Marselis Parsons and the family of Charles P. Hasbrook-who has owned WCAX-TV since it’s inception in 1954, had purchased WCAX-AM from (now WVMT-AM) from the Burlington Daily News in 1939 and had later sold WCAX-AM to Simon Goldman and his James Broadcasting company in 1963, who had changed the call letters to WVMT-AM that year.
But I view Ken Squier as another man doing his job admirably as a race announcer and a radio and television racecaster at local and regional racetracks throughout New England, briefly for ABC; and notably for CBS for the longest time. Who happens to be from Vermont and owns his family’s own radio station in Waterbury. I wouldn’t necessarily call Ken Squier a ‘broadcasting legend’ in the normal sense. I wouldn’t put him in the class of people such as Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow, Eric Severeid, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Curt Gowdy, Jim McKay; and Chris Schenkel. I’d put him more so in the class of Keith Jackson and Dick Enberg.
Ken Squier had inherited his radio station from his father Lloyd when his father had passed away in 1979. I’d love to find out which manufacturer of transmitter Ken’s station WDEV-AM currently operates on, and which transmitters it had operated on ever since his father Lloyd had put it on the air on July 15, 1931.
Ken Squier had begun announcing races on television 1970 or 1971 with Chris Economaki and Jim McKay, a couple of them being the 1971 Greenville 200, and another race from Asheville-Weaverville, North Carolina that had aired on ABC. Ken Squier had also covered many different sporting events for CBS Eye On Sports/CBS Sports Saturday-Sunday, among them were (icky, yucky) boxing, track; and more pleasant skiing and skating. A lot of them were features like how Charles Kuralt would cover them-such as the North Carolina hollering contest and the Calaveras County Frog Jump.
In the years 1973-1974, CBS at the time wanted to try some racing, and they knew of Ken Squier’s background so it changed his value at CBS. They did several Indy car races like Milwaukee, Phoenix, Texas and at Brands Hatch in Britain. By 1976, Ken Squier was spending the majority of the summer in Europe with the Formula One on CBS, the year that Mario Andretti won the Formula One title. Mario Andretti had made the switch from NASCAR to Formula 1 in 1969. And CBS Sports had also covered Formula One for several more years utilizing Ken Squier. Ironically, also in 1976; Ken did the French Grand Prix on a Sunday and on the following Monday, CBS had sent him to Puerto Rico to announce the Pan American Games where he covered all kinds of events including (icky, yucky) weight lifting, roller skate hockey, (icky, yucky) basketball, track and field and some other things he vaguely remembers doing
By the late 1970’s, CBS had him also doing a lot of ski racing and ski jumping. It was actually in 1977 and 1978 that Ken Squier and Neal Pilson (then the head of Business Affairs for CBS) started working to get a Daytona 500 on the air as a “flag to flag” event.
The Golf events that Ken Squier did for CBS were the Colonial, the Heritage and the Masters in the year 1980.
How could yours truly not like a man who was a pioneer in television coverage of NASCAR in the sport’s good old days, had worked for my favorite network-CBS; and owns a radio station that he had inherited from his father?
Photo of Ken Squier:
http://www.vintagecelebration.com/awards/kensquier.jpg
Video about the life and career of Ken Squier:
Video about the history of Ken’s radio station in Waterbury, Vermont; WDEV-AM:
Matthew Parij 
