[SBE] Terrific old 1937 news reel clip!

[Jon Frank]

I believe that is WLW.  The transmitter is a the original 1928 Western Electric 107-A.  When this newsreel was released that transmitter served as the driver for the legendary 500 KW beast.  For a comparison check out this link.

http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/WE/7-A.htm

Also, the short shot of the building outside looks like WLW.  There were several Blau-Knox towers in existence at the time, but I couldn't find another station that had one and a WE 50kw. 

On Friday, October 31, 2008 8:27 AM, Gary Liebisch <gliebisch at cinci.rr.com> wrote:

>

>I noticed there was a quick shot of a Blaw Knox diamond shape

>tower in the clip. I wonder whose that was?  The building

>looked more like WSM than WLW, but back then there could have

>been a lot more of these towers in use.

> 

>Gary Liebisch

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