Misses the real story. These were the towers that radiated 50,000 watts of WHN, WMGM, WFAN, WEVD and WEPN, all on 1050am, until several years ago, when an identical set of three towers were built a couple miles east of these. But WMGM was the best of them — a landmark rock & roll station in the genre’s early Golden Age. Disk jockey Peter Tripp (“the curly headed kid in the third row”) was one of Don McLean’s “three men I admire most,” set the world record for staying awake, and got caught up in a “payola” scandal that far predated the normalization of the payola practice (record producers paying disk jockeys or stations, in some way, to play records). As recently as 2005, the old towers and transmitter were still state of the art.
Short answer: yes.
The student leader is just 17 years old.
An oldie but goodie
Takes something I wrote and runs deep with it. Good reading.
Key take-away: We are all authors of each other.
I’ve hung out with Clay Shirky in his NYU classes, and he’s right on.
Required reading for Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Cox, CenturyLink, Verizon and all the other U.S. carriers that would rather move TV to the Net than make the Net better for everything and everybody — and make a lot more money, a lot more simply, because of it.
Gives the paranoids something serious to worry about. Interesting question: can one of these blow out a whole Galaxy?
Runs down what rocks and sucks in all those ToSes you ignored.
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