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Created by Gustave Eiffel, the construction of the Eiffel Tower lasted just over two years and 250 workers worked there.
The artists of the moment considered it monstrous and the possibility of demolishing it on different occasions was raised.
With the advent of world wars on the twentieth century, the authorities found its usefulness as a broadcasting antenna and with it they captured messages that helped the allies decisively.
Nowadays, the Eiffel Tower is the most visited monument in the world with more than 7 million annual visitors.
A visit to Ugchelen FM DAB+ Radio Broadcast Tower near Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The tower has a height of 142 meter.
A Broadcast Partners Chief Engineer working on the FM antennas at the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower (Cellnex Gerbrandytoren) in IJsselstein the Netherlands. He is located at an altitude of 354 meter (approx. 387 yards).
The photo is taken by hand from above.
The Gerbrandytoren is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Impression of the Gerbrandy tower: flic.kr/p/H45bjs
A Broadcast Partners Chief Engineer working on the FM antennas at the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower (Cellnex Gerbrandytoren) in IJsselstein the Netherlands. He is located at an altitude of 354 meter (approx. 387 yards).
The Gerbrandytoren is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Impression of the Gerbrandy tower: flic.kr/p/H45bjs
I was a guest on the fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast, LIVE on 1368 kHz and 648 kHz from their historic radio-ship Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in the UK. With special thanks to DJ, broadcaster and engineer Johnny Lewis.
With 372 meter, the Gerbrandytoren broadcast tower is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Looking down from the top, it looks like this: flic.kr/p/2kQEYto.
I was a guest on the fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast, LIVE on 1368 kHz and 648 kHz from their historic radio-ship Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in the UK. With special thanks to DJ, broadcaster and engineer Johnny Lewis.
The almost 370 meter (1214 feet) high Christmas tree in the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower is a Christmas tree-shaped set of lights that are attached to the large radio transmission tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Christmas tree in the world.
The almost 370 meter (1214 feet) high Christmas tree in the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower is a Christmas tree-shaped set of lights that are attached to the large radio transmission tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Christmas tree in the world.
A Broadcast Partners Chief Engineer working on the FM antennas at the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower (Cellnex Gerbrandytoren) in IJsselstein the Netherlands. He is located at an altitude of 354 meter (approx. 387 yards).
The Gerbrandytoren is the highest building/structure in the Netherlands.
Impression of the Gerbrandy tower: flic.kr/p/H45bjs
I was a guest on the fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast, LIVE on 1368 kHz and 648 kHz from their historic radio-ship Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in the UK. With special thanks to DJ, broadcaster and engineer Johnny Lewis.
A visit to Ugchelen FM DAB+ Radio Broadcast Tower near Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The tower has a height of 142 meter.
Radio Latin-Amerika 105.8 MHz and DAB+ is the largest station for minorities in Norway and one of the oldest among Oslo's local media. We have been on the air uninterruptedly since 1987, with programming that includes music, news and comments, sports, culture, spaces dedicated to children and young people, interviews, live broadcasts of important events such as elections, seminars and conferences, concerts, football matches and much, much more.
Internet stream: radiolatinamerika.no/radioplayer
Radio Latin-Amerika 105.8 MHz y DAB+ es la emisora más grande con que cuentan las minorías en Noruega y una de las más antiguas entre los medios locales de Oslo. Estamos en el aire en forma ininterrumpida desde 1987, con una programación que abarca música, noticias y comentarios, deporte, cultura, espacios dedicados a los niños y jóvenes, entrevistas, envíos en directo de eventos importantes como elecciones, seminarios y conferencias, conciertos, partidos de fútbol y mucho, mucho más.
Internet stream: radiolatinamerika.no/radioplayer
Radio Latin-Amerika 105,8 MHz og DAB+ er den største stasjonen for minoriteter i Norge og en av de eldste blant Oslos lokalmedier. Vi har vært på lufta uavbrutt siden 1987, med programmering som inkluderer musikk, nyheter og kommentarer, sport, kultur, rom dedikert til barn og unge, intervjuer, direktesendinger av viktige begivenheter som valg, seminarer og konferanser, konserter, fotball kamper og mye, mye mer.
Internet stream: radiolatinamerika.no/radioplayer
The WMVP-1000 radio (formerly WCFL for many years) transmitting towers in Downers Grove, Illinois, still standing on a bright, cold day (Feb. 13) although actual broadcasts now coming from site near Joliet.
Blue hour at 30 Rock in Rockefeller Center in New York. The open plaza facing 5th Ave. allows this angle of the Comcast (formerly RCA) building.
There's nothing quite like doing a first show at a radio station! You're actually simultaneously learning how to use all the hardware AND focusing on keeping up a seamless program with no on-air errors.
The show simulated the format, pacing and energy of vintage Top-40 radio, specifically the Bill Drake formatted stations like KHJ in Los Angeles and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. I used 1960s and 70s digitally remastered jingles, promos and contests from my collection and copied them to tape carts for airplay. The show also featured real vintage commercials for products which no longer existed.
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
Often long-distance listeners on the internet would also call in to make requests and comment on the show.
I had a key to the transmitter room and would crank the Aphex Compellor audio compressor settings WAY up to give our broadcast output that old-time sound of loudness and punchiness.
Every show was recorded on VHS-HiFi tapes and I've since remastered them to CDs for my aircheck collection at home. In fact, I'm listening to one right now as I write this!
Hawaii KGU-760 transmitter site at Ahui Ave. at Kewalo Basin. Also KHNR-690 and KHCM-880, KZOO-1210 tower site.
Yours truly deep into the radio groove inside the third floor of an anonymous nondescript brick building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 2005.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for almost 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of Rhode Island and upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio DJ and aircheck collector, Bob Gilmore, took this shot during my intro talk-up of the Jimi Hendrix tune "Are You Experienced?".
He also had an oldies show, but the approach was completely different. While my show was fast paced, highly energetic and reminiscent of vintage Top 40 and its "forward thrust" formatics, his show was laid back and educational. After each set of tunes, he would discuss the the back-stories of the artists and songs just played. I learned a lot listening to the tales and insights he spoke about to his audience. He was an absolute font of information and fascinating trivia about 1950s, '60s and '70s music.
Chicago WMVP-1000 former WCFL transmitter site in Downers Grove, Illinois, in early May. This site was being demolished during the last few days of May.
Update: This and the other building were torn down May 29-30. The towers were reportedly taken down June 2.
Yours truly deep into the radio groove inside the third floor of an anonymous nondescript brick building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 2005.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for almost 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of Rhode Island and upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio DJ and aircheck collector, Bob Gilmore, took this shot during my intro talk-up of Led Zeppelin's awesome hit "Whole Lotta Love" from the spring of 1970.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for over 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio nut took this shot using my Pentax Auto 110 camera. The smallest SLR ever built, it used 110 film!
At age 9, I became totally fascinated by radio and everything to do with it. One of best stations in Connecticut was a HOT, high energy Top-40 out of New Haven. Only 1,000 watts but it sounded better than most major market stations I've ever heard and had a much broader playlist as well. (Where else could you hear "When I Die" by Motherlode, Donny Elwood's version of "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Funky Worm" by the Ohio Players on a regular basis?).
They made 77 WABC down in New York City sound like rank amateurs with its stodgy, slow format and reverb audio that was a throwback to the early 1960s. Not to mention a playlist of about 15 songs interrupted by endless commercial breaks.
WAVZ was consulted by Paul Drew, known in the industry as a total perfectionist who would call and berate the on-air jock for the slightest mistake or format deviation. The DJs were amazingly good and the locally produced commercials, station promos and contests were incredibly clever and had slick production values. "CashCade", "The Money Pool", "High Stakes", "Don't Say Hello", "The Summer Beach Patrol", "Goldfinger", "The Phrase That Pays", "Diving for Dollars", "The Tantalizer" and so many more contests in a never ending array.
I recorded hundreds of hours of their programming between 1972 and 1976 on cassettes. Fifteen years ago, I transferred all this material to CDs as a labor of love and enhanced them using Adobe Audition. This was the station that heavily influenced my decision to go into radio (at least as a weekend DJ). It's still SO cool to drive around in 2016 and listen to WAVZ from the early 1970s blasting out of my car radio. Who needs oldies stations? This is the REAL deal!
I was the last DJ at the station to still use these. They gave my oldies show a real old-school sound between tunes. Besides, it was fun to fire them off during song intros and get the "magic overlap" up to the start of the vocal that modern automation systems aren't capable of doing.
La DAD in Italia nel 1933.
L'Ente Radio Rurale, costituito negli anni '30, fu incaricato di organizzare programmi radiofonici rivolti in particolare agli alunni del primo ciclo delle scuole rurali e agli agricoltori dei villaggi del Regno e fornire loro una radio dedicata.
Le trasmissioni scolastiche ebbero inizio nell'aprile 1934 a cadenza trisettimanale (il lunedì, il mercoledì e il sabato alle ore 10.30 per una durata di circa 30 minuti. Gli alunni si dovevano sintonizzare in un ascolto simultaneo, sotto la vigile sorveglianza dell'insegnante. Il progetto didattico prevedeva un primo momento di preparazione all'ascolto gestito dal docente, un momento centrale in cui era protagonista la radio che raccoglieva gli studenti in ossequioso ascolto e un ultimo momento di scrittura dei contenuti dei programmi (fonte: www.indire.it).
Anche la macchina fotografica di questo scatto è degli anni '30:
Balda Baldina, Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 2,8/50mm.
Ilford FP4+, Ilfosol3 1+9, 4m 15s.
CanoScan 9000F Mark II
This was an absolute blast. The show simulated the format, pacing and energy of vintage Top-40 radio, specifically the Bill Drake formatted stations like KHJ in Los Angeles and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. I used 1960s and 70s digitally remastered jingles, promos and contests from my collection and copied them to tape carts for airplay. The show also featured real vintage commercials for products which no longer existed.
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
Often long-distance listeners on the internet would also call in to make requests and comment on the show.
I had a key to the transmitter room and would crank the Aphex Compellor audio compressor settings WAY up to give our broadcast output that old-time sound of loudness and punchiness.
Every show was recorded on DAT or VHS-HiFi tapes and I've since remastered them to CDs for my aircheck collection at home. In fact, I'm listening to one right now as I write this!
WSBC-1240 radio transmitter on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. This is the survivor of the longtime AM radio share time agreement between WEDC, WCRW and WSBC. This was the WEDC tower for many years.
"I don't know what to think. The metal casing is definitely extraterrestrial . . . not found on this earth. Friction with the earth's atmosphere usually tears holes in a meteorite. This thing is smooth and, as you can see, of cylindrical shape...."
WYLL-1160 transmitter site in Des Plaines, four towers view from the southeast. This site will also be home to Chicago's WSCR-670 and WBBM-780.
WJR 760 AM Detroit radio art deco transmitter building was designed in 1934 and is located in Riverview, Michigan.
WBBM-780 Chicago transmitter site in Itasca, Illinois, June 11, 2019 just before moving to Bloomingdale.
The almost 370 meter (1214 feet) high Christmas tree in the Gerbrandy Broadcast Tower is a Christmas tree-shaped set of lights that are attached to the large radio transmission tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Christmas tree in the world.
The BBC were, from early days, enthusiastic publishers, and this is typical of their output in the 1930s when numerous such booklets that supported radio broadcasts were issued - mostly on 'educational' subjects that were for 'regular' listeners and not just the separate schools educational broadcasts, and they included illustrative materials that supported the talks and discussions.
This was a series of 12 weekly broadcasts from October to December 1937 that covered what was a keen topic of the day - industrial design and its application to 'things around' you. The talks covered topics such as the home, its fittings and fixtures, architecture, town and country planning. The talks were by Anthony Bertram and the cover is by Raymond McGrath. B.Arch, ARIBA. McGrath was Australian born and went on, from 1940, to a long and distinguished career in architecture and design in Éire.
By the late 1930s the BBC commissioned some excellent designers including typography to make these booklets themselves 'fit for purpose' to use the phrase of Frank Pick, deputy chairman of London Transport at the time and who had been a long term proponent of such design issues along with the Design & Industries Association.
From Wikipedia - it was the tallest antenna in North America. Its height was reduced to 808 feet (246 m) in 1939 when it was discovered that the taller tower was causing self-cancellation in the "fringe" areas of reception of the station (it is now known that 195 electrical degrees, about 810 feet, is the optimum height for a Class A station on that frequency).
KOFI-1180 studio Kalispell, Montana. This station used to dominate the western U.S. on this frequency.
Hawaii KGU-760 transmitter site at Ahui Ave. at Kewalo Basin, right next to a seafood restaurant. Also KHNR-690 and KHCM-880, KZOO-1210 tower site.
"NBC Radio City Hollywood Studio Tour. National Broadcasting Company, Inc. A Radio Corporation of America Service. Western Headquarters. The world's greatest broadcasting system. Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, California."
According to Wikipedia, "The West Coast Radio City opened in 1938 and served as headquarters to the NBC Radio Networks' (Red and Blue) West Coast operations.... The architect for the distinctive Streamline Moderne building at Hollywood and Vine was John C. Austin.... In 1964, the West Coast Radio City building was demolished, as NBC moved more of their West Coast television operations to the Burbank facility. The site is now occupied by a bank."
WBBM-780 Chicago transmitter site in Itasca, Illinois, June 11, 2019 just before moving to WSCR-670 Bloomingdale.
This scan is from a small photo in the Encore yearbook for 1978. That's a rack of carts in the background where all the jingles and promos were stored on the radio version of 8 track tapes. Those square headphones are so 1970s!
Radio was completely analog back them. No automation computers like today. You had to know how to back-queue records, fire them up at just the right moment after a jingle, talk them up to the vocal, remove the previous record, get the next tune ready for airplay and think of something clever to say. You also had to handle the phones for requests and write an entry in a log of the songs you played. It took work and experience to make everything sound completely seamless and effortless. I loved every second of it!