[IRCA] End of an era - the WHIC 1460 towers are down

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Those of you who were on the station tours at the 2004 NRC convention 
will remember our stop at Rochester's WHIC 1460, with its three 
self-supporting towers behind an office park.

At the time, we were told that the station might not be there much longer.

Today, it's not there. Sometime over the weekend, the three towers came 
down, and with them a piece of my own radio history. Those were the 
towers I saw blinking outside my bedroom window as a child, and they 
were a big part of my early interest in radio towers. It's going to be 
very strange driving around town and not seeing them there!

WHIC, which had been leasing the site, moved a few weeks ago to the 
nearby site of WROC 950, where it's operating under STA with 4500 watts 
day, 750 watts night, ND.

The old WHIC site had been built in 1947 for what was then WHEC, later 
WAXC and WWWG. In the mid-80s, the 1947 transmitter building (which also 
served briefly as studios for WWWG) was torn down and replaced with the 
office park, and after that it was just a matter of time before the 
towers were history, too.

I'll have some pictures up on fybush.com tomorrow...

s

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