[earlyjukeman]

In 1983 I went to broadcast tech school in Manhattan and we took a trip up to the transmitter room in the Empire State Building. The original 1940's NBC transmitter was still there but not being used anymore. It was untouched except that all the art deco RCA metal logos were missing off the front. Still had all the tubes. My teacher who worked up there told me that it would cost to much for them to remove it and it was free to anybody who could. I was interested in acquiring some of the tubes but never did. CBS still had their transmitter running as a back up to the World Trade Center so they were the only network to stay up on 9/11.

The transmitter room is above the observation deck and techs go outside and climb up to work on the antenna. I looked out of there and you couldn't pay me enough to step out.