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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
"WGN, WGN, all I hear is WGN - and I don't even own a radio!" - comical clip played from time to time by long-past WGN morning host Wally Phillips. There were reports of some homes in the subdivision that grew up near the transmitter with WGN audio coming from the air ducts.
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My dad lived in Cincinnati in the 1930s and told me stories about hearing WLW on the bedsprings, in the silverware drawer, on the kitchen stove and the
basement furnace. Stores with fluorescent tubes could not turn off the lights!
He also said that the tower lighting transformers kept burning up at WLW and were finally replaced with a generator mounted on the tower turned by a motor mounted on a stand 15 feet away connected by a paraffin impregnated wooden shaft.
Cliff
06-16-2012, 02:12 AM
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