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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 13 00:12:18 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 23:52:09 2016. If it weren't for Armstrong's monstrosity of an antenna near Montclair, NJ, many of them would have been off the air for a long time. The problem was most of the TV's (except for channel 2) abandoned Empire and the original multi-antenna was no longer. Because Armstrong's old FM antenna was still there in New Jersey, along with a few other repeater stations over in New Jersey, it was quite a disaster for the TV channels having all their eggs on top of that one basket. Here's an interesting background on what it took for them to light back up after 9/11 ...http://www.tvtechnology.com/miscellaneous/0008/911-recovery-continues/190143 |