Photo 14-PWA-2

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This is the 700 WLW tower. It still looks very much like this. My father once told me that he used to get their transmissions through his bed Springs (his house was only about a mile away from the tower).

This is now entirely surrounded by the large, suburban community of Mason.

Upper right corner, the lower part of the Blaw-Knox diamond cantilever tower. 747 ft tall, originally 831 ft. 1934-1939 the normally 50,000 watt WLW was authorized by the FCC to transmit over 100,000 watts

Actually at 500,000 watts. What a beast!

I grew up in 20 Mile Stand (now called Landen) about 5-6 miles away as the crow flies. I remember hearing stories in the 1960s of people who lived near the WLW Tower who routinely listened to the station sitting outside and it was picked up by the gutters on their homes acting as antennas.
My family used to drive to Florida (St. Petes Beach) most years in the 1960s for a 2 week vacation in early June, just after school had let out for summer break. I remember my Dad driving us to Florida and back many years and in those days WLW was so powerful that you could listen in and hear a Cincinnati Reds game clearly anywhere on the entire route.

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