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Author Topic: Radio Broadcast Building Lifespan WMNB/WNAW North Adams, MA  (Read 1025 times)

Offline Ct Yankee

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While up in the Berkshires, I wanted to listen to the Sox/Jays game and happened to find it on WNAW 1230 AM North Adams.  A couple of days later in an odd coincidence, I pulled into a restaurant in North Adams and upon getting out of the car, I was staring at the former facility for WNAW/WMNB (It is now a Townsquare property, might not be a local studio).

Today (peeked in windows, building is stripped to framing)



Sometime after 1988 when WNAW call letters were first used



Artist rendition of building circa 1947


« Last Edit: August 28, 2024, 2126 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: Radio Broadcast Building Lifespan WMNB/WNAW North Adams, MA
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2024, 2215 UTC »
Thanks for sharing the pics CT-Yankee! I did a double take when I saw them. Back in the mid to late 1980's, my lady friend and I spent many a Saturday driving around New England in a random manner. I was big into Shortwave Listening at the time and also collected bumper stickers...I still have hundreds of them in storage! This photo, (taken by my lady friend at the time), was from October of 1987, just prior to the addition of the WNAW on the building. Photo courtesy of the Skipmuck Historical Society...  :)

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Re: Radio Broadcast Building Lifespan WMNB/WNAW North Adams, MA
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2024, 2228 UTC »

Very cool, Skippy - thanks for sharing. :D  All because I was trying to listen to the Dead Sox.... ;D
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