I drove a gentleman home from the VA to the foot of Mt. Trashmore, the restored landfill in Riverview, Michigan. Sadly the ski lifts are gone and it is just a golf course now. Next to Riverview Highlands is this unusual building, which turned out to be transmitters for WJR.


From WJR's webpage:

"The station switched from NBC to CBS in 1935 and constructed a fifty-thousand-watt transmitter in Riverview, 16 miles south of Detroit (the 733-foot tower later fell in November of 1940 due to strong winds and was replaced with a 700-foot tower)."

The station has quite a history, but I think the late J.P. McCarthy must be spinning in his grave if he is picking up the constant pseudo-political invective that comes out of the station now.

Today's musical selection is Lalo Schifrin's Scheherazade Fantasy, from the 2001 album Intersections, thanks to Imitonios. This is a medley of themes from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade arranged from orchestra, big band, and jazz soloists.