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| | A Visit to WSM |
 | | The highlight of our trip was a visit to the Brentwood, Tenn., transmitter site of WSM, where chief engineer Watt Hairston graciously gave several hours of his time to show us around the site and the fantastic collection of historic documents filed there. |
 | | One thing we had already known when we decided to come on this trip was that WSM is not only home to one of the three surviving original Blaw-Knox diamond-shaped towers, but it is in fact the tallest such tower ever built. |
 | | (Incredibly, at WSM we saw plans for a proposed 1,200-foot tower of this design -- but it was never built.) The other remaining Blaw-Knox diamonds are located at WLW in Cincinnati (which was built by the samw crew as built WSM's), at WBNS in Columbus, and at WFEA in Manchester. |
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