Twin Towers Traditional Cache
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Cache is an easy walk but, can be very wet and muddy. Summer will have the standard mosquito disclaimer. Parking available at N42.58 533, W078.57 317. Cache container is a smaller military ammo box. Please replace and cover as best as possible.
A short history of the "Twin Towers" is as follows.
WBEN (AM)
WBEN is a radio station serving the Niagara, Buffalo and Western New York area. The station kept its call signs in 1977 when the TV station became WIVB. It is formatted as a news/talk station. The station's name is "NewsRadio 930".
*Call sign meaning: Buffalo Evening News, which was the original station owner.
*Frequency: 930 AM
*Format: News/talk
*Name: NewsRadio 930
*Owner: Entercom Communications
*Signal Radius:
*Start of Operation: 1930
*Slogan: The Voice of Buffalo
*Transmitter Location: Grand Island, New York
Brief History
The station that is now known as WBEN signed on in September 1922 as the arbitrarily assigned WMAK, operating on 900 MHz. In 1930, the Buffalo Evening News purchased WMAK and changed call letters to WBEN. The station moved to its current position on the dial, at 930 MHz, as a result of NARBA.
WBEN was among the most active experimenters in Buffalo radio. In 1928, then-WMAK joined with WGY in Schnectady to demonstrate television technology. In 1934, WBEN launched W8HX, the first ultra-shortwave radio station of its kind. In 1946, WBEN was the first radio station in Buffalo to launch an FM radio station at 106.5 MHz and in 1948 launched what would become WIVB, the first television station in Buffalo.
WBEN-FM would later move to 102.5 and eventually become WTSS; it is still WBEN's corporate sister to this day. The 106.5 frequency is now WYRK.
In 1999, Entercom Communications bought WBEN, as well as competitor WGR. Both had been hybrid news and sports talkers, so the two stations swapped personnel so that WGR became all sports and WBEN became the news talker.
In 2006, WBEN began streaming its programming on the Internet.
''Portions of the above come from the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Web site, which is no longer on the Web.
Original contents are as follows: 2 rubber balls, 4 golf balls, Ja-Ru yoyo, pez dispenser, powers pens dart launcher, clown ornament, army lapel rank pins, Canadian Da-Bloony 2$ coin, "Nose" pencil sharpener, M & M collectable, matchbox car. FTF will find a neat 1700 year old coin waiting for him or her.
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