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The downtown building on Harrison Avenue was occupied by a bank before WJHG-TV moved in. WJHG-TV moved from that downtown location to the beach location on November 22, 1968. It was on a Friday night. Two weeks before the move, WJHG's chief engineer Billy Carpenter, along with Pearly Eply and this commenter, established the micro-wave path from the Youngstown transmitter site to the new building on the beach. The night of the move, right outside the downtown building on Beach Drive, was parked a large moving van. WJHG-TV was an NBC affiliate. While "The Tonight Show" ran on the network, Billy Carpenter and 4 other engineers, myself included, were unhooking all the equipment, except... one of the two 2" quad machines (VTR). We had prebuilt commercial breaks onto a 2" reel of tape, so that provided a little extra moving time that night and some extra time after sign-on the next morning. After sign-off, at midnight, we five engineers finished loading the equipment into the van. We headed to the new building we called "The Beach Building". The equipment was unloaded and put into place. Then we began hooking at all back together. We had until 6AM sign on. The 5 of us worked through the night. At 6:00 AM CST, on the Saturday morning of November 23, 1968, WJHG-TV began broadcast operations from the building located at 8195 Front Beach Road. So many memories from that time and that place. It was a privilege and pleasure to have been a part. Thank you Billy Carpenter. And thank you Ron Jones. Appreciate the post.