This is the General Electric Equipment Section of
The Broadcast Archive

Maintained by:
Barry Mishkind - The Eclectic Engineer
Last update 1/2/10

General Electric Co.,

Schenectady, N. Y.

General Electric was one of the pioneering companies in broadcast. What was left of the broadcast line was sold to Harris in the 1960s. (The small appliances division was sold to Black and Decker.)

Transmitters:

AM transmitters:
(Some lists use a "4" as a prefix.
The "4" refers to the GE Broadcast Division)

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4BT-20-A - 250 W
Courtesy: Steve WB3HUZ

XT-1A - 1 kW - 1947

WKIP - Serial #11
courtesy Willard Draper

  4BT-21-A - 1 kW
  4BT-22-A - 5 kW
  4BT-23-A - 10 kW
  4BT-25 - 50 kW  
  4BT-25-A - 50 kW (1947?)

 

4BT-50-A - 50 kW

4BT-50-A1 -50 kW
KCBS

4BT-50-B
  4BT-50-C
WSM

BTC-50-C -50 kW
This is a Canadian version
Originally at CKNW, Westminster B.C.  ... rand Turk Island

FM transmitters:

Model  

BT-11-B1- 10 W
  BF-1-A - 250 W

BF-1-B - 250 W

250 W
High School Station
WBXL - Baldwinsville, NY
  BF-2A - 1 kW
  BF-2B - 1 kW
  BF-3A - 3 kW
BF-3B - 3 kW
  BF-3F - 3 kW
  BF-3F - 3 kW
  BF-10-A - 10 kW
BF-50-A - 50 kW