Morganti Builds African Radio Station
Oct 21, 1993
The Morganti Group Inc. has been selected by the U.S. Information Agency to design and construct a new $41-million Voice of America (VOA) Radio Relay Station on the island of Sao Tome off the west coast of Africa, Ridgefielder Robert J. Morganti, the company's president, announced last week.
The new Sao Tome Relay Station will recover critically important broadcast coverage of sub-Sahara Africa lost when VOA's Liberia Relay Station was destroyed in that country's civil war," said Domenic A. Macaione, senior vice president.
The new relay station will broadcast VOA programs to southern Africa below Zaire and Tanzania and to coastal Africa from the Ivory Coast to South Africa. The project consists of seven transmitters, 17 antennas, electrical power plant, potable and wastewater treatment facilities, offshore fuel unloading terminal and two major buildings. Morganti will be assisted by the BARC Group of Wayne, N.J., ABB Technology of North Brunswick, N.J., and TCI of Sunnyvale, Calif.
It was also announced that the joint venture Morganti/Trataros has been awarded the general contract for the construction of a $103-million Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The new facility, nine stories high and 500,000 square feet, will house 1,000 inmates.