By jbottero (2015-02-06)
Originally known as Little Pea Island, it was purchased by CBS in 1940 for use as a broadcasting station serving around 14,000,000 listeners and renamed Columbia Island, and began broadcasting on October 18, 1941. Columbia Island is currently owned by filmmaker / actor Al Sutton, who has been retrofitting the old station into a “green” residence for a number of years.