Re: WCRB Tower

[Rob Landry <umar@nerodia.wcrb.com>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, John Bolduc wrote:

> Any body have info about WCRB tower collapsing at about 11AM this morning,
> resulting in injuries, address given as 415 South St in Waltham.

The tower in question belongs to WRCA and is located at 750 South Street.
It did not collapse, but fell 18 inches onto a concrete slab as its base
insulator was being replaced. A Beacon Tower Service employee was injured.

The tower has been condemned by the City of Waltham and is to be
dismantled during the weekend of June 26-27. WRCA is operating at 1,000
watts using its remaining tower.

WCRB was off the air for about 2 hours, the cause being that its STL
antenna, which is mounted on the condemned tower, was jolted out of
alignment. Programming was resumed from the transmitter site in Newton
about 1:15pm; programming from the studio was resumed about 30 minutes
later, thanks to an ISDN line provided by Greater Media.

That's the story to date.

Rob Landry
umar@nerodia.wcrb.com

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