Re: WCRB Tower

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

I'm a bit confused.  How did Greater Media provide an ISDN line from your
studio to your transmitter?

Brian

At 12:34 PM 6/17/99 -0400, Rob Landry wrote:
>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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