RE: WBZ Reception Is Worsening

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 3 Jul 2001,  EM1 GITCHIER wrote:

> Speculation about what's the tower is for also caused me to recall the
> aircheck I have from Hurricane Carol, where the Annr's on the air (Carl De
> Suze among them) said that the tower outside that crumpled onto the WBZ
> studio bldg was a 680 (wow, a significant number in Boston...) foot (WBZ)
> television tower. I've forgotten the year... 1952? Great aircheck... got it
> at home, so I can't draw the exact details from it.  
 
1954.   That was the original WBZ television tower.  I believe the second 
tower was originally intended as an auxiliary radio tower.  I think it may 
also have been used temporarily for WBZ-TV after the fall of the other 
tower.

I notice that the existing tower is now supported by guy-wires, even 
though it is built as a self-supporting tower.  As Scott once showed me, 
one of the wires is anchored to a remaining piece of the base of the old 
TV tower.


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