RE: Some WBUR history

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

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Joseph Ross
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:22 AM
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org; Aaron 'Bishop' Read
Subject: Re: Some WBUR history


Cousellor Ross wrote:

>Wrong again.  Warren Towers existed when I was at BU in the late 60s.  In
>those days, it didn't have its name, it was just 700 Commonwealth Avenue,
>and was generally called "700."

>Which means that either WBUR's transmission tower was moved to the top of
>the Law Tower earlier than 1976 or it really did suffer a null in that
>direction.  That wouldn't surprise me at all, since it's not at all
>uncommon at BU for one hand not to know or care what the other is doing.
>My observation of BU when I was there was that it wasn't really a
>university but a group of independent colleges sharing the same campus.

Counsellor:

I went to BU also, '78-'84 Yea I think the infamous Warren Towers was built
in the late 50s early 60s, at least that's what I heard.
I seem to remember that WBUR moved the transmission tower to the Law School
building sometime in the mid or late 1970s.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
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