old WBUR tower torn down

[Dan.Strassberg]

Well, WBUR's address change is what I will now have to call part of a
time-honored tradition for Boston-area radio stations that don't
(exactly) change locations. For years, WTAO 740 was located (offices,
studio, transmitter) at 439 Concord Ave in Cambridge. When Bob Bittner
bought the station (and before he got the WJIB calls assigned), he
returned the studio and offices to the orignal transmitter location,
which had never changed. The landlord offered him a choice of any
odd-numbered street address he liked from (I think) 431 to 449 Concord
Ave, inclusive. The building occupies a full block along Concord Ave
and presumably the USPS recognizes that entire range of odd numbers as
being on that block and on that side of the street. I'm guessing, but
I suspect that if even numbers had been a possibility (they are on the
opposite side of the street, however), Bob would have picked 444,
because it is (arguably) easiest to remember and is also an integer
multiple of 74. But since that wasn't an option, he picked 443. Now,
in the same situation, I would have picked 445 because it is divisble
by 5. Go figure!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
To: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: old WBUR tower torn down


>I will take an educated guess that the powers that be at BU changed
> the address to 640 to match the frequency of WTBU.
>