WCOP & WBZ

[Scott Fybush]

Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> Most likely, if the WBZ aux tower was used originally by WCOP (or
> whatever its calls were then), it was one of a pair and its mate
> ascended to the great broadcast history book in the sky when WBZ (AM
> and TV) took over the site more than half a century ago. 

The WBZ aux tower was NOT a leftover from WCOP. By 1934-35, vertical 
antenna technology was becoming fairly commonplace, and I'm reasonably 
certain WCOP's tower was a vertical one.

I know that when the WBZ building was being expanded on the east side 
(toward the old Ground Round building and the helipad) in 1995, they 
found the concrete footings for a tower as they were excavating.

The WBZ aux tower that now stands on the west side of the building 
arrived in 1951 as a backup tower for WBZ-TV. It was apparently shipped 
to Allston from Pittsburgh, where it had been a tower for the first 
incarnation of KDKA-FM, which went silent pretty early on.

s