WCOP & WBZ

[Kevin Vahey]

It should also be remembered that where 1170 SFR was built was considered
semi-rural for Boston up until 1960. Across the street from WBZ was a horse
farm and training track.

Now nthe one thing that burns me about current WBZ management is they they
call the complex the BRIGHTON studios. It is EAST of Everett St so it is in
ALLSTON.


On 1/29/08, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>