WCOP & WBZ

[Scott Fybush]

A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2008 Scott Fybush wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> It had to be earlier than 1951.  I remember seeing both towers when 
> we moved to Allston in 1949. 
> 

The ASR record for the tower (#1003434) claims it was built in 1950. 
Those records are often somewhat inaccurate, so I'd take it with a grain 
of salt:

http://fccinfo.com/CMDProASRLookup.php?tabSearchType=ASR+Search&sASR=1003434

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