WCOP & WBZ

[Martin Waters]

> 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.

    So, where was the main TV tower that fell in
relation to the existing tower, that the latter
survived the collapse?

    And, is the existing tower in the same place as it
was then? 

    I take it that after the channel 4 tower in
Needham was up, with a short backup tower there, the
tower at the station was converted to its current
radio use? 

    Did WBZ (AM) have a backup facility before then?