Channel "5" during Boston's great OTA TV outage of 2012

Garrett Wollman wollman@bimajority.org
Tue Apr 10 11:46:55 EDT 2012


<<On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:33:18 -0400, "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net> said:

> has historically been called the Channel 4 tower in Needham. (Since
> the other three FM/TV sites in the Newton-Needham area are in Newton,
> it would seem OK to refer to the affected tower as the Needham tower;
> FM 128, the Channel "7"/"56" self-supporter, and the Candelabra are
> all in Newton.)

No, the "UHF" Candelabra is most assuredly not in Newton; it's west of
the river, which forms the Newton/Needham town line.

-GAWollman



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