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

[Bob DeMattia]

*I thought WBZ-TV had a smaller tower next to the big one, which would
allow them to transmit, albeit with low range, if anything happened to the
big tower.  When I read about it, I surmised that it was a response to the
problems they had after the fall of the large Soldiers Field Road tower in
1953.
*
WBZ apparently has an auxiliary tower, as shown on the NECRAT website.
Apparently, based on what happened, this tower is only a backup for their
analog transmitter.  This doesn't seem too useful.

-Bob