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

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 4/10/2012 4:27 PM, Bob DeMattia wrote:

> *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.

I guess nobody who was there in 1956 is still around.

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