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

[Laurence Glavin]

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>From: Scott Fybush
>Sent: 04/11/12 04:44 PM
>To: Laurence Glavin
>Subject: Re: Channel "5" during Boston's great OTA TV outage of 2012

 >I believe CBS still owned the tower at that time...and without knowing >the details of the contract between 102.5 and CBS, I'm not sure "booted >off" is necessarily the right phrase. > >Tower leases expire, tower owners raise rents, and in a competitive >environment like Newton-Needham, other tower owners (like, say, American >Tower, which owns the "FM128" and candelabra sites) might simply have >offered more favorable terms. That 360-degree dual-polarized or circularly polarized antenna put out a GIANT signal for WCRB 102.5 when it was 15K @ 920'. Where I live, 30 miles north of the junction of route 9 and 128, it was the best signal of any FM broadcasting from there. The live Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts on Saturday nights were flawless (as they are now on 99.5 both live and on tape-delay the next day). But it appears that WCRB 102.5 moved hurriedly at just about the time work was started on the DTV add-on. It's possible that you had a picture of the old 102.5 antenna scattered at the base of the tower one time at NERW. The rent at any route 126-area tower would likely be the same, and WCRB from what I understand didn't have the option of moving to The Pru because of the 10.7 interference it might cause to WUMB-FM 91.9.