WBCN, Channel-13, and the old Hancock tower

[Ron Bello]

Lets not forget WTAG-TV channel 5

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On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:04 AM A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> WSRS, which used to be WTAG-FM?  What's its story?
>
> On 11/29/2021 1:27 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
> >
> > I think WERS is the oldest surviving FM in the Boston market.
> >
> > The oldest in New England is, of course, WSRS.
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Donna Halper wrote:
> >
> >> From the article I wrote for the Emerson alumni magazine in 1998:
> >> "Very few people outside of the Emerson community realized what a
> >> momentous occasion Monday, November 14, 1949 was. It had been
> >> preceded, on November 2, by a dedication ceremony, then a few days of
> >> equipment testing, and the granting of the license by the FCC on
> >> November 10th; on November 14th, Emerson's new FM station, WERS,
> >> turned on its transmitter officially.  The engineer who did it (G.
> >> Bradford Tiffany, class of 1951) recalls that there was no
> >> announcement, no major media blitz-- just a program test for a while,
> >> and then, a day or two later, regular broadcasts began-- from 2 pm to
> >> 8 pm weekdays."
>
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