WBCN, Channel-13, and the old Hancock tower

[Donna Halper]

On 11/29/2021 4:01 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> WERS signed on from the Hancock in 1949

 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."

-- 
Donna L. Halper, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
Lesley University, Cambridge MA