WBCN, Channel-13, and the old Hancock tower

[Rob Landry]

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."