WBCN, Channel-13, and the old Hancock tower

[A. Joseph Ross]

Since the FM-128 tower was originally the tower of WHDH-TV channel 5, I 
would have thought that WHDH-FM would have moved there around the time 
that WHDH-TV went on, which was November 1957.

On 11/29/2021 2:44 AM, Eli Polonsky wrote:
> Though there appears to be no mention of this in station histories on
> either bostonradio.org or Wikipedia, I seem to recall that the old WHDH-FM
> 94.5 also used to transmit from the old Hancock in the 1960's, along with
> 104.1 WBCN. I'm guessing that it probably did through the 1950's as well.
>
> I don't know when the 94.5 transmitter was moved to the "FM-128" tower at
> 1165 Chestnut St. Newton Upper Falls, but I think it was before. or around
> when, WHDH-FM became WCOZ with its original "Cozy" beautiful music format
> in 1972. I didn't pay much attention to WHDH-FM after it stopped playing
> rock in the late '60s, so I didn't hear exactly when that happened.
>
> EP
>
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:55:13 -0500
> From: Dave<bostonradio.org-list@wsfd.ath.cx>
> To:boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: WBCN, Channel-13, and the old Hancock tower
>
>> On the upper equipment floor of the old Hancock tower, colocated with
> the WBCN transmitter was another, non-operating transmitter.  Which may
> have been a television transmitter.  I have seen an old reference to a
> Boston Channel-13.  Could this have been it?  And can anyone provide
> confirmation?  Was it ever licensed/operational?
>
> Thanx,
> Dave

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