Power is out in a large portion of the city, including where the Pru is. It appears that 100.7, 104.1, and 107.9 might be on their Candelabra and FM128 backups. Greater Media's all still have their HD on, so it appears they're still operating from the Pru, apparently with backup power?
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Boston Power Outage
- Thread starter jlehmann
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Seemed like all the stations had some kind of backup running. WBZ talk and info about it
KISS 108 signal seemed iffi this morning (Wednesdday)
sorry (Wednesday)
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Laurence Glavin
Guest
From my perch 30 miles north of Boston, WBOS 92.9, WTKK 96.9, WROR 105.7 and WMJX 106.7 were delivering their usual signal strength. Two CBS outlets: WZLX 100.7 and WBMX 104.1 were way down. But as has already been mentioned, a non-CBS outlet, Kiss 107.9 was also way down. As a result, I got very good reception of WTPL 107.7 up in the hill country of NH, and could even keep it while driving around the Merrimack Valley this morning. [EDIT*- site disruption]
N.E. Radio Watch has a midweek update. The 4 Greater Media stations (their fifth, WKLB, has their stick in Waltham I think) "had backup generators at the tower, so they stayed on the air with only a brief blip as the generators came up to speed." Fybush says Kiss' backup transmitter is at FM-128
in Newton and the 2 CBS stations indeed did backup from the candelabra.
http://www.fybush.com/nerw-midweek-update-boston-fire-affects-pru-fms/
Laurence: Even when 107.9 is at full power, I know I picked up WTPL (with some splashover)
in a couple spots in Haverhill--up nr the WXRV transmitter, and then along Rt 97 heading toward
Georgetown. The rough-guide map for WTPL's signal at radio-locator has the very edge of
the fringe (blue indicator) signal of WTPL just about touching Haverhill, Lowell, Fitchburg.
in Newton and the 2 CBS stations indeed did backup from the candelabra.
http://www.fybush.com/nerw-midweek-update-boston-fire-affects-pru-fms/
Laurence: Even when 107.9 is at full power, I know I picked up WTPL (with some splashover)
in a couple spots in Haverhill--up nr the WXRV transmitter, and then along Rt 97 heading toward
Georgetown. The rough-guide map for WTPL's signal at radio-locator has the very edge of
the fringe (blue indicator) signal of WTPL just about touching Haverhill, Lowell, Fitchburg.
raccoonradio said:
Nope, it's licensed to Waltham from it's WCRB-FM days, but I think the transmitter is still on the CBS tower in Needham, with a backup on the FM-128 tower nearby in Newton.
Ah, I stand corrected! I thought that WCRB used to have their studios and tower both in Waltham.
bostonradio.org does confirm:
>>Main transmitter: CBS Tower
350 Cedar St.
Needham, MA 02192-1818
The backup is FM-128 in Newton.
>>Unlike its Greater Media sister stations, WKLB-FM is precluded by spacing constraints from moving to the Prudential Tower in Boston.
bostonradio.org does confirm:
>>Main transmitter: CBS Tower
350 Cedar St.
Needham, MA 02192-1818
The backup is FM-128 in Newton.
>>Unlike its Greater Media sister stations, WKLB-FM is precluded by spacing constraints from moving to the Prudential Tower in Boston.
raccoonradio said:
The old WCRB 1330 AM (now WRCA) always broadcast from towers behind its studios on South St. in Waltham while 1330 was still WCRB, and then for a few years as WHET. Subsequent stations on 1330, WDLW and WRCA, though their studios moved out of South St. in the early '80s, continued to transmit from those Waltham towers until WRCA moved its transmitter to the WUNR and now WXKS (AM) site in Oak Hill, Newton a few years ago.
The old WCRB-FM 102.5 (now WKLB) moved its transmitter from behind the South St. Waltham studios to the Westinghouse (now CBS) tower in Needham decades ago, sometime in the late '50s or '60s, being that it was much taller and much more advantageous for an FM signal.
Though the WCRB-FM transmitter location was switched from Needham to Andover in 2006 with its frequency swap with WKLB to 99.5, the WCRB-FM studios remained on South St. Waltham until WGBH acquired WCRB-FM in 2009 and moved the studios to their Brighton facility.
KISS 108 signal and audio was so low, and staticy this morning again (Thursday)
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ArtSpooner
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I saw some ditzy moron being interviewed on the news last night. She had no electricity, no hot water, hadn't showered, but she was most upset because she hadn't been able to see her facebook page in a day. I wish the grim reaper would come and take me. I just don't belong in this world.
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