TV Tower Near Sudbury, MA

[DougD]

I was driving down a back road in the Sudbury-Wayland, MA area about a week ago. At one point I came to the crest of a hill and saw, off in the distance not far away, a very tall transmission tower that was obviously for television. Is this the tower for Channel 66? I'm a Bay Stater, but I've lived in Maine for years and am "out of the loop."

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I thought the WUTF-66 tower was in Hopkinton.

But if you saw it at a distance, it may have been.

 

[ssetta]

The WUTF-66 tower is in Hudson. I think that's probably the one you saw. If you live in the area, back in the days of analog, 66 would be the only station that would come in without even connecting an antenna.

 

[SixtiesGuy]

I was driving down a back road in the Sudbury-Wayland, MA area about a week ago. At one point I came to the crest of a hill and saw, off in the distance not far away, a very tall transmission tower that was obviously for television. Is this the tower for Channel 66? I'm a Bay Stater, but I've lived in Maine for years and am "out of the loop."

You must have been away for a while - that tower was erected in the early 1980's. Curiously, the tower is the 2nd on its site in Hudson, not far from the Sudbury line. I believe it was in the late 1990's that for some reason the current tower was constructed very close to the 1st, which was taken down soon after the current tower was finished (structural problems with the 1st?). The tower was built for then-new channel 66, known as V-66, with studios in Framingham, which was an effort to establish an MTV-type music video channel OTA. This lasted about a year or so before being sold off to some typically dreadful home shopping network. It is now the home of one of the Spanish-language networks - I don't recall which one. It seems like a great expense to maintain this apparently extremely tall tower for only one second-tier TV station. I don't beleive there's any other stick on it.