Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rising proudly on a ten-acre plot on Soldiers Field Road stands WBZ's new three-million dollar radio and television center, and next to it the familiar 649-ft. transmission tower, the tallest structure in New England. Inside, an all-modern building houses the offices and studios of WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, and short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal...
...course there is more than just television inside the WBZ center; but the other departments are all small and self-contained. In the rear are five radio studios, a newsroom, and a disc jockey's library for the few low-budget studio programs that supplement NBC network shows. Downstairs the large equipment room holds a relay to the radio transmitter at Hull, Mass., and, of course, the transmitter which feeds TV and FM through cables up the tower...
Quick-paced work allowed WBZ to complete its sprawling radio and television center in a little over a year. The entire WBZ family packed up and moved out of the Bradford and into the new center one weekend in June...
Harvard holds a very strong place in the center's early love, thanks to the anties of two students who one night a year ago last spring climbed the full 649 feet of the tower. But it won't happen again. WBZ has since had time to put up a big, prohibiting spike fence around the base...
...Student Council voted last night to run a football ticket clearance center through which students who want to soll or buy Army game admissions can find other students in the same boat...