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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...
Television has been gradually taking over the WBZ building. Radio doesn't require much room, for most of WBZ-AM emanates either from the NBC network or from sister-station WBZA in Springfield. Ever since the WBZ building opened in July, 1948, television has been taking over space in corresponding proportion to the industry's general growth over the last few years...
...station put the finishing touches on its first big television studio last summer and has just completed its second, an auditorium-type affair which can also be used for radio. At the moment, however, all WBZ's "live" television is shot in the first studio, a two-story room equipped with the newest in lighting. Compensating for the heat produced by floods, spots and a dozen banks of base lighting, ceiling air units pump in 8200 cubic feet of air per minute, thus completely changing the air every 11 minutes...
...When WBZ-TV isn't in the studio playing with rattlesnakes or out following a ball game, it devotes much of its time to films. After the films are adapted technically for television, they must undergo a crucial test before the film editor. The editor spends eight hours a day scrutinizing every film the station plans to use, occasionally deleting whatever "won't go in Boston." "I bore myself silly," she says...
...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...