[BC] FM History

[Donna Halper]

At 12:00 PM 11/26/2010, you wrote:
>Do any of you know what happened to some of the old equipment at 
>WNAC-WRKO in Boston?  At one time, they were the origination and 
>master control point for The Yankee Network, which could be traced 
>back to Major Armstrong.  I was told at the time that some of the 
>studios dated back into the 1920's.
>
>When I saw it, back in the 1960's, a lot of original equipment still 
>existed their studios.  On the roof of the building (The Bradford 
>Hotel???) was a transmitter, which I suspect was an original 
>Armstrong design.  It might have been an FM rig.  It was in very bad 
>shape back then, but could have been restored.

It was the Buckminster Hotel in Kenmore Square.  I've visited several 
times but found no trace of any old Yankee network equipment.  In 
fact, I've long hoped to find the files from WNAC back in the Shepard 
days, but they too seem to have vanished, except for an occasional 
piece that somebody saved and donated to my collection (I have a 
floor plan of the old Yankee Network when they expanded in the early 
1940s, for example).  I keep hoping somebody out there was able to 
save some bits and pieces of the Yankee Network, but as of this 
point, I've not seen much of it.