… stay in your homes …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
The 680-foot WBZ-TV transmitter tower falls on the WBZ Radio building as Hurricane Carol attacks the New England coast on August 31, 1954.And the newscaster (who I hope will be identified in COMMENTS) just picks up where he was before the tower fell. You couldn’t write a better script than this! Right after we are warned to stay in our homes, the tower falls on the studio with a tremendous BOOM, and he is not sure if he is on the air! Thankfully, he is able to warn us to STAY CALM and that our ONLY DANGER IS…. before he is cut off. WOW! Now THIS builds quarter hours!
The 680-foot WBZ-TV transmitter tower falls on the WBZ Radio building as Hurricane Carol attacks the New England coast on August 31, 1954.And the newscaster (who I hope will be identified in COMMENTS) just picks up where he was before the tower fell. You couldn’t write a better script than this! Right after we are warned to stay in our homes, the tower falls on the studio with a tremendous BOOM, and he is not sure if he is on the air! Thankfully, he is able to warn us to STAY CALM and that our ONLY DANGER IS…. before he is cut off. WOW! Now THIS builds quarter hours!
Let me know if I am still on the air, will you please?
One online source claims that WBZ-AM was only off the air for 3 minutes. This recording was edited before it got to the contributor, and I don’t believe it is chronologically accurate. I do believe this recording was made from microphone to speaker (accounting for the background chatter) and at some distance from the station, and that this copy was transferred from a noisy acetate. But after all, there were no memory sticks in 1954.