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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 68

Publication:
The Boston Globei
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts
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68
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Boston Sunday Globe August 25, 196S 6S j' fr 1 i-r" "i is. ,1 1. a riMmr-" ARCHITECT'S CONCEPT OF CHANNEL 56'S NEW $2.25 MILLION STUDIO studio-office complex will be built in Dorchester WKGB-TV, Ch. 56, Plans Tower, $2.25 Million Studio-Office ft It! Cass 4, a CJ, "(- 3l "IK. Space will also be available for other UHF-TV Nations.

Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting's Ch. 56 will be tht first to occupy the multiple antenna support tower. WREP, Ch. 25, a new Boston station, is expected to start operations from the tower after its completion pending FCC approval. TOWER SHARED General Manager Lynagh described tower-sharing as a.

relatively new concept in UHF-TV broadcasting that allows the viewer to receive full picture power without having to turn his antenna in a different position for each station. Viewers who receive Boston's network stations with an indoor antenna need only attach an inexpensive loop antenna, priced at about 90 cents, to their all-channel sets to receive 56. Viewers who require an outdoor antenna will also receive Ch. 56 with an outdoor UHF antenna. begin its telecasts in January, will locate on the first level.

Color news-film processing facilities for the full color newscasts will be installed in the new building. Equipment will five R.C.A. live color cameras, three R.C.A. color film chains, four R.C.A. hi-band TV tape recorders and the station's half-million dollar remote unit.

The quarter-mile high Needham tower, with new R.C.A. transmitting equipment the power of one-million watts, is being constructed by Stainless Leasing Co. of and will be in operation in early October. The tower, 1186 feet above average terrain, is 70 percent higher than the old tower in Woburn, and will be comparable in height to those of Boston's network stations. blvd.

adjacent to the Boston Globe, will be completed for March occupancy. Designed by Kaiser Engineers in Oakland, the 40,000 square foot building will include two studios, sixty offices, two conference rooms and a reception area for studio audiences. The studios will have individual control rooms, announce booths and lighting boards. The larger studio, 4200 square feet by 27 feet high, will be used for commercial and program production. The new facility is 'designed as a production center for local advertisers and agencies requiring film and video tape commercials.

The station also intends to produce audience participation and variety programs for local telecast and syndica-. tion. FULL COLOR NEWS The 24-man Ch. 56 news department, which will Construction of a new television tower in Needham, plus a $2,250,000 studio and office complex in Dorchester, was announced today by James T. Lynagh, general manager of WKBG-TV, Ch.

56, Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting in WKBG-TV will be Boston's first independent station with maximum coverage, transmitting a clear picture throughout Greater Boston while adding an estimated 300,000 hew homes to its coverage area. The station's Grade signal will be extended 2650 square miles, north to Portsmouth, N.H., and south to Newport, R.I. That will include the cities of Fall River, New Bedfor'd, Providence and many towns on the western half of Cape Cod. 60 OFFICES The two-level stu'dio-office facility to be built in Dorchester on Morrissey ill1 OPENS TOMORROW IN BURLINGTON MALL vj a Your Luxury Coating of Mink Splendoured Creslan A CAFETERIA FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE CAFETERIAS. These are the cloth coats that hold their' own in a crowd of costly furs richly patterned, uniquely designed luxury Creslan, lavished with superb splurges of natural mink.

We show just two from our collection of important new town coats born to make this your most beautiful winter. Natural ranch mink on cognac or cerulean mink on grey; misses, petite sizes. $140 Richly colored carpets. Handsome, cushiony chairs, A fast-moving line, featuring delicious, freshly prepared food, served by a polite, efficient staff. If you haven't dined at the Hot Shoppes in Natick Mall, you probably think we're newcomers.

Actually, we're new oldcomers (41 years old, to be exact). With 30 other cafeterias among our total of 260 restaurants, food services, motor hotels and airline catering operations. Think of Hot Shoppes as a cafeteria that loves kids (even milk-spillers and spoon-droppers). As a Sunday dinner treat for the family. As a rest between appliances and lingerie (we're across from Sears).

As a before-the-movie dinner. Right now, our neighbor the movie is presenting Rosemary's Baby, with double-screen show times of 1:40, 2:10, 4:20, 4.50, 7:00, 9:30 and 10:00 until September 1. Regardless, consider this your invitation to the newest, most un-cafeteria cafeteria in the area. Also Lowell and Lawrence q9d Burlington Mall SI 77:30 AM. TO 2.30 PM.

AND 4:30 TO 8 P.M. MONDAY JHRU FRIDAY lh.30 AM. TO 8 PM. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY THE NEW IN BURLINGTON MALL: Rt. 128 (Exit 42, Middlesex Turnpike) Embra Mink Breeders Assn.

All furs labeled to show country of origin of Imported furs..

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