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WBZ-TV, the CBS O&O in Boston, has signed a deal with Dielectric Communications to supply antennas, transmission lines and combiners for the DTV conversion of WBZ-TV'S tower in suburban Needham, Mass. The deal, worth more than $1 million, is part of a $3.5 million overhaul of the station's tower that will allow WBZ-TV and tenants WCVB-TV, WGBH-TV and WGBX-TV (fellow Boston stations) to broadcast both NTSC and DTV from the existing tower.
"It's just a mammoth project," says Bob Hess, WBZ-TV director of operations and engineering. "We're adding 100 feet to the tower-but in order to do that, we're taking 300 feet off the top and...