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Subject: Boston TV Hall Of Fame

As promised, here is my list of nominees for a Boston TV Hall Of Fame. 
 As with the radio list, please feel free to submit additional deserving
 names:

* WILMAR (sp?) SWARTLEY, early station manager at channel 4.

* LOUISE <MORGAN. Although she can also be put in the radio Hall, she's
 listed in the TV Hall for pioneering daytime television in Boston back
 in 1949 with a show on channel 7 which would run for over a decade.

* ARCH MacDONALD, pioneering news anchor/reporter at channel 4.

* CURT GOWDY, who could be in the Radio Hall, but his TV work on Red Sox
 games from 1952-65, in my opinion, plus his later network television work,
 puts him in the TV Hall.

* EILEEN KNEELAND, who is in the TV Hall (as opposed to the Radio Hall)
 for hosting "Lady Of The Bookshelf" for channel 4 in the early 1950's.

* DON KENT, longtime channel 4 weatherman. We could have put him in the
 Radio Hall, but again, I feel he is best known for his TV work, and thus,
 is in the TV Hall.

* JACK CHASE, for nearly 30 years a news anchor at channel 4.

* REX TRAILER, host of "Boomtown".

* BETTY ADAMS, one of the first women in local TV news, first in Providence,
 then in Boston.

* FRANK AVRUCH, both for playing Bozo the Clown and later as host of weekend
 late-night movies on channel 5--among other things he's done for the station.

* ED McDONELL, who played Major Mudd.

* JACK HYNES, longtime TV news anchor, first for channel 5, later for
 channel 56.

* DON GILLIS, one of the first fulltime TV sports reporters/anchors in
 Boston, who did the nightly sports report on channel 5's news for 20
 years.

* SONYA HAMLIN, first woman to regularlly host a local Boston TV talk show.

* DR TIM JOHNSON, who became the first medical reporter for a local TV
 station at channel 5 in the early 1970's, and is still there.

* TOM ELLIS, the only man to anchor the weeknight evening news at channels
 4, 5, and 7.

* MARTY SENDER and ROBIN YOUNG, original co-hosts of channel 4's "Evening
 Magazine"

* LOUIS LYONS, news commentator at channel 2 from the beginning in 1955
 through the mid-1970's.

* FRED CUSICK, longtime TV voice of the Bruins.

* WILLIAM J. FLYNN, general manager of channel 38 from 1966 to 1981, who
 changed the dynamics of Boston television forever and made UHF viable by
 acquiring Bruins telecasts just as Bobby Orr was coming to town and
 making the team quite popular--and successful in the standings.

* EILEEN PROSE, for many years co-hostess of channel 5's "Good Day".

* JOHN HENNING, veteran Boston TV news anchor/reporter.

* CHRISTOPHER LYDON, who anchored channel 2's 10 P.M. newscast from 1977
 until it was cancelled.

* CHET CURTIS and NATALIE JACOBSON, who have been anchors at chanel 5 since
 1971---and husband-and-wife since 1975. Considered by many the greatest
 news anchor team in Boston television history. 

Again, any other nominations can be posted to this newsgroup. 

Joseph Gallant

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