RE: Happy 50th WBZ-TV

["Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@bbnplanet.com>]

Thanks, Donna.  Without you many of us wouldn't have a clue why Boston radio
and TV was what it is.\

- -Larry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Donna
> Halper
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 10:00 PM
> To: Mark
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Happy 50th WBZ-TV
>
>
> it was written--
>
> >> Memo to CBS....there is a REASON you are behind Judge Judy at 6 PM. You
> >> forgot how to run the local part of a TV station.
> >> Seems like the Boston Globe and Boston Herald did a better job covering
> >Ch 4's 50th anniversary then Ch 4 itself!!!!Both papers had good articles
> >on the TV pages today.
>
> And how did that stuff get written?  Yes, friends, your faithful Auntie
> Donna got asked to write it, because WBZ-TV did not have any up to date
> written timeline or information about the station's early history beyond a
> two-page memo by the late great Gordon Swan.  There was supposed to have
> been a video (cancelled-- budgetary reasons, I am told).  There was also
> supposed to have been more than what they did, but I am glad my
> writing was
> helpful, even if my name wasn't mentioned!!!  History lives-- sort of...
>
>

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