Re: Channel 7 history

[Peter George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

     True. The actual WNAC-TV license was cancelled
after RKO General was deemed unfit to hold a license.
However the station you are currently watching is the
same station that came to the air in 1948 on Channel
7. Only the call-letters (twice) and the licensees
have changed.  WNEV-TV signed on the air using the
same transmitter and antenna some 3 to 4 hours after
WNAC disappeared in that spring of 1982.  "The New
SE7EN has just begun!".  Same station.
     This was not exactly the same situation when
WHDH-TV (Herald-Traveler/ a CBS affiliate) lost their
license on March 19, 1972.  WCVB-TV (Boston
Broadcasters Incorporated/ a ABC affiliate) was a
totally different station with a totally different
studio, transmitter and licensee. WHDH-TV ceased to
exist at 2:30am when Dave Beuhl (sp) pulled the switch
for the last time that morning.  WCVB-TV turned-on for
good, 13 minutes later.  Ken Stahl was the LAST voice
on WHDH-TV.  Ken Stahl was the FIRST voice of WCVB-TV.

-Pete
          

> WNAC-TV's license was cancelled.  NE-TV was the
> surviving one of three
> original competing applicants which had filed
> against the renewal of
> WNAC-TV in the early 1970s.  There is a surprising
> amount of good
> information about this case available on the 'net,
> including the full
> text of the appeals court decision upholding the
> FCC's decision to
> cancel the license and declare General Tire unfit to
> be a broadcast
> licensee.  (General Tire pleaded with the FCC to
> permit them to sell
> channel 7, and the Commission -- much tougher then
> than it is today --
> responded that one cannot sell a license one does
> not have.)  The
> ultimate death of the company was postponed for
> several years because
> only three of RKO's licenses had been contested.
> 
> Thus (in answer to today's trivia non-question),
> WHDH-TV is the
> youngest commercial TV station licensed to Boston.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 


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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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