Re: Channel 7 history

[Richard Chadwick <RW@RichChadwick.com>]

Ahhh... the RKO General days of radio - does everyone realize we had ELEVEN 
studios just for WRKO-AM & WROR-FM (998.5) on Brookline Ave.???       Say 
what we will about their other dealings, but that was a world-class radio 
facility.

PS: Union Engineers 24/7 - when's the last time that was going on?




At 05:28 PM 10/15/2001, Peter George wrote:
>      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
> >
>
>
>=====
>Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
>Whitman, Massachusetts
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