Re: WCSH signing off

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David W. Harris" <dwh@totalnetnh.net>
To: "SteveOrdinetz" <steveord@wavewizard.com>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: WCSH signing off


> In the world of television, the mid-70s was when MAJOR markets started
> getting 24-hour service.  WCVB-TV introduced all-night TV to Boston on
> weekends in 1972 and was operating 24/6 by the following year (signing
> off for a few hours on Monday mornings).  By the fall of 1976 'CVB was
> still the only Boston TV station on all night.

I just finished reading the book "The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch" and
24-hour operation was one of the promises that was made to the FCC to get
the Channel 5 license away from WHDH-TV.

> Checking weekday signons in the September 18-24 1976 TV Guide which I
> happen to have handy,

Are you Frank Costanza?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine