Re: Channel 5's Chronicle

[Mike Beaulieu <mbeaulie@admin.umass.edu>]

You're making me feel old today. I was working at 22/32 when WRLP went dark.
It certainly doesn't feel like 20 years ago. They may have been a repeater
for WWLP at one point but it was very independent in it's final days. I
recall that Springfield Television Corp. had spent quite a bit of money on
new equipment for Ch. 32 in its last couple of years. They had built a brand
new control room, and added new 2" VCRs. (wow...I guess it was 20 years)

Much of the new equipment was crated up and shipped to Salt Lake City for a
new UHF TV (KSTU) Springfield Television put on the air shortly after
shuttering WRLP.

Former (?) Chronicle staffer Mark Mills was once anchor for WRLP's local
news.

Mike Beaulieu
Northampton, MA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: Channel 5's Chronicle


> Last night (04/26), while I was waiting to watch Bill Moyers' "Now"
> on the wonders that the Telecommunications Bill hath wrought, I caught
WCVB (TV)
> channel 5's "Chronicle" about Western Massachusetts.  One segment dealt
> with the now-defunct WRLP-TV channel 32 facility in Greenfield, MA.
> It showed a tower with full obstruction lighting, but a rusting building
> on Gun Hill in or near Greenfield.  There was a tape of programming
> on channel 32
> then a mention that it went off-the-air more than 20 years ago because
Greenfield
> and vicinity couldn't provide an advertising base for a TV station.  I
always
> thought that WRLP was a passive repeater of WWLP (TV) in Springfield and
> went off the air when cable made inroads or channel 22 boosted its power.
> This is the second time channel 5's "Chronicle" has done a feature on a
> defunct TV station in Western Massachusetts.  Two or three years  ago it
ran
> a story about WMGT (TV) channel 74 atop Mt. Greylock.
> BTW, "Chronicle" isn't through with broadcasting...on Monday's show,
> it will deal with the outer Cape, and a segment will profile
Provincetown's WOMR-FM. (Nothing about the silent 102.3 in Truro I trust).
>
> Laurence Glavin
> Methuen, MA
>
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