Re: Channel 5's Chronicle

[Ron Bello <RBello@BelloAssoc.com>]

Mark Mills is PD at WBIX, Business 1060, Natick/Boston.
He also hosts "Marketwrap with Mark Mills" each day at 4pm.


At 05:19 PM 4/27/02 -0400, Mike Beaulieu wrote:
>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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