RE: V66 (WVJV-TV)

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

V-66 was successful as much because most of Boston was not yet wired for
Cable in the 1984-6 time frame of V-66. MTV, whether astecially better or
worse, ws simply not an option at that time. I remember watching V-66 quite
often in my Cable-less apartment in Allston.



Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
> SteveOrdinetz
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:35 AM
> To: djohn88@attbi.com; bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: V66 (WVJV-TV)
>
>
>
> >Would anyone have any information about V-66 (WVJV-TV),
> >the 24hr Music Video station that was on the air from
> >1985-86? I'm putting together a nostalgia site about the
> >station and was hoping to use some stills from old video
> >footage. I would think every hour of broadcast was
> >taped, but after the station was sold I'm not sure if
> >the tapes were thrown away or archived somewhere. Or if
> >anyone out there might have recorded V-66 when it was on
> >the air and didn't erase it,
>
>
> Funny, I was going to ask the same question...not that I'm
> planning to put
> together a tribute site, but as an aircheck collector I'd like
> some of them
> in my collection.  I didn't own a VCR in the mid-80s when they
> were on the
> air, and even if I did, the signal was rather iffy here in N.H. and given
> the tuner sensitivity of most VCRs I doubt I would have gotten a
> watchable
> tape.  I'd be more interested in trading rather than paying for
> tape of it
> myself.
>
> Great station, IMHO they were hipper and more entertaining than MTV which
> always seemed like they were trying too hard to be hip and coming off
> looking contrived.  V-66 also created some of their own
> videos...Starship's
> "We Built This City" was one that came to mind...it was built around
> footage of the Boston-area rock scene.
>