RE: V66 (WVJV-TV)

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

Perhaps (It is must-carry, even now...) but then people would have a
choice...V-66 or MTV. My point is that most people watching V-66 did so
because it was their ONLY music channel option at the time.

Because Boston and its suburbs generally had good over-the-air TV options,
Cable didn't really take hold until the late 80's or even early 90's.

It's different than in Podunk, where no over-the-air signal was to be had,
so Cable became a viable option as soon as the technology allowed.

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 8:18 PM
> To: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: V66 (WVJV-TV)
>
>
>   Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
>
> >I believe V-66 could probably have lasted only a couple of years
> anyway, as
> >most all of Boston was wired by the late 1980's for cable
> (Wasn't the Back
> >Bay the last neighborhood to get Cable, around 1990?). Once all
> of the city
> >was wired, V-66 would not have been a viable option IMHO.
>
>
> Wouldn't it still have been a "must carry" station?
>
> Another factor, though that would have hurt V-66 was a lot of the record
> labels giving MTV exclusivity on many videos...often the superstar or hip
> acts, leaving the independents with a lot of second-tier stuff.
>