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"The above picture was taken by Bob Hickerson, of Bear, Delaware. He spotted
the sign this year, just off  Red Pump Road, near the Pennsylvania/Maryland
Border. Thanks Bob! I wonder if Channel 6 even knows it's still there.
WFIL-TV is now WPVI- TV, and has been since the early 1970's!"

So...the upshot.....the WFIL-TV cameras are (apparently) an authentic
reporduction of what a AB watcher might have seen in 1963...


Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of A.
> Joseph Ross
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:19 AM
> To: Boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Call letters on "American Dreams"
>
>
> I've been watching the new show "American Dreams" on NBC, which
> is set in 1963
> Philadelphia, where a couple of the teenagers are regulars on
> "American Bandstand."  The
> cameras, probably authentically, bear the call letters "WFIL-TV."
>  At the time, Bandstand
> was on ABC, which means that the Philadelphia station from which
> it originated must have
> been an ABC affiliate.  The program is now on NBC.  Now, here's
> my question.  Is there a
> WFIL-TV in Philadelphia today?  And if so, is it an NBC
> affiliate?  I would imagine that if this
> show were on a station in Philadelphia which competes with
> WFIL-TV, the NBC affiliate in
> Philadelphia would be quite unhappy about that.
>
> Which reminds me, I was also surprised, watching the Election
> Night episode on "The West
> Wing" on NBC to hear a TV proclaim that =CBS=
> had just called Delaware for President Bartlet.
>
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