Re: WCVB-DTV Channel 20

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

they have been doing this for a few months now but the past 2 weeks when 
in a sporting event they are flashing a super

WCVB-DT 20    WCVB-TV 5

meanwhile all the WHDH trucks are painted with WHDH-DT on the side


On 02/16/03 at 11:33 AM Laurence Glavin wrote:
>  Today (02/16) at noon, I turned on the noon news on channel 5, WCVB in
>  Boston for the latest on the snowstorm heading our way
>  (which I'm sure will engender a thread on error-prone meteorologists
>  in its aftermath).  At 11:59:30, there was a promo for Monday's
>  "Chronicle" show, with the addendum that it would be broadcast in
>  High Definition.  Then came the WCBV-TV logo, the big '5' with
>  the circular arrow...but also something I noticed for the first time:
>  prominently displayed was a section of the screen with a big '20' in
>  a bubble and the call-letters WCVB-DT.  WBZ-TV and WHDH-TV sometimes
>  show their DTV assignments in VERY small print, but this was the most
>  prominent DTV mention I've noticed so far.  When the first WHDH-TV, on 
> channel 5 and employing the tower on Chestnut Street, Newton came
>  on the air, they made a big deal about being all-color locally when
>  most TV was still black-and-white (or monochrome to be technical).
>  Is Hearst/Argyle Sox planning to be in the forefront of promoting
>  DTV capability long before 2006?
>
>  Laurence Glavin
>
>
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