Re: "Good Morning!" (Re: New England Network)

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

When Ch 38 was located on Granby Street and their xmtr at the Pru, there 
was a patch on Granby St that fed WMTW ABC via the Pru to Mt Washington 
via Saddleback Mountain over microwave. This was also the link WVNY 22 
used for network and feeds from WSBK.


On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:32AM -0500, Peter Q. George wrote:
> In 1974, the New England Network consisted of the
> following...
>
> WJAR-TV (10) Providence, RI
> WCVB-TV (5) Boston
> WMTW-TV (8) Poland Spring, ME
> WEZF-TV (22) Burlington, VT
> WABI-TV (5) Bangor, ME
> WAGM-TV (8) Presque Isle, ME
>
>     WMTW was the pivot point for the Northern
> affiliates due to its' former super signal from Mt.
> Washington (it still hurts thinking about that....).
> WMTW got a direct off air signal from WCVB, as did
> WJAR.  WEZF and WABI received "Good Morning" via WMTW.
> WAGM got an off air signal from WABI.  One would
> wonder how the signal to Presque Isle would look after
> going through three or four "hops".  WJAR was an early
> retirement from the Network as most people watched
> "Good Morning" from WCVB.  I was surprised either
> WHYN(40) or WWLP(22) did not go for "Good Morning", or
> WTEN(10) and WCDC(19) for that matter.  The New
> England Network lasted until 1976 when "Good Day!"
> went nationally syndicated for one season in a
> half-hour strip (1976-1977).  WPIX(11) in New York was
> one of the stations that carried it. WMTW dumped out
> and naturally, all of the stations in the north that
> depended on WMTW had to dump out too.  SO there was
> the New England Network!
>
> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
>
> BTW: WMTW did carry "Good Morning, Sunday!", for one
> year as well in 1974-75. It was a one hour Sunday
> noontime show with highlights from the last week's
> shows. I don't know if 'EZF, 'ABI or 'AGM carried it
> as well.
>
>
>
>
> --- Tim Ripley <tim_ripley@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>   I recently obtained a July 31,1976 TV Guide from a
>>  fellow TV Guide collector and read the WCVB article.
>>  In it it mentioned that WCVB's Good Morning aired in
>>  an edited form as Good Day on 5 other stations in
>>  what
>>  was called the New England Network. What stations
>>  formed this network?
>>
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> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
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