Re: my Colonial post

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 30 Mar 2003 at 23:15, Donna Halper wrote:

> WBZ announced to the newspapers on a number of occasions in late
> 1947/early 1948 that WBZ-TV was almost ready to go on the air... I recall
> at least 4 such announcements.  Then, there was a snowstorm, a part didn't
> show up for the tower, then it was the wrong part, the new building wasn't
> ready yet, etc etc.  That's why I don't usually rely on only one newspaper
> article.  It may have been correct at the time, but things didn't always
> go the way people hoped when the press release was written!
 
As I recall, there was a similar series of delays when WHDH-TV Channel 5 was coming on 
the air.  Start dates were announced and not kept, as they were waiting for the weather to 
permit men to climb the tower to complete the installation of the transmitting antenna.  Every 
day, when I got home from school, I would turn on the TV to Channel 5 to see if they were on 
yet.  Until one day, they were on with a test pattern.  They started regular programming that 
evening around 6 or 7 PM with the news.
 
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