Re: When did they move to their current TX location...?

["Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

Yes, Channel 56's transmitter was located atop Zion
Hill in Woburn ever since the day it signed-on in 1953
as WTAO-TV.  'TAO left the air in 1956.  When WKBG
signed-on, in 1966, they used the same antenna as WTAO
did for the first two years under Kaiser/Globe
ownership.  In October, 1968, WKBG's new "1,000,000
watt tall-tower of power" (aka-The Stainless stick)
burst on the scene with a killer signal that people
wanted.  WSBK/38, WREP/25 and WKBG/56 were to be a
co-operative effort to bring UHF to thousands of new
Boston market viewers.  Even WJZB-TV/14 was to be a
part of the equation as well. Channel 14 was never to
be a Boston station.  It almost did! WREP-TV/Channel
25's stick on the tower lay dormant until October,
1977 when WXNE-TV signed-on.

As for "TV/38...is all fun and games", that was their
Summer 1973 promotion that they used for a couple of
years with the late Werner Klemperer ("Hogan's
Heroes") doing the promos.  Both the late John Banner
and the late Bob Crane (both from "Hogan's Horoes")
did TV/38's previous promotional logo "TV/38 is a
Great Escape!" ("Hogan's Heroes" was new to TV/38 that
season and stayed on their schedule for over 25
years!) John Banner died less than 4 months after
taping those 1972 promos.

Ah, yes!  The Stooges and Willie Whistle.  Willie
(Dick Beach) was seen on both WIHS-TV and then
WSBK-TV.  How I miss, TV/38!

73,

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts



      
--- Joseph Pappalardo <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> 
> > 1971 - Channels 38 (moved from Pru), 56 (moved
> from Woburn)
> 
> Is that true?  56 used to have a TX in Woburn?
> 
> Also, I am trying to remember when I discovered Ch
> 38.
> 
> I'm not sure which of these came first....but these
> are my earliest
> memories.
> 
> Willie Whistle
> Stooges in the afternoon at 3:30PM.
> Bruins!  ("TV 38...all fun and Games")
> 
> What year was this...does anyone know?
> 
> JP
> 


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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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