Re: WVNY TV (22) News gone...

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

I recall in the early 70's their studios were in an old miltary building 
and they had maybe the smallest live studio I have ever seen with one 
beat up GE color camera.

But adding Bruins and Celtics games got them on cable systems in 
Montreal over WMTW so were making money. But WCAX owns Vermont and WPTZ 
owns the NY side of the puddle as far as news goes



On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:35AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:06:18 -0400, "Bill O'Neill" 
> <billo@shoreham.net> said:
>
>>  The Rutland Herald is reporting this morning that the
>>  Burlington/Plattsburgh ABC affiliate, WVNY (22) is ceasing it's
>>  local news operation (6 & 11) as of this Friday.  They cite revenue
>>  shortfalls.  That reduces the local options by one-third to the
>>  market.
>
> Not that it makes any difference: WCAX is to that market what WSB is
> to Atlanta.  WVNY has always been the weak sister (going back to the
> days when it was WEZF-TV) and has gone through several periods without
> significant news presence, not to mention outright darkness during the
> 1970s.  I think it had just come back on the air in 1978 when we moved
> to Burlington.  (Not that it mattered to us, since their OTA signal on
> Austin Drive was unwatchable.)
>
> -GAWollman