MyTV joins MyNetwork

[Doug Drown]

<<(Proximity to Channel 10 in Providence precluded a
site closer to Boston.)>>

Dan, could you explain this, please?  I'm certain it has something to do
with frequency technicalities, but I'm a layman.  If Channel 9 couldn't move
to the Boston area because of geographical proximity to Channel 10, then how
could Channel 5 be established in Boston, given its proximity to Channel 4?

-Doug



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>; "Doug Drown"
<revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>; "Donna Halper"
<dlh@donnahalper.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork


> Early in the life of Channel 9, George B Storer (best known as an (AM)
radio
> mogul) wanted to buy WMUR-TV and move its transmitting tower to Georgetown
> MA on the North Shore, making the station into a Boston-maket station.
> Untill the Channel 5 competition was straigtened out, Channel 9 would have
> been Boston's third network affiliate and presumably would have retained
the
> ABC affiliation because ABC was then decidedly the least desirable network
> and the northerly transmitter site would have made Channel 9 the market's
> poorest VHF facility. (Proximity to Channel 10 in Providence precluded a
> site closer to Boston.) I'm not sure which of many possible reasons was
> responsible for the demise of the Channel 9 move, but I'm sure that Scott
> and/or Donna can enlighten us.
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork
>
>
> > On 22 Jul 2006 at 14:58, Doug Drown wrote:
> >
> > > Good question --- and one which raises a couple more.  I understand
> > > that WMUR-TV was originally a CBS affiliate, but switched to ABC back
> > > around 1960 or thereabouts.  The station has changed hands twice in
> > > the past thirty years; with each change in ownership, have the other
> > > networks tried to wrest it away from that ABC affiliation?  And . . .
> > > Why ABC?  It gives the network a very advantageous toehold in the
> > > state.  (I guess if I were an exec with Disney/ABC, I'd have my answer
> > > right there.)
> >
> > When we moved to Bedford, MA in 1957, WMUR-TV was even then an ABC
> > affiliate.  I don't think it's ever been anything else.  At that
> > time, before channel 5 was on the air in Boston, and long before
> > channel 6 in New Bedford, it was the only ABC-affiliated station
> > around, and its signal reached at least the northern suburbs of
> > Boston (in the early 70s, I used to be able to get it rather well in
> > Brookline, at the apartment where I lived at that time).
> >
> > At the time, ABC also had a lighter schedule than the other two
> > networks  -- for awhile they had hardly any daytime programming at
> > all -- which left room for local and syndicated programming.  Even
> > after Channel 5 came on, Channel 9 often had programming that wasn't
> > available anywhere else in the Boston area.
> >
> > --
> > A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
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> >
> >
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