Worcester's Channel 5 allocation (was Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork)

[Doug Drown]

Steve:  Yes, it did.  I'm not sure whether State Mutual still owned the
station at that point.  The format didn't last long; I suspect the growing
number of cable stations probably killed it.

WHCT, RKO General's Channel 18 in Hartford, was the national pioneer with
pay TV, if I recall, back in the '60s.  It was an experiment that lasted
several years.

-Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SteveOrdinetz" <hykker@grolen.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: Worcester's Channel 5 allocation (was Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork)


>   Doug Drown wrote:
> >  And
> >Worcester itself, by the early '70s, saw the advent of State Mutual's
WSMW
> >Channel 27 (now WUNI), which seemed to have done modestly well for
several
> >years as an indie with local newscasts and programming.  If WJZB had hung
in
> >there a little longer, it might have made it.
>
>
> Didn't 27 experiment with some sort of pay-tv system where the signal was
> scrambled and you needed  a decoder at one point in the mid-late 70s?  If
> you tried to watch without the decoder you got out-of-sync video, and an
> audio track that was a pitch for the pay service.
>
>