WMGX Portland to Flip Formats

[Doug Drown]

New Bedford Channel 6 was originally WTEV.  It's WLNE now ("ABC 6").
WSBK-TV was born WIHS-TV; it was owned by the Archdiocese of Boston before
Storer bought it.  WUNI-TV (27 in Worcester) was originally WSMW. If you
want to go waaaaay back, WLVI (WKBG) was WTAO-TV in its first incarnation
(mid-'50s).  It was dark for a few years before Kaiser and the Boston Globe
bought and resurrected it.  WPRI-TV (Providence 12) was WPRO-TV, owned by
the Cherry & Webb department store chain along with the radio station.

-Doug (a fellow pedantic geek, who can remember when radio and TV stations
wore their call letters proudly)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Francini" <francini@mac.com>
To: "Stephanie Weil" <stephanie@gordsven.com>
Cc: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; <chuckigo@maine.rr.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: WMGX Portland to Flip Formats


> Maybe I'm just a pedantic geek.  I can recall much of the dial right
> off the top of my head...
>
> 2 - WGBH-TV
> 4 - WBZ-TV
> 5 - WCVB-TV (nee WHDH-TV)
> 7 - WHDH-TV (nee WNEV-TV, nee WNAC-TV)
> 6 - ????    (New Bedford)
> 9 - WMUR-TV
> 10- WJAR-TV (Providence)
> 11- WENH-TV (Durham, NH)
> 12- WPRI-TV (Providence)
> 25- WFXT-TV
> 27- WUNI-TV (Worcester)
> 38- WSBK-TV
> 44- WGBX-TV
> 50- WNDS-TV (NH); they recently changed calls when they got sold
> 56- WLVI-TV (b. WKBG-TV)
> 57- WGBY-TV (Springfield)
> 66- ????
> 68- ????
>
> No, I don't recall Channels 6, 66 and 68 at this time; I know 6 is
> New Bedford, 68 is PAX network and 66 is shopping.
>
> So, 15 of 18... not too bad.
>
> But then again, I must be a geek.
>
> j
>
>
>
> On 9 Mar 2006, at 16:53, Stephanie Weil wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, March 9, 2006 15:32, Doug Drown said:
> >
> >> Schenectady, which until a year ago had been known to viewers for
> >> over six
> >> decades as WRGB
> >
> > No, I'm sure most people in Schenectady call it "Channel 6"
> >
> >
> >>> This is also a nascent trend on TV as well, with Boston's channel 4
> >>> trying
> >>> to 'hide' their *legal name*, WBZ-TV Channel 4, under the "CBS 4
> >>> Boston"
> >
> > It's easier to remember just the dial position or the network that
> > is on
> > that particular transmitter.
> >
> > Aside from Channel 4, I don't really know many of Boston's TV
> > transmitter's call signs.  I just call them Channel 2, 4,
> > 5....etc.  Other
> > people call them CBS, NBC, Fox....
> >
> > What the hell is a WBMX FM?  I'm sure most people just know it as
> > 98-5 or
> > Mix 98-5 (or even Mix 98).
> >
> > -- 
> > Stephanie Weil
> > New York City, NY, USA
>