WEZE, WCOP and NBC

[Doug Drown]

> Point of trivia: WNAC-TV 7's test pattern had the Yankee Network logo
> on it long after the Yankee Network became defunct.

<<I always wondered why it was there at all, since there wasn't a
Yankee Network on television.  Or was there?>>

I can't answer that except to say that if it did exist, I don't remember it
at all, and I can remember Boston television back to about 1954.  I'm
wondering --- perhaps Donna can help us out  here --- whether the name of
Shepard's parent company for WNAC
and WNAC-TV may have been The Yankee Network, Inc., or something along those
lines.  If that were the case, it would explain the logo on the test
pattern --- General Teleradio/RKO General simply retained it, maybe as a tip
of the hat to history.

-Doug




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: WEZE, WCOP and NBC


> On 28 Jan 2008 at 23:08, Doug Drown wrote:
>
> > I'm sure there's a list of former Yankee affiliates somewhere on the
> > Net.  I know Norman Knight's stations (WGIR, WEIM, WHEB, WSAR) were
> > all affiliates, by virtue of his former connection with WNAC.  I used
> > to listen to Yankee newscasts (and Wyrtzen's show) on WEIM.
>
> And WLLH.
>
> > Point of trivia: WNAC-TV 7's test pattern had the Yankee Network logo
> > on it long after the Yankee Network became defunct.
>
> I always wondered why it was there at all, since there wasn't a
> Yankee Network on television.  Or was there?
>
> -- 
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