WMUR

[Doug Drown]

>Richard Eaton wound up with the station and he was a frugal owner to put it 
>mildly.

Oh, boy, do I remember those days from when I was a kid.  Aside from "Uncle 
Gus," which had a sort of quaint small-city charm to it, WMUR's local 
programming was, shall we say, bottom of the barrel.  Given that most 
southern NH residents could pick up Boston TV with their roof antennas, I 
used to wonder how much of an embarrassment they used to consider the 
station to be, given that it was the only one in the state.     -Doug





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>; "Boston Radio Interest" 
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs


> Eaton also owned 1410 in Hartford and, IIRC, 1380 in NYC (or maybe it
> was WPOW 1330 in NYC, which, back then, shared time with WEVD 1330 NYC
> and WHAZ 1330 Troy). I recall that he also bought WHAZ from my alma
> mater, RPI, with the idea of getting its nine-hours per week (6:00PM
> Mondays until 3:00AM Tuesdays) for WPOW. He turned WHAZ into a
> daytimer and WPOW began using WHAZ's share-time allocation. But WEVD
> protested and WPOW wound up getting only 5:00PM to 8:00PM, which had
> been its Tuesday-Friday schedule (in addition to 3:00AM to 8:00AM).
> WEVD lost 5:00PM to 6:00PM Mondays, but got 8:00PM Mondays through
> 3:00AM Tuesdays. WPOW was purchased by religious broadcaster Salem
> Communications, which changed the calls to WNYM and eventually also
> acquired the hours that WEVD had been running so WNYM could become a
> full-timer. (WEVD already owned 97.9FM, to which it moved in its
> entirety.) Then Salem sold WNYM so it could acquire WMCA (this was
> before duopolies were allowed). I'm not sure whether the buyer was or
> wasn't Spanish religious broadcaster RadioVision Christiana, the
> present owner of the current occupant of 1330 in NYC, WWRV.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>; "Scott Fybush"
> <scott@fybush.com>; "Boston Radio Group"
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs
>
>
>> Dan you are correct about Storer as once you said it the memory came
>> back. The only reason I remember this was an old news article was on
>> the bulletin board at WMUR.
>>
>> Richard Eaton wound up with the station and he was a frugal owner to
>> put it midly.
>>
>> He also owned channel 14 in DC (WOOK) and one other station in El
>> Centro, CA.
>>
>> I seem to recall the license for WOOK was revoked by the FCC but I
>> can't remember why.
>