WMUR

[Kevin Vahey]

Uncle Gus was a huge money maker for the station and their biggest
advertiser was a maker of mobile homes. What they found was many
retired folks would watch and adopt the kids as their grandchildren.

We must have driven ABC crazy. If we delayed running a network show
and since we could not tape it in color they would send us a 16mm
print with the commercials spliced in as we did have a color film
chain.

At one point we had a chief engineer who did not have a first phone as
he was Canadian and in those days couldn't apply.



On 3/21/08, Maureen Carney <m_carney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Besides "Uncle Gus" the other reason I would watch WMUR was because they
> cleared ABC programming that the Boston affiate (either WCVB or WNAC)
> wouldn't - stuff like "American Bandstand", "Edge of Night" (when it came
> over to ABC in the late 70s/early 80s) and various sporting events. Since
> for the most part I watched 9 on a B&W TV in my parent's bedroom the crappy
> color didn't bother me!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: Mark Watson <markwats@comcast.net>
> Cc: (newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:23:14 PM
> Subject: Re: WMUR
>
> How bad were the color cameras that WMUR bought from IVC?
>
> Very few clips exist of Uncle Gus and this one didn't even have Gus.
> Steve Thomas was filling in.
>
> Steve was the first Ronald McDonald in New England and still does magic
> today
> http://www.stevethomasmagic.com/aboutsteve.php
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z2Qc5ZDUMQ
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-N1Qs9ujc
>
>
>
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