WMUR

[Kevin Vahey]

In 1968 Channel 9 did carry the conventions at all and instead ran
movies and got mail from as far away from Connecticut with viewers
happy to have another option.

Sometimes channel 9 made news by accident.

In June of 1968 the transmitter engineer fell asleep and when ABC came
back with coverage that RFK had been shot the station was the only one
on at 3 AM. We used to feed the network to the transmitter when we
were off the air just to keep the STL happy.

Then in 1972 the reverse happened. The transmitter engineer again fell
asleep and heard the national anthem and happily shut the station
down...at 9:30 PM

It was during the Olympics and somebody from the US had won a medal.

One could write a book about 1819 Elm St



On 3/21/08, Bill Dillane <dillane@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I had head that one night during the 1972 Democratic Convention that had
> sessions going long into the overnight hours, someone at the convention
> moved to adjourn sometime after 2:00.  The WMUR tech on duty quickly signed
> off the station, but the session and the ABC coverage did not end until much
> later.
>
> BTW - According to a 1947 TV allocation chart, Boston was suppose to have
> channels 2, 4, 7, 9 and 13, Worcester - channel 5, Providence channel 11,
> and Portland channels 3 and 8.
>
> Chart at
> http://members.aol.com/jeff99500/1947tvalloc.html
>
>