WMUR

[Maureen Carney]

I understand that the Telegram & Gazette put in for channel 5 in Worcester but I'm not sure if they got as far as the CP, and that WHDH-TV was originally scheduled for the channel 13 license and WCOP was interested in the channel 9 allocation. I'm not sure how far along things were when the channels were reallocated.


----- Original Message ----
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
To: Bill Dillane <dillane@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:15:41 PM
Subject: WMUR

<<On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:23:58 -0400, "Bill Dillane" <dillane@sbcglobal.net> said:

> 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.

Yep, that's from before the FCC realized how hellaciously short-spaced
that would have made nearly everything in the northeast.  Then
Providence moved 11 to 10 and added 12, New Haven moved 6 to 8, New
Bedford got 6, Albany 4 moved to 6, Utica 3 moved to 2 and 13
moved to 4 (never built), and that whole cascade of changes in Western
NY that eventually put Syracuse on 3, 5, and 9, Rochester on 8, 10,
and 13, and Toronto on 5 and 9.

-GAWollman


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