WMUR

[Doug Drown]

WMUR was originally a CBS affiliate that I believe had a secondary ABC 
affiliation.  I'm not sure when that changed, but I remember the station 
from the late '50s and it was an ABC affiliate by then.  -Doug

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> From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> To: "Maureen Carney" <m_carney@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:37 AM
> Subject: Re: WMUR
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>> On 21 Mar 2008 at 6:52, Maureen Carney wrote:
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>>> 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!
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>> It's important to remember that there was no full-time ABC affiliate
>> in Boston until WHDH-TV, channel 5 came on the air in November 1957.
>> Before that, ABC programs were mostly carried by channel 7, a CBS
>> affiliate, and sometimes by channel 4.
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>> At the time, channel 4 and channel 7 were not carrying the NBC and
>> CBS evening news broadcasts, so channel 5 picked up both of them and
>> did not carry the ABC news with John Daly.  That was on channel 9.
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>> I remember Uncle Gus in the early 1970s.  At the time I worked at
>> Brookline Town Hall.  Uncle Gus was on at 5 PM, and I usually got
>> home while he was still on.  After him was Robin Hood, with Richard
>> Greene, which I liked to watch.  So I would usually turn on the TV
>> and watch Uncle Gus until Robin Hood came on.
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