WMUR

[Maureen Carney]

I remember WMUR showing the 3rd hour of GMA back in the 70s. IIRC that was actually the 2nd hour for Mountain and Pacific time zone affiliates so that they wouldn't have stale news.


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Watson <markwats@comcast.net>
To: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>; Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: Boston Radio Interest <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>; Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:24:22 AM
Subject: Re: WMUR

Kevin Vahey wrote:


> How cheap were they?
>
> In 1968 on election night the station GM declared Nixon won at 1 AM so
> he would not have to pay OT. Channel 9 was six hours ahead of the
> networks.
>
> He also would not air Joey Bishop late nights and we ran old reruns of
> People Are Funny and went off the air at Midnight.

  Prior to the debut of "Good Morning America" in 1975 or 1976, ABC didn't 
start feeding daily network programming till 11:00. IIRC WMUR didn't sign on 
until 10:45 weekdays with the booth announcer doing a rip & read wire copy 
newscast (audio only, with a slide showing the word "News" on the screen the 
whole time) then the network show at 11. Did WMUR sign on at 7 to clear 
"GMA" from the start? I know on Saturdays they signed on at 8:00 as they 
cleared ABCs cartoon/kids shows, and Sundays they signed on at 7:00 or 8:00 
to run religious programs.

Mark Watson 


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