WMUR

[Kevin Vahey]

Winter of 69 was the WABC experiment.

It sust came down the line. ABC wasn't as bad as CBS in those days as
they actually went to black during local breaks unlike CBS which just
fed WCBS....you had a half second from the WCBS slide going to black
and the bong to join net clean.

MUR allowed me to go to college and they even took me back after a lot
of the staff fled to WXPO. A few of us also worked at WSMW. Looking
back I wonder how I put all those miles on the car and when did I
sleep.

What I earned most at WMUR was how to improvise. We tried our best to
look professional given what we had to work with.


On 3/22/08, Peter Q. George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Saturday MUR would start off with Ring A Ding the
> > Clown and then ABC cartoons.
> >
> > Sunday they ran some very strange religious shows.
> > The one I remember
> > most was AA Allen who did a miracle healing show
> > from a tent in
> > Arizona.
> >
> > Wrestling, roller derby and games from TVS also
> > filled time.
> >
> > Sunday would also bring in the guy from Saladmaster
> > crashing pans
> > every week but the crew ate well.
> >
> > Sam even tried to get away with running local news
> > from WABC for
> > awhile on Sunday night. That lasted about a month.
>
> When were they running local news from WABC-TV on
> Sunday nights?  Just curious. I'm sure that confused a
> few people in the Boston market wondering why the news
> from Channel 7 in New York found itself on Channel 9
> in Manchester, NH, considering that there was already
> an ABC affiliate on Boston's Channel 7.  But with FCC
> requirements stipulating news and information
> programming (even on Sundays), this was a easy way of
> doing just that (directly from the network feed, which
> usually just ran the local O&O during non-network
> times).  A little bit of treat, actually, with the
> news coming from WABC-TV.... I'm sure it was in color.
>  Until 1973, WMUR-TV had no live local color. WABC-TV
> went full local color in '66.
>
> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
>                            "Scanning the bands since 1967"
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> radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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