WMUR

[Peter Q. George]

--- Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:

> As I said the other day, there was an endearing
> small-city hokeyness to 
> Uncle Gus's show, and it certainly is true that a
> lot of Masachusetts kids 
> watched it.  I was one of them.  (FWIW, I was a big
> fan of Salty Brine on 
> Providence's Channel 12, too.  Living in the hills
> of Worcester County with 
> a roof antenna, it was like having the best of all
> possible worlds: TV from 
> Boston, Providence, Manchester, Hartford, Mount
> Washington [a little snowy], 
> and Albany [Mount Greylock].  When cable arrived, it
> was almost 
> superfluous.)
> 

I'll have to agree with you. In spite of Channel 9's
technical problems (and yes, there were many), there
was a unique feel about WMUR during the Uncle Gus era.
 Hokey, yes, it was.  But there was something truly
different about watching Channel 9. When you watched
Channel 9, you felt like you're watching people just
like you.  It was definitely a real local-flavored
style of television, something you could never see on
big city television.  About the closest thing today
you can see is local cable access.  Even that is
quickly fading away, as well.  It's amazing that any
video of the early color broadcasts of WMUR exist on
YouTube.  That's truly fascinating, considering that
home video was only in it's very stages at the time. 

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
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