WMUR

[Doug Drown]

>To give credit where it's due: I don't think they were notably cheesier 
>than the average station in NH or ME in the '60s.     Just comparably 
>cheesy: they were "state of the art"!

You're right, of course; when I first moved to Maine in '76, WGAN did indeed 
have an edge over the rest of the Portland-Lewiston area stations in terms 
of good production.  WCSH and WMTW managed to catch up, eventually.  (I 
remember the first time I saw a new, nicely FILMED "NewsCenter 6" intro ---  
back in the early '80s, I think --- that was comparable to stuff I'd seen in 
Boston ten years earlier, and I went, "Whoooooo.")

Bangor, on the other hand, was another story altogether.

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabrielmass.com>
To: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: WMUR


> SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>> On 3/25/08, Peter Q. George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> It's amazing.  In spite of the primitive facilities at
>>> the time, the folks at WMUR-TV still managed to put
>>> out some great TV that people STILL remember to this
>>> day.
>>
>> I'm not sure if I'd call it "great tv"..."so bad it was good" might be
>> a better term.  It was so cheesy that it was memorable.
>
> To give credit where it's due: I don't think they were notably cheesier 
> than the average station in NH or ME in the '60s.     Just comparably 
> cheesy: they were "state of the art"!
>
> I thought WGAN-13 had a little edge over the rest in good production and 
> operation values, but most of the NH and ME stations I could see from 
> Portsmouth -- WMUR-9, WMTW-8, WCSH-6, and WENH-11 -- sometimes had 
> "programs" that consisted of an announcer reading news over a lame-looking 
> slide.   And some of the local shows on 6, 8, or 11 were as un-slick as 
> anything on channel 9.
>
> (Oh, man: I'm having a flashback to the "Swap Shop"...)
>
> --RC
>