WMUR

[Doug Drown]

>It would be great to see those old newscasts again. Just for yucks.  The 
>manual weather maps.

Who can forget Don Kent standing there in front of his slider chalkboard 
maps, writing with his big white pastel chalks,
and all the incredible hand-done detail that he'd put on each map?  I 
remember that three-sided rotating map thingy too,
but can't recall which station had it.  -Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill O'Neill" <billohno@gmail.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabrielmass.com>; "Boston Radio Group" 
<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: WMUR


> Doug Drown wrote:
>> (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.")
>
> It would be great to see those old newscasts again. Just for yucks.  The 
> manual weather maps. One Boston channel had their maps on a three-sided 
> structure that rotated and had 'stops' when a map was facing front. Once, 
> the guy gave it too hard of a spin and it passed the next map and kept 
> right on going.  Once, Gus over at 9 tapped his map and the magnets fell 
> off. Talk about a high to low.   WBZ had a slider map with multiple layers 
> on tracks that would occasion to get 'stuck' as the guy was trying to 
> coolly move on to the next one.  OTOH, their forecasts were fairly 
> accurate and that's what really mattered.  Superimposed upon any legacy 
> newscast discussion is the fact that at that point in time, the role local 
> news people played in the community at large eclipses anything we would 
> see now.
>
> Bill O'Neill