WMUR

[Kevin Vahey]

When Channel 9 lost the Altantic account they started using a 3 sided
board called the Gulf Weather Vane

When they lost Gulf they just covered up the logo

I would love to see a New Hampshire Bandstand tape....that was a crazy
show both on and off air

Clyde and Willie May Joy was a trip to work as well

Looks like Clyde was still performing as late as 2002

and his Circle 9 Ranch still exists
http://www.circle9ranch.com/index.html

http://portsmouthemployment.com/2002news/hampton/09172002/news/24771.htm

Clyde was actually very well regarded by the C&W stars of the day.




On 3/26/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> >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
>
>