WHDH snubs Leno

[Paul Hopfgarten]

I remember that as I was a Ch 10 WJAR watcher of SCTV...

-Paul H
Derry NH (then Randolph MA)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@gmail.com>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: WHDH snubs Leno


> Speaking of pre-emptions, there was one point when WBZ, then an NBC
> affiliate, wouldn't run
> the then-new Late Night with David Letterman (IIRC, or was it the
> Tomorrow show?) and Friday night's SCTV...they ran
> "Hawaii Five O" reruns instead. SCTV regulars Dave Thomas and Rick 
> Moranis, who
> played the ultra-Canadian McKenzie brothers, used to joke about
> "hosers" on the show...
> and one day, they made a guest appearance on WBCN. Someone called in and 
> asked
> them to define a "hoser". "Well, you know that people at the NBC
> station in Boston who
> won't run us? THAT is a hoser..."
>