Boston TV booth announcers

[Peter Q. George]

As a side note: Ken Stahl was not only the LAST voice (albeit recorded) on the old WHDH-TV (Channel 5), when they turned-off the transmitter at 2:30 am on 3/19/72. Ken was also the FIRST voice ever (and he was live) on the new WCVB-TV the moment THEY fired up on Channel 5, some 13 minutes later at 2:43 am.  Yes, at age 12, I was up at that ungodly hour that Sunday morning just to see the switchover. It seems like yesterday! 

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

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--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Boston TV booth announcers
> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>, "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 7:52 PM
> Leif Jensen was the primary WNAC booth person and Ed Miller
> also did booth duty.
> 
> At Channel 5 Ken Stahl also did the booth
> 
> On 4/12/09, Doug Drown <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
> wrote:
> > A question that popped into my mind while traveling
> today:  Who were the
> > principal booth announcers for Channels 4, 5 and 7
> during the '50s and '60s?
> >  I'm thinking that Dick Tucker and Art Amadon did
> announcing for Channel 4
> > and that Frank Avruch did some for 5 (though I may be
> altogether wrong on
> > all counts --- I was a kid back then).  I have no idea
> who did Channel 7,
> > though I remember the voice.
> >
> > Then there was the distinctive Brahmin twang of
> William Pearce on Channel 2,
> > who was actually from Maine.
> >
> > -Doug
> >
> >
> >