WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?

[revdoug1@myfairpoint.net]

I was in Children's Hospital for an extended period back in the winter 
of 1957-58 and American Bandstand was most surely on the air, I'm quite 
sure on Channel 5.   I remember watching it from my hospital bed.    
-Dougf

Quoting "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>:
> WHDH-TV/Channel 5 spared NO expense in building Boston's first ALL 
> LOCAL COLOR
> facility back in 1956-57.  Sure WBZ-TV may have been the first in local
> originated color.  But unlike The Herald-Traveler, Westinghouse was 
> somewhat of
> a cheap operator in comparison. No doubt, WBZ-TV put "something" on 
> the air in
> color (before WHDH singed-on) just to say "Hey, we broadcast the first local
> color TV in Boston!".  Local color on WBZ-TV was very rare until '67.  Even
> "Boomtown's" local inserts were in black and white until the fall of 
> '68. Look
> what they did with the two (and a half) WBZ-FM's over the years. But, 
> I digress. 
>
> Originally, since WTAO-TV Channel 56 was still the ABC affiliate (on paper at
> the time), WHDH-TV was to be an Independent (a situation similar to the
> WHCT/WTIC CBS issue in Hartford).  When WTAO-TV went dark in early 1956, ABC
> quickly got WHDH-TV to join the ABC family.  However, WHDH-TV was still being
> built at the time, so WBZ-TV (Channel 4) and WNAC-TV (Channel 7) would still
> cherry pick some of the better ABC programs for the time being until WHDH-TV
> would sign-on in November '57.  Some north of Boston viewers got (and 
> still do
> get) ABC full-time on WMUR-TV (Channel 9). 
>
> By the way.... did Boston ever get American Bandstand on Channels 4, 7 or
> the-then new Channel 5 during the halcyon days of Dick Clark's daily 
> show from
> Philadelphia back in the '50's? It seemed that Bandstand was constantly
> pre-empted in this market for years until WSBK-TV (Channel 38) ran it 
> for a few
> years in the 60's.  Used to watch AB on TV38 in '67 and '68. 
>
> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
> "Scanning the bands since 1967"
>
> radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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>
> --- On Thu, 7/8/10, Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>
> > Subject: RE: WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?
> > To: "'Linc Reed-Nickerson'" <linc@reed-nickerson.com>
> > Cc: "Boston radio e-mail list" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> > Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:38 PM
> > I believe Duncan was either a duck or
> > a swan... 
> >
> > -Gary Francis
> > WBZ radio alum
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
> > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org]
> > On Behalf Of
> > Linc Reed-Nickerson
> > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:58 PM
> > To: 'Boston Radio Group'
> > Subject: WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?
> >
> > I believe WBZ can probably take the honors for earliest
> > locally originated
> > color transmission, not live, but because they (Bill
> > Hauser) purchased an
> > RCA TK-26 color film chain (before or about the time WHDH
> > went on the air). 
> >
> > Interestingly it was disassembled and made into three B
> > & W film cameras
> > before being reassembled and up dated with COHU
> > encoder. 
> >
> > I worked at WHDH in the summer of '65, and it was the best
> > job I had from
> > the broadcast side (Tektronix was best from the supply
> > side).  Unfortunately
> > I was a "summer replacement" and got drafted into the Army
> > that summer, the
> > only full time opening I found on return from Vietnam was
> > at WBZ.  They may
> > have been number 1, but the couldn't compare technically to
> > WHDH.  Shortly
> > after I got there they brought Dick Ellis in as Chief from
> > KYW, and his
> > philosophy was to purchase industrial equipment rather than
> > broadcast
> > quality. No matter how bad they looked they still made
> > numbers!
> >
> > Now going way back, and I asked this question to many of my
> > colleagues at
> > WBZ, and nobody could remember this person's
> > identity.  Jack Chase had a
> > morning show, and on that show for bumpers they had a
> > toddle (female) in a
> > playpen.  I'm guessing she'd be between 55 and 60
> > now.  Who was she and
> > where is she now?  One clue, I think she might have
> > been related to Gordon
> > Swan.  Donna? if anybody knows, you will!
> >
> > I also remember another personality, female, with an odd
> > first name for a
> > female, Duncan, I believe (ch 7 or was she Jack's
> > co-host).  Am I
> > hallucinating, or is that a valid memory?
> >
> > And who was the woman that did the nautically oriented kid
> > show on WMUR?  I
> > worked there in 1964, and they remembered her, but couldn't
> > remember her
> > name (Glendora and the SS Glendora?). 
> >
> > And one final question, we had a very nice young lady that
> > worked as a P.A. 
> > for Rex trailer, Jackie Murphy.  I believe she went to
> > B.U. and eventually
> > married a station owner in Vermont.  I know she worked
> > at WARE for a while
> > in the mid-70's and was also on WAQY (?) in Springfield. 
> >
> > Just some questions about things I'd like to know (my
> > bucket list). 
> >
> > Linc
> >
> > Leighton M. "Linc" Reed-Nickerson
> > President - KORC Radio, Inc. 
> > VP - Harney County Radio, LLC
> > 140 Verbina St. 
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