WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:34:16 -0400, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> said:

> I may have mis-typed.  I meant to type Channel 9 in New Hampshire and 
> Channel 8 in Hartford.  Sorry.

Not to pile on here, but WNHC-TV/WTNH was never in Hartford -- always
New Haven, and always AFAIK transmitting from Hamden, just north of
the Wilbur Cross Parkway.  And it started out on channel 6, and later
moved to channel 8 with the Great Northeast VHF Realignment.  (Recall
that the same realignment moved WJAR-TV from 11 to 10 and WRGB from 4
to 6, and eventually led to a whole mess of changes in Western New
York that took a decade to finally play out[1] (6 Rochester to 5, 5
Rochester and 8 Syracuse swap, useless 4 Utica added, 13 Utica to 2,
13 Rochester and 13 Albany added).  Then after the freeze was lifted
you had 5 Worcester moved to Boston, new 6 New Bedford, new 12
Providence, and eventually new 3 Hartford -- not to mention 11 Durham,
3 Burlington, 9 Manchester, 8 Poland Spring, all coming on in the
mid-to-late 1950s.

-GAWollman

[1] Fybush has been promising to write the definitive article on this
for at least a decade now.