WBZ-TV History and Where Are They Now?

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:16:35 -0400, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> said:

> At 12:56 AM 7/13/2010, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> 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.

> Okay, but in fairness, I was using the Hartford Courant as my source, 
> and in the late 1950s, THEY listed channel 8 in their Hartford TV 
> listings.  How was I supposed to know????

It's pretty much common knowledge on this mailing-list. :-)

Certianly many /Courant/ readers would have been able to receive
channel 8 without difficulty, and it was the only source for ABC
programs for most TV viewers in the /Courant/'s circulation area.
Connecticut's first cable system was apparently as late as 1972, which
surprises me somewhat -- I would have expected it to have been
earlier.

-GAWollman