40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:13:02 -0400, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> said:

> On 6/22/2012 11:56 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>> We were talking TV
>> 
>> Springfield was channel 22 - as was Burlington VT (also 22)

> Why were the Red Sox on channel 22 in Springfield when Hartford's 
> Channel 3 reaches all the way up the Pioneer Valley?

Probably for local advertising sales.  Springfield being a smaller
market, local advertisers would not want to pay more for a signal that
primarily serves a state they don't.

-GAWollman