40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

WWLP stood for the owner, William Putnam.

When I lived in Cromwell, CT.. I watched WWLP almost exclusively. I was
even a 22NEWS Weather Watcher. (I did watch WVIT a bit too)


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:08 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 6/23/2012 1:01 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
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>  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.
>>
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> OK, but why would anyone want to watch them on Channel 22 when Channel 3
> had a better signal over most of Channel 22's coverage area?
>
> One thing that might make it more worthwhile is if WRLP (channel 32 I
> think) was in operation at that time and also carried the games (22 and 32
> didn't always have the same programs, though the usually did).
>
> And while we're on the subject, does anyone know what the call letters
> WWLP and WRLP stood for?
>
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