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Bangor Metro magazine remembers Eddie Driscoll ... again. :)

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Bangor Metro is celebrating this month by reprinting several articles from its first 5 years. And on the cover is Bangor's King of TV Eddie Driscoll. The article was written by The Zone Corps news director Anne Gabianelli.

I know I spent many hours with Eddie in front of the TV with "Dialing For Dollars", "My Backyard", and "The Super Time Supper Show". I met him twice. Once when I was around 6 years old when he appeared around Christmas time at Britt's department store in Ellsworth with Zog the robot from "Super Time Supper Show". And once in 1986 when I was at TV 2 for a delivery.

Oh yeah, my Mom won $123 on DFD when I was 7. A huge sum at that time.

I'm glad this article resurfaced as it brings back many fond memories.

http://www.bangormetro.com/item/512-bangors-king-of-comedy-eddie-driscoll
 
It was a great article. I especially like the "Side-bar" article relating to Bangor TV channels on New Brunswick and Nova Scotia cable systems back in 70s and 80s. The writer thought it would be good if they got back on again! I'm wondering how the Cable operators feel? Would there be any demoand from NB/NS viewers?
Right now Maine Public Broadcasting is on most cable systems in New Brunswick, and WAGM Presque Isle is on a few in Northern New Brunswick. But WLBZ WABI or WVII are not any longer. WLBZ and WABI used to be on in parts of New Brunswick, but I believe they were taken off, after the digital conversion, and removal of their translators in Calais. Can anybody confirm?
 
rjoc said:
It was a great article. I especially like the "Side-bar" article relating to Bangor TV channels on New Brunswick and Nova Scotia cable systems back in 70s and 80s. The writer thought it would be good if they got back on again! I'm wondering how the Cable operators feel? Would there be any demoand from NB/NS viewers?
Right now Maine Public Broadcasting is on most cable systems in New Brunswick, and WAGM Presque Isle is on a few in Northern New Brunswick. But WLBZ WABI or WVII are not any longer. WLBZ and WABI used to be on in parts of New Brunswick, but I believe they were taken off, after the digital conversion, and removal of their translators in Calais. Can anybody confirm?
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There was an application before the CRTC in the early 90s by Atlantic Canadian cablecos to birdfeed the signals from Bangor, but the CRTC turned it down flat. NBC and CBS on cable in New Brunswick is primarily off the bird from Boston now (with the exception of the St. John River Valley, who get WAGM for Eye programming). ABC IIRC is from Detroit in much of the province and Boston on the North Shore (not sure what the reasoning is there :D). Here in Nova Scotia (and also in PEI), it's Beantown all the way for the major network sigs, apart from Fox (that's birdfed from Rochester).
 
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