I agree, it is crap. I assume WOIO is be forced to air MyNetworkTV due to contractual obligation or else an edict by Gray.
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Can you believe it's been 30 years?
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Which air on WBNX late nights any way in syndication (Law and Order SVU, and two from the Chicagoverse - PD and Fire)
Probably playing out the string to fulfill the obligation.
Other things celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2024
*Gateway (complex housing the now Progressive Field and Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse)
*The MLB strike that wiped out the World Series
*The NFL on Fox, where they had this new fangled idea to keep the score, time, and down permanently on screen in a little box
*Nancy Kerrigan getting kneecapped by Tonya Harding
*The OJ Simpson case (and infamous Bronco chase)
*Friends debuting on NBC
*ER debuting on NBC, launching the career of some guy named George Clooney
*The final episode of Star Trek The Next Generation
*Forrest Gump debuting in theaters
*Jeff & Flash's final Buzzard Morning Zoo on WMMS
*Mike Trivisonno debuting on 3WE (now WTAM)
*Gateway (complex housing the now Progressive Field and Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse)
*The MLB strike that wiped out the World Series
*The NFL on Fox, where they had this new fangled idea to keep the score, time, and down permanently on screen in a little box
*Nancy Kerrigan getting kneecapped by Tonya Harding
*The OJ Simpson case (and infamous Bronco chase)
*Friends debuting on NBC
*ER debuting on NBC, launching the career of some guy named George Clooney
*The final episode of Star Trek The Next Generation
*Forrest Gump debuting in theaters
*Jeff & Flash's final Buzzard Morning Zoo on WMMS
*Mike Trivisonno debuting on 3WE (now WTAM)
...and Bernie Kosar receiving his one and only Super Bowl ring. Courtesy of Art Modell and some, "Never going make it as a head coach in this league" guy named Bill Belichick.
Only brought to my attention by the "Taylor Swift" and "Ring" references in another thread.
Only brought to my attention by the "Taylor Swift" and "Ring" references in another thread.
They are too busy overpaying former "Miss" News and Weather casters and an I-team that gets lead-in privileges with such stories as "Who's been leaving McDonalds cups and wrappers on picnic tables at Edgewater Park?".
I grew up in the area of the old building on Pleasant Valley Road and still have a hard time believing that used to be the home of the studios. (Dick Goddard and Big Chucks workplace). My guess? Changing that sign is of low priority.
I didn't know they were ever on Euclid Ave. For all I know, maybe they never actually had studios in Parma, just the transmitter. I might have kind of assumed, due to Big Chuck's mention of them (The towers) in his Autobiography.
This entire thread today is making me miss their CBS days as I still think they were a better affiliate than WOIO. Who seemed better in its "Fox 19" days.
Flash would 4 years later become the host of "America's Workforce", the daily hour-long labor union show heard on WERE 1300 (now 1490)
He's still doing it to this day.
What a memory. I visited WJW on Euclid around 1958 when I was 12. I had bought a couple of shares of Storer Broadcasting and wanted to "check on my investment". The staff was amused and very kind and I ended up even being ushered in to meet Peter Storer who was in that day!
"On Euclid around 1958" definitely pre-dates Dick Goddard's Tenure at Channel 8. I'm guessing the studios were always on Euclid as opposed to in Parma. That is to this day, a rather small building.
It's not that small at all, and the studios were definitely in Parma before Euclid.
Here's the 1951 Telecasting Yearbook, thanks to David's excellent site.
If you look at a current aerial image, it's exactly the same building. I'd love to see what's in all the old studio spaces now.
(The line about Olentangy River Road is a layout error - that's from the WLWC/WCMH listing in Columbus.)
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Check out that late 60s control room...tons of knobs and levers, and a guy with a cig in his hand.
I believe this is also the year WJW (WXEL/WJKW) turns 75. I hope they do a big special near its anniversary.
Neat history here this week. I also finally learned that the transmitter I see in the Parma area that blinks all white on cloudy days is indeed channel 8's on State & Pleasant Valley. It seems like no other around me in the "Parma area transmitter farm" does that.
Anyone remember when someone had the candelabra transmitter in the area of State Road (Could have been too North to be Channel 5's back then)? Also, in the 1970's Channel 3 had a really impressive sign on Broadview road.
Anyone remember when someone had the candelabra transmitter in the area of State Road (Could have been too North to be Channel 5's back then)? Also, in the 1970's Channel 3 had a really impressive sign on Broadview road.
And it's unpainted too. I believe that tower was rebuilt in the late 90s, perhaps to prepare for the future of digital television.
There was also a smaller, self supporting tower just right to the transmitter building, which was demolished around the same time as well. That could have been the original tower that dated back to the WXEL channel 9 era when they first signed on the air. That would make sense as WEWS had a similar tower when they originally signed on, and WKYC, then KYW, used one as well when they moved out to Parma, all of which would eventually be replaced with taller towers to make the signal go out further. For WEWS, their self supporting tower is still use for their auxiliary transmitter, while WKYC still has a bat wing VHF antenna on theirs, which was probably used in later years for either their analog 3 aux, their pre-transition digital 2 aux, or both.
That would have been WKBF, the original licensee of channel 61 who built that tower and signed on in 1968. WUAB would later sign on from that tower, placing a second antenna on top of the tower (the candelabra). Later on the 70's, a license for channel 19 (not the current day WOIO license) was to utilize that tower as well, but was eventually canceled by the FCC and never built. Supposely the plan was to have the UHF broadcasters all transmit from that same tower. WKBF signed off the air and returned their license in the mid 70's, merging into WUAB, leaving them as the only TV broadcaster on that tower. In 1981, the current day 61 license (as WCLQ) signed on the air from a newly built tower off of West Ridgewood Drive, rather than ultizing the original WKBF tower. In the late 80's or early 90's, the candelabra setup was removed, and the tower was extened above the original antenna mounts to increase the height of the WUAB antenna, which is where it remains inactive today. A few years back when Gray bought WLFM-LD (now WTCL-LD), they moved their transmitter to that tower, which is side-mounted on the extention. Interestingly enough, WOIO will soon start broadcasting from that tower with their new 30 kW broadcast, which was designated for the oringinal 19 licensee. This will also bring WUAB back as well after they sold off their RF 28 frequency in the spectrum auction and became a sharing guest on WOIO's RF 10.
Below is a picture of the top of the tower. I have labeled the broadcasters as well as the original top of the tower where the candelabra antennas would have been.
