George Mallet - Ex Fox 29

[Ned Braden]

I happened to be scanning thru the channels last night and came across George Mallet, formerly of FOX. Still does a great job anchoring...too good actually. He seems way over-qualified for Burlington, VT...

http://www.wptz.com/wptznewsteam/26470876/detail.html

 

[stilldustyvinyl]

WPTZ - Was that Channel 3's calls many moons ago?

 

[iimutt]

WPTZ is the NBC afflilate out of Plattsburgh NY. WCAX is the CBS (Channel 3) affiliate.

They've had those call letters as long as I can remember (going back to the early eighties and prior). The only station in the Vermont market that changed it's call letters was the ABC affiliate which changed from WEZF to WVNY.

 

[Bill_W]

WPTZ is the NBC afflilate out of Plattsburgh NY. WCAX is the CBS (Channel 3) affiliate.

They've had those call letters as long as I can remember (going back to the early eighties and prior). The only station in the Vermont market that changed it's call letters was the ABC affiliate which changed from WEZF to WVNY.

It appears that channel 3 in Philly (NBC back in the day) did have the WPTZ call letters many many moon ago, Pre KYW days. http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/bp/51penny.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYW-TV#As_WPTZ-TV

 

[Bill_W]

WPTZ - Was that Channel 3's calls many moons ago?

Many many moons ago.

 

[stilldustyvinyl]

Thanx for the links.................I thought I remembered WPTZ from the first time we had a TV at home. I think they were only on the air 4-5 hours an evening then, no daytime. I'll check the links for more info, thanx again.

 

[MattParker]

Prior to 1954. WPTZ was owned by Philco, another radio and TV manufacturer. They sold channel 3 to Westinghouse, which already owned KYW 1060 and changed channel 3's call to KYW-TV. A year later, KYW moved to Cleveland and NBC took over 1060 and channel 3, changing the calls to WRCV and WRCV-TV (for RCA Victor, which was located in Camden - the building is still on the waterfront with the RCA Victor logo of a dog recognizing "his master's voice" on a Victrola). Nine years later, the FCC reversed the station swap and the KYW calls came back.