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Scott Brown
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Boy, I sure miss WCAU when it was CBS. Boy those shure were the days?Does anyone have anything that can help me relive those days?Thanks,Scott Brown
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Are we going to go through this again??? He did this crap on tvnewstalk.net so be advised of this nutball.
oh boy, scott found this one. he is crazy. 
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Jul
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I do too.
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buzzrockradio
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this has to be a joke
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odomski
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Julius: were you even alive when WCAU was a CBS station? If you were alive then, you were too young to remember this news open: "Larry Kane, Deborah Knapp, Herb Clarke, Al Meltzer... the Award-Winning Channel 10 News team! Now...Channel 10 News...Live at Five!" with the old WBBM news theme. That was from around 1982 to 1985. I remember those days very well.If you want to hear that news open that I wrote about, go to the "Southern Media News Music Search Archive" website (do a Google search for it)...click on "markets" then find Philadelphia...then you can listen to that particular news open. WCAU's archive is below KYW's archive.Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think you were alive during those WCAU CBS days. You say that you miss those days as well. How could you miss those days too if you weren't alive then? If you were not alive, then that proves to me that you post things just for the sake of posting (as I've said for many years now). I am asking you nicely...please stop wasting space and posting silly nonsense just to get attention.
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fred flintstone
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Shawn, the affiliation switch was September 10, 1995, less than 11 years ago.Julius, as I recall, is 24.
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I was born 12/10/81 and I don't remember Knapp but I do remember very well WCAU-TV as a CBS station. I think it was a much better station back then because It had a lot of local programs and many specials. The station does less of that today.Shawn O'Domski said:
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fred flintstone
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Julius, the entire industry does less of that. The drop off is even more dramatic for KYW-TV compared to the Group W days and for WFIL-TV/WPVI compared to the Inquirer and Cap Citities days. WCAU-TV, as a network owned and operated station since 1958, was less local - more of a network "captive" than the other two independent affiliated stations. WCAU-TV was long saddled by interference from New York in programming and management decisions that should have been made locally (under both Paley and Tisch).Julius May said:
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Nertz!
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There isn't really any difference between the CBS days and NBC days, other than the expected technology improvements and worse news.
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Jul
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In a way its good because the station has cleared most of the network schedule since WCAU-TV has been owned by 2 networks CBS from 58-95, NBC 95-Present . 6 and 3 didn't air most daytime programs from NBC and ABC. The Philly UHF's had to air the network shows in the daytime.fred flintstone said:
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Nertz!
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I think you are right. I remember reading somewhere that their master control is in New York is this true? It doesn't make sense.trolleyk said:
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fred flintstone
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Yes. Switching for network programming (to local commercials and breaks) is done by a computer in New York. It's been this way since the mid 70s when CBS first installed this kind of set up.Outside of news programs, and weekend sports and public affairs shows, what local programming does NBC 10 do? Nobody does much. They do the least of the big three.
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imhomerjay
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The 10 show isn't news by any stretch, so it qualifies as local programming outside those paramaters.fred flintstone said:
jeez.....i love all this stuff being tossed around.......ok....how bout i throw this at y'all.......i go far back far enuff that i remember the open for ch 10 when it was john facenda doing news and pete retzlaf (sp) doing sports.....
andddd..( listen for it) tom snyder was doing "contact" KYW TV3 .....and they had a star reprter named marciarose....
anddddd let's see al mcdowell was prime anchor at ch 6......suceeding gunther ( i can't remember his last name)and they were on city line and were still WFIL TV
and sally starr was on ch 6......
holy cwapamoli...change happens...GET A GRIP ...ARGHHHHHHH
andddd..( listen for it) tom snyder was doing "contact" KYW TV3 .....and they had a star reprter named marciarose....
anddddd let's see al mcdowell was prime anchor at ch 6......suceeding gunther ( i can't remember his last name)and they were on city line and were still WFIL TV
and sally starr was on ch 6......
holy cwapamoli...change happens...GET A GRIP ...ARGHHHHHHH
gunner back......right you are..............ticked at myself for not remembering.....
thanks
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