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Stations still airing a local "Christmas Day Mass"

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Looking at a recent retro schedule posted, it seems that WHDH in Boston has been airing the local Christmas Day Mass from the Boston Catholic TV center since it first started in the 1950s. WHDH still airs the Christmas Day Mass every year, even to this day, which is surprising hence the root that WHDH has taken over the last several years. It is very rare for local stations to air a local Christmas Mass in this day in age. Do any other stations still do it?
 
No live Catholic masses that I know of in the Memphis area, but some churches will buy air time to broadcast their Christmas programs. Bellevue Baptist in Memphis is one of the best known in this area.
 
Fox 5 WNYW New York City runs Mass every Sunday Morning and on Christmas as well.
 
WPXI-TV 11 in Pittsburgh has run a Sunday morning Mass for many years.
And I believe local LPTV station WBGN still runs a daily Mass (not sure as I dropped cable
for DirecTV where they are not carried)

Pittsburgh has such a huge Catholic population that I suspect some local station will
always be open to airing the Mass.
 
Mass For Shut-Ins has been a Sunday Staple on WJW-TV 8 Cleveland since at least the 1960's, and will air on Christmas Day at 7AM...

Talking about the TV Mass reminds me of a story Chuck Schodowski (Former Movie Host-Hoolihan and Big Chuck, etc..) tells in his Biography which came out a couple years ago..

Around 1964, WJW-TV first received color cameras for use on local shows. They wanted to play up one of their standout shows to be the first in color..The Choice? Mass For Shut-Ins..Everyone thought it was a great idea, until Schodowski as Cameraman realized when they were setting up..The Diocese had decided to make it a special occasion by inviting a number of guests from around the Diocese..Nuns and Priests of course, which all wore either black or white vestments/clothing..The only color showing was a Red Prayer Book..
 
WHAS-DT, Louisville runs a Mass every Sunday at 10:30 AM via videotape...but I believe Easter and Christmas are live. The Archdiocese of Louisville has an excellent TV/radio department.
 
All of the discussion thus far is of Masses celebrated weekly and in a TV studio or a chapple set asside for that purpose. But what about Christmas day Mass celebrated in a large cathedral or in a big local parish church. I haven't seen one of those since the mid sixties. Use to be that they were televised as a public service and were part of the news and public affairs coverage. Now Dioceses and their offices of Radio and Television have to buy time just like everyone else. I think that is sad.
 
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