K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I can't find anywhere here at RD where this really fits, so indulge my posting this here.
Many people here already know that for several years, Clarke Ingram had provided a website called "History of UHF Television" which contained a lot of information on the early years of broadcasting on Channels 14 and above. It has been my distinct pleasure to have served as the site's content manager and also to have researched and written not only several station-specific articles but also a section which listed every UHF grant in the first 30 years which either went on the air and subsequently failed, never went on the air at all, or had on-and-off operation before ultimately succeeding.
About a year ago, Clarke's health (which has been in decline for a long time) deteriorated to the point where he was placed in managed care, and unable to manage the sites. Because of a past bad experience with his DuMont Network history site's hosting and management, he was totally opposed to allowing anyone -- including myself -- to have any official standing with the hosting service, domain name, etc. And so, in quick succession after his relocation, the site hosting shut down and the domain made inactive (and later lost to a cybersquatter).
Thankfully, I had copies of the site HTML here and with the help of the esteemed David Gleason, the site has relaunched as part of his World Radio History site. It can be accessed at the new URL https://uhfhistory.com and I hope those who missed the site will welcome it back. And I hope that there will be a lot of new visitors as a result of the new partnership with David.
Many people here already know that for several years, Clarke Ingram had provided a website called "History of UHF Television" which contained a lot of information on the early years of broadcasting on Channels 14 and above. It has been my distinct pleasure to have served as the site's content manager and also to have researched and written not only several station-specific articles but also a section which listed every UHF grant in the first 30 years which either went on the air and subsequently failed, never went on the air at all, or had on-and-off operation before ultimately succeeding.
About a year ago, Clarke's health (which has been in decline for a long time) deteriorated to the point where he was placed in managed care, and unable to manage the sites. Because of a past bad experience with his DuMont Network history site's hosting and management, he was totally opposed to allowing anyone -- including myself -- to have any official standing with the hosting service, domain name, etc. And so, in quick succession after his relocation, the site hosting shut down and the domain made inactive (and later lost to a cybersquatter).
Thankfully, I had copies of the site HTML here and with the help of the esteemed David Gleason, the site has relaunched as part of his World Radio History site. It can be accessed at the new URL https://uhfhistory.com and I hope those who missed the site will welcome it back. And I hope that there will be a lot of new visitors as a result of the new partnership with David.