WISH-AM To WAWE To WIFE

[perenoel6218]

Don Abbott was Commander Don on the Saturday morning show for
kids....I ran camera on that show.

The WISH ownership line seems like it went from the McConnells to
Corinthian then to Dun and Bradstreet and finally to LIN. I could have
missed something there.

My mom babysat the McConnell kids way back when.

Following Don's kids show I believe Joe Leamon took over and created
Uncle Buster (or created actually by Dave Smith). It was supposed to
be a general store scenario I think. I ran camera on that show too.

The WIFE Good Guys did have a studio at 1440 Meridian with the
"window on the world". One could walk past the window and see
the DJ. I think Emmis might have something close to that on the
Circle with its studios.

During the bleak days of the JFK assassination there seemed to be a number
of radio and tv stations carrying network coverage that was not the norm
for them. I suppose some managers of the major stations were compassionate enough to allow that for the coverage of the death and
funeral.

 

[317C50KW]

WISH and its sister station in Ft. Wayne (WANE?) were very briefly owned by A.H. Belo (now just Belo) and then flipped to Lin. Belo and bought the Corinthian/D&B chain at some point in the mid 80's. Indy and Ft. Wayne were of no interest to Belo who wanted to concentrate their holdings in the southern and western US.

 

[KeithE4]

During the bleak days of the JFK assassination there seemed to be a number of radio and tv stations carrying network coverage that was not the norm for them. I suppose some managers of the major stations were compassionate enough to allow that for the coverage of the death and funeral.

Were there any TV stations not carrying coverage? Even WTTV carried ABC-TV's feed. I'm guessing that they ran it because Channel 13 had such a poor signal into Bloomington at that time.

I don't remember any radio stations not going full-time with coverage either. Of course, being 8 years old at the time, I didn't listen to every station on the dial so maybe there were a few.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

During the bleak days of the JFK assassination there seemed to be a number of radio and tv stations carrying network coverage that was not the norm for them. I suppose some managers of the major stations were compassionate enough to allow that for the coverage of the death and funeral.

Were there any TV stations not carrying coverage? Even WTTV carried ABC-TV's feed. I'm guessing that they ran it because Channel 13 had such a poor signal into Bloomington at that time.

I don't remember any radio stations not going full-time with coverage either. Of course, being 8 years old at the time, I didn't listen to every station on the dial so maybe there were a few.

I was 10 at the time and grew up in Cincinnati. The whole AM radio dial was devoid of music for several days after the assassination. When music finally started to creep back in, it was tame MOR music even on the rock 'n roll top 40 stations. Of course, the Beatles showed up about 6 weeks later & radio would never be the same.