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WLNE ABC6 celebrates 60 years on the air today

They're out of New Bedford, Mass but considered part of the Providence, R.I. market, and they used to have different call letters in the 60s (can't remember them now)
 
CTListener said:
I still remember their beginnings as WTEV, with the clock ticking away the seconds on screen during station breaks.
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Where I live in New Haven its was kind of cool swinging the roof antenna rotor one way towards Providence/New Bedford and getting channels 6-10 and 12, then rotating it the opposite way and getting 6-10 and 12 from Philly (12 is actually Wilmington, Del.)
 
JoeLouis said:
Where I live in New Haven its was kind of cool swinging the roof antenna rotor one way towards Providence/New Bedford and getting channels 6-10 and 12, then rotating it the opposite way and getting 6-10 and 12 from Philly (12 is actually Wilmington, Del.)
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I was living in a southern suburb of Boston when WTEV signed on for the first time. The two other Providence stations, WJAR-10 and WPRO-12, put in a much better signal but I managed to get a decent picture on Channel 6 by adjusting the rabbit ears.
 
I could never understand why channel 6 was licensed to New Bedford instead of Providence, was it a mileage thing because of the WFIL-6 (now WPVI) station in Philly, I know channel 8 in that area had to be licensed to Lancaster instead of Philly because channel 8 in New Haven was within the 175 miles radius, which was how many miles you had to be between transmitters. Isn't it WPRI now? 630 AM is still WPRO, comes in (weak signal) WBZ -1030 Boston has a decent daytime signal here (of course they're 50,000 watts)
 
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JoeLouis said:
I could never understand why channel 6 was licensed to New Bedford instead of Providence, was it a mileage thing because of the WFIL-6 (now WPVI) station in Philly, I know channel 8 in that area had to be licensed to Lancaster instead of Philly because channel 8 in New Haven was within the 175 miles radius, which was how many miles you had to be between transmitters. Isn't it WPRI now? 630 AM is still WPRO, comes in (weak signal) WBZ -1030 Boston has a decent daytime signal here (of course they're 50,000 watts)
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They also had to protect WCSH Channel 6 Portland, Maine.
 
rjoc said:
They also had to protect WCSH Channel 6 Portland, Maine.
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When our channel 8 (WTNH) used to sign off, I could get WMTW channel 8 out of Portland, Maine, and I'm not surprised, they have their transmitter on top of Mount Washington, they probably get this station on the Moon 😄
 
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JoeLouis said:
Where I live in New Haven its was kind of cool swinging the roof antenna rotor one way towards Providence/New Bedford and getting channels 6-10 and 12, then rotating it the opposite way and getting 6-10 and 12 from Philly (12 is actually Wilmington, Del.)
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Philadelphia is quite a distance away - you must have lived in a powerful signal area.
 
JoeLouis said:
I could never understand why channel 6 was licensed to New Bedford instead of Providence, was it a mileage thing because of the WFIL-6 (now WPVI) station in Philly, I know channel 8 in that area had to be licensed to Lancaster instead of Philly because channel 8 in New Haven was within the 175 miles radius, which was how many miles you had to be between transmitters. Isn't it WPRI now? 630 AM is still WPRO, comes in (weak signal) WBZ -1030 Boston has a decent daytime signal here (of course they're 50,000 watts)
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WPRI is channel 12 in Providence and WGAL is Channel 8 in Lancaster (which for many years was owned by Steinman Stations,which owned WTEV for a while). And WPRI-TV was originally WPRO-TV, co-owned with WPRO radio.
 
alg2468 said:
Philadelphia is quite a distance away - you must have lived in a powerful signal area.
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I have a relative in West Haven (155 miles from Philly) and he's up high and gets Channels 17 & 29 from Philly all the time.
 
JoeLouis said:
When our channel 8 (WTNH) used to sign off, I could get WMTW channel 8 out of Portland, Maine, and I'm not surprised, they have their transmitter on top of Mount Washington, they probably get this station on the Moon 😄
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Not anymore. WMTW Ch. 8 moved their transmitter down to W. Baldwin, ME, northwest of Portland, in 2002.
 
CTListener said:
Is WHOM (94.9 FM) the only broadcasting station still on Mount Washington?
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WPKQ 103.7 FM is still up there. Though it also covers a large area of northern New England, it has less power than WHOM, and (unlike WHOM) it's directional, mainly to protect co-channel WKNE Keene, NH. It's format is a simulcast of co-owned rock station WCYY in the Portland, ME market.
 
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