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formeraa said:
Boston has also claimed to be in "Southern New England" as well.
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Quite true, though Boston stations tend to favor the more superlative "New England" when referring to their turf. As in: New England's #1 newscast!

Which makes sense because, for one thing, they are the largest market in the region and, secondly, their respective viewing areas include most of NH and parts of ME and VT (in addition to MA and parts of CT and RI).
 
BRNout said:
Which makes sense because, for one thing, they are the largest market in the region and, secondly, their respective viewing areas include most of NH and parts of ME and VT (in addition to MA and parts of CT and RI).
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Which is ridiculous considering that southwestern NH is closer to western MA than Boston.
 
Tell that to the people in Brattleboro, VT. Windham County is the northwestern edge of the Boston/Worcester DMA, despite being closer to Springfield, MA. In fact, Brattleboro is 76 air miles from Hartford and 87 air miles from Boston. Go figure! (Perhaps it has to do with the Boston/New England sports scene?)
 
BRNout said:
formeraa said:
Boston has also claimed to be in "Southern New England" as well.
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Quite true, though Boston stations tend to favor the more superlative "New England" when referring to their turf. As in: New England's #1 newscast!

Which makes sense because, for one thing, they are the largest market in the region and, secondly, their respective viewing areas include most of NH and parts of ME and VT (in addition to MA and parts of CT and RI).
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And, who can forget Channel 7's attempt at "The New England News" in the late 80's. They actually had a bureau in Manchester, NH., another in Worcester, and so on. And, then, there were Kate Sullivan's live reports from "all around New England"!!!
 
mescutia said:
Which is ridiculous considering that southwestern NH is closer to western MA than Boston.
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At one time, WWLP Springfield - through WRLP Greenfield - served the Keene/Brattleboro area with NBC programming. If I am not mistaken, I believe that WRLP's transmitter was actually located just north of the NH border in Hinsdale or Winchester. That ended by 1980 or so when WRLP went out of business. Given the prevailing terrain and transmitting power/capabilities, the VHF's from Boston got into much of that region better than the UHFs from Springfield (particularly the Keene area). And, cable picked up the Boston signals.

As for the rest of southern NH where most of the state's population resides (Merrimack Valley, Rockingham County, etc.), it was easily within reception range of the big Boston VHF stations. Nashua is less than 40 air miles from the Pru; Manchester is roughly 50.
 
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