tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post2072572675464404857..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Friday, June 20, 1958Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-86500807573985114252017-12-09T22:57:38.745-05:002017-12-09T22:57:38.745-05:00Record Shop Hop afternoons on channel 4 was hosted...Record Shop Hop afternoons on channel 4 was hosted by long time radio talent Dave MaynardAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581334195584488435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-14294770194537433132015-06-20T16:39:38.316-04:002015-06-20T16:39:38.316-04:00Salty Brine also was a longtime radio morning DJ a...Salty Brine also was a longtime radio morning DJ at WPRO-AM in Providence; the building that now houses WPRO Radio and a beach south of Providence along Narragansett Bay are both named in his memory.<br /><br />Brine's son Wally is currently morning co-host on WROR-FM in the Boston area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-88608502785502152692015-06-16T07:57:07.722-04:002015-06-16T07:57:07.722-04:00Salty Brine on WPRO was a great kids show. He fea...Salty Brine on WPRO was a great kids show. He featured the shipmates wheel where kids would send in their pictures and he would read off the names. My brother and I "appeared" one night and the next day everyone in the neighborhood talked about seeing us. Real celebrities!Kramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09006183139948257357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-73948080410781121652015-06-15T20:04:37.142-04:002015-06-15T20:04:37.142-04:00Neither WBZ-Channel 4 in Boston nor WJAR Channel 1...Neither WBZ-Channel 4 in Boston nor WJAR Channel 10 in Providence carried Jack Paar's "Tonight Show" in 1958 (WBZ dropped "Tonight" in mid-1957 during the "America After Dark" fiasco and didn't pick-up the show again until 1966, after Johnny Carson had been host for four years; WJAR never carried the show until it picked it up in 1960), so it aired on other stations in those cities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-6517705805333473722015-06-15T20:02:04.351-04:002015-06-15T20:02:04.351-04:00Note that although an ABC affiliate, the old WHDH-...Note that although an ABC affiliate, the old WHDH-Channel 5 didn't air ABC's own network newscast with John Charles Daly.<br /><br />Instead, it aired NBC's "Huntley/Brinkley Report" and Douglas Edwards' "CBS Evening News", with a fifteen minute local newscast sandwiched in-between.<br /><br />By 1960, WBZ Channel 4 finally picked-up "Huntley/Brinkley", but WHDH kept running the "CBS Evening News" until 1972. It should be noted that from 1961 to 1972, they were the CBS affiliate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com