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Ian Wallis:
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I remember it being on my aunt's cable in the '80s in NJ (when it was known as TV38)...Nowadays, it's a upn affiliate known as \"UPN 38\"...
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I liked the station a lot better when it was \"TV38\". I loved the show they used to have called \"Ask the Manager\", where people could write in about anything and they'd read the questions on the air and answer them. Found out a lot of neat stuff that way! Very few stations have done shows like that.
WSBK used to be located on Spacenet 3, Channel 3. But it was pulled from C-Band satellite several years ago, available now only on digital.
Looking back at some old TVGuides I have from the Boston area, Channel 38 actually aired many syndicated game shows during the mid-70s.
tvrandywest:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Jul 27 2003, 01:21 PM\'] I loved the show they used to have called "Ask the Manager", where people could write in about anything and they'd read the questions on the air and answer them. [/quote]
Tough question I'd appreciate some help with.
One of the Boston area UHFs was owned for many years (and may still be) by John Garabedian. Does anyone know if this TV38 is that station? That \"ask the manager\" programming feature sounds like the kind of thing John would do. Anybody know?
FYI, John was a big time radio DJ in the glory days of AM (on WPTR Albany as Johnny Gardner, and lots of other stations). He was back on radio as host of the syndicated \"House Party\" Saturday night show sometime in the mid 90s.
In the 1970s I and a group of our friends laughed at Johnny buying a low power UHF in some Boston suburb. Boston was a major market saturated with VHF signals, and this seemed like a poor business move at the time. His was a low budget operation at the beginning, but John spent the decades getting a power increase and building the business.
I last saw John in 1999 in NY at the funeral of a mutual friend. He was doing very well; the private jet and all that stuff. We didn't get a chance to talk very much, and I'm wondering if this TV38 is his. Somehow I thought his UHF was a channel 68, but I could easily be wrong.
John Garabedian and TV38. Any clues?
Thanks ;-)
Randy
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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 05:25 AM\'] For those of you who get the west feed of TBS; or those who get it in syndiication; the first episode of "Mama's Family"; the Cardinal edition of "The $25,000/$100,000" Pyramid is prevanitely featured; as are several refrences to Dick Clark.... [/quote]
There was an episode of Hogan Family(in the Sandy Duncan era) that also used the 80s Cardinal Pyramid home game in a scene.
Esoteric Eric:
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Jul 27 2003, 01:10 PM\']
Tough question I'd appreciate some help with.
One of the Boston area UHFs was owned for many years (and may still be) by John Garabedian. Does anyone know if this TV38 is that station? That \"ask the manager\" programming feature sounds like the kind of thing John would do. Anybody know?
In the 1970s I and a group of our friends laughed at Johnny buying a low power UHF in some Boston suburb. Boston was a major market saturated with VHF signals, and this seemed like a poor business move at the time. His was a low budget operation at the beginning, but John spent the decades getting a power increase and building the business.
I last saw John in 1999 in NY at the funeral of a mutual friend. He was doing very well; the private jet and all that stuff. We didn't get a chance to talk very much, and I'm wondering if this TV38 is his. Somehow I thought his UHF was a channel 68, but I could easily be wrong.
John Garabedian and TV38. Any clues?
Thanks ;-)
Randy
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I haven't lived in Boston since 1987, but I have some input on your query, TVRW...
John H. Garabedian was known as \"John H.\" in '60s Boston radio listings; I'm not sure about the station(s) he worked at then, having never actually listened to him until he showed up at WBCN in... the early-'80's? Mid-'80's?
Anyway, just about the time he was working @ 'BCN, he purchased interest in WVJV-TV, Channel 66, which debuted as a local music-video channel. John also served as one of the VJ's. The experiment didn't last long (which disappointed me, since the local cable of the day (Cablevision) put MTV on a higher tier than I was willing to pay for), and the channel's format switched to home shopping, possibly simulcasting HSN or QVC before Cablevision carried them.)
John was never involved w/ WSBK AFAIK; the dulcet-toned Mr. Dana Hersey (who later appeared in a syndie entertainment mag called \"Preview - The Best of the New\") was the host of \"Ask the Manager\" for most of the show's run.
Hope this helps!
Esoteric Eric, who will have Nu Shooz' \"(I'm at the)Point of No Return\" playing in my head for a couple of days now, since I first saw the stop-motion video for the song on (makes peace sign with right hand) \"V-66.\"
tvrandywest:
[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jul 27 2003, 11:30 PM\'] ... he purchased interest in WVJV-TV, Channel 66, which debuted as a local music-video channel. John also served as one of the VJ's. The experiment didn't last long (which disappointed me, since the local cable of the day (Cablevision) put MTV on a higher tier than I was willing to pay for), and the channel's format switched to home shopping... [/quote]
Thanks Eric...
That's the station... it was 66. Yes he debuted with music videos (they were cheap ;-). I thought John owned the station longer, but I might be confused with another station he owned.
John's a great guy. Thanks for the help with this left field question. This board is amazing!
Randy
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