[BC] WBIX ... and the market

[DANA PUOPOLO]

V66 (John's TV station) was forced off the air by MTV, who told all the record
labels they would not play any videos on MTV who were also offered to ANY
other music stations which operated over six hours a day.
This killed ALL over the air TV music stations like V-66, U-68 in NYC and a
few others.

The idea was a good one - but (once again) was killed by politics.

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:06:33 PM PST
From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] WBIX ... and the market

------ At 05:12 PM 1/19/2006, hykker at grolen.com wrote: -------

>When John G. put the station on the air the calls were WGTR.  WNTN was
>(and still is) 1550.  I think 1060 was a daytimer until sometime in the
>80s.

You're right. WNTN went on the air long after I left the city.

>Actually the music video format was a good idea...at the time (mid 80s)
>neither Boston nor Cambridge had cable service (mostly for political
>reasons, not technical).  Also, many cable systems did not carry
>MTV...older systems' capacity was maxed out.  Not sure if John was even
>able to cover the electric bill with that format, but he sure made out
>when he sold it to Home Shopping Network a couple years later.

There is justice. I recall people laughing at him.

Rich


Rich Wood
Rich Wood Multimedia
Phone: 413-303-9084
FAX: 413-480-0010


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