WGBH-2 Boston - Sign-Off 1970 (1 of 2)

[newstart2009]

Love this!!!! Thank you and Happy Holidays...

[TheAccountSecond]

What was the announcer saying during the ending of the French Chef?

[joyfulskies]

Very interesting...

[MIKECNW]

I remeber seeing reruns of TFC on and off up untill 1987 but for whatever reason they were limted to to the last 3 yrars of its production.

What I'm hearing was probably from the previous seasons that were never reshown.

I wonder why?

[happyquails]

For those of you who weren't around back in the 70's, that was just what watching TV used to be like, with all the summer signal degradation messing up the image and the sound of another station on the frequency bleeding through the audio in and out in waves. The only thing missing was the crashing static that would entirely blot out the station's audio from lightening, all summer long... and this was all taking place on your choice of about 7 available stations in NYC from ch 2-13,+ UHF, maybe.

[Bach54321]

Yea! A Robert Farnon fan. I also love his "Portrait of a Flirt"!

[caseyg5]

I can still see Maggie Letvin standing there in those ill-fitting tights!

[Ian16545]

What's this Chester Bay "Congro"?

[MSTS1]

Chester-Baker Drug Company

[Ian16545]

As in drugstore or pharmaceutical company?

[kresblain]

Oh, yeah... The EEN was the predecessor to American Public Television IIRC.

[caseyg5]

David Susskind's theme was "Gateway to the West," also used to intro "Boston Movietime" on channel 4 in the early 60s.

[MSTS1]

Thanks for that info.

[caseyg5]

The theme can still be found on recordings by its creator, Robert Farnon, of Canada.

[Bach54321]

Farnon, the master of British light music!

Although he was a Canadian by birth he worked for the BBC.

[caseyg5]

"Gateway" was played practically every day on WBZ for a few years in Boston in the early 60s. Great stuff! Remember some of the wake-up shows in the mornings? "International Zone." "Sign On Seminar." And is there a retirement home for test patterns?