WNEV-TV 7 Boston - Sign-On - 1986

[VaultMasterDBT]

WM Brown, you are correct. The Herald-Traveler did not get invovled with WHDH Radio until the '40s. I have to look up the founding ownership of those historic call letters. Also, that is interesting to hear that Leif and his successor overlapped late at night during that time. Wasn't there one final graphic slide used with the SE7EN logo had had "WNEV" spelled out over the shape of New England right before the '87 makeover?

[mediadude08]

I thought Leif Jensen was still on in early 1987? In JLehmann's videos, there's a clip of a lottery result (the winning numbers that day were 5-7-2-3), in which Jensen says "Here's your Massachusetts daily lottery number."

[wmbrown6]

Sounds like that line was pre-recorded. I know in New York, WOR-TV still used a sign-on by veteran announcer Russ Dunbar as late as 1980 - though he left around 1977.

[VaultMasterDBT]

I always thought Jensen remained on the station through, at most, the fall of 1987 as well, but for the most part that younger announcer starting taking over for him in '86 apparently. Not sure how long he lasted, but the young guy can be heard on my Todd Gross weather bulletins from mid-'88. As for the '87 lottery results, that Jensen track was recorded from an earlier time, but was still used after he left 'NEV I guess.

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[VaultMasterDBT]

So, Leif Jensen retired as announcer in 1986 during the run of the "Feel Good About That" campaign. I never realized that younger announcer here was on at all when WNEV was still using SE7EN, but I know Chris Clausen definately came on almost as soon as the station got an image makeover in '87 (read: the introduction of the lottery ball 7).

[wmbrown6]

Apparently Leif's sign-on was replaced around the time the parent company's name was changed from "the New England Television Corporation" to "WNEV-TV, Inc." Also, am I mistaken, or were the sign-ons - whether by Mr. Jensen or the younger announcer - pre-recorded?

[VaultMasterDBT]

The parent company still remained NETV Corp. as long as it was around; also take into consideration that WNEV wasn't its only property. That being said, I don't know why they started acknowledging ownership as "WNEV-TV Inc" on the air by '86. Subsidiaries? That's my guess. Also, I do believe the announcements were pre-recorded.

[wmbrown6]

You'd be right about WNEV not being NETV's only property; for example, after they acquired WHDH radio in 1990, the TV station became the second (after the future WCVB-TV, pre-1972) to bear those call letters. Very likely "WNEV-TV, Inc." was indeed the corporate moniker for that particular station.

[VaultMasterDBT]

W New England teleVision

As for WHDH (which originated with the Boston Herald-Traveler): We Haul Dead Haddock (??, lol!)

[wmbrown6]

Actually, WHDH radio existed before the Boston Herald-Traveler acquired the station in the 1940's (and this was before the TV station first signed on in 1957).

[MSTS1]

They were on tape. Find my other video:

'WNEV-TV Channel 7 Boston - ID Slide, 1986'

and hear the mis-fire of the audio cart, and then the replay.

It seems the two announcers overlapped (on tape, and in the wee-hours), in 1986 and '87.