I remember only a few years later the jingle was "whct right here right now" and it would have one infomercial after another, I believe sometimes back to back of the same freakin' infomercial!!!! The Vegetable Slicer, Anushka's celulite cream starring Erin Grey from Silver Spoons.....and on weekends they'd play the old Ghost Story/Circle of Fear....anyone remember any of this stuff....???
I remember watching SCTV on this. However, my fondest memories were watching "Repo Man" and "Get Crazy," for the first time on Channel 18. Those are two movies that changed my teenage life!
The problem was that by the time WHCT returned in 1985, both WTXX and WTIC had long since gotten the jump on both ratings and highly-rated syndicated fare...might have been different if former owner Dr. Gene Scott had sold the station a few years earlier.
Possibly, except that a few years earlier, the USA was in a deep recession, meaning credit was tight (much like now), meaning Dr. Gene probably had few interested buyers. The Chase family, who signed on Channel 61, had pretty deep pockets back then, which they invested in state-of-the-art equipment.
iremeber watching WHCT 18! we didnt have cable for awhile so my dad got one of those rotor antennas and we lived in spfld ma and that was one of the channels we got.. wow the memories
You know what I love about the internet. I just decide to do a quick check on my old favorite comedy block (SCTV, SNL and Carson), and discover your website with a detailed history of the station complete with print ads and logos. :)
Checked 'em out and forwarded them to Gary Mottola and my brother. Laurence got a big kick out of the fact that the 'camera cast' was you, me and John!
WOW! Talk about memories - I remember when WHCT "came back" as the same week I moved to a new house in Windsor Locks (I was 11 at the time), and a few days later Hurricane Gloria hit! This *really* takes me back...
This promo really made WHCT out to be a force in the Hartford indy TV scene. Alas, it was not to be...
(Now all I need is some old WTIC-TV jingles from this era to *really* go back in time...)
Yeah, seemed like when they got the Whalers' road games that things would finally turn around, but the financial problems didn't stop and ultimately led to its final sign-off (at least until it returned in 97, LOL).
I remember WHCT Channel 18. I remember watching the cartoon Rocky & Friends on it. I also remember that they showed the Home Shopping Club most of the day before they went off the air in April 1991. Today they are WUVN and is part of Univsion New England - WUNI/27 Worcester/Boston, WUVN/18 Hartford, and WHTX-LP/43 Springfield. Univision Nueva Intergaletera. The WHCT calls belong to a low-power affilate of the Azteca America Spanish Network on Channel 38 in Hartford.
I remember only a few years later the jingle was "whct right here right now" and it would have one infomercial after another, I believe sometimes back to back of the same freakin' infomercial!!!! The Vegetable Slicer, Anushka's celulite cream starring Erin Grey from Silver Spoons.....and on weekends they'd play the old Ghost Story/Circle of Fear....anyone remember any of this stuff....???
MrChicago891 1 year ago
I remember watching SCTV on this. However, my fondest memories were watching "Repo Man" and "Get Crazy," for the first time on Channel 18. Those are two movies that changed my teenage life!
eileenh28 1 year ago
The problem was that by the time WHCT returned in 1985, both WTXX and WTIC had long since gotten the jump on both ratings and highly-rated syndicated fare...might have been different if former owner Dr. Gene Scott had sold the station a few years earlier.
WhatsAYak 3 years ago
Possibly, except that a few years earlier, the USA was in a deep recession, meaning credit was tight (much like now), meaning Dr. Gene probably had few interested buyers. The Chase family, who signed on Channel 61, had pretty deep pockets back then, which they invested in state-of-the-art equipment.
kylebook 3 years ago
Yeah, that they did...and their excellent signal coverage prolly didn't help WHCT, either.
WhatsAYak 3 years ago
iremeber watching WHCT 18! we didnt have cable for awhile so my dad got one of those rotor antennas and we lived in spfld ma and that was one of the channels we got.. wow the memories
RetroGirl85 4 years ago
Yeah, I remember WHCT from back in the day. I used to see reruns of Saturday Night Live and SCTV in the late afternoons.
TBoanz3000 4 years ago
You know what I love about the internet. I just decide to do a quick check on my old favorite comedy block (SCTV, SNL and Carson), and discover your website with a detailed history of the station complete with print ads and logos. :)
GMSpectre 4 years ago
Dempsey and Makepeace?? I forgot all about them! Only YOU would have come up with clasic video like this!...and thanks for the kind write-up... :)
koosman28 4 years ago
Especially since it came from one of your tapes that I copied back in '93! Be sure to check out the Whaler close & Mass, as well...
kylebook 4 years ago
Checked 'em out and forwarded them to Gary Mottola and my brother. Laurence got a big kick out of the fact that the 'camera cast' was you, me and John!
koosman28 4 years ago
WOW! Talk about memories - I remember when WHCT "came back" as the same week I moved to a new house in Windsor Locks (I was 11 at the time), and a few days later Hurricane Gloria hit! This *really* takes me back...
This promo really made WHCT out to be a force in the Hartford indy TV scene. Alas, it was not to be...
(Now all I need is some old WTIC-TV jingles from this era to *really* go back in time...)
TheKid965 4 years ago
Yeah, seemed like when they got the Whalers' road games that things would finally turn around, but the financial problems didn't stop and ultimately led to its final sign-off (at least until it returned in 97, LOL).
WhatsAYak 4 years ago
What a "leggy" promo...
bas3q 5 years ago
That's the trouble w/a "border" state like CT: you've got that Yankees/Red Sox split that divides sports fans, as evidenced above...LOL
WhatsAYak 5 years ago
I remember WHCT Channel 18. I remember watching the cartoon Rocky & Friends on it. I also remember that they showed the Home Shopping Club most of the day before they went off the air in April 1991. Today they are WUVN and is part of Univsion New England - WUNI/27 Worcester/Boston, WUVN/18 Hartford, and WHTX-LP/43 Springfield. Univision Nueva Intergaletera. The WHCT calls belong to a low-power affilate of the Azteca America Spanish Network on Channel 38 in Hartford.
ynkeesfn82 5 years ago
hey wait a minute, you're a yankees fan, you're not supposed to be able to put two sentences together!!
hammertime0101 5 years ago