Good Old Bob Dyk RIP, You'll Be Missed! I've just found out this evening when I went to the Kennebec Journal & The Portland Press Herald, that he passed away yesterday on 22/3/08 of Cancer. God Bless This Man!!!! Anita Jean Augenti Garner, NC
P.S. This is just a little note to Youtubers out there!
I remembered watching WMTW-TV8 news when my parents and I, used to live in Center Ossipee, NH. We didn't have cable television baack then growing up in the 80s' but, we've only had 3 channels such as, WCSH, WMTW,(sometimes WCBB - PBS ch 10) and last but not least WGME. All of those stations came right out of Portland, Maine., through our own living rooms! I hope that you've got some more from the earlier years it's great!
I fondly being able to watch WMTW in Vermont... back when we still could. WMTW is no longer on the dial due its transmitter being down in Maine and not on the Rockpile.
Whoops... meant to say any "other" material from this time? BTW, It's FPG- the person who sent you some of the more up to date WMTW snaps a year or two back.
Funny that in that time they once again have a map of ME & NH in the background. No VT this time obviously... heh
Due to what might turn into a lawsuit.. WMTW may once again have to put up either a relay transmitter where the old transmitter was or put up individual relays up and down the Connecticut river... people are just now putting up outdoor antennas in the areas north of White River and noticing no digital WMTW.
Alas, WMTW-TV8 wasn't shown in Atlantic Canada back then...WVII-TV was available to Atlantic Canadians until around 1991 or later; either WCVB-TV or WXYZ-TV is used for that region nowadays.
I wonder how WMTW is going to get away with leaving a good chunk of Vermont without an ABC white-zone signal in the digital era. Under the papers submitted to FCC... WMTW said they were moving to down country in Maine because of a lack of commercial power... which now exists on Mt Washington
Seems to me like as if though, they might be just asking for trouble. They should have followed the rules of the FCC, and they should have left it alone in to it's original place in the begining. When I went to visit one of relatives in Maine, I've watched news channel 8, it littery took over about half of the state of Vermont. In this older one back in the 80's, you can see Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
So many Maine radio stations (I'm looking at you, WCYY!) and now television are becoming obscure and low power now. What's next? WHOM in NH falling out of range because of some FCC requirement?
RIP Mr Dyk - thanks for the memories and insight.
jhall444 1 year ago
Good Old Bob Dyk RIP, You'll Be Missed! I've just found out this evening when I went to the Kennebec Journal & The Portland Press Herald, that he passed away yesterday on 22/3/08 of Cancer. God Bless This Man!!!! Anita Jean Augenti Garner, NC
P.S. This is just a little note to Youtubers out there!
ajaugenti 3 years ago
I remembered watching WMTW-TV8 news when my parents and I, used to live in Center Ossipee, NH. We didn't have cable television baack then growing up in the 80s' but, we've only had 3 channels such as, WCSH, WMTW,(sometimes WCBB - PBS ch 10) and last but not least WGME. All of those stations came right out of Portland, Maine., through our own living rooms! I hope that you've got some more from the earlier years it's great!
ajaugenti 4 years ago
I fondly being able to watch WMTW in Vermont... back when we still could. WMTW is no longer on the dial due its transmitter being down in Maine and not on the Rockpile.
moosewelch 4 years ago
Bob Dyk! I had the pleasure of meeting with him in the past during my radio work in Portland. Do you have any older WMTW material?
Houstontvnews 4 years ago
Whoops... meant to say any "other" material from this time? BTW, It's FPG- the person who sent you some of the more up to date WMTW snaps a year or two back.
Funny that in that time they once again have a map of ME & NH in the background. No VT this time obviously... heh
Houstontvnews 4 years ago
Due to what might turn into a lawsuit.. WMTW may once again have to put up either a relay transmitter where the old transmitter was or put up individual relays up and down the Connecticut river... people are just now putting up outdoor antennas in the areas north of White River and noticing no digital WMTW.
moosewelch 4 years ago
Excellent memorabilia of old Montreal TV! WMTW was on Montreal cable until 1990 and was our city's first ABC affiliate!
georgefrommontreal 4 years ago
Alas, WMTW-TV8 wasn't shown in Atlantic Canada back then...WVII-TV was available to Atlantic Canadians until around 1991 or later; either WCVB-TV or WXYZ-TV is used for that region nowadays.
mrceleb2006 4 years ago
Maine's most powerful ABC affiliate station back then...it had a massive viewing area covering northern New England plus much of Quebec.
mrceleb2006 4 years ago
I wonder how WMTW is going to get away with leaving a good chunk of Vermont without an ABC white-zone signal in the digital era. Under the papers submitted to FCC... WMTW said they were moving to down country in Maine because of a lack of commercial power... which now exists on Mt Washington
moosewelch 4 years ago
Seems to me like as if though, they might be just asking for trouble. They should have followed the rules of the FCC, and they should have left it alone in to it's original place in the begining. When I went to visit one of relatives in Maine, I've watched news channel 8, it littery took over about half of the state of Vermont. In this older one back in the 80's, you can see Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
ajaugenti 4 years ago
So many Maine radio stations (I'm looking at you, WCYY!) and now television are becoming obscure and low power now. What's next? WHOM in NH falling out of range because of some FCC requirement?
ekkostar 3 years ago