Five Minute Histories: WJZ & TV Hill
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- We’re back with another of our Five Minute Histories videos and this one features WJZ & TV Hill! Join us to hear about the candelabra antenna that sits on the top of that hill and how WJZ got started. We are also thrilled to be joined by Siobhan Hagan, President of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA, marmia.org). This non-profit collects its own archival material and helps others with their unique audio-visuals. Its largest acquisition is the WJZ collection! See their digitized collections here: archive.org/de.... Thanks for watching and we’ll see you soon with another video!
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Awesome segment as always, but the MARMIA piece was exceptional, what a great archive of Baltimore history!
When I was much younger, I met a man who was a painter on that tower. He told us that as soon as they were finished, they would start all over again. Painting was a non-stop job.
Awesome
There’s a slight error here at the 3:15 mark regarding WJZ and CBS. Westinghouse never sold the station to CBS. They signed an agreement with CBS to make all of their stations into CBS affiliates. About a year after they signed that agreement, Westinghouse bought CBS outright, and so WJZ became a CBS owned-and-operated station.
Thanks for another informative video! :-)
wow!
AS a kid, we watched the Buddy Deane Show, Captain Chesapeake, Lorenzo the clown, Royal Parker
An answer to the first discussion question at the end would be when Sacramento's 3 network affiliates went in on a similar candelabra tower in nearby Walnut Grove. The tower agreement was signed in 1958, and the stick for KCRA-TV, KXTV, and KOVR went up in 1959. Construction was completed in 1961, and transmission from it began in 1962.
To go back even further, the WJZ call letters started out in Newark, NJ as the original call letters for what became 77 WABC.
The clip at 8:12 features a nice shot of what Camden Yards looked like before the ballpark was built
Awesome! Sounded like Chuck Thompson doing commentating on the 1959 Baltimore film. Any idea?
Good question! Hopefully someone can answer this.
Today wjz had sister stations
CBS
Kdka in Pittsburgh
Kyw in Philadelphia
Wbz in Boston
Wwj in Detroit
Wcco in Minneapolis
Wfor in Miami
Wbbm in Chicago
Kcbs in Los Angeles
Wcbs in new York
Kovr in Sacramento
Kcnc in Denver
Ktvt in dallas
Kpix in San Francisco
CW
Kstw in Seattle
Kbcw in San Francisco
Wpsg in Philadelphia
Wupa in Atlanta
Wtog in Tampa
Wkbd in Detroit
Kmax in Sacramento
Wpcw in Pittsburgh
My network tv
Wsbk in Boston
Independents
Ktxa in Dallas
Wlny in new York
Kcal in Los Angeles
Wbfs in Miami
Start tv
Wbxi-cd in in Indianapolis