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Here you can easily see the new handlebars I got to replace the "old new" ones. They didn't have quite enough rise; these are just right.
SATURDAY SPECIAL: "Great Affiliation Switch" captivated Tri-State viewers in '95
Looking back today, it seems strange, but 1995 was a long year for Tri-State TV watchers.
January was ushered in with rumors that WTVW, which was then our ABC affiliate, was being courted by Petracom, a Florida-based company. The station was, at the time, owned by Bank of America's Banam Broadcasting division, which had picked up WTVW when its previous owner, Woods Communications, found itself in financial trouble.
Several previous sale attempts had been scuttled at the last minute, so nobody really gave much thought to the possibility of Petracom actually following through on the deal.
Indeed, we didn't hear much more about it until mid-May, when it was actually finalized.
The Petracom purchase ended up not only changing WTVW's ownership, but it kicked off months of deal-making, program swaps and confusion the likes of no one has seen either before or since.
I should note here that not even last year's DTV transition captivated Tri-State viewers the way the "Grea…
January was ushered in with rumors that WTVW, which was then our ABC affiliate, was being courted by Petracom, a Florida-based company. The station was, at the time, owned by Bank of America's Banam Broadcasting division, which had picked up WTVW when its previous owner, Woods Communications, found itself in financial trouble.
Several previous sale attempts had been scuttled at the last minute, so nobody really gave much thought to the possibility of Petracom actually following through on the deal.
Indeed, we didn't hear much more about it until mid-May, when it was actually finalized.
The Petracom purchase ended up not only changing WTVW's ownership, but it kicked off months of deal-making, program swaps and confusion the likes of no one has seen either before or since.
I should note here that not even last year's DTV transition captivated Tri-State viewers the way the "Grea…
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