[K6BW] RE: Anyone know?

Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:43:18 -0700

chuckle  - chuckle
LFW


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Smith" <[email protected]>
To: "HWA QTH Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: 26 April, 2003 00:17
Subject: [K6BW] RE: Anyone know?


> Here is a follow-up from Ed Ellers, though the "50 year" event doesn't
hold
> much excitement in my book..
>
> ABC merged with United Paramount Theaters in 1953, so for a long time they
> recognized that date as the beginning of ABC in its present form.  (Of
> course they were taken over by Capital Cities in the 1980s, and Capital
> Cities-ABC was taken over by Disney in the 1990s, but I guess they're
stuck
> with the 1953 date since they had used it for so long.)  Actually the Blue
> radio network goes back even farther than 1928, as it was founded in the
> mid-1920s by RCA, and simply called the "Radio Corporation Chain."
>
> A thought occurs to me -- Since UPT took over ABC, it could easily have
been
> renamed the United Paramount Network, or UPN.  :-)
>
> (not funny.... )
>
> 73 de Bill, AB6MT
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>
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