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DavGoodlin

05-02-2013 03:08 PM

Remember Radio News Vans?

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WFIL 560 was Philly's music and news station back in the good old days till the late 80s. It had excellent daytime coverage reaching out 60 miles back when transmitter tower ground-planes were maintained.
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WFIL's van is at an event in the mid-60s is none other than TV personality Chief Halftown (full-blood Seneca native and champion bowler) who had a long-running children's show on WFIL TV (later WPVI).

Geist

05-02-2013 03:24 PM

Hi All;
Our then local Radio Station had a Van (I think), but it was an early Station to have a helicopter, to get to events and to report Traffic conditions.. KIMN in Denver..
THANK YOU Marty

jr_tech

05-02-2013 09:21 PM

And then there was this unusual mid 60s vehicle at KISN (ninety-wonderful) in Portland Oregon:

http://stumptownblogger.typepad.com/...bd25970d-800wi

(from Stumptownblogger)
jr

Electronic M

05-03-2013 12:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jr_tech (Post 3068319)

And then there was this unusual mid 60s vehicle at KISN (ninety-wonderful) in Portland Oregon:

http://stumptownblogger.typepad.com/...bd25970d-800wi

(from Stumptownblogger)
jr

That Car-Plane was featured in one of the History channel's programs on failed inventions a while back. I never knew a radio station owned one, but it seems like one of the most fitting applications one could find for one of those.

WISCOJIM

05-03-2013 07:50 AM

http://www.aerocarforsale.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=Aero...w=1226&bih=848

jr_tech

05-03-2013 01:00 PM

Quote:

N103D, one of only four remaining Aerocar Model One Flying Automobiles. Just one prototype and four Aerocars were ever produced. One was destroyed. Two are in permanent museum collections. This pristine, fully functional 1956 Aerocar Model One is one of two in private ownership.

Wow! it appears that I was off by a decade on my estimate of the age of the Aerocar... guess I shouldn't judge too harshly eBay sellers that can't estimate the age of a TV that they are selling! :scratch2:

jr

jr_tech

05-03-2013 11:02 PM

It appears that ninety-wonderful KISN also had a van for news gathering/events:

http://stumptownblogger.typepad.com/...c5d8372970b-pi

Also from the Stumptownblogger site. Mid 60s Dodge, perhaps?

jr

mstaton

05-03-2013 11:47 PM

They made those through 1970

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