View Full Version : How long did Boston's channel 68 (WQTV/WABU) have sitcoms in the mid 1990s?


Goldeneye
07-20-2019, 06:45 PM
Someone posted a schedule for WABU 68 for October 1995 and apparently that schedule had sitcoms, including Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley!

I always pegged Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley as mostly WLVI from the 1980s and I may have recalled that even rerunning there as late as 2001-2002!

I am wondering how long did WABU run sitcoms for, because I suspect it was a very short time - there weren't any as late as 1993 or thereabouts (when it was still WQTV), but that was just prior to the purchase of WQTV by Boston University.

TV Guy
07-20-2019, 09:29 PM
It was very short lived. They had a lot of Paramount shows for a bit, but I think it lasted six months at most. It reminded me a bit of 1984, when WQTV invested a lot in syndicated programming (they took “new” syndicated shows that the other stations didn’t want, like “Dallas” and the nighttime “Sale of the Century”, plus other shows that were no longer airing on WSBK and WLVI, like “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Invaders”) and it didn’t even last a year.