Thank you Johns.

Intriguing. The history is very substantial and real significant. WMAR is, by far, one of the very first in the country.

I was one of those Romper Room fans, but Miss Nancy sadly never said my name. (Wallie is not exactly run-of-the-mill). Thank you. Loved seeing the old films.

Romper Room sponsored the Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign at the Hippodrome Theater one year. I appeared with my fellow Marines on stage as the color guard. We carted the toys away in our truck. A successful event.

The Romper Room clip came from my archives . I have several episodes with Miss Nancy Claster that were transfered from kinescopes .

@baltimoreheritage1006

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for digitizing those!

Who was that fantastic Doo-Wop group at the very end of your WMAR feature? SWEEEEET!

@baltimoreheritage1006

2 жыл бұрын

This awesome group is called Regency. Here's a CD of theirs for sale on Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/380123288887

I echo the appreciation! Thank you so much for providing insight, to the history Clad, herein our beloved city. Sincerely,

Very cool. I often wonder if there still exists any video footage from the 70s. I was on Romper Room for 2 weeks, Professor Kool, and another show called The Bloomin’ Place that no one seems to remember

More WMAR/Channel 2 trivia for you: Their first FM station, originally at 97.9, was later sold or went out of business, as did many other early FM radio stations. Later, as FM became more viable and popular, in 1968 WMAR purchased the frequency at 106.5 (which was WCBM-FM, started in 1960) and moved it to TV Hill. To do this, due to a frequency conflict, they had to move the station at 95.9 (then WISZ-FM) to a tower in Curtis Bay that they paid to construct. (Stations 10.7 MHz apart needed to be 10 miles apart.) WMAR-TV had no studios initially, they had a mobile unit that broadcast various sports and events, like racing and boxing. Its first studios were at Charles and Redwood Streets downtown, later moving to York Road around 1963 or so. That big dome on the roof hid two microwave dishes that sent the TV signal to the TV Hill tower. Romper Room and Dialing for Dollars were both creations of Towson-based Bert Claster Productions. For some years both of those programs were on other Baltimore stations including WJZ. Sylvia Scott usually did her show live, but when it was recorded she'd note that that was made possible through "the magic of video tape." I was a vacation relief tech there in the late '70's and her show was cancelled around 1976 or 77.

I loved Romper Room. Unfortunately, I was always disappointed because I never heard her say my name.

When I was a kid in the 60's my Cub Scout Pack went to WMAR to be on the Bozo Show when Stu Kerr was dressed up as Bozo the Clown!

I was on Pin busters

@NathanielRussell1965

8 ай бұрын

That was WBAL TV

I love this video series

Not to nitpick, Johns, but her middle name isn't Dutch. It's Delich (Deal-itch).

Is there a way to request clips?

@baltimoreheritage1006

2 жыл бұрын

We suggest emailing avtech@marmia.org

That wall at WMAR bothers me. I wish they had used the same color grout 😅

You mispronounced Delich. It’s not pronounced Dutch.