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BALTIMORE'S NEIGHBORS
From the Blue Ridge to the blue Atlantic/ Maryland's contmunitieis have been bound into a closer kinship to Baltimore through WMAR-TV's 100,000 wotts of maximum ''super power" * • • and each of the indicated neighbors has been "saluted" in a continuing series of half hour programs that combine film sequences with personal appearances by leading personalities of each locality*
HAGERSTOWN 60 mi. BRUNSWICK 50 mi. WESTMINSTER 26 mi FREDERICK 40 mi REISTERSTOWN 16 mi. SYKESVILLE 18 mi. EUICOTT CITY 9 mi. LAUREL 17 GLEN BURNIE 8 mi ANNAPOLIS 21 mi. PRINCE FREDERICK 48 mi
FIRST WITH MAXIMUM POWER
WMAR-TV, Sunpapers Television station in Baltimore, became the first video station in Maryland to achieve full power under FCC standards when it inaugurated service on a new super power 100,000-watt transmitter, July 22, 1953.
FIRST WITH LOCAL COLOR
The first broadcast of color slides using the new WMAR-TV color originating equipment took place in the early morning hours (after regular sign-ofF at 2 A.M.) on December 30tb, and continued for several nights thereafter. The first announced telecast went on December 31st and on January 5th, 1954, WMAR-TV initiated regular doily color telecasts.
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EDGEWOOD 20 mi. ^-CHESHRTOWN 28 mi.
CRiSFIELD 92 mi: POCOMOKE CITY 94 mi.
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