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• Andover: Channel 8
• Haverhill:
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• Methuen, Channels 8 + 22 (Comcast) &
32* (Verizon Fios)
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Plaistow, Channel 17
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Sandown, Channel 17
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Channel 32 is heard statewide in communities with Verizon Fios cable
television service.
A special
thanks to the boards, management, staffs and members of the public
access television stations above for bringing not-for-profit WHAV to
those without
Internet access! If you would like to hear WHAV on your cable
television system, call your cable company or public access station.
For more information, call (978) 374-2111.
Radio
1640 AM
Cell
Phone
Visit www.WHAV.net with your smartphone and be automatically directed to a page specially formatted for your small screen.
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Merrimack
Valley non-profit organizations are
invited to submit news of events, fundraising appeals and other
community calendar announcements. Use the form on the News page to
submit your information. Only local radio can bring you this level of
public service, but only WHAV does.
15 past every hour
At the Movies
 Every
weekend, Jeff Leblanc gives you his perspective on new movies hitting
the cinemas. Find out whether offerings are family friendly or live up
to the hype.
Sat.-Sun., 8:45 a.m., 12:45 & 4:45
p.m.
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New
television technology, as seen above, could debut on the Monday program
if a donor (or donors) comes forward with $500 before air time.
Coco
Becomes Open Mike Show Host
Monday Show Traces
History through Old Recordings
 The more than 55-year history of WHAV’s Open Mike
Show will be chronicled Monday night when Tim Coco takes over as host of the
venerable talk program.
The late Edwin V. Johnson (right) was the
first host of the Open Mike Show during the mid-1950s and the
microphone was eventually passed to the late William C. “Bill” Pike,
Lindsy Parker and John “Jack” Bevelaqua. Unlike the early days, the
Open Mike Show is heard today on the Internet at www.WHAV.net and seven
cable television stations across the Merrimack Valley. It may also be
viewed on Haverhill Community Television channel 22 and www.WHAV.tv.
The show begins at 6:30 p.m.
 “WHAV was the first station in the Merrimack
Valley to have a talk show. Jerry Williams, I guess they call the dean
of talk, had started earlier, but we started in, I’m going to say,
about 1953 or 1954 with a talk show,” Johnson recalls in a segment
recorded in 1996 that will be played. On the same recording, Pike (right) interrupts,
“And it was called, you ran the talk show, and it was called Open Mike.”
 Another recording features Tom Bergeron (right) discussing
his little known and ill-fated attempt to host an afternoon version of
the program during the 1970s. Pike was heard on the program during the
1970s and 1980s until he was elected to the Haverhill City Council.
Bevelaqua (below),
who became host of the Open Mike Show in 1990 and brought it back early
in 2009, recently retired. His on-air criticism of Groveland’s approval
of septic systems near Haverhill’s Johnson Pond water supply resulted
in the town removing WHAV from its cable television system at the end
of 2009. Marc Lemay has been filling in as guest host for the last six
weeks.
 The WHAV call letters have been associated with
local broadcasting since 1947. WHAV is today operated by Public Media
of New England Inc., a not-for-profit corporation. Since 2004, the call
has served the Merrimack Valley’s pioneer Internet radio station at
WHAV.net and a number of public access cable television stations in
Andover, Haverhill and Methuen, and Plaistow and Sandown, N.H. The
station is also heard over AM 1640 in northern Haverhill and Plaistow,
N.H.
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