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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
M*A*S*H
On this day in 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H aired, and 125 million people tuned in. At the time, it was the biggest audience in television history. I was doing the very first remote broadcast of my career that night at WPGU--from a M*A*S*H viewing party in a dorm in Champaign. I don't remember a word I said, but I do know that it wasn't nearly as appropriate as this incredibly insightful report by Channel 7's Joel Daly.
You have to remember, Joel was with a competing network. M*A*S*H was a CBS show. This report was filed on ABC in Chicago.
