Fred, perhaps people in Baltimore watched Bandstand via Washington DC. The OTA signals overlap.

Excellent point.

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Please bring back the WOTV Bowling Classic!!!

Yes, many people around Bal'mer could watch DC TV (some could even watch Philly TV), but not that many did (or do). I grew up in Detroit but I went to school in Maryland during this period (later on I worked in radio back there).

Baltimore and Washington are very different places and Baltimore has always been sort of a parochial town. As "Hairspray" suggests, The Buddy Deane Show was extremely popular in Baltimore. Many markets had dance shows (including Detroit), Bandstand knock-offs. Few had a level of community popularity of the Buddy Deane Show.

What we have here is yet another example of the incestuous media re-quoting each other. Somebody wrote that Clark made rock "acceptable" and every article that appears makes the same claim - without any evidence (except maybe one journalist quoting another). Acceptable? To whom? Rock n' roll dominated record sales for two years before Bandstand went national. Top 40 radio was getting top ratings and lots of buzz before Bandstand went national. If anything, Clark helped killed the hard edge fusion of R&B and soul represented by Bill Hailey, Elvis, the Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and others and replaced it with innocuous puppy love songs by plastic pretty boys from South Philly, whom Clark groomed, manufactured and sold to pre-teen girls as teen idols. The whole point of early rock n' roll is that it was NOT acceptable and your parents didn't get it. And the real "influencers" were guys like Mickey Schorr and Dick Biondi.

Umm....have you ever heard of heredity?

Most people who contract Type II Diabetes do so because of a family history, and not all are obese before or as a result of Type II. I was diagnosed at 31 with a very strong family history, and although my poor dietary habits probably hastened the onset by some 20 years, I likely would have contracted it by my mid-late 50's, even with a stellar diet. It's just in the genes.

At the time I was diagnosed with Type II, I was 20-30 pounds underweight due to high metabolism, and although I've been as much as 20 pounds overweight in the past, I'm currently 30-35 pound underweight, so it's not just a "fat" thing.

He made a lot of people wealthy. What is there to be angry about there?

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My questions is: Will St. Peter have Dick as the host for their New Year's Eve celebration?

No, he's got Ben Grauer for that. Dick is hosting a dance party for dead teenagers.

"Splatter Platter Reunion on New Year's Crashin' Eve!!!!....Featuring Ray Peterson who finally gets to tell Laura he loves her before a Heavenly Television Audience!!'.