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Baltimore Media ExaminerBrenda Carl, News Director for WCBM Radio, is a born & bred Baltimorean who has been working in radio and television news for nearly 30 years.
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A grave situation at Channel 2
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Word is, Channel 2 in Baltimore is built on top of what used to be a graveyard of an orphanage. Maybe that explains the stations' struggle for ratings going back to the days the building first opened. It could be haunted, jinxed, otherwise cursed, and if you speak to people who work there, or who watch the TV station, you would be inclined to agree. You can't build anything over the graves of orphans and expect good to come out of it.
WMAR Television (Channel 2) was one of the very first TV stations on-the-air in the United States (the 11th) and signed on the air October 27, 1947, Marylands first television station with "MAR" standing for "Maryland". The original studio was located on North Charles Street. But in May 1963 the new studios opened on York Road just above Walker Avenue, constructed at the site of a former Orphan Asylum known as St. Vincent's.
Looking at old Baltimore city and county maps (Bromley's Atlas, 1915, 9th district, available for viewing at the Towson Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library) or, online:
one finds the St Vincent's Orphan Asylum sitting directly on the spot where WMAR Television studios are now standing. At first the story about the station being built over a graveyard seemed to be a ghostly rumor started by some of the old timers who worked at Channel 2 and were offering excuses for the constant struggle for ratings. But could there be truth to the story which sounded like an urban legend?
Sources say bones were discovered at the site during the contruction phase, that problems were smoothed over between the former land owner and the new owner. The building went up, and the ratings started to slide. A link to the past, buried too deep, bad karma rearing its ugly head?
How else can one explain why a station with talent as good as, or better than, the other local stations continues to fight for recognition among Baltimore's Best TV stations? Is the reason buried beneath that foundation?
Food for thought, looking ahead to the next ratings book.
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