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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have

I'm downsizing YouTube indefinitely due to more takedowns for All My Children

Well I've gotten even more bad news regarding my account, but unfortunately, I feel that I need to take an extended vacation from YouTube. In addition to the same account that got called last week, an addition channel, pannoni4,also got taken down over the last few days from the same company, and I'll have to stand for the creators. This leaves just three channels left, pannoni8, pannoni10, and pannoni14. I just deleted the remaining AMC episodes from those, and thankfully I have no strikes there. Hopefully this will lead to a surge in trades and allow others to post my former contents online with this newfound void. I'll try to post occasional new content on my remaining channels, including a batch I was about to post for Thanksgiving, but I'll be greatly reducing my finds to about half of what I used to post. This should allow me to save time by posting selected content and grow my collection faster, but its up to the YouTubers who downloaded my videos or to the traders who are out there. I'd rather spend the night with The Grinch after this, but then again it's 2020. :mad:

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Well I can always mail them to retract and I'm not sure how big their "guillotine" department is, but the odds of having them retract those due to the sheer size of the company leaves me with odds as long as finding an episode of Second Chance from 1977 on a Beta K-60 tape. The bottom line is to be thankful for everything you have since offline content still has a tangible value that cloud content doesn't!
 
All My Children's gone too? $%&@!! Time to clean house...again. I think I have 20 or more episodes that will be leaving YT and going straight to the Archives. I thank God every day I don't have a channel termination notice in my inbox.
I am taking down Port Charles too as a precaution. This is heartbreaking. YOU CANNOT FIND THIS STUFF ON DISNEY+ OR DVD. Why do they feel it's important to keep that ABC soap archive so 'secretive'?
 
I think I've pulled all the ABC soaps down from my three channels now. Had to work this afternoon and thankfully I didn't come back to a yanked account. 90% of my OLTL episodes are on Archive now with all of my General Hospital/All My Children episodes to come.
 
4 more tapes from recent Goodwill outlet bin finds, all were at least partially correct in their labeling which was nice:

1. December 1983 airing of Its A Wonderful Life on WNET13, out of curiosity does anyone know the exact date this aired? It included over 25 minutes of intermissions and pledge breaks which was interesting to see old school PBS productions
-Partially taped over The Challenge which came out around that time so I'd guess it was an HBO recording

2.1983 (not sure month and date) Parts 1 and 2 of James Michener's Centennial, commercials were 90% cut, what I could tell from one break that was left in was this was a 1983 WTBS recording based on the 6:05 schedule times they used to use then

3.1986/11/15 WGHP 8 (High Point, NC ABC later to become FOX) Life Magazine's 50th Anniversary Special (hosted by Barbara Walters). Odd they would show this so close to the bankruptcy of the magazine but it had a huge lineup of stars that were alive then but are no longer with us now. I remember my parents briefly subscribed to Life in the 1980s, probably hoping it would return to its 50s-60s heyday. By then it was a thin monthly when it once was a weekly, and by the 90s they had devolved into once every 3-4 month pictorial specials that seemed to line the supermarket aisles. Regardless, this was complete with commercials with many from Kmart and Polaroid and even Willie Nelson for Wrangler jeans, all of which I've posted on my Youtube channel tonight. People complained about Christmas coming early this year, but in 1986 the Christmas themed commercials were out by November 15th so this isn't just a recent phenomenon apparently.

-Breaking All the Rules (1986 movie) copied from rental tape

-1986/12/7 WFMY 2 News (Greensboro, NC CBS affiliate) partial telecast with last 21 minutes which led into an abbreviated CBS Sunday Evening News with Charles Osgood of only 13 minutes. Both broadcasts touched on the 45th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Was there something that ran late on CBS on December 7, 1986 which led to those newscasts to be truncated? I thought CBS did not air the Sunday Evening News in the Eastern time zones if there was an NFL doubleheader.

4.January 1989 Cinemax late night fare which I like to creatively call "Skinemax" had a brief January 1989 promo and movie bumpers in between, films were Felicity (1978) and The Secrets of Love: Three Rakish Tales (1986). This was the kind of stuff 16 year old me would have loved. Now at my much older age its just meh but I am always curious of the taping habits of some people...
 
No, the news you are talking about is the CBS Sunday Night News which was fed at 11:00PM ET/PT to affiliates. It was only 15 minutes long. Many stations didn't air it at all, many more preempted it to 1 or 2am. There were those that actually followed the network at 11PM Sundays and aired the national news, either at the start or the end of the half-hour with local news. KIMA/KEPR/KLEW were some of the last stations to run that newscast 'on time' at 11:00, before it was cancelled in summer 1997 due to low ratings and numerous preemptions. Albeit, those stations did not air Sunday local news for many years, and had a syndicated program at 11:15pm, which ranged by season, from The Byron Allen Show in 1990-91, to Carson's Comedy Classics in 1986-87. Charles Osgood would be replaced by Susan Spencer in late 1987; she would only do that newscast for a year before Bill Plante had a seven-year run. The last anchor was Russ Mitchell.

At least the outlet bins are faring well for you! Darn it, we need one of those nearby. Closest is Pasco, then the west side. And BTW, in that massive Ellensburg estate sale collection I received back in late July, a couple of the tapes have Centennial off WTBS, but it would have been taped in 1986.
 
A few days ago, for some unknown reason, YouTube removed a commercial compilation I uploaded from TBS Superstation from August 31, 2003 due to "inappropriate content." I don't understand it because I didn't see anything inappropriate about any of the commercials shown in that video.

I also have a recording of the Life Magazine 50th Anniversary Special, mine having been recorded from WEWS in Cleveland. It was actually part of a six-hour unscoped aircheck on that tape, which also included that night's Eyewitness News at 11:00 and Movie 5 presentations of 9 to 5 (1980) and Grand Hotel (1932), the latter being incomplete.

No new finds as of late, not just because of the lack of estate sales this time of year, but also because of the issues my VCR has had as of late, eating tapes on a sporadic basis. I've looked up videos on YouTube as to what may be causing the problem, but it seems like it would be much more complicated to take the machine apart (especially for me not really knowing what I'm doing) and replace a faulty mechanism than to get a new (to me) unit. I've had mine for seven years now and have played hundreds of tapes on it during that time, so maybe it is time to replace it.
 
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No, the news you are talking about is the CBS Sunday Night News which was fed at 11:00PM ET/PT to affiliates. It was only 15 minutes long. Many stations didn't air it at all, many more preempted it to 1 or 2am. There were those that actually followed the network at 11PM Sundays and aired the national news, either at the start or the end of the half-hour with local news. KIMA/KEPR/KLEW were some of the last stations to run that newscast 'on time' at 11:00, before it was cancelled in summer 1997 due to low ratings and numerous preemptions. Albeit, those stations did not air Sunday local news for many years, and had a syndicated program at 11:15pm, which ranged by season, from The Byron Allen Show in 1990-91, to Carson's Comedy Classics in 1986-87. Charles Osgood would be replaced by Susan Spencer in late 1987; she would only do that newscast for a year before Bill Plante had a seven-year run. The last anchor was Russ Mitchell.

At least the outlet bins are faring well for you! Darn it, we need one of those nearby. Closest is Pasco, then the west side. And BTW, in that massive Ellensburg estate sale collection I received back in late July, a couple of the tapes have Centennial off WTBS, but it would have been taped in 1986.
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I remember ABC doing that; seem to remember WLOS preempting it to after American Gladiators in 1989. Some of my AG tapes from then had the ABC Weekend Report at the end. I'm guessing 2am.
 
The ABC News Weekend Report was mostly anchored by Tom Jarriel during the '80s, and like CBS it aired at 11PM ET/PT on Sundays but also on Saturdays. It was cancelled in 1991 due to low ratings and preemptions much like the CBS Sunday Night News.
 
Thanks for the info on CBS Sunday Night News, its interesting the stuff you can learn from people on here. So typically stations that picked it up, did they just air 15 minutes of their local news then seque into the CBS news to fit in a 30 minute block? I ask because when I checked timecodes the WFMY News was 21 minutes and CBS another 13, or maybe 20 and around 15 depending on how I coded the commercial breaks for 1 or the other.

Danderson6500, I would love to see those vintage American Gladiators episodes! I grew up on the show though in my market WTVD 11 aired it usually right after Saturday morning cartoons (well sometimes with Soul Train before it) at Noon or 1pm. Of course this was during the non college football/basketball parts of the year.
 
crainbebo said:
I think I've pulled all the ABC soaps down from my three channels now. Had to work this afternoon and thankfully I didn't come back to a yanked account. 90% of my OLTL episodes are on Archive now with all of my General Hospital/All My Children episodes to come.
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I think nbc are also doing this with regards to Another World, I have seen a lot of that soap go from YT in the past month
 
And that's a P&G soap. They better not do anything to my videos....
I posted all the OLTL's I have onto Archive, but still need to put up General Hospital and All My Children. I have them all downloaded prior to deleting them from YT.
 
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And that's a P&G soap. They better not do anything to my videos....
I posted all the OLTL's I have onto Archive, but still need to put up General Hospital and All My Children. I have them all downloaded prior to deleting them from YT.
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forget what I said because there was a yt channel called bob soaps which got recently pulled and I now wonder if it was because of the ABC stuff he posted?
 
Too many red flags with this seller for me to make a bid, and I hope the winner(s) found some good stuff with them. One of them is the lack of an economy shipping service (Media Mail) which I can easily ship myself for about $7. Second, the lack of returns ensure that its basically a gambit of whatever comes up whether s/he likes them or not. If you don't find anything but pay TV movies without promos, rental duds, or TV shows that don't contain commercials and are readily available elsewhere (physical or digital), good luck trying to resell them if you're an experienced seller. IMO I wouldn't pay more than $1 each for these grab bags unless if I've dealt with the same seller and had some good luck with them, like my last lot that I've described that came in three rounds. One lot went for well over $3.50 a tape total and that contained some mid-80s stock. I also shied away since I purchased two years ago a lot from the same market (Sacramento) that contained tons of local commercials, and still have a couple dozen VHS tapes to sort through from that lot. Although normally December is a great time to find a deal, the combination of waxing nostalgia and a lack of live entertainment is really putting some bullish pressure on these gems. In fact, I purchased a lot with similar tape stock (Red/black Zenith) and had a hit rate that was just shy of the Mendoza Line, even if I found a couple rare items from 1978, and I ended up trashing over half of the remaining tapes.

I'll consider those VHS lots since I notice quite a few have Washington, DC era content, and unlike Beta, I have a little room for some VHS in my stockpile. I've bid on several of your lots, Bradley45, and have only won once unfortunately. I did win the one that contained most of a 1986 CBS daytime episode of Card Sharks though that also contained episodes of Divorce Court as well.
 
Some nice 1980s Seattle tapes in Bradley45's lot. Will I buy it...probably not. I can look at the six or seven banana boxes of VHS from that Ellensburg sale in July about 50 feet away from me and realize my backlog will be going WELL into 2021....
 
I recently got my very first & only Beta VCR (A Sanyo 7200 - Black model - Beta HiFi.) to finally play the prerecorded & 4 "blank" Beta tapes I got off of Ebay. Unfortunately, out of the 4 "blank" Beta tapes I got, 3 1/2 of the tapes were duds.
Most of the tapes had copies of rental tapes on them. However, one tape also had a unknown movie that was being shown as a "ABC Monday Night Movie", recorded off of KMBC-TV in Kansas City, MO, circa 1983 with commercials on that part of the tape. This tape, though, has an issue with tape shedding. I would like to fix this tape & copy the KMBC-TV stuff off of it & junk the tape afterwards.
One other tape turned out to be a gold mine. It had bits & pieces of a newscast, basketball game (Either NBA or NCAA.), 15, or so, seconds of a soap opera, followed by parts 1 & 2 of the 1977 TV miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth", recorded off of WOWT-TV, Ch. 6 (NBC) in Omaha, NE, circa April 1987, part of an NBC movie presentation & the first few minutes of NewsCenter 3 at 10PM, recorded off of KMTV-TV, Ch. 3, Omaha, NE, circa 1985 or 1986, months before they switched from NBC to CBS & what appears to be half of an episode of "Dallas", recorded off of WOWT-TV back when they were still affiliated with CBS & yes this tape does have commercials on it. The only problem with this tape is that it seems to have some dirt on it, as sometimes the picture on it is clear & other times it's fuzzy. The tapes are mostly BASF L750's, however one tape is a Scotch L750.
 
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