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KLAC 570 1955 Promotional Film

michael hagerty said:
KMPC did one in 1961, but the only source I know of for it is the KMPC tribute site, which is old, hasn't been updated in forever, and the film was in RealAudio---which I'm no longer able to play back.

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Those are playable using the free VLC player at:

Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org www.videolan.org

However, because it doesn't register itself for those files, there is a separate file to update the Windows Registry:
 
Well, it doesn't matter. I tried unsuccessfully to download and play it and after some detective work determined that the link is just the command file to launch the player. The file itself is 404.

What puzzles me is that the 710kmpc.com site appears to have been abandoned, yet the domain name renews every year like clockwork, so someone has to have provided credit card information for billing. I haven't dug into where the site is hosted but obviously that bill is also being paid by someone ... :unsure:
 
K.M. Richards said:
Well, it doesn't matter. I tried unsuccessfully to download and play it and after some detective work determined that the link is just the command file to launch the player. The file itself is 404.

What puzzles me is that the 710kmpc.com site appears to have been abandoned, yet the domain name renews every year like clockwork, so someone has to have provided credit card information for billing. I haven't dug into where the site is hosted but obviously that bill is also being paid by someone ... :unsure:
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I had high hopes for the KMPC tribute site when it first went online 25 or more years ago, but I guess too much time had already gone by even at that point. As near as I can tell nothing's been added in at least the last 15 years.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Well, it doesn't matter. I tried unsuccessfully to download and play it and after some detective work determined that the link is just the command file to launch the player. The file itself is 404.

What puzzles me is that the 710kmpc.com site appears to have been abandoned, yet the domain name renews every year like clockwork, so someone has to have provided credit card information for billing. I haven't dug into where the site is hosted but obviously that bill is also being paid by someone ... :unsure:
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I wish that the "proprietors" of those sites would transfer me the content to add as a subset to WorldRadioHistory. I have quite a bit of storage on my very high quality server (with Hivelocity) and could easily add some of those station tribute sites if the owner is no longer willing or able to sustain them.
 
I had the same experience as you. I already have VLC, but it wouldn't stream that file from the server. And after I downloaded the file directly, it still gave me that 404 error. Even the jingle packages, on a separate page, are recorded so low -- maybe -20 dB down -- that I needed to crank up my speakers just to hear it. This is a website that wasn't ready for prime time in 1999.
 
DavidEduardo said:
I wish that the "proprietors" of those sites would transfer me the content to add as a subset to WorldRadioHistory. I have quite a bit of storage on my very high quality server (with Hivelocity) and could easily add some of those station tribute sites if the owner is no longer willing or able to sustain them.
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I will vouch for how well David manages such sites when he has the opportunity.

Back in 2011, I connected with the late Clarke Ingram and offered to correct part of his website on the history of the DuMont Network. (Clarke was considered to be the pre-eminent expert on same). Most of my work involved the correcting/expanding/updating of a list of "all UHF stations in history" compiled in 1977 for the now-defunct VHF-UHF Digest published by the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association. It was incomplete, it showed construction permits that never were built as being on the air, and a huge number of stations were missing.

Using the archives of Broadcasting at David's site, I painstakingly went issue-by-issue from 1952 (when the FCC first authorized UHF) until 30 years later. The resulting list sparked a suggestion by Clarke that we research and write full articles on UHF stations that had tried -- and failed -- to make it on the new band. Peter Q. George had just shut down his "UHF Morgue" site and gave us all of the articles from it, and I wrote several dozen articles myself. And the "History of UHF Television ... those channels above 13 almost no one could receive" went online in late 2014.

When Clarke went into managed care, he turned the site over to me. But after his death in November 2023, I lost access to the server (because it was still in his name) and it was David who came to the rescue by offering to host a replacement version. He set it all up, I uploaded my backup files, and the site has been online with no hiccups ever since. (I even recreated the DuMont site as part of the reborn UHF site.)

I think David has the best possible location to preserve all this radio and television history.

History of UHF Television: TV Above Channel 13

uhfhistory.com uhfhistory.com

P. S.: If anyone wants to contribute an article or two for the UHF site, I'm always welcome to same.
 
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