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A reminder of days gone by

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WPCB-40 is offering a marathon of Arlene Williams "At Home" shows to mark her 20th anniversary with the station. (Not 20 continuous years, as she went off for a while to try an Internet cooking show that probably was ahead of its time.) Still, she reminds this viewer of days gone by, especially when I heard her from older shows asking viewers to send mail to "Wall, PA, 15148 (dash) 1499." The late Thom Hickling turned that into an art form on the old version of "His Place," which is back on WPCB but different from the "diner where America came for food for thought."

What do you remember from days gone by on Pittsburgh TV?
 
Down goes the curtain... and back up again for the Three Stooges.

Carl Ide, complete with eyepatch, anchoring the news on Channel 4.

By Williams on Channel 11.

Bwana Don Riggs on Channel 2, before he went to Channel 11.

Uncle Ed Schaunessy reading the "funny pages" to kids on Channel 2 during more than one newspaper strike.

Eleanor Schano doing the weather for Serta Perfect Sleeper on Channel 4 when her later-to-be husband Ed Conway did the sports.

Ricki and Copper. . . and Jr. High Quiz.

Fred Rogers working for Josie Carey.

Johnny Costa as music director for Channel 2, and Joe Negri as music director for Channel 4, both of whom would later work with and for Fred Rogers.

"Good night, good luck, and good news tomorrow" from Bill Burns signing off on the late news on Channel 2.
 
Some guy named Terry Lee on Channel 11 with a bunch of records that the older kids all
sure seemed to like.

Paul Shannon loading those letters into the Rocket Ship to be delivered to Santa at the North Pole.

Paul Shannon giving us the hard-sell to hold an MDA Carnival in your back yard, to the point where
your mom got tired of being pestered and made you turn off Adventure Time.

Pestering your mom to let you stay up late Saturday and watch Chilly Billy, which made her want
to get rid of the television set altogether.

Watching Channel 11 News to see who was going to embarrass the TV news business more...
Beverly Byer, Pat Shingleton, or Pat Finn being inserted via chromakey into Woody Allen movies.

Nick Perry drawing the Pennsylvania Daily Number, live from Wilkinsburg.

Captain Pitt getting all confused and talking about local stuff in Baltimore.

Those 5 minute newsbreaks with the hideous jingle on Channel 22, as immortalized in the movie Flashdance.

The play-by-play team of Mike Lange and Steve Blass clowning their way through Bucco games on KBL.

WQEX as Quite Extraordinary Television with Pip Theodore, P.J. Maloney and crew.
 
The Boron temperature with tag line....

Rockin Easy People WFFM jingles....

The guy who used to call in from a phone booth on the WPEZ morning show...

Jack Bogut's "Good Morning" and Friday salutes at 6:40.....

Block Party weekends....

Commercial for the clothing store, "Scoop"....
 
The World Tonight on Channel 2 with three co-anchors, Tom Finn, Al McDowell and Marie Torre, Willie the Duck reading the funnies on Channel 11.
 
Kurt Toy said:
The World Tonight on Channel 2 with three co-anchors, Tom Finn, Al McDowell and Marie Torre, Willie the Duck reading the funnies on Channel 11.
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How about Willie the Duck doing the weather on Channel 2's morning show?

John Reed King in the afternoon.
 
How about the news breaks on Ch53 from the late 70's early 80's that used the opening from The Who's Baba O'Riley as the intro and outro music.

Scorpio hosting Saturday afternoon horror movies on Ch 53.

The short lived all metal k-Rock 107 WOKU.

The Saturday night six pack on DVE

Sunday Morning Oldies on DVE.

The Steel City Rock billboards for WYDD.

Note quite Pittsburgh on this one. The Close Encounters tones top of the hour ID on WSRD The Wizard from Youngstown.
 
Kimba the White Lion on Sunday mornings on KDKA. :)

DVE playing a whole CD the whole way through to show the wonderful sound quality (when CDs were just coming out) and of course, everyone taping it.
 
INN News

Sitcom reruns on WTAE in the afternoon

Miss Spelling

Pirate games on free TV

Mike and Edie on the bus

Dennis Bowman on the roof

Mike Boguslowski in your corner

AM Pittsburgh

George Eisenhauer

Creepy National Weather Service bulletins

The "Evening Magazine" crew - Dave Durian, Donna Hanover, Chef Tell, Donna Rae, the Phantom Diner, Ted White

Movies 4 a Sunday Afternoon

SFM Holiday Network

WXVX 1510 signing off with the sunset (as early as 4:30 in the winter), and the Friday morning "Particle Man" singalong

Jim Quinn being funny

WXXP 100.7

"Jazz Impressions" with Jim DiCaesare

The Red Bull Inn song (you'll be back to the Red Bull)

Winky's makes you happy to be hungry
 
Jazz Impressions is still on 107.1!!

Celebrate, celebrate, come to the Red Bull Inn
You'll be back to celebrate, celebrate again
Celebrate, celebrate, yeah you'll be back
Comin' on back to the Red Bull.
 
kaysguy said:
Kurt Toy said:
The World Tonight on Channel 2 with three co-anchors, Tom Finn, Al McDowell and Marie Torre, Willie the Duck reading the funnies on Channel 11.
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How about Willie the Duck doing the weather on Channel 2's morning show?

John Reed King in the afternoon.
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Wasn't King on mornings?
 
Also: The 6:00 News on Channel 11 with Alan Boal and Red Donley with By Williams as The Atlantic Weatherman, Popeye and Friends with Joe Negri and Sandy Mason, as well as Chuck Brinkman hosting Come Alive before Terry Lee replaced him.
 
Speaking of "Come Alive: with Chuck Brinkman, if anybody has anything, posters, memorabelia, VIDEO (!!!!) or stills of any kind from that show I'd appreciate a heads-up. I live in Dallas, as does Chuck, and I'm attending his birthday party on Sunday. Maybe by his next birthday, I'll be able to present him with some rememberance of that show. As of right now, he has absolutely nothing from those days. Thanks.
 
I never realized Red Donley worked for 11...I always associated him with WSTV (now WTOV), Channel 9 in Steubenville, Ohio. How long was he in Pittsburgh?
 
I'm not sure how long, but he was there in the early to mid-60's.... if memory serves, there was a major make-over of Channel 11 News that included the arrival of Ray Tannehill and/or Pat Finn as anchors, and Sam Nover as sports director.
 
Phil Brooks on WKPA

Hank Stohl and Knish plus Rodney Hackenflash

Classical WLOA

WKJF on 93.7

Hilary Bogden

Barry Kaye on WJAS

WEEPLE ARE PEOPLE WHO LISTEN TO WEEP
 
Greg Goodfellow said:
I never realized Red Donley worked for 11...I always associated him with WSTV (now WTOV), Channel 9 in Steubenville, Ohio. How long was he in Pittsburgh?
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Red may have been there when Channel 11 signed on. He was phased out around 1970 because commentary and controversy had become big with Dick Stockton at Channel 2. Sam Nover came in from Detroit to take Channel 11's sports coverage in a different direction. Red stayed for a while as the backup/weekend guy, then went back to Steubenville.
 
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