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Frankie and Annette and Elvis returning to a local station near you this summer.

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RadioFanBoy

You all remember the good ole days in the 70's and most of the 80's I think, when you'd be hard pressed NOT to find a local television station having an Elvis movie week, or a Beach Movie weekend. Well, someone at Sony Television is finally using the old gray matter, and serving up a handful of these cheesy, yet wonderful classics to several over-the-air stations this summer, using one of their barter syndicated "Movie of the Week" packages. This one is picked up by "classic tv" outlets such as KDOC in Los Angeles, KICU in San Francisco, and ME-TV in Chicago. The summer titles will consisit of the MGM Elvis Presley releases, and the American International "Beach" movies. This has to be a welcome sight from a freshman season of mostly crappy B and direct to video titles and a few serious mis-fires on Sony's part (cheif example...........and I'm not kidding; They were sent and expcted to run the 1976 horror flick "Carrie" on Christmas Eve Weekend! Most stations choose alternate programming and just extracted the commercials they needed to run.) Here's a partial list of titles that's been released so far:

June 9th and 10th: Clambake
June 16th and 17th: Muscle Beach Party
July 7th and 8th: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
July 21st and 22nd: How to Stuff a Wild Biniki
August 18th and 19th: Paradise Hawaiian Style
August 25th and 26th Ride the Wild Surf

To find out what station you can see these movies in area, find the station running the movie "Class" with Andrew McCartney this weekend.
 
Re: Frankie and Annette and Elvis returning to a local station near you this sum

...hmmm. KQEG-CA/23, the indie in La Crescent, is picking it up in my area. I guess it may depend on whether or not a thunderstorm knocks out KQEG's STL again and they take another three weeks to get the thing fixed. ;-) ...oh, and CARRIE on Christmas Eve weekend ain't the standard for tasteless scheduling. Back on Easter of 1985, when WPWR was still splitting Channel 60 in the Chicago market with a nighttime-only Spanish-language indie, at 3:00 in the afternoon they scheduled -- and heavily promoted -- NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD...
 
You know, that is a real good move on sony's part. It's really all about packaging when it comes to the old stuff. If things are packaged and presented as a theme of goofy, camp, fun, or even serious drama, it all comes together and is far more appealing. TV Land and Nick at Nite used to excel in marketing the old stuff...I also remember Screen Gems doing a daily strip of various old shows..one day the Monkees, one day I Dream of Jeannie, etc...it was a great idea. Now why can't I get one of those high-paying jobs at anetwork or syndicator thinking up things like that?
 
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