I'd like to see the sign-on from Sept. 1984 of WTIC-TV Channel 61--Bob Steele was there signing on his second WTIC-TV--Channel 3 in 1957 being the other. There was a gala event in Hartford to celebrate the birth of what is now Fox 61
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If you could see one more full day of any tv or cable station from any era
A broadcast day from the late 40's..In some market where they had a live hookup to the network (so net shows weren't seen all on kinescope)...So that would mean somewhere in the Northeast, like Syracuse or Rochester.
Any prime time from The earliest days of color casting.
A Saturday night on CBS in the 1973-74 season.
Any prime time from The earliest days of color casting.
A Saturday night on CBS in the 1973-74 season.
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desertv said:WPXI/11 Pittsburgh also called itself 11 Alive; the folks
at WXIA used to laugh about this, since WPXI is a sister
station to WXIA's archrival WSB/2.
Combined Communications (bought by Gannett in '79) used
Alive in the IDs of four of its stations; besides WXIA,
they were: KOCO/5 Alive Oklahoma City, WPTA/21 Alive
Ft. Wayne, IN, WLKY/32 Alive Louisville.
CCC's Phoenix flagship KTAR-TV used "12Alive" until the call letter change to KPNX (back to "Channel 12" also)
That brings to mind another good one....the day that WIIC/WPXI (it was right around the time of the call letter switch)
heavily promoted "Woody Allen's 'Sleeper', uncut, without commerical interruption!"
They had been plugging that for weeks as a lead-in to the new fall season. When it ran, there were no commercials allright...
just repeated freeze-frames of the movie, during which they used Chromakey to insert their weatherman, Pat Finn, in various costumes so as to interact with the characters on the film. He would then make a plug for some particular show or evening lineup on the fall schedule (Gee, Woody...that reminds me of the great new Saturday evening line-up here on Channel 11...) The movie
would grind to a halt for one of these every 10 min. or so.
The viewing public went nuts....overran the switchboard with complaints! The local press ate them alive, and
Woody Allen actually sued them when he learned about it! The next morning Pat Finn was on a plane to Phoenix,
never to return. (wasn't his fault!) A truly bizarre and surreal moment in TV history!
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I also want to see VH1 from its 1993-1998 period they had good music related shows. (eg: Best of American Bandstand, The Big 80s, Pop-Up Video, 8-Track Flashback, My Generation)
I also want to see Sci-Fi Channel from its beginning to the late 90s.
I also want to see Sci-Fi Channel from its beginning to the late 90s.
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FreddyE1977
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I Spy, Get Smart, The Monkees, and those cheesy news-breaks with
Kevin Evans and Eddie Edwards....good stuff!
Kevin Evans and Eddie Edwards....good stuff!
Pre-Fox WFFT Super 55, Fort Wayne. Tons of classic reruns, cheezy game shows, Merv Griffin (I think), and I really miss the holiday movie marathons on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Would love to go back in time to April of 1967 when Dayton's first independant TV station WKTR-TV (now PBS station WPTD) first came on the air airing The Merv Griffin Show..followed by Kim's Kartoon Kapers hosted by a shy,yet sweet and pretty young girl named Kim Christy (or Kristy) who introduced all of the Batfink cartoons and Three Stooges two-reelers. She also read fan mail and art submitted by her fellow youthful viewers. Kim moved on to other things after her year long stint on the original Channel 16 which was licensed in Kettering....but how I wished I would have sent her a fan letter. I was thirteen years old at the time so I'm thinking she was twelve or thirteen at the time as well......yes I had a crush back then on Kim Christy!
Whatever happened to her after all of forty three years?
Hugs and kisses to Kim Christy...wherever you are..and thanks for the Batfink cartoons,your smiles and your cheerfulness!
Whatever happened to her after all of forty three years?
Hugs and kisses to Kim Christy...wherever you are..and thanks for the Batfink cartoons,your smiles and your cheerfulness!
Limp73 said:Would love to go back in time to April of 1967 when Dayton's first independant TV station WKTR-TV (now PBS station WPTD) first came on the air airing The Merv Griffin Show..followed by Kim's Kartoon Kapers hosted by a shy,yet sweet and pretty young girl named Kim Christy (or Kristy) who introduced all of the Batfink cartoons and Three Stooges two-reelers. She also read fan mail and art submitted by her fellow youthful viewers. Kim moved on to other things after her year long stint on the original Channel 16 which was licensed in Kettering....but how I wished I would have sent her a fan letter. I was thirteen years old at the time so I'm thinking she was twelve or thirteen at the time as well......yes I had a crush back then on Kim Christy!
Whatever happened to her after all of forty three years?
Hugs and kisses to Kim Christy...wherever you are..and thanks for the Batfink cartoons,your smiles and your cheerfulness!
This station was before my time, but I would love to see WKTR in Kettering. Didn't they also serve as the ABC affiliate in Dayton shortly before they went off the air?
I also wouldn't mind seeing another defunct station that eventually became a PBS affiliate...WLBC-TV in Muncie (now WIPB), which left the airwaves around the same time as WKTR.
Anything from WTTV 4 in Indianapolis as an independent would be refreshing as well.
In terms of cable, I would love to see MTV and Nickelodeon from the 80s again as well as Ha! and The Comedy Channel.
WTAE - 70's and 80's when they showed good sitcom reruns between 4 and 6 instead of Oprah and news.
WPGH and WPTT for the same reason - they were true independents in the 70's and 80's - now all they show is judge crap most of the day. Staying home from school was more fun back then.
WPXI - Beverly Byer's Groucho Marx gaffe of the mid-70's ("Groucho turned for the worse today - in fact he died").
WWOR - mid 80's - they showed some cool horror movies in the afternoons and on weekends.
"NIght Tracks", "Night Flight", "Friday Night Videos".
Stations that signed off at night.
CBS Saturday nights, 1973-74
NBC Thursday nights, 1984-87
ABC Tuesday nights, 1978-79
The premiere broadcast of "All in the Family" with the original warning. (I was 5 days old!)
Movietime (before it turned into E!)
Somebody invent a time machine.
WPGH and WPTT for the same reason - they were true independents in the 70's and 80's - now all they show is judge crap most of the day. Staying home from school was more fun back then.
WPXI - Beverly Byer's Groucho Marx gaffe of the mid-70's ("Groucho turned for the worse today - in fact he died").
WWOR - mid 80's - they showed some cool horror movies in the afternoons and on weekends.
"NIght Tracks", "Night Flight", "Friday Night Videos".
Stations that signed off at night.
CBS Saturday nights, 1973-74
NBC Thursday nights, 1984-87
ABC Tuesday nights, 1978-79
The premiere broadcast of "All in the Family" with the original warning. (I was 5 days old!)
Movietime (before it turned into E!)
Somebody invent a time machine.
For me, this isn't an easy one. For TV, I'd want to watch WPWR 60 (before they moved to 50) and watch some of the old cartoons they aired.
Also, I don't have much memory of WCAE 50 (Gary/St John IN), but I'd like to watch that channel again to see what all was on. I would even like to know where they had their transmission site when they were on the air. I only know they were a PBS station. I do know that for US Cable (the cable company for Griffith Indiana) didn't carry this station when it was on the air. By the time cable expanded in the county, WCAE was already off the air, and I remember the station going off in 1983 & not 1984 as wikipedia states under WPWR & WYIN.
I've seen enough of WTTW 11 as a kid as PBS. If it were possible, I'd like to go back to the 50's & 60's when they were a NET station.
As for cable, I'd like to see VH1 & MTV again when they actually played music videos. Also wouldn't mind seeing the WOR/WWOR Superstation again if I could go back in time.
That's all I can think of right now. I only know that the channel lineup was limited in my area.
Also, I don't have much memory of WCAE 50 (Gary/St John IN), but I'd like to watch that channel again to see what all was on. I would even like to know where they had their transmission site when they were on the air. I only know they were a PBS station. I do know that for US Cable (the cable company for Griffith Indiana) didn't carry this station when it was on the air. By the time cable expanded in the county, WCAE was already off the air, and I remember the station going off in 1983 & not 1984 as wikipedia states under WPWR & WYIN.
I've seen enough of WTTW 11 as a kid as PBS. If it were possible, I'd like to go back to the 50's & 60's when they were a NET station.
As for cable, I'd like to see VH1 & MTV again when they actually played music videos. Also wouldn't mind seeing the WOR/WWOR Superstation again if I could go back in time.
That's all I can think of right now. I only know that the channel lineup was limited in my area.
Yes, WKTR DID air ABC programming all to breifly in 1970 forcing WKEF to become independant and the former WLWD (then both NBC and ABC) to only air the NBC schedule. WKEF protested and eventually got ABC back. It tried to come back as an independant again in early 1971 but was only back on for a month or less. Vic Cassano and some buisiness partners owned it (as Kitty Hawk Televsion) and their studios were located in the Cassano's main office building on East Stroop Rd.
It returned to the air in the spring of 1972 as WOET,the predicessor of WPTD owned by OEB as a simulcast of the former WMUB-TV now WPTO.
It returned to the air in the spring of 1972 as WOET,the predicessor of WPTD owned by OEB as a simulcast of the former WMUB-TV now WPTO.
In terms of cable, I would love to see MTV and Nickelodeon from the 80s again as well as Ha! and The Comedy Channel.
A day of early 90's Comedy Central would be good, too...Classic reruns of Jack Benny, Sgt. Bilko, McHale's Navy, early SNL, etc, along with the late Sunday night block that included Sid Caesar, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Allen, and Candid Camera. And of course, there's be a classic MST3K in there somewhere!!!
The 1960's-1990's game shows on NBC, CBS and ABC, also any syndicated game from the 1970's and 80's,including early eps. of nighttime Wheel when WOF at the time was also on NBC, and ealry eps. of Jeopardy1 from the Trebek version as well as the WOR/WWOR game show lineups of the late 1970's-early 1990's.
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It would be interesting to see the very first day of WNBC (then WNBT) and WCBS-TV (then WCBW) on July 1, 1941 to see what commerciol TV was like at the very beginning. Also the Thursday night in May of 1946 when WNBT and a handful of other stations premiered Hour Glass, the very first big budget variety show, and sent it to a handful of stations and about 100,000 total viewers along the limited NBC network in New York, Philly, Albany, and Washington (where a DuMont station had to clear it). Milton Berle's debut as host of Texaco Star Theater along the NBC net in the late summer of 1948 must have been something to see as well..
It would be great to see classic Soupy Sales comedy from his ABC show in the early 1960s...or those great, gritty WNEW-TV 10 O'Clock News broadcasts in 1970-era New York anchored by the intense Bill Jorgenson, with the memorable "thanks for your time this time 'till next time" signoff. Speaking of intense local newscasts, it would be great to look at one of the classic Eyewitness News broadcasts from WKBW-TV in Buffalo, presided over by Irv Weinstein with supporting cast of Tom Jolls and Rick Azar, that dominated Western NY between 1968 and 1998.
Someone alluded to memories of Atlanta TV and "controversial sportscaster Steve Somers"...could that poster possibly be referring to the same Steve Somers, "The Schmoozer", who's Jerry Seinfeld's buddy and now hosts weeknights on New York City sports-talker WFAN (AM 660)?
It would be great to see classic Soupy Sales comedy from his ABC show in the early 1960s...or those great, gritty WNEW-TV 10 O'Clock News broadcasts in 1970-era New York anchored by the intense Bill Jorgenson, with the memorable "thanks for your time this time 'till next time" signoff. Speaking of intense local newscasts, it would be great to look at one of the classic Eyewitness News broadcasts from WKBW-TV in Buffalo, presided over by Irv Weinstein with supporting cast of Tom Jolls and Rick Azar, that dominated Western NY between 1968 and 1998.
Someone alluded to memories of Atlanta TV and "controversial sportscaster Steve Somers"...could that poster possibly be referring to the same Steve Somers, "The Schmoozer", who's Jerry Seinfeld's buddy and now hosts weeknights on New York City sports-talker WFAN (AM 660)?
And Steve Somers in the 1980's worked at KOVR-TV 13 Stockton-Sacramento twice in the 1970's when they had an Action News format and then in the early 1980's when Newswatch 13 was the title of KOVR-TV's newscasts.
Looking through this thread, I'm surprised I hadnt contributed earlier, but here's what I'd like to see..
KYW-TV 3 Cleveland 1956-65, Love to see a full Eyewitness News segment with John "Bud" Dancy, Dick Goddard and Jim Graner (1961-65 as a team)...Tom Haley hosting movies or doing local game show "Give N Take"
WXEL-9 before Storer bought it and changed the affiliation to CBS..
WJAN-17 Canton-Very early days 1967-68
WKBF-61 During their Kaiser days especially 1968-72
Would also love to see Bill Jorgenson during his time at Channel 5, then Channel 3 before going to New York..
City Camera with Doug Adair/Joel Daly at WJW-TV 8
KYW-TV 3 Cleveland 1956-65, Love to see a full Eyewitness News segment with John "Bud" Dancy, Dick Goddard and Jim Graner (1961-65 as a team)...Tom Haley hosting movies or doing local game show "Give N Take"
WXEL-9 before Storer bought it and changed the affiliation to CBS..
WJAN-17 Canton-Very early days 1967-68
WKBF-61 During their Kaiser days especially 1968-72
Would also love to see Bill Jorgenson during his time at Channel 5, then Channel 3 before going to New York..
City Camera with Doug Adair/Joel Daly at WJW-TV 8
FreddyE1977 said:the day that WIIC/WPXI (it was right around the time of the call letter switch)
heavily promoted "Woody Allen's 'Sleeper', uncut, without commerical interruption!"
When it ran, there were no commercials allright...
just repeated freeze-frames of the movie, during which they used Chromakey to insert their weatherman, Pat Finn, in various costumes so as to interact with the characters on the film. He would then make a plug for some particular show or evening lineup on the fall schedule (Gee, Woody...that reminds me of the great new Saturday evening line-up here on Channel 11...) The movie
would grind to a halt for one of these every 10 min. or so.
The viewing public went nuts....overran the switchboard with complaints! The local press ate them alive, and
Woody Allen actually sued them when he learned about it! The next morning Pat Finn was on a plane to Phoenix,
never to return. (wasn't his fault!) A truly bizarre and surreal moment in TV history!
I wonder if the viewing public in Pittsburgh, or Woody Allen, forgave him after his hosting stints on "Shop til You Drop" and the 1990 "Joker's Wild"?
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