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Looking for TV recordings from PBS' Festival '77 Membership Pledge Drive (Sunday March 6th through Sunday March 20th, 1977) from any station.

Mauro1515

Mauro1515

I'm looking for either VHS, Betamax, U-matic, or any video format of TV recordings from any areas, It Doesn't Matter (If it's from KPBS-15 San Diego, I'm Very Good to Go) from PBS' Festival '77 Membership Pledge Drive-Some Great Things to See on Public TV (Sunday March 6th through Sunday March 20th, 1977) where it shows Flip Wilson as the host and spokesperson for Festival '77 on videotaped messages and from the studios of PBS stations around the country, and the good thing I was researching from Newspapers.com and other newspapers on how many cities Flip Wilson visited PBS stations around the country, And Here's a list where Flip Wilson visited PBS stations in a 13-city tour during Festival '77 and I only have 11 cities listed and 2 missing cities yet to be mentioned (UPDATED):
-Washington, D.C.
-New Orleans, Louisiana
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana
-Detroit, Michigan
-Nashville, Tennessee
-New York City, New York
-Portland, Oregon
-Cincinnati, Ohio
-Toledo, Ohio
-Kansas City, Missouri
-Dallas, Texas
 
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Mauro1515 said:
I'm looking for either VHS, Betamax, U-matic, or any video format of TV recordings from any areas, It Doesn't Matter (If it's from KPBS-15 San Diego, I'm Very Good to Go) from PBS' Festival '77 Membership Pledge Drive-Some Great Things to See on Public TV (Sunday March 6th through Sunday March 20th, 1977) where it shows Flip Wilson as the host and spokesperson for Festival '77 on videotaped messages and from the studios of PBS stations around the country, and the good thing I was researching from Newspapers.com and other newspapers on how many cities Flip Wilson visited PBS stations around the country, And Here's a list where Flip Wilson visited PBS stations in a 13-city tour during Festival '77 and I only have 11 cities listed and 2 missing cities yet to be mentioned (UPDATED):
-Washington, D.C.
-New Orleans, Louisiana
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana
-Detroit, Michigan
-Nashville, Tennessee
-New York City, New York
-Portland, Oregon
-Cincinnati, Ohio
-Toledo, Ohio
-Kansas City, Missouri
-Dallas, Texas
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I wouldn't mind seeing the Kansas City one.
 
Route66Fan said:
I wouldn't mind seeing the Kansas City one.
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Yes, And I Hope if Flip Wilson (Actor-comedian) stopped by at the studios of my local PBS station: KPBS in San Diego to see how Things are going during Festival '77 along with Brad Warner, Ken Kramer, Gloria Penner and Bob Myers and other local staff and celebrities.
Forgot to mention in a San Diego Union article on Tuesday March 1st, 1977, Jean Marsh from Upstairs, Downstairs stopped by in San Diego doing promos to promote KPBS' Festival '77!!
 
radiofan2023 said:
If you contact the stations they may have clips in their archives
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Yes I will do, and hopefully they had a successful campaign because I was researching on the Internet, and found out KPBS raised $99,503 for Festival '77 surpassing a 44% increase over its Festival '76 (Sunday March 7 through Sunday March 21st, 1976) total of $69,099!!
Some Great Things To Public TV!!
 
Mauro1515 said:
I'm looking for either VHS, Betamax, U-matic, or any video format of TV recordings from any areas
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If you find a VHS recording of something from March of 1977, that will be really impressive since the first VHS VCRs didn't come out in the U.S. until at least a couple months after that. Betamax in that period was still the original X-1 (one hour mode) units.

Just a little bit of VCR trivia that your request made me think of.
 
TexasTom said:
If you find a VHS recording of something from March of 1977, that will be really impressive since the first VHS VCRs didn't come out in the U.S. until at least a couple months after that. Betamax in that period was still the original X-1 (one hour mode) units.

Just a little bit of VCR trivia that your request made me think of.
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Oh I See! That's true...
 
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Okay, That's what I'm going to do, contact KPBS at anytime to see if they still have their Festival '77 membership pledge clips, and once found, now I will be able to know to see if Flip Wilson (Actor-comedian) visited the KPBS studios during Festival '77, then seeing which membership premiums that they have offered for tax deductible membership contributions of $30/Year, $50/Year, $75/Year, and $100/Year, because their original basic membership level is $15/Year (Tax-Deductible) with the KPBS Guide (Volume 7, Number 6, March 1977)-(before named On Air Magazine) plus their toteboards/pie charts, videotaped pledge messages from PBS and local KPBS celebrities, plus sizzle reels from various KPBS programs, and the smiling volunteers in the studios answering the telephones.
 
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