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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have

Last Friday, the little town of Seville, Ohio, held its annual community-wide yard sale event with most homes in the town holding yard sales. From that event, I bought 13 VHS tapes. Good content on them overall. Here's what I found:

TAPE 1: Two hours of events from the 1996 Olympics taped from WKYC on 7/26/1992 with commercials, also including a seven-minute Channel 3 News Digest with Judd Hambrick and Dawn Stensland and meteorologist Amy Hasten

TAPE 2: Most of A Mother's Revenge (1993); Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991); and most of While Justice Sleeps (1994), all taped from Lifetime in January 2001 with commercials; 60 minutes or so of But Not for Me (1959) taped from WEWS (Movie 5) on 7/26/1994 with commercials

TAPE 3: Strange find, old home movies shot with a VHS camcorder, group of college-aged kids goofing off, trying to be funny, etc.--date on screen read 11/26/1991--most of the recording was done in someone's living room, and at a couple of points, you could see and hear Married with Children playing on TV in the background (presumably on WOIO); after the home video footage are remnants of a previous recording of late night content on WEWS on 3/10/1991--specifically most of Six Against the Rock (1987), episode of Crime Stoppers 800 (kind of like today's Crime Stoppers Case Files with Bob Frantz, except this show was national), broadcast of ABC News Weekend Report with Jack Smith, and first 10-15 minutes of Champagne for Caesar (1950)--all of these programs included the commercials

TAPE 4: Part of the 1988 McDonald's U.S. Diving Exhibition and part of the 1988 Crush International Pro Bodyboard Championship, taped from ESPN in September 1988 with commercials; most of the rest of the tape is various events from the 1988 Summer Olympics taped from WKYC on 9/18/1988 with commercials, parts of that night's Channel 3 News at 11:00 (Jill Beach and Leon Bibb, meteorologist Steve Browne, and Steve Taylor with sports) are also shown, but about half of that is missing due to the recorder spontaneously surfing through channels on the cable box, in which we see such content as MTV music videos and small parts of various movies on premium cable

TAPE 5: Starts with more home video footage, this time ten minutes of a high school weightlifting competition from 1993; afterwards are three episodes (one partial, two full) of In Living Color taped from WOIO in October 1992, one episode includes commercials, the other two do not; a couple of episodes of The Three Stooges taped from WBNX in November 1992 minus commercials; partial episode of HBO Comedy Showcase (syndicated version) taped from WOIO in November 1992 with one commercial break included; episode of Martin taped from WOIO in November 1992 minus commercials

TAPE 6: Both parts of The Beast (NBC miniseries) taped from WKYC on April 28-29, 1996 minus commercials, but does include two on-screen messages of local weather advisories at a couple of points in the second part

TAPE 7: Firstborn (1984) taped from HBO in December 1993 with promos found after the movie

TAPE 8: First two hours of the 2003 Daytona 500 (including Mariah Carey singing the National Anthem, John "Adele Dazeem" Travolta saying "Gentlemen, start your engines!" and the Simpsons 300th episode plug with Bart Simpson saying "Gentlemen, eat my shorts!") taped from WJW on 2/16/2003 with commercials

TAPE 9: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) copied from rental tape, after the rental tape ends, we see about ten minutes or so of footage from an unknown movie on Lifetime (audio and video are in really bad quality at that point) in 1993 with a few commercials--the Lifetime footage was being fed through the second VCR used to copy the movie from the other tape...The biggest disappointment about this tape: Looking at the beginning of the tape, I found out Homeward Bound had taped over rare footage from the Classroom Channel (a.k.a. Channel One), which provides educational documentaries and newscasts for schools. The second of color bars from the channel's opening test pattern with program schedule indicated the program that was taped over was a show called "The Issue Is Race," also recorded in 1993. The person I bought the tape from must have been a middle school or high school teacher or librarian to have had access to the Classroom Channel.

TAPE 10: Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Killing Game" taped from WUAB on 3/4/1998 with commercials and first few seconds of that night's Ten O'clock News (Jack Marschall and Cynthia Tinsley)

TAPE 11: Free Willy (1993) taped from HBO in June 1995 with promos found before and after the movie; episode of General Hospital (most of the first segment is taped over) and first ten minutes or so of an episode of Oprah, taped from WEWS in June 1995 with commercials; episode of One Life to Live (first segment taped over) and first couple minutes of General Hospital, taped from WEWS on 5/15/1995 with commercials; first few minutes of another episode of Oprah taped from WEWS in May 1995 with a few commercials before the tape ran out

TAPE 12: Most of a broadcast of Deal with It with Paula White and first few minutes of Jesse Duplantis Ministries, taped from TBN (WDLI feed with on-screen station ident shown at one point) sometime in 2004 with a couple of promos shown between the two programs; Grease 2 (1982) and most of Baby Boom (1987) taped from Cinemax in October 1989 with promos shown between the two movies

TAPE 13: Ten minutes or so of a diving event at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials taped from ESPN sometime in 1996 with one commercial break included and one cut out--believe it or not, that was all that was on this tape!

The sales I bought these from had a LOT more tapes that I didn't pick up. Some of what was written on the labels of tapes I didn't pick up included Pinocchio (1940), more NASCAR races, the Red Green Show, 1992 Olympics events, LOTS of various movie titles, and possibly more I can't think of now!
 
I have not gotten any new home recorded tapes since the big 40-tape lot in early April. The lots on eBay I see are mainly movie titles and I am not interested in those. I love looking at 1980s and 1990s TV programming, not HBO movies (unless the promos in between are on them).
I've had disappointments like yours before. I have a tape with two Lost episodes taped off KOMO in 2009 with commercials - it had been taped over an old "Puttin' on the Hits" episode, I presume from the mid 1980s.
I have never picked up a VHS tape that was a home movie before. I have seen tapes like that before (like the "Christmas Day 1987" tape, which was a 30-minute length tape, back at Everett, and a couple wedding tapes over here in Yakima) but why would I want to see some family I don't even know?
Couldn't you get The Classroom Channel through one of those C-Band dishes? I thought they had some type of transponder. Those schools who got the Classroom Channel could probably have gotten other feeds by going to other satellites, like Telstar 301 and 302, etc. I know that South Carolina schools did the same thing, but they were 4DTV, operated by SCETV, and on about 20 channels.

-crainbebo
 
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I've never had one of those C-band satellite dishes, so I know a little about how they work, but not so much on what's available on them. I'm not sure if people who subscribed to C-band dishes in their homes were able to access the Classroom Channel's nightly feeds of documentaries and Channel One News or not. I can remember a couple of my history teachers in middle school screening tapes of Classroom Channel documentaries in class. I also remember my science teacher from my freshman year of high school showing us a tape that started with a few seconds of a Classroom Channel test pattern and program schedule from 1991, but was taped over with a Cable in the Classroom program on the Discovery Channel circa 1994. And of course, I also remember the daily broadcasts of Channel One News being shown on all of our school's classroom TVs through a connection to a VCR in the school library.

In regards to finding home movies on these tapes, I recently found something similar to one on the tape I mentioned before that contained an episode of CMT Crossroads and the UPN special WWF Divas: Sex on the Beach. The tape started with a couple of videotaped speeches made by a former student of Amherst Steele High School in Amherst, Ohio, along with a school news production anchored by the same guy. Throughout the compilation, a few graphics and lower-thirds appeared on screen, which indicated that portion of the tape was likely compiled and edited using a more professional video editing system for its time (1997). One of the graphics was a countdown sequence with the words "Amherst City Cable" printed on the screen. Amherst City Cable is a community access channel available on what is now Time Warner Cable. They must have been the ones who edited these clips. Then after those clips were the CMT Crossroads episode and the WWF Divas special, both from 2002.
 
crainbebo said:
On that YouTube tape the promo for "Wife, Mother, Murderer" means that someone, around 1991 (when the movie came out on ABC-TV) accidentally taped over the VHS of Thomas the Tank Engine. Do you know what that educational video was? If it was 2 hours of WFXT footage, it was likely either a T-45 on SLP (120 out of 135 min), T-60 on LP or T-120 on SP. Educational videos are usually short so it was likely a T-45 or T-60 that got taped over. I have even seen some educational videos and promotional tapes that were only 5 or 6 minutes long if that. You could only get maybe 15 minutes with those, taped over in SLP, maximum.
On other lots I have even seen Disney movies taped over by who knows what, even Macrovision.
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Ever heard of T-5 tapes? 5 minutes in SP 10 in LP and 12 in SLP. Yes they did make them. You had to purchase them in bulk. Ever found a T-5 at a thrift store?

The longest tapes made were 12 hour tapes by BASF in the early 90's T-240 We only purchased the 6 1/2 hours and 8 hour tapes from BASF. I wonder if the 12 hour tapes were like the C-180 cassettes?
 
Scott2013 said:
Last Friday, the little town of Seville, Ohio, held its annual community-wide yard sale event with most homes in the town holding yard sales. From that event, I bought 13 VHS tapes. Good content on them overall. Here's what I found:

TAPE 1: Two hours of events from the 1996 Olympics taped from WKYC on 7/26/1992 with commercials, also including a seven-minute Channel 3 News Digest with Judd Hambrick and Dawn Stensland and meteorologist Amy Hasten

TAPE 2: Most of A Mother's Revenge (1993); Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991); and most of While Justice Sleeps (1994), all taped from Lifetime in January 2001 with commercials; 60 minutes or so of But Not for Me (1959) taped from WEWS (Movie 5) on 7/26/1994 with commercials

TAPE 3: Strange find, old home movies shot with a VHS camcorder, group of college-aged kids goofing off, trying to be funny, etc.--date on screen read 11/26/1991--most of the recording was done in someone's living room, and at a couple of points, you could see and hear Married with Children playing on TV in the background (presumably on WOIO); after the home video footage are remnants of a previous recording of late night content on WEWS on 3/10/1991--specifically most of Six Against the Rock (1987), episode of Crime Stoppers 800 (kind of like today's Crime Stoppers Case Files with Bob Frantz, except this show was national), broadcast of ABC News Weekend Report with Jack Smith, and first 10-15 minutes of Champagne for Caesar (1950)--all of these programs included the commercials

TAPE 4: Part of the 1988 McDonald's U.S. Diving Exhibition and part of the 1988 Crush International Pro Bodyboard Championship, taped from ESPN in September 1988 with commercials; most of the rest of the tape is various events from the 1988 Summer Olympics taped from WKYC on 9/18/1988 with commercials, parts of that night's Channel 3 News at 11:00 (Jill Beach and Leon Bibb, meteorologist Steve Browne, and Steve Taylor with sports) are also shown, but about half of that is missing due to the recorder spontaneously surfing through channels on the cable box, in which we see such content as MTV music videos and small parts of various movies on premium cable

TAPE 5: Starts with more home video footage, this time ten minutes of a high school weightlifting competition from 1993; afterwards are three episodes (one partial, two full) of In Living Color taped from WOIO in October 1992, one episode includes commercials, the other two do not; a couple of episodes of The Three Stooges taped from WBNX in November 1992 minus commercials; partial episode of HBO Comedy Showcase (syndicated version) taped from WOIO in November 1992 with one commercial break included; episode of Martin taped from WOIO in November 1992 minus commercials

TAPE 6: Both parts of The Beast (NBC miniseries) taped from WKYC on April 28-29, 1996 minus commercials, but does include two on-screen messages of local weather advisories at a couple of points in the second part

TAPE 7: Firstborn (1984) taped from HBO in December 1993 with promos found after the movie

TAPE 8: First two hours of the 2003 Daytona 500 (including Mariah Carey singing the National Anthem, John "Adele Dazeem" Travolta saying "Gentlemen, start your engines!" and the Simpsons 300th episode plug with Bart Simpson saying "Gentlemen, eat my shorts!") taped from WJW on 2/16/2003 with commercials

TAPE 9: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) copied from rental tape, after the rental tape ends, we see about ten minutes or so of footage from an unknown movie on Lifetime (audio and video are in really bad quality at that point) in 1993 with a few commercials--the Lifetime footage was being fed through the second VCR used to copy the movie from the other tape...The biggest disappointment about this tape: Looking at the beginning of the tape, I found out Homeward Bound had taped over rare footage from the Classroom Channel (a.k.a. Channel One), which provides educational documentaries and newscasts for schools. The second of color bars from the channel's opening test pattern with program schedule indicated the program that was taped over was a show called "The Issue Is Race," also recorded in 1993. The person I bought the tape from must have been a middle school or high school teacher or librarian to have had access to the Classroom Channel.

TAPE 10: Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Killing Game" taped from WUAB on 3/4/1998 with commercials and first few seconds of that night's Ten O'clock News (Jack Marschall and Cynthia Tinsley)

TAPE 11: Free Willy (1993) taped from HBO in June 1995 with promos found before and after the movie; episode of General Hospital (most of the first segment is taped over) and first ten minutes or so of an episode of Oprah, taped from WEWS in June 1995 with commercials; episode of One Life to Live (first segment taped over) and first couple minutes of General Hospital, taped from WEWS on 5/15/1995 with commercials; first few minutes of another episode of Oprah taped from WEWS in May 1995 with a few commercials before the tape ran out

TAPE 12: Most of a broadcast of Deal with It with Paula White and first few minutes of Jesse Duplantis Ministries, taped from TBN (WDLI feed with on-screen station ident shown at one point) sometime in 2004 with a couple of promos shown between the two programs; Grease 2 (1982) and most of Baby Boom (1987) taped from Cinemax in October 1989 with promos shown between the two movies

TAPE 13: Ten minutes or so of a diving event at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials taped from ESPN sometime in 1996 with one commercial break included and one cut out--believe it or not, that was all that was on this tape!

The sales I bought these from had a LOT more tapes that I didn't pick up. Some of what was written on the labels of tapes I didn't pick up included Pinocchio (1940), more NASCAR races, the Red Green Show, 1992 Olympics events, LOTS of various movie titles, and possibly more I can't think of now!
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That first tape should be 7/26/1996, not 1992. My mistake. And Tape 4 is 9/17/1988, not 9/18/1988.
 
branda1979 said:
So Scott2013, once again, we also have a homemade VHS tape from Little Rock, Arkansas, and it has KKLE Channel 5's final morning as a PBS Kids Sprout affiliate, and its first afternoon as a CBeebies affiliate taped in 2009, including the Sprout Diner, which is the last Sprout program to air on KKLE, along with the Fimbles, the first CBeebies show to air also on KKLE, along with other Sprout and CBeebies shows, all with promos after each show.

And Scott2013, Kaylor's house in Haskell, AR has all of the recorded tapes.

So we will give you a rundown of all recorded tapes at Kaylor's house beginning all this week, OK?
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Alright Scott2013, on its future post, we will offer a rundown of all recorded tapes at Kaylor Blakley's house in East End.

So, Thanks.
 
Well, I picked up a good amount of tapes just the other day at two garage sales and one estate sale. Here's the rundown of what I found:

TAPE 1: Last 36 minutes of an OHSAA high school football game between the Brunswick Blue Devils and the Elyria Pioneers (with the Blue Devils taking the lead to win the game at pretty much the last second!), taped from Time Warner Cable Channel 15 (public access and cable information channel) on 9/22/2006, recording includes two commercials for Time Warner Cable during their early days of their merger with Adelphia, a promo for The Midnight Movie (long-running movie presentation show on Cablevision/Adelphia/Time Warner's public access channel), and a partial ad for Sun Newspapers; about 45 minutes of part one of Traffic: The Miniseries, taped from USA in January 2004 with commercials

TAPE 2: Batman Returns (1992) NBC Sunday Night movie presentation, Channel 3 News at 11 (Cory Thompson and Lisa Colagrossi at the anchor desk, Mark Nolan with weather, and Ron Jantz with sports), and most of a broadcast of Hard Copy (rerun from 2/10/1995), taped from WKYC on 2/12/1995 with commercials

TAPE 3: Masters of the Universe (1987) taped from WUAB (Sunday Family Movie) in April 1995 with commercials and first few seconds of Star Trek: The Next Generation episode aired afterward

TAPE 4: Angels in the End Zone (ABC Wonderful World of Disney made-for-TV movie) taped from WEWS on 11/9/1997 with commercials, also including the ABC Sunday Night Movie opening of Into Thin Air: Death on Everest

TAPE 5: Part one of Creature (ABC miniseries) taped from WEWS on 5/17/1998 with commercials

TAPE 6: Part two of Creature taped from WEWS on 5/18/1998 with commercials, also including the opening to News Channel 5 at 11:00

TAPE 7: Pay It Forward (2000) taped from HBO Plus on 2/23/2002, recording starts with a few promos before the movie; partially taped over presentation of Monkeybone (2001) taped from iN Demand Pay-Per-View circa summer 2001; part of Dirty Harry (1971) taped from WEWS (Movie 5) circa 1987-1992 (based on the Movie 5 graphics and theme music) minus commercials

TAPE 8: 90 minutes of various clips of live news coverage from 9/11/2001 from such networks as NBC (with WKYC local coverage with Romona Robinson and Tim White), ABC, Fox (Fox News Channel footage simulcast on WJW plus WJW local coverage with Tim Taylor and Wilma Smith), CNN (simulcast on WJW at one point), and Newsworld International (simulcast on HSN)

TAPE 9: The O'Reilly Factor broadcast on 9/12/2001 on Fox News Channel (not a WJW simulcast) focusing on the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks

The last two tapes were unlabeled, and there were many other unlabeled tapes (Maxell and Memorex brands) in a box at the garage sale I bought them from that appeared to have been used (i.e. not completely rewound), which makes me wonder if they contained more 9/11 news footage or something different.

Additionally, at the other two sales, there were other tapes I spotted that I didn't pick up, in which the following was written on the labels:
-The Little Mermaid (1989)
-A Charlie Brown Christmas (already have a copy of it taped from CBS in 1996)
-Two unlabeled TDK tapes at the same estate sale where I spotted the two above tapes
-Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985)
-Toy Story (1995) (already have a prerecorded retail copy of it that I've had since I was eight years old)
-Possibly more I can't think of
 
I mostly do NOT pick up unlabeled tapes. They could have anything from time-shifted soap operas to a secret porno. I don't take that risk. I look for labeled tapes.
Haven't picked up any since the big ebay lot of April 2014.
 
For those of you who live in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore areas, there is a VHS screening series called "Playback the Tape" that holds regular screening events surrounding vintage TV programs, commercials and the like. I found out about this program when I found this article on the website of radio station WTOP...
http://www.wtop.com/41/3612974/Its-time-to-rewind-with-Playback-the-Tape

And there's more information about it on its official website...
http://www.playbackthetape.com/

These events would be pretty cool for me to go to, if only I didn't live so far away from D.C. And since they're always accepting submissions of donated tapes, it would be interesting to know how many of my VHS finds would be usable in any of their screening events.
 
Yesterday, the little town of Hinckley, Ohio held its annual community garage sales with more than 100 homes scheduled to participate and a flea market held in the parking lot of the local elementary school. Due to the weather being what it was, I got a later start shopping than I wanted to and didn't find nearly as many tapes as I did last year, but here's what I did end up finding.

TAPE 1: Four complete episodes and one incomplete episode of Friends, taped from WKYC in Cleveland on 1/4/2001, 1/11/2001, 1/18/2001, 1/25/2001, and 2/1/2001; the four complete episodes include commercials, the incomplete one at the end does not; the 1/18/2001 episode recording starts with an NBC News Special Report with Tom Brokaw broadcasting Bill Clinton's last presidential address

TAPE 2: Shining Time Station episode "Once Upon a Time" (special hour-long episode), taped from WCET in Cincinnati on 1/1/1994; Fudge-a-Mania (ABC movie) taped from WKRC in Cincinnati on 1/7/1995 with commercials

TAPE 3: Peter Pan (1953) copied from rental tape; Polly (1989) taped from WSTR in Cincinnati in April 1994 minus commercials; The Yearling (CBS Kraft General Foods Premier Movie) taped from WCPO in Cincinnati on 4/24/1994 minus commercials

TAPE 4: The Sword in the Stone (1963) taped from WSTR circa 1994 minus commercials--disappointingly, the beginning of the tape shows that the movie had taped over at least one episode of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego, one of my favorite PBS shows from my childhood

TAPE 5: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), and Hook (1991) copied from rental tapes; last 30 minutes or so of part three of Queen (CBS miniseries) taped from WCPO on 2/18/1993 with a few commercials, including a Channel 9 News teaser with Carol Williams and the recently retired Clyde Gray
 
Last time I recorded something on VHS was late November 2012, when I lived in Bellevue, I taped off the semi-final and championship football game for Bellevue High School (WA) who won the 3A state championship, off of Root Sports. Didn't stop to pause for commercials. Then I filled the rest of it with a Branded episode off of Me-TV and some TVLand Roseanne reruns...
Before that I recorded Oprah's final 3 episodes in May 2011 and before that, 8 hours of Royal Wedding stuff from April 29th, 2011.
 
Earlier this year, I actually found a pretty recently recorded 8-hour tape at the local Goodwill store, which shows that people do still use VCRs to record TV. The programs on it were recorded in 2011 and 2012. They were...

Desperate Housewives and Pan Am episodes (WEWS, 1/22/2012)
House and Alcatraz episodes (WJW, 1/23/2012)
Touch pilot episode (WJW, 1/25/2012)
Partial episode of All My Children (WEWS, May 2011)
Partial episode of Modern Family (WEWS, May 2011)
All My Children episodes (WEWS, May 19 and 20, 2011)
(All recordings included commercials)

Believe it or not, I've been able to find other home-recorded tapes at Goodwill in recent months as well, such as...

TAPE 1: Starts with the end credits of an episode of Loving, a News Channel 5 (WEWS) update with Jenny Crimm and a Live on Five promo with Wilma Smith, all recorded in SLP speed on 3/4/1992; tape then cuts to two hours of TBS footage from 3/17/1992 with commercials in SP speed, specifically partial recordings of The Quiet Man (1952) and Rio Grande (1950)

TAPE 2: Part one of The Last Frontier (1986 CBS miniseries) taped from WJW on 7/5/1991, including one partial commercial break and one full commercial break near the end with a Newscenter 8 teaser with Martin Savidge and Denise Dufala

TAPE 3: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) taped from WEWS (Movie 5) on 10/25/1992 with commercials, recording starts at the scene where Clark Griswold is singing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" in the car; National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) taped from WEWS (ABC Sunday Night Movie) on 12/6/1992 with commercials

Even so, it seems like finding such tapes at Goodwill is very hit-or-miss, and I have better odds finding them at flea markets and garage sales.
 
I've only found maybe 1 or 2 home recorded tapes at Goodwill in the past year or so. Most people won't give their home recorded tapes away, they'll throw them away or take them to the dump themselves. And the few that sell them on eBay ;) MUCH better odds at flea markets for me.

-crainbebo
 
I still record TV shows on VHS tape, mostly for one time viewing. I did tape most of the episodes from the final 4 years of "Petticoat Junction", and made the mistake of dubbing them to DVD (saves space). Well, most of the DVD's go into a freeze mode. Should have kept them on tape! I got a bunch of unopened, shrink wrap intact SONY VHS tapes from a Goodwill store. When the last 4 years of "Petticoat Junction" comes around again, as it will now that MeTV is running the series again, I'll record them again and keep them on tape. Only the first year of "Petticoat Junction" is available for purchase on DVD as far as I can tell.
 
I have never converted any VHS tapes to DVD. Don't know if maybe I should on the really valuable tapes (the 8 hours of 9/11/01 CNN starting around 9:25-30 ET, or the two Houston Knights tapes...not seen since original airings in 1987 on CBS!)
And speaking of 9/11 and now the 13th year since that horrific event, over here it was 5:50AM when the coverage began, so finding a tape out here with the first reports is going to be really hard. Most people were sleeping or just getting up. Loads of the early reports on YouTube however, from many stations.

-crainbebo
 
this Might Interest You Cranbebo, But I Found A Self Record Tape Today at the Yakima Goodwill
it has an Episode Of Beverly Hills 90210 And Party Of Five from February 11, 1999 on KCYU/68
 
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That would be nice. Very hard to find anything that was old KCYU/KAYU/KFFX in this market. Haven't been anywhere in a while however. And at a place like the Yakima Goodwill! Most of them go through the tapes and ignore the blank ones.
Did find a REALLY nice lot of VHS tapes on eBay - 1 bid for $20 and that's probably going up. 24 tapes chock full of TV shows, movies, some soaps like All My Children and Ryan's Hope, and one tape with some Playboy Channel stuff. That I'll stuff in a box for another...time... Anyways, all have commercials. Problem is that I'll probably lose it because there will be more than 1 person that tries to bid up for those tapes. I paid $51 for about 35 tapes in the last lot.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
That would be nice. Very hard to find anything that was old KCYU/KAYU/KFFX in this market. Haven't been anywhere in a while however. And at a place like the Yakima Goodwill! Most of them go through the tapes and ignore the blank ones.
Did find a REALLY nice lot of VHS tapes on eBay - 1 bid for $20 and that's probably going up. 24 tapes chock full of TV shows, movies, some soaps like All My Children and Ryan's Hope, and one tape with some Playboy Channel stuff. That I'll stuff in a box for another...time... Anyways, all have commercials. Problem is that I'll probably lose it because there will be more than 1 person that tries to bid up for those tapes. I paid $51 for about 35 tapes in the last lot.

-crainbebo
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That kind of figures about KCYU footage being hard to find since it's a low-power station. Good thing about it though is it's affiliated with a major network like Fox. In Akron, we have a low-power, formerly independent station WAX/WAOH Channels 35 and 29 and my efforts in finding any content from that station have been futile thus far, likely because not a lot of people recorded anything from that station. Before it became an RTV affiliate in recent years, the station aired a lot of local programming like Steve French Sports Talk, Dining Out with Steve, Handy Randy's Auto Care (which I think is now on WIVM in Canton), high school football games, and of course, classic movies on The Son of Ghoul Show (which I believe is still on today, despite the station's RTV affiliation). Also a lot of low-budget, underrepresented syndicated programs like Working Woman (newsmagazine focusing on women's issues), Crime Strike (America's Most Wanted-type show), The Lighter Side of Sports (America's Funniest Home Videos-type show with humorous sports videos), Missing (stories about missing persons), Animal Rescue (Real TV-type show with animal rescue videos), and Babewatch (bikini contest show). I also remember them showing occasional simulcasts of Much Music and the now-defunct All News Channel. Probably the only syndicated shows I can imagine people actually recording on WAX/WAOH would have been The Howard Stern Show (the original show produced by WWOR) and ECW wrestling. Maybe Babewatch as well.
 


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