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Station break airchecks

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Rob Jason

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Just for fun, I am seeking airchecks of station breaks from the 50s and 60s (maybe even the 40s, if anyone finds one). They're pretty rare. But they show what TV really looked like, to the local viewer, back then.

There's a good one from WLWT, in 1955:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M_0Gsrmzk

But what else is out there?
 
YouTube has a few from as early as 1945 (WNBT New York, now WNBC-TV) and 1947 (WABD, now WNYW Fox5 in New York)...and some later ones from the major network O&O stations from the early 50s onward to the 80s. You can find them by doing a search based on the call letters of the stations you're looking for. I don't know who originally did the kinescopes or tapes of these old breaks, probably someone at the stations involved...but apparently a number of collectors of old TV memorabilia have them and are posting them.

There are also network breaks and IDs, show intros and even whole show episodes from shows as far back as the late 1940s (Milton Berle on NBC, Ed Sullivan and Studio One on CBS) as well as shows we remember from the late 50s through to recent years. Gives you a sense of what your parents were watching on TV back in the immediate postwar years.
 
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