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Videotape of Super Bowl I found and restored by Paley Center

Corky Marlowe said:
Did both CBS and NBC carry the game that first year?
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From my understanding, yes . . . however, I haven't heard about anyone working at the time for the rival affiliate station in the town in question (hint: call letters WBRE) making a videotape and keeping it in an attic lo these many years.
 
Wow! This is an amazing find! I myself am lucky to still have Super Bowl XXI from 1987, recorded on VHS videotape from the CBS affiliate in Portland, ME. Most of the player introductions are missing and the tape cut off a couple of minutes after the game ended. However, the coin toss, the National Anthem (Neil Diamond) and the game itself are still intact, thank goodness. :)

As for WBRE-TV (NBC) channel 28 of Wilkes-Barre, PA...they'll be the station northeastern PA will watch next year when Super Bowl XLVI is aired from Indianapolis on NBC.
 
From my understand, WBRE lost all their archives due to a flooding. The archive for WYOU/WDAU is still in the same basement as the one that took out WBRE's archive. This is awesome news though... 2" videotape... Cool!
 
KML-224 said:
As for WBRE-TV (NBC) channel 28 of Wilkes-Barre, PA...they'll be the station northeastern PA will watch next year when Super Bowl XLVI is aired from Indianapolis on NBC.
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That is if there won't be an NFL lockout. I would not want to be anywhere near Indianapolis if in the sad event that next year's Superbowl ends up getting cancelled as a result.
 
Good point mleach! Let's just hope it never comes to that point! :(

Besides that, what about the weather? Dallas has had major issues this week with snow, cold and ice. Obviously, the roof of Lucas Oil Stadium would be closed that night, but still. There was nasty weather about in Atlanta for Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, while Minneapolis had some minor issues during Super Bowl XXVI in 1992.
 
notalkallstatic said:
From my understand, WBRE lost all their archives due to a flooding.
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Likely. The flood of 1972 left 20' of water in downtown W-B, where WBRE was, and still is, located.
 
I think Public Square and the Market Street Bridge area were hit hard around 2006, if I'm not mistaken, by spring flooding. Is the WBRE-TV studio near that area? I seem to recall WBRE having an association with WYOU-TV (CBS) channel 22 in Scranton.

Getting back on the subject...sort of...does any network footage of Super Bowl II from 1968 exist either?
 
KML-224 said:
I think Public Square and the Market Street Bridge area were hit hard around 2006, if I'm not mistaken, by spring flooding. Is the WBRE-TV studio near that area? I seem to recall WBRE having an association with WYOU-TV (CBS) channel 22 in Scranton.
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WBRE is near Public Square, but it was definitely the '72 flood that ruined its archives.
 
dhett said:
notalkallstatic said:
From my understand, WBRE lost all their archives due to a flooding.
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Likely. The flood of 1972 left 20' of water in downtown W-B, where WBRE was, and still is, located.
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While WNEP-16 (ABC) sits next to the Montage Mountain/ S/W-B Yankees (or have they changed MLB affiliations again for '11?) exit of I-81 in Moosic.

ixnay
 
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