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Although it is today a much different station than it used to be (it was a CBS affiliate from 1948 until 1995, and was owned by that network from 1958 until it had to be spun-off in the mid-1990's CBS/Westinghouse merger), WCAU-10 Philadelphia has posted on their website quite a few clips of classic programs as well as news coverage.
You'll see clips from "Big Top" and "Candy Carnival", two early 1950's WCAU children's shows that both became quite successful on CBS' Saturday-morning schedule; an entire episode of "Action In The Afternoon", a live five-days-a-week Western broadcast from the station's studio and back parking lot during the early 1950's that was also fed to CBS; an award-winning 1961 documentary on trafic woes that were predicted to occur by the mid-1970's; the complete broadcast of a Philedelphia memorial ceremony to honor the late President Kennedy the weekend of his assasination; coverage of Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to Philadelphia; and extended sections of the station's live coverage of the May, 1985 standoff between Philadelphia Police and radicals from MOVE, including the only footage of an incindiary device being dropped from the air onto the house where several members of that group resided. And there's much, much more!
It's a fantastic look back at programming from one of America's great television stations, and you can find it at www.nbc10.com/vuideovault/index.html.
The best part is that although WCAU has been an NBC O&O since 1995, this part of their website acknowledges the station's 47 years as a CBS owned or affiliate station.
This is a fantastic idea that quite a few other "heritage" TV stations (i.e. KTLA-5 Los Angeles, WNBC-4 New York, WMAQ-5 Chicago, WBZ-4 Boston, WBTV-3 Charlotte, WLWT-5 Cincinnati, and several others not to mention Philadelphia's own KYW-3 and WPVI-6) should undertake and likewise put classic clips on their websites.
You'll see clips from "Big Top" and "Candy Carnival", two early 1950's WCAU children's shows that both became quite successful on CBS' Saturday-morning schedule; an entire episode of "Action In The Afternoon", a live five-days-a-week Western broadcast from the station's studio and back parking lot during the early 1950's that was also fed to CBS; an award-winning 1961 documentary on trafic woes that were predicted to occur by the mid-1970's; the complete broadcast of a Philedelphia memorial ceremony to honor the late President Kennedy the weekend of his assasination; coverage of Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to Philadelphia; and extended sections of the station's live coverage of the May, 1985 standoff between Philadelphia Police and radicals from MOVE, including the only footage of an incindiary device being dropped from the air onto the house where several members of that group resided. And there's much, much more!
It's a fantastic look back at programming from one of America's great television stations, and you can find it at www.nbc10.com/vuideovault/index.html.
The best part is that although WCAU has been an NBC O&O since 1995, this part of their website acknowledges the station's 47 years as a CBS owned or affiliate station.
This is a fantastic idea that quite a few other "heritage" TV stations (i.e. KTLA-5 Los Angeles, WNBC-4 New York, WMAQ-5 Chicago, WBZ-4 Boston, WBTV-3 Charlotte, WLWT-5 Cincinnati, and several others not to mention Philadelphia's own KYW-3 and WPVI-6) should undertake and likewise put classic clips on their websites.