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WKBS-TV

I kinda remember a guy named Stu Naham (Captain Philadelphia) that did most of the on air stuff back in the mid 60's...
 
If my brain cells are correct, I thought Jim Vance was the first reporter for Channel 48 when they first signed on.
Jim went on to bigger & better things at WRC with "King" George Michael.
 
OK now you got ME started wondering. Wasn't WKBS in Burlington....and not affiliated with Burlington Industries? Here in northeastern Maryland I watched Philly stations as a kid on UHF. I also recall WTAF 29, a Taft station. Sorry to get off of the original question. I do remember a Captain Philadelphia ,I always wondered if he knew Captain Chesapeake LOL
 
Yep Burlington. WKBS-TV, Channel 48. Kaiser Broadcasting. Burlington-Philadelphia.
Captain Philadelphia, now that was Stu Nahan. And that automatically brings to mind - Pixanne, Happy The Clown, Bertie the Bunyip, Beanie and Cecil, Gene London, Sally Starr and Ranger Rex Morgan, Lorenzo the Clown, Wee Willie Weber Cartoon Club and we could go on and on and on. The Good Old Days.
 
Betrayed said:
Yep Burlington. WKBS-TV, Channel 48. Kaiser Broadcasting. Burlington-Philadelphia.
Captain Philadelphia, now that was Stu Nahan. And that automatically brings to mind - Pixanne, Happy The Clown, Bertie the Bunyip, Beanie and Cecil, Gene London, Sally Starr and Ranger Rex Morgan, Lorenzo the Clown, Wee Willie Weber Cartoon Club and we could go on and on and on. The Good Old Days.
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Wow...Thanks NOW i'm going to have nightmares of Clutch Cargo and Paddlefoot chasing me around with Diver Dan laughing in the background! LOL :) Great philly memories.
 
WKBS TV 48 A go go picture here and here aired from 1965 (eight weeks after WKBS signed on) until 1970. The show, 48 A go go's name was changed to the Hy Lit show less than a year after it's start. The show was broadcast live from the WKBS Philadelphia studios at 3201 South 26th Street in South Philadelphia Saturday's from 6:30-7:30 pm, on all Kaiser stations including WKBD Detroit, WKBG Boston, WKBF Cleveland, KBHK San Francisco. The Saturday evening show was rebroadcast the following day at 10:30 am. And a young boy, I was consumed with this TV station. The WKBS TV studios were like a playground on the weekends. I was into almost everything.  It had entirely brand new state of the art equipment, video tape machines, color cameras, custom audio and editing booths, and exquisit illuminated switching boards in all the studios, for this ultra high frequency station, complete with a microwave link to the Roxboro antenna farm. Snacking was also ultra high tec for it's time. The recreation lounge had one of the first radar ranges, a microwave oven, and a screening room the size of small movie theater.
 
Betrayed said:
Better known to us from KYW 1060, was it Pat Farnack?
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Pat Farnack IIRC anchored WKBS's half-hour 10 o'clock news in about 1982/83 but I may be wrong. I watched it sometimes in my off-campus room in Kutztown, where there was a drugstore (or was it an Acme) that had a one-shot magazine about "Philadelphia's Most Eligible Women". I'd sometimes stand there and leaf through it. I remember one gal's name and face from that mag: Pat Farnack. IYKWIM. ;)

Oh, Ms. Farnack now anchors midday on WCBS-880.

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Ran into Wee Willie Webber at the grocery store the other week.
 
rekcuhc said:
Ran into Wee Willie Webber at the grocery store the other week.
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Hope you didn't knock hom over. Speaking of WWW, whatever happened to his son Bill Webber Jr.? He used to be a jock at WIOQ in the 80's. After he left, he never appeared on any other Philly station, that I'm aware of anyway.
 
Somewhere down in my basement I have an old beta video tape that I recorded of WKBS' final sign off in the early 80s. I need to find it, copy it, and post it.
 
sam, Do you have old reruns available of the Hy Lit dance shows from the 'KBS or Channel 10 days like Bandstand has on VHS or DVD?










Sam Lit said:
WKBS TV 48 A go go picture here and here aired from 1965 (eight weeks after WKBS signed on) until 1970. The show, 48 A go go's name was changed to the Hy Lit show less than a year after it's start. The show was broadcast live from the WKBS Philadelphia studios at 3201 South 26th Street in South Philadelphia Saturday's from 6:30-7:30 pm, on all Kaiser stations including WKBD Detroit, WKBG Boston, WKBF Cleveland, KBHK San Francisco. The Saturday evening show was rebroadcast the following day at 10:30 am. And a young boy, I was consumed with this TV station. The WKBS TV studios were like a playground on the weekends. I was into almost everything. It had entirely brand new state of the art equipment, video tape machines, color cameras, custom audio and editing booths, and exquisit illuminated switching boards in all the studios, for this ultra high frequency station, complete with a microwave link to the Roxboro antenna farm. Snacking was also ultra high tec for it's time. The recreation lounge had one of the first radar ranges, a microwave oven, and a screening room the size of small movie theater.
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And then there was the station Identification music theme for WKBS. Do you remember, "That Happy Feeling" by Bert Kaempfert?
 
LOL!!! That Happy Feeling would play when there was time to fill....I also remember the editorials. They must have been recorded on videotape being used for the 1000th time...all grainy with lines running through the picture...But a great station nonetheless
 
Starbucks said:
sam, Do you have old reruns available of the Hy Lit dance shows from the 'KBS or Channel 10 days like Bandstand has on VHS or DVD?
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Sam Lit said:
WKBS TV 48 A go go picture here and here aired from 1965 (eight weeks after WKBS signed on) until 1970. The show, 48 A go go's name was changed to the Hy Lit show less than a year after it's start. The show was broadcast live from the WKBS Philadelphia studios at 3201 South 26th Street in South Philadelphia Saturday's from 6:30-7:30 pm, on all Kaiser stations including WKBD Detroit, WKBG Boston, WKBF Cleveland, KBHK San Francisco. The Saturday evening show was rebroadcast the following day at 10:30 am. And a young boy, I was consumed with this TV station. The WKBS TV studios were like a playground on the weekends. I was into almost everything.  It had entirely brand new state of the art equipment, video tape machines, color cameras, custom audio and editing booths, and exquisit illuminated switching boards in all the studios, for this ultra high frequency station, complete with a microwave link to the Roxboro antenna farm. Snacking was also ultra high tec for it's time. The recreation lounge had one of the first radar ranges, a microwave oven, and a screening room the size of small movie theater.
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Yes I do. We may have some plans to develop an online historical video application presentation using this content. Perhaps sometime next year. Hy Lit Radio Technologies develops online video software, content, systems & applications. And we have the complete host system capacity as we own our own servers.
(See a demo at [url]http://hylitradio.com/demos/video [/url]. However, The content itself requires a rather extensive post production undertaking for the proper presentation. Therefore, in all probability, it will most likely be some time before this specific production is presented.
 
oasisrulz said:
I kinda remember a guy named Stu Naham (Captain Philadelphia) that did most of the on air stuff back in the mid 60's...
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You mean the Stu Nahan that spent most of career in Los Angeles.
 
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