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WPIX-11 NYC 60th Anniversary Schedule 6/14/08

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hubcity

Folks,

Looks like it'll be a day of classic PIX programming on WPIX-11 in New York on 6/14, with Little Rascals/Three Stooges/Superman during the day, and Odd Couple/Honeymooners at night, with some I Dream Of Jeannie/Get Smart thrown in for good measure. Wonder how much ephemera of days gone by they'll be putting into the mix?

http://cw11.trb.com/about/station/wpix-wpix-60th-2008-release,0,62274.story

A documentary will follow. I always thought WPIX was the most "New York" of the NYC stations because they had the Yankees and the St. Patrick's Day parade...

(Hat-tip to the NY Radio Message Board for the link.)

-Sean
 
To make the day complete, they really need to insert some of those great commentaries from Richard N. Hughes in between the shows. "What's your opinion? We'd like to know."
 
hubcity said:
Looks like it'll be a day of classic PIX programming on WPIX-11 in New York on 6/14, with Little Rascals/Three Stooges/Superman during the day.....
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Without Officer Joe Bolton to host the show from his precinct house, it just won't be the same. <Sigh> Maybe they'll have some old footage of Officer Joe, although I seriously doubt any exists. The NYC indies were terrible about not archiving anything back in those days. You think of all those classic kids' shows -- Officer Joe, Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, Chuck McCann, Wonderama -- and there's almost nothing left save for a few short, grainy, barely in sync clips from all of those shows. Yeah, I know that tape was expensive, and that no one was taking the medium very seriously, but it sure would have been nice if someone had possessed the foresight to save at least a couple of complete episodes from each show on their original masters, just to preserve SOME decent record of what they were like.
 
They should also stick in a newscast at 7:30 PM, complete with Move Closer To Your World theme. Bill Jorgenson is still alive so they could get him to host. Sadly, Pat Harper is not.
 
Actually, it just occurred to me: no Popeye! Hope we'll see 'Captain' Jack McCarthy on some St. Patrick's Day parade clips at any rate...

(And yes, I tuned in to Sesame Street on both 13 for an hour, and 11 for a half-hour. Didja know it was once...and I mean *once*...on WNBC-TV, with a preview show on the Sunday before its PBS premiere?)
 
This is yet another occassion where I'd like to curse Time Warner cable for removing WPIX from my lineup (and many others across Central/Upstate New York).

Of course, WPIX is partly to blame for signing up with the WB network (and now, the CW). Once they transformed themselves from an Indie to a Network affiliate, the "must carry" rules allowed the local WB affiliates to take over the cable slots formerly allotted to WPIX. I remember TWC carried both WPIX and the cable-only "WBU" from Utica for awhile, but then they went with WBU exclusively, and eventually they even dropped that in favor of the Syracuse affiliate.

I'd much rather see WPIX's 10pm news over any other upstate "attempt" at a 10pm news and/or the lame reruns of crap offered by stations that don't do 10pm news. Even though this is more than 10 years old, it's better than any crap I've seen at 10pm upstate.
 
All we need now is to see some old school 11 Alive bumpers thrown in--And the retro feel...for me at least, is complete. They did very well with their Magic Garden retrospective and of course the Yule Log is back and bigger than ever. I do remember though seeing Abbott and Costello's movies on 11 Sundays, Three Stooges too and as a little baby Superman w/George Reeves. No shocker Odd Couple and Honeymooners are on there.


I think this could be a nice little tribute. I say little because of so much history with WPIX. I think it's half of what LA sister station KTLA did last year for their 60th.


But something is better than nothing. If you have any kids in your house tell them to enjoy Father's Day Weekend next Saturday with a look back at 60 years of WPIX...and by that I DO NOT MEAN CW OR EVEN WB 11...but rather Channel 11, TV 11 and of course, 11 Alive!
 
How about the interactive video games that you controlled via the telephone (if you got chosen to play) by yelling "PIX" into your telephone? I actually worked in a video arcade during that time and it was always funny to see kids stand in front of Space Invaders or Asteroids and yell "PIX" instead of putting a quarter in the slot and playing for real.
 
Here in greater Hartford, we used to get the cheap knock-ioff version of that. WTXX-TV channel 20 of Waterbury/Hartford, then an independent station, would do nearly the same thing between commercials. The host would start it and our contestants would yell "POWW! POWW!" instead. :)
 
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