TheOneManHerd 553 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 (edited) The list of locally-produced sitcoms is, unsurprisingly, short. A lot of people in the TV business know of Park Street Under, the sitcom produced by WCVB that's believed to have inspired Cheers and is still remembered by Bostonians of a certain age. On the other hand, you have this: Hamtramck, a production of WDIV in Detroit. A disaster according to almost everyone, it caused the station to be inundated with phone calls from offended viewers, mostly from the Polish community. In fact, according to Mort Crim's memoir, word of the show and it's portrayals made it to Poland itself, and those Poles who heard of it also hated it. In fact, when Crim was on assignment there, his interpreter nearly deserted him when she learned that he worked for WDIV. She stayed on only after Mort and crew convinced her they had nothing to do with Hamtramck. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZiVLneyHRpQqQuEXlUgRZW8tasZIaEt/view Edited June 17, 2022 by TheOneManHerd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 1464 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) Revisiting the final years of the Oprah show, it's amazing how well produced it was in terms of aesthetic. Talk shows today look so washed out and cheap. The bright lighting has not helped declining budgets in the age of HD at all. Outside of the quality of the show Oprah generally had the best aesthetic look of all the talk shows at the time. The video walls here blend in nicely. I like how the producers use the portrait effect to blur the background. The lighting isn't too harsh and the high definition looks smooth. It's amazing how far things have gone downhill since 2010 for daytime TV. Edited July 5, 2022 by iron_lion 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 376 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 From WJZ in Baltimore, Jan. 2, 1995, on the day of the network switch in Charm City (WJZ now with CBS, WBAL back with NBC [11 had moved to CBS in 1981, as I remember it, but came back to NBC here], and WMAR now with ABC): a fun and informative deep dive into why this switch was made, and how it affected mostly where viewers would see their favorite shows; look at the 20:29 mark for a BTS shot that is hardly ever seen, and that is on 60 Minutes, where we see what the correspondent looks at (here, the late Ed Bradley) when he or she sits in front of that simulated magazine backdrop (the correspondent sees an image of himself/herself in front of the simulated magazine backdrop, and there are lights around and a small table in front of him/her); 60 Minutes would of course be at 13, where it still is today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 1464 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 (edited) The Darkside of the 90s from Vice has an interesting episode on morning show wars from the 1990s. Edited August 31, 2022 by iron_lion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 1464 Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 (edited) When Brooklyn's Labor Day West Indian parade was broadcast on TV! Maurice DuBois and Sue Simmons WNBC (1998). Wonder why they stopped broadcasting it? Edited September 5, 2022 by iron_lion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 (edited) Two uploads from a recording of the Packers vs. Buccaneers playoff game from the 1997 season (played on January 4, 1998) Most (missing the intro) of the FOX pregame show And since I don't see the link to the intro to the game (which for some reason won't display here due to NFL copyright concerns even though the video itself is still up); here's the link. January 4, 1998 FOX NFL intro (Packers vs. Buccaneers - 1997 NFC Divisional Playoff Game) Edited September 23, 2022 by WAVY 10 Fan changed game intro link to a separate link since the display is blocked here (though the video isn't) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Route66Fan 74 Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 A behind the scenes tour of WBOC-TV, Ch. 16 in Salisbury, Maryland, circa 1960's. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 376 Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 NFL Today pregame show for the 1990 NFC Final between the Giants and the 49ers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 1464 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Jimmy Kimmel throws back to his first monolouge from 2003. Cool to see Ted Koppel introduce him; ironic as JLK pushed Nightline back a half hour years later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 376 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Rare NBC and ABC Sports baseball openings from the late 70s and early 80s: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbc9houston 21 Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 (edited) Talk show featuring KNBC news anchor Kelly Lange and screenwriter/TV producer Gail Parent. The Kelly and Gail show aired on KNBC during the 1990-91 television season: More videos of the Kelly and Gail show are on Gail Parent's YouTube page. Edited March 26, 2023 by nbc9houston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyfla 193 Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 (edited) An NFL broadcast for the history books! WFLA’s Gayle Sierens becoming the first female play-by-play announcer in NFL history. The game broadcast from December 27, 1987 between the Seahawks and Chiefs has finally been uploaded on YouTube! Edited March 27, 2023 by jerseyfla Date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHSgoodiesWA 280 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 A very early appearance of the late Billy Mays on this infomercial from 1989, long before Oxi Clean from the same tape - KVEW 42 signs off early on 7/24/89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyfla 193 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 NBC Staff Announcer Fred Facey acting in an ad for Preparation-H in 1980. This is the first time I have ever seen an image of Fred Facey! So for those who think of him only as a voiceover, close your eyes and imagine him doing a sponsor plug on News 4 New York for Preparation-H and laugh like I did. Plus my name is Bill so this made me crack up more! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Route66Fan 74 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) A rare sign on from KOAA-TV, Ch. 5, Pueblo, CO, from 1987, featuring both the a variation of the 1979-86 & 1986-current NBC logos! Did KOAA-TV come up with the "Proud N 5/30" logo a year, or so, before NBC debuted their current logo & KOAA-TV decided to tack the current NBC logo onto their "Proud N 5/30" logo? Edited April 21, 2023 by Route66Fan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1290 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Here's a 1979 KPNX sign-off: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town TV Fan 196 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) In keeping with the sign-off theme, a extremely rare WDRB sign-off from the late 70s/early 80s: Edited May 4, 2023 by H-Town TV Fan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 376 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 A mix of news and non-news-- from graphic designer Jay Cordova, a sampling of work by another famed graphic designer, Bill Feigenbaum, who had worked for CBS Sports in the 80s (he did more than just them, as you'll see here): 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHSgoodiesWA 280 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 From my trip to western Montana a few weeks ago. Some very low-budget local ads in this compilation from KOUS-4 (ABC) Hardin/Billings, which is now KHMT (FOX), in 1988. That Chevy dealer in Big Timber doesn't even exist anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 376 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Game 3 of the 1981 NLCS between the L.A. Dodgers and the former Montreal Expos, from the former Olympic Stadium in Montreal (NBC broadcast, rerun on RDS, with French-language announcers)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rollo Smokes 180 Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 On 5/4/2023 at 7:17 PM, bmasters1 said: Game 3 of the 1981 NLCS between the L.A. Dodgers and the former Montreal Expos, from the former Olympic Stadium in Montreal (NBC broadcast, rerun on RDS, with French-language announcers)... What, the actual French TV broadcast wasn't available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town TV Fan 196 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 (edited) A WLKY 32 Alive sign-off from the late-1970s! Edited May 14, 2023 by H-Town TV Fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHSgoodiesWA 280 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 A sample of what is now CW+. Yakima was one of the dozens of small markets that had a WB feed on cable, specifically WB 100+. Much like Foxnet, they cleared WB, WB Kids, and a plethora of syndicated programs, including Ellen DeGeneres in her first two or three seasons. It took me about eight years of VHS collecting to find a WB 100+ clip, but here it is, with the fictional calls "KWYP": And here's another look at small-town Montana TV...specifically KTMF 23 in 1997 - lots of local ads but no news department at this time. KGGL-93.3 "Eagle 93" is still around to this day, and it has one of the best FM signals in western Montana. I heard them as far west as the 4th of July Pass area on I-90, west of Kellogg ID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Route66Fan 74 Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 A pre-launch test broadcast from KSCH, Ch. 58, Sacramento, CA, from April 1986. What kinds of test patterns were shown here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town TV Fan 196 Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 (edited) augustv123's trend of uncovering rare Louisville, KY TV sign-offs continues! This time, a WAVE-3 sign-off from the late 70's: Edited May 21, 2023 by H-Town TV Fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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