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WCIU Channel 26 - Polish Variety Hour Christmas Special (Production Elements & Slides, 1970?)

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Here's some production elements and slides from the Polish Variety Hour Christmas Special on WCIU Channel 26. (Polish Variety Hour was a staple of the station from 1968 to 1975.) Includes:

Production reel (from the original 2" quadruplex master tape) of opening title sequence of Polish Variety Hour Christmas Special from circa 1970 (in black-and-white), starting off with approx. 1 kHz tone and then to opening fanfare with closeup of Christmas tree with sn...

WTHR Channel 13 - "NBC-Style Station ID" & Promo (1979)

Views: 1329

Here's an animated station ID for WTHR Channel 13 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as in the style of many an NBC affiliate between 1976 and 1979, with a promo for an airing of the 1967 George C. Scott film "The Flim-Flam Man" for August 2nd at 3:30pm.

Voiceover by ??

NOTE: This aired precisely two months to the day after WTHR (which had signed on as WLWI on October 30th 1957, and adopted their current call letters in February 1976 after a change in station mana...

WFAA Channel 8 [Dallas-Fort Worth, TX] - "Emergency Broadcast System Test" (1978)

Views: 1402

Here's a test of the Emergency Broadcast System from ABC affiliate WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas, TX. This test goes off without a hitch, as the requisite dual tones of 853 and 960 Hz are heard for 23 seconds.

Voiceover by ?? (with the EBS script displayed on screen via different slides, set in Helvetica Medium; albeit differing in some areas from how the voiceover read the script).

"This station serves the Dallas operational area." (What, no reference to For...

WBKB Channel 7 (Station ID & Pre-Emption Notice, 1968)

Views: 4055

Here is a rare animated station ID for WBKB Channel 7 (which became WLS Channel 7 on October 7th 1968), with a promo for an appearance by Chicago-based jazz legend Ramsey Lewis on a midnight program that aired right after The Joey Bishop Show (not Chicago with Ronnie Barrett, which premiered in July of that year). Also included is a preemption notice for The Invaders (while the slide indicated the show was in color, this bumper is presented here in living black-and-white...

WSNS Channel 44 - "Afternoons Are Fun On 44" (Promo, 1974)

Views: 1634

Here's a very cool glimpse at some very old TV-44 - from 1974!

It's a slides-only promo of the afternoon lineup of WSNS Channel 44, which ranged "from cartoons to action" and at the time of this airing consisted of:

- 3pm - Robin Hood (presumably the 1950's British-made TV series with Richard Greene in the title role)

- 3:30pm - Popeye on 44 with Steve Hart (a what-ful of surprises?) ;-)

- 4pm - Spider-Man (...