A short-lived celebrity cartoon from the early 80's made by DiC? I'm totally into this, though I always assumed that the first shows that DiC made were Inspector Gadget and The Littles.
I was in attendance during part of a Diamondbacks-Tigers game at Comerica Park in June 2010, dunno which one though but I do know it started at 1 PM and that they gave out Charlie Brown bobbleheads, I still have one today. I recorded that game as it aired on Fox Sports Detroit but I couldn't even find myself, even from far-distance camera shots. However I have no idea if any recordings of that game exist anywhere, if at all. In fact, my own recording is now lost due to me switching cable providers since then.
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Is it actually true that there were only six North American cities in which they performed? If there were more, I'd be interested to see if they had a date in Detroit or at least the closest performance to Detroit.
Post by theyoshistate on Dec 30, 2016 19:35:19 GMT
I also know that the Detroit switches also resulted in another deal in another nearby market: in the event that CBS were to end up on WXYZ, ABC purchased Toledo's NBC affiliate WTVG, along with WJRT in Flint, which was already with ABC in 1994, primarily to continue to provide at least some coverage in the southern and northern Detroit suburbs respectively, but due to contracts WTVG had to wait until October 1995 to become part of ABC. With pretty much no remaining option in Toledo by default, NBC assumed WNWO-TV's old ABC affiliation. Both WTVG and WNWO are still affiliated with their respective networks today though ABC sold WTVG and WJRT back to their previous owners SJL in 2010 (only for them to be sold in turn to Gray Television in 2014).
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Post by theyoshistate on Dec 28, 2016 20:13:29 GMT
Not my VHS, but today on another forum I accidentally stumbled upon this video-of, all things, a 1991 road trip:
Interestingly, if you skip all the way to the very ending of this video, the recording cuts out and for some reason, the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video pops up, halfway through, plays for a couple seconds, then repeats for an additional second. The background music over this logo is, at first, a small part of "Someone Like You" by Van Morrison (carried on from the recording), then a strange sound, then finally the actual logo music. My best bet is that this was a factory error tape similar to the unusual It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown VHS also linked to on this thread's second page, but in the case of this WDHV tape it was recorded on a recordable VHS rather than the normal anti-overwriting tape.
Post by theyoshistate on Dec 27, 2016 15:26:16 GMT
...and other lost affiliation swap videos (stupid character limits...)
This is intended to be the master thread for lost videos of the many affiliation swaps that took place across the United States during the mid-90's resulting from Fox's acquisition of CBS' NFL rights. The Flint/Bay City/Saginaw market in Michigan was no exception to this. Before the swap, their CBS affiliate was WEYI-TV channel 25 (the CBS logo, in particular, formed the inspiration for the callsign) and WNEM channel 5 was their NBC outlet.
In 1994, Detroit station WJBK switched from CBS to Fox (displaced from Viacom-owned WKBD-TV, which was set to be one of the charter affiliates of the then-upcoming UPN network) and CBS ended up on low-rated station WGPR-TV (now WWJ-TV), whose signal was too weak to provide coverage to the northern fringes of the Detroit market. As a result, CBS convinced WNEM to affiliate with their network as it's larger VHF signal covered the northern areas of the Detroit market (unlike UHF WEYI, due in part to the glacial moraine hills separating the Detroit and Flint urbanized areas, especially noticable when using I-75 between those cities) and in 1995, WEYI and WNEM swapped their affiliations.
In this forum thread, quite a few people remember this particular affiliation swap. The person who started that thread was particularly interested in finding videos of the moment the swap occurred, that peaked my interest in posting that here as well, because surely someone must've recorded the swap though likely very few people were watching either WEYI or WNEM at that exact moment.
Here are at the minimum a couple of recollections of the two station's swaps from a couple different people:
At the time of the switch the GM stood by the transmitter and threw a switch mounted on the wall. It was so cheezy One side of the switch was labeled CBS and the other side NBC. When the switch(which did nothing) was thrown the light changed colo and the mcr op switched sources. I thought it was the stupidest thing, but I was only an engineer whose job was to build the switchbox and wire up all the video and audio from a remote semi with a ku dish on it
I had the tv on that morning, not because of the affiliation swap, but because I usually had it on while getting ready for work. There wasn't much to see. After local news, the CBS morning show came on (I think it was called "The Early Show" at that point), rather than the Today Show. I did have some recordings from the following weeks, though.. Mostly episodes of "Diagnosis: Murder" that I recorded when I wanted Friends and Seinfeld, but forgot about the switch while setting the ol' VCR.
The second person seemingly at least recorded one of the results of the swap, but it's apparently not of that very moment.
If any of you American members remember recording the exact moments of affiliation swaps in your town during the mid-90's feel free to post them and any new findings you come across here.
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Post by theyoshistate on Dec 17, 2016 14:57:55 GMT
This one was the only one I can find. This one was from 1993 and was distributed in the Toledo, Ohio area for the opening of the first two of four stores they would open there that year.
Presumably during the 90's they sent out VHS tapes with each major store opening in and around the areas served by those stores but so far I haven't heard any mention, in fact, I don't even recall coming across search efforts of any sort. Though they may probably be irrelevant to much of the world these tapes provide a glimpse into old-school Meijer and have to be found somehow.
For those who don't know, My Living Doll was a sci-fi sitcom that ran for a single 26-episode season on CBS from September 27, 1964, to March 17, 1965. It starred Bob Cummings as psychiatrist Dr. Bob McDonald and Julie Newmar (shortly before she became well-known for her role as Catwoman in the 1966 Batman TV series) as lifelike robot Rhoda Miller.
It wasn't released on any home media format until 2012 when MPI Home Video released a two-disc DVD set in Region 1 containing 11 episodes-sourced from 16mm prints from the collections of fans of the show due to the destruction of the original 35mm prints during the 1994 Northridge, California Earthquake.
Also of interest, the status of the episodes other than the 11 released on DVD is currently unknown, though they may exist somewhere as 16mm prints. Unless someone somewhere happens to have 35mm prints of this short-lived show, unfortunately, they have been permanently lost for over two decades.
Post by theyoshistate on Sept 27, 2016 3:58:57 GMT
Don't you just hate it when a lost special you're especially interested in only aired once before home recording was common even though it was on Youtube once but in an era when literally not a single soul knew how to even download Youtube videos and later got deleted?
Dig around; I'm pretty sure I've seen the script on the internet (it may have been on eBay at one point), but I'm way too lazy to dig up links.
I tried, at least for a PDF file of the script, but all I've seen on Google are it's listings on the Muppet Wiki, Wikipedia and IMDB, a Muppet Central thread and a Youtube recreation of presumably one of the news segments.
Post by theyoshistate on Sept 24, 2016 19:02:45 GMT
I posted this before, but the thread where I wrote it no longer exists, so here we go...
Lately, I've become interested in this lost 1974 Sesame Street/Electric Company crossover where they take over the ABC network, to the point that I've started writing a fanfic that was inspired by this. It's amazing how thanks to the scripts resurfacing (are they posted anywhere?), we now know exactly what segments were in the special even though it's been long lost. Proof that at least some of the special still exists is through clips that were posted on Youtube back in 2005-06 that have since been deleted and going unresurfaced due to no one knowing how to download Youtube videos.