0:17 "M...M.."MONSTER" I am glad my sign and music came on and the 1st song is how my BEEPING PARTNER AND I see Static.. "TORTURE" Nice to see a TV LOGO plant on my CROTCH
That a Chyron iNF!N!T! doing the community announcements? The CG's signature "flipbook" effect appears as they page through the graphics. I know people who worked at WMUR-TV at the time hated Chyrons and raved about the Deko, when it was commissioned 5 years later, and if you see archives on Creative Cow, the once CSD had a vitriol against Chyron. Wonder what Chyron Corp did to WMUR-TV personally...
It's a shame these stations went under and ended up being bought out. They provided a lot of good entertainment programming to people who didn't have cable.
So They Played Music On Wphl Channel 17 While Off The Air And When I Was Watching It They Cut The Static And Started Playing Music And Wphl Channel 17 Plays The Songs And The Music Is Great And Good And This Is What I Call The Wphl Music Channel
"5 million watts amazing all that power can light-up the city of wilkes-barre luzerne-county northeastern & central pennsylvania on a friday-night" 🇺🇸🦊📺🎤🎥.
Bruh the clips from the horror movies used to have me SPOOKED fr. I used to be afraid of these bumpers and "Oldies 99" commercials when i was a kid. I was born in 91.
Posting 6-22-21. Today's Lee Arnold's birthday if he's still living. If he is, here's wishing him a happy one. I used to call him on his birthday when he was at WHN, and even sent him a card one year.
TVX officially took over Channel 29 (and the Taft indies) on April 9, 1987 - just days after the launch of Fox primetime. It was supposed to close by April 2, but there were some delays related to financing - a preview of the financial woes TVX would have post-acquisition. Interestingly, the call change was supposed to take place at deal close (similar to how Channel 5 in NYC changed calls the day of Fox’s takeover), but it was decided to delay the change 30 days to allow for promotion. As it turns out, TVX ran channel 29 with the WTAF calls for over a year.
Very cool! I am the voice over announcer on the the "Disch Plates Are Everywhere" promo that aired just before the station identification for WTWS-TV26 New London/Hartford, Connecticut!
We used an old PK 310 camera with the lens aimed into a carousel slide projector with color key. Later, we used an old Tellecini (spelling?). It was public TV......we used what we had back then. We didn't have the budget commercial stations had. Viewer Supported.
@@rudyiraheta80KDAF was Metromedia/Fox until KDFW (Argyle/New World) switched to Fox in which KDAF was sold to Renaissance in return for KDVR and became a WB/CW Station it merged with Tribune and then Nexstar and it's Still Nexstar
It would actually be in the fall of that year that they would start including Fox in the branding, but they kept this logo for another year. In 1990, they adopted a Fox 29 logo similar to the one WNYW was using at the time, while retaining the stylized 29 within that logo, but the difference from Fox 5 would be "A Paramount Station" being included underneath the logo, as that's who would purchase 29's owners, TVX, by that point.
Then we're about the same age. I turned 56 last June 10, and if she's 54 now, she was only 22 then. I say "only" because to have a gig at WCBS-TV as a reporter at that young age was (and is) quite a coup. However, Dan Taylor was 20 or 21 (forget which now) when he came to WHN. I asked him how he landed the job and he said "right place, right time."
@@joshdznyc Yes, he did. It may not have been immediately, but he wasted very little, if any time going there. In fact, I think it was less than a week.
WYNY is now Hot 97 and playing hip-hop. That's about as far from country as you can get. It also used to be WNBC-FM, and I think maybe it simulcast the AM at one time. Like Ian Brown, I wonder who's the reporter? She's certainly an eyeful, isn't she?
Well...technically WYNY is now WKTU. Back in 1988, WYNY and WQHT (on the then-inferior signal of 103.5) swapped frequencies. So their lineage actually goes with WKTU and not WQHT. However, country music and retro pop/dance music are still very far apart as music styles go.
Trying to remember some of the programs on this channel. Star Trek Next Gen, Cheers, Kojak, Benny Hill and many well-known reruns of course but what was the show where a guy with a camera walked around New York streets and recorded people's conversations from the point of view of a fly buzzing around?
Thanks so much for this post. I never saw Lee Arnold "in action". As I've said before (and undoubtedly will again and again), I've lived in West Virginia all my life, but lived for trips to NYC to hear WHN. Happy 30th, WFAN, and GO YANKEES!!
The ABC affiliate for Portland, ME had a huge viewing audience due to the transmitter atop Mount Washington (I was actually there back in the summer of 1992) back then.
