It's my understanding ... Bob Bibb and Lewis Goldstein are responsible for this and even the NBC COME ON HOME promotion. They also did network promotions for the WB. I had an opportunity to speak with both of them on the phone after a letter to the FOX network got their attention and they made a phone call to me! I just LOVE these network jingles!!
1989 was definitely Fox's year, thanks that Tracy Ullman Show spin-off, The Simpsons! It was a great ending to such a wild decade, of which the Fox Broadcasting Company was only around for a third of that decade, starting in 1986...
I have a feeling now that Disney owns the network's namesake movie studio, the FOX network and Disney will be working closer together on certain projects.
@@robertcarldecker Just to let you know, Disney does NOT own the FOX network, just 20th Century Fox - the studio it's named after. That said, it would be interesting to see some Disney-related cutaways in Family Guy. Heck, I wouldn't even mind seeing some Disney movies like Zootopia broadcast on FOX.
Well they didn't say it was gonna be a series because the first episode first aired on December 17, 1989 and during the credits they said it would be a series on January 14, 1990. This is why at 2:07 you could see a Simpsons short which would be a teaser for both the special and the series.
Harry Shoemaker Well when they said this is the year I think the ‘year’ was in reference to the 1989-90 television season which included new shows like The Simpsons and In Living Color which both didn’t premiere until 1990 but were still apart of the new ‘year’ of 89-90
@@jwilliams7554 And the next year is when FOX would pick up with the hits! Or at least shows that would be classics and/or cult classics! I already mentioned The Simpsons and In Living Color but the decade would give us shows like Beverly Hills 90210, Babes, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Tom and Jerry Kids, Bobby's World, Tiny Toons, Roc, Herman's Head, Dexrell's Class, Taz Mania, Melrose Place, Martin, Batman, Eek the Cat, X-Men, The X Files, Living Single, Sinbad, Animaniacs, Power Rangers, Models, The Critic, Mantis, Party of Five, Spider-Man, The Tick, Carmen San Diego, MadTV, Sliders, Goosebumps, Life with Louie, Pauly, C Bear and Jamal, Casper, King of the Hill, Ally McBeal, Stickin' Around, Sam and Max, That 70's Show, Spy Dogs, Godzilla, The PJs, Digimon, Family Guy and Futurama!
Nowadays… we have Gordon Ramsay and his “reality cooking shows” (Hell’s Kitchen, MasterChef, 24 Hours to Hell and Back, etc.) as well as 9-1-1, WWE Friday Night SmackDown, etc.
Serving Davenport And Bettendorf, Iowa With Moline And Rock Island, Illinois. You're Watching KLJB-TV Channel 18. Your Fox Station In The Quad Cities. This Is The Year On KLJB!.
Fox would shake up the TV landscape from 1994 to 1996 with their new Fox Sports division, as those three years are when many long-standing NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates on the desirable VHF channel positions in many major TV markets with an NFL team on the NFC conference make the switch to Fox, while the NBC, CBS and ABC affiliations in most cases ended up on the undesirable UHF channel positions (including UHF channels in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Austin, New Orleans, Green Bay, St. Louis and Detroit) during the switch, most of which were left behind by the major TV market's original Fox affiliates...
Nowadays, we got 9-1-1, Fantasy Island, Bob’s Burgers, Fox Sports programming, WWE Friday Night SmackDown and, of course, cooking competitions hosted by the legendary, yet potty-mouthed, world renowned chef Gordon Ramsay, to name a few.
Final score: Married...with Children lasted until 1997; Richard Grieco did "If Looks Could Kill" ; and The Tracey Ullman Show led to the Simpsons which she later requested credit for but later got a bunch of Emmys for her HBO show. Also, what the fuck was "Beyond Tomorrow"?
Beyond Tomorrow was a American version of Beyond 2000 (made by Beyond International, hence the title), a sort of Australian version of the BBC's Tomorrow's World.
This is the Year...This is Fox 32 WXGZ-TV, Appleton -Green Bay, Wisconsin (WXGZ-TV 32 was an independent station from 1984-1986, Fox from 1986-1992 when WXGZ went bankrupt,came back on the air under new ownership as an independent station from 1994-1995, changed its callsign to WACY-TV 32 and became a UPN affiliate from 1995-2006, WACY-TV 32 now currently affiliated with MyNetworkTV, a Fox Corporation corporate sibling, bringing this station's affiliation with a Fox-owned network/syndication service full circle.)
There are many different versions of Fox Night at the Movies intro. One of these made onto the air (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lW9zikd7D48.html), the others get unaired (one of the clips shown seen before the Australian VHS preview reel by Fox: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-34gAvgYL2XY.html)
"This is the year...This is FOX 5" (WNYW, New York, September 15, 1985). And "Fox Night at the Movies" was debuted on Sunday Afternoon, with great movies from 20th Century Fox. Including Herbert Ross' heartwarming family adaptation of Neil Simon's "Max Dugan Returns" (1983) with Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland and Matthew Broderick.
This is the year...This is FOX 49 (KPDX Portland/Vancouver/Salem, now a MyNetworkTV/independent station.) If not for 1988, KPTV, the current FOX station would've had a tagline reading "This is the year, This is FOX 12".
Didn't the 1989 version of this promo eliminate the "fan mail" being read by the stars of Duet? Although Alison LaPlaca and Chris Lemmon were returning that fall in the sequel series 'Open House', Duet had been cancelled by that time.
The Duet/Open House Hour has ran for four seasons on Fox from 1987 to 1990 for UBU Productions and CBS Television Distribution. With Mary Page Keller, Matthew Laurence, Alison MacKenzie, Chris Lemmon, Ellen DeGeneres and Nick Tate. Not bad.
