Nickelodeon overnight programming crawl (late November 1984) 

Good times!

@@ChristopherSobieniak Yep 👍🏻!

Thats cause THAT Is what it is.. This is the cable company filling dead air (aka downtime) with something, anything!

Well, cable was still a new thing and satellite frequencies were still limited on how many channels could be carried.

Yeah I would've called this a bulletin board.

That's what i would have called as well.

Elkinsinboxinc Audiovisual #StopTheCDC: Mine too!

You can find the song on Spotify! Title: Rollercoaster Artist: Network Music Ensemble Album: After School Rock

Yep.

@@ChristopherSobieniak👍🏻

Rollercoaster by network music ensemble

​@@Xx_lost_or_unheard_trackz_xXYep, a stock cue from a music library.

Nickelodeon usually branded those under their "Special Delivery" label. I've got copies of the Quarterflash and Haircut 100 concerts, and are presented in a similar matter to MTV's weekend concerts.

@@pannoni8449 Ah, ok. I did find Special Delivery when I looked up '80's Nick shows.

They only played rock concerts. Some of the acts they featured were The Cars, Kajagoogoo, Ian Hunter, Toto, Eurythmics, Eddie Money, The Darts, The Police, The English Beat and Duran Duran, among others

@@pannoni8449 So I guess "loss leader" stuff to kill the time.

​@@UNKNOWN-du5fcClassics!

Not a teletext service, per se, since it was already part of the video feed by the time it got sent up to the home. The Weather Channel also provided similar systems to local cable headends to render local forecasts during its "Local on the 8s" broadcasts - this is still how Local is done, but the old Weatherstars have since been replaced with more robust computers.

@@PhirePhlame I was pretty stupid back then, don't mind that.

@@JeremyZyxo761 Tis okay. I've had those moments as well where I find an old comment and realize I didn't know what I was talking about.

Yeah, several shows that are advertised premiered in 1984. www.nickandmore.com/history/list-of-every-series-aired-on-nickelodeon/

@@PinkieLopBun Should be for the show "Out of Control" alone! I remember that in '84!

OOPS! Fixed the title, since the tape also had something from '83 on it, but I see that OOC aired evenings Mon-Fri at 6:30 Eastern and Saturday Mornings at 9:30 Eastern and 5:30 Eastern late Sunday afternoons/early evenings. This was a transitional period for the network as the Pinball era was coming to a close, with the new Balloon font logo launching on December 1st. And honestly I'm surprised that more Saturday Morning blocks from this time don't exist, simply as alternatives that were airing on the Big Three and even some of the indies. You still began the day with Pinwheel, followed by Vic's Vacant Lot, OOC, Nick Rocks (AKA MTV Jr.), Video To Go, and Standyby.. Lights! Camera! Action! But Nick was a struggling network at the time which wasn't far from being axed, and a lot of people assumed it was just an obscure network playing ancient movies due to the network's name. I wasn't around yet at this time, but in the early-mid 90s I'd often watch Nick instead of the broadcast networks on Saturday mornings.

@@pannoni8449 Yeah, Nick was struggling early on, but I think their fortunes were turning by this point. Fred Seibert said on the Nick Animation Podcast that Nick had become the #1 cable network by January 1985. Also, are you sure the splat debuted on December 1? This article makes it sound like it happened in October. They did continue to use the silver ball at sign off. www.newspapers.com/clip/29969392/nickelodeon_changes_its_image_logo/

@@pannoni8449 Saturday morning was still pretty much dominated by the Big Three and I don't think cable quite had the chops to go after that yet, especially if they needed to create their own original programming first.

@Anonimo r/woooosh

No can't you see the info under the video

I think it's stock music

Turkey Television wasn't too far away on the schedule around this time, but it was a gobbled up and slaughtered by Nick not too long afterwards.

@@pannoni8449 Which ran 🏃🏻 on Nickelodeon from June 3, 1985--December 🎄 31 (New Year 🎊🎆🍾’s Eve), 1988, of course.

@@pannoni8449 Well, it's true.

@@pannoni8449 I'm waiting.

@@pannoni8449 I'm still waiting.

Oh, not at all... lol

ViruShad0w With nothing but background music, as well as nothing but words, it feels creepy to me

It's so offputting lol

I know and I can’t believe I used to get up early and watch this when I was five years old

@@jwilliams7554 stuff like this and the old cgi bumpers used to scare the absolute shyt out of me when I was little