The very 1st Sesame Street episode was originally through the last NET lego, meaning the only colored one prior of the early transition to the first PBS logo.
I remember a few of these. I watch PBS all the time. My favorite shows are The joy of Painting, Antiques Roadshow, and NOVA. PBS is so much fun to watch, and a lot of the programs teach you so many different things. Public television is an amazing learning tool, because you learn so much from it, and it’s entertaining at the same time too.
Funny how the degraded sound quality in film and tape seems to affect music more than speech. The first globe variant of the NET logo here has the best audio quality of the other copies of that variant even though the others have better video quality. Just goes to show what happens to sound after decades of film and tape storage.
Sound quality of broadcast TV of any kind in the 1960's was awful. Color dazzled people into ignoring that fact. The networks cut corners knowing that they could get away with poor sound quality. It wasn't until people incorporated movies into their sound systems that such became obvious for broadcast TV. Add to that, videotape of any kind deteriorates over the decades, even more for sound than for picture quality. It isn't only low-budget NET and PBS. CBS showed an old cartoon of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" made for the kiddies over fifty years ago. The sound quality was atrocious. CBS must have been showing an original tape without re-processing.
