One really awesome thing about WNEH is that they show all sorts of old programs between 1 AM and 5:30 AM, with no sponsor credits, promos, or even station IDs in between, some of the time! It's like stepping back in a time machine and witnessing PBS's past. In fact, just last month (december 2008), I caught a five episode marathon of Bill Nye the Science Guy! :D
Wow! I remember this broadcast from almost 30 years ago on KIXE channel 9 out of Redding, CA. My late grandfather used to watch "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" every night and my grandmother kept watching after he passed. If I was lucky, I'd get to stay up and watch "The Star Hustler."
ahhhhh I use to sit up every night and watch Star Hustler when I was a kid and then the station sign off for my PBS station what memories when stations signed off
Ah... a decent-length cut of the great Bernard Hoffer "NewsHour" theme. I'd love to hear the original version used during the first several years of the broadcast... according to an interview with Hoffer that's online, it had more of a rock flavor with electric guitar and piano instead of an orchestra.
Yeah that was an awesome theme. The old Theme from the 70's is what I'd love to hear again. I remember it was up tempo and had some cool percussion in it also.
I have heard that 1983-2007 version of the NewsHour theme from Bernard Hoffer. But I have never heard anything like this (past the 1:55 mark). I love it, love it, love it!!!
That's because rarely, if ever, did PBS play the full ending music of the "MacNeill-Lehrer News Hour"; a lot of times, you only heard the final 15 seconds of the instrumental, while other times, you only saw a graphic that said "(C) whatever year the broadcast was telecast; all rights reserved" with no music at all.
@myronfalwell I've been watching old Jack on our PBS station since I was a child and it's still great to see him after all these years. Too bad the full episode wasn't shown.. Would have been great to see it.
First visited New England(NH,ME,MA,VT,CT)back in 1992 when I was 24.Went to see my Aunt who lives in Keene NH.She is originally from GA where I'm from but married and moved there back in 1967.Since then I've traveled to every state except Alaska
There was on this video the Pepsico etc. piece (shown) also at the beginning, maybe a couple locals too, but this clip was too long and I needed to shorten it a bit. As is, its running around 9 mins.
Cliff Blake (a UNH alum) is still the "voice" of NHPTV today! He started in 1990. A variation of the sign-off music (an original work commissioned by NHPTV, to my knowledge) was also used in this era as their ident.
+ajaugenti Yes, and he was also their Program Director. He's in the record promotion business now, still based in the Granite State. You know he's gotta be a promotions guy with a gaudy shirt like this! www.musicrow.com/2015/09/sony-music-nashville-shifts-cliff-blake-from-arista-to-columbia/
+cat handler Yep, his voice rocked both the TV and radio! BTW, I just saw the shirt you've mentioned about too as well. I think the shirt is not gaudy, it's very nice!
As a kid i use to love the short programs that were on channel 11 during school hours....they were 15 minutes and sometimes 30 minutes long and were listed as educational programming....I especially remember a woman back in the 70's who was from the science center ....I think it was called ....who would teach about outdoors kinds of things.i cant remember her name.
re 5:17 - 8:53: Beautiful sign-off, MSTS1 - reminds me of the CBC/Radio-Canada sign-offs, to a degree, as well as WSBE-TV's/Rhode Island PBS's old sign-offs. What is the name of the piece of music from 5:43 to 7:55, by the way? It's very beautiful.
@Dan1988A @Dan1988A The show's theme song is Isao Tomita's electronic rendition of Claude Debussy's Arabesque No. 1, from Tomita's album Snowflakes Are Dancing. According to the Star Gazer website, this is the most frequently asked question the producers receive, according to wiki. Hope that helps.
Can someone please explain to me why I can't the HD channel for NHPTV especially where I live next door to Durham?? Comcast doesn't carry it up here, but back home in Gloucester I could get NHPTV's HD signal but not WGBH-HD. I also pulled in the CBC french feed. Am I missing something???
I wonder if anyone's got the funding credits from the NewsHour, involving the PepsiCo plug with someone's hands fiddling around with the logos for each of the company's divisions...
Hey, I used to get this channel! Weird seeing the old logo when in the 2000s (when I watched it) it was updated. Also that CPB funding screen...man, this is full of nostalgia! Also who's that VO announcing the Friday lineup? I know he was the VO throughout the 2000s, probably still is, but I don't know who it is.
@NMNHTV13 You're not the only one with that problem. Here in Pawtucket, thanks to the digital TV transition, I can sporadically get WGBH-TV and WSBE-TV (aka Rhode Island PBS), but not WGBX-TV (then again, CBC/Radio-Canada is not offered at all in RI, neither from Montréal, Ottawa, or Toronto). Then again, I do use an indoor amplified antenna when in my area I should be using an outside rooftop antenna instead, so it may be a factor.
