The first PBS station of my childhood years. I remember sneaking away from a New Year's Eve party at my grandparents' house one year just so I could catch this. :))
The only translator in service today for WVIZ is W38ET-D, licensed to Eastlake, OH. However, it's transmitter is at the same location as the W67AL transmitter in Thompson, OH. I live near there, incidentally.
I miss the OEB & other continuing educational programs WVIZ and WNEO/WEAO would show in the middle of the day and during the night. I wish they'd use one of the the four digital substations they each have to show them at least some of the time. ) :
Too bad you didn't get the test pattern (if they had one, I remember a few Cleveland stations in the 80's that still used a test pattern slide over color bar pattern).
I always wondered what the program was at the beginning of the video. Could somebody tell me? It's from 1982, and I want to know the name of the program.
There actually is a very faint burst of color at 1:39. However, because this recording was made at a distance of 185 miles by DXing, this station would not have been receivable at all under normal conditions.
Sporadic E mainly affected the VHF band, and was especially effective on low VHF stations and FM radio (54-108 MHz). The effect began to wear off on high VHF stations (174-216 MHz), but still happened.
