1986 Warner Cable Channel Lineup

[Nokorola]

Larry King at 3.02

[oaklandfan2k9]

Great I Wish someone can do an Re-enactment using Tecmo Super Bowl using of the Oilers-Bears game using 1986 NFL Rosters.

[Newtwist75]

that red bar at the bottom seemed like a slap on the face to me.

[RetroToledo]

@Newtwist75 Certainly touch-tone had to be favored the most then.

[distubezero]

god damn that cable guide set up is old as hell

[ariw2003net]

This is the EPG channel, the forerunner of Prevue Guide.

[jellymoo74]

Wow! They had on screen guides back in '86? I grew up in a small town and we didn't get cable in our area til 1989...no guide at all. I didn't know VH-1 existed back then either. I don't think I saw VH-1 til the mid 90s.

[willdav713]

yes they did, even on broadcast TV some stations had broadcast PPV/subscription channels after the station signed off. You would subscribe to a converter box (kind of like the DTV tuners today) and pay a monthly fee to get movie channels off broadcast a site called retro-junk has some commercials of those channels and they would use the letter box screen saying the channel would scramble unless you subscribed to it. kind of neat.

[JoebDragon]

$4.50 for PPV in 1986 what a rip.

I payed $5 for a HD ppv in 2008 and now $6 for 1080p / HD ppv now.

[willdav713]

that is because in 1986 PPV was still relatively new, had only 3 channels (35,36,and 37) which the same show was playing 10-12 times a day. Plus it was analog. You also foot the bill for them scrambling the signal. VOD and Digital technology made PPV cheaper. I have U-verse currently until next month when I move. I pay $2 for old school movies, $4 for new releases $6 on HD, for 24 hours or forever if I recorded them to DVD, I have my DVDR hooked up to a Macrovision Buster (video stablizer)

[JoebDragon]

but back then request ppv was $1.25

[willdav713]

Request PPV didn't arrive until the mid 90s when Paragon Cable in San Antonio upgraded to fiber. Houston's Warner Cable only had Viewers Choice. Rogers cable in 1988 charged $3.95 per movie, they used the First Choice Network. So did Paragon in 1990 Reel Deals where $1.99 to $2.99 which was stuff the prem. subscription channels HBO, Showtime, TMC, Cinemax also aired. Different networks different price structure.

[willdav713]

I just upgraded to a AMD Athlon 64 Dual processor 5000+ with 2gb RAM last week and I took almost everything out of my PIII/ The Tower case, board, and RAM totaled $200.

[poshko41]

wow, that's cheap as hell.

[tvdxer]

What's with the jerky scrolling? Character generator problems?

[willdav713]

Probally All of these are recorded on a Pentium III 866mhz PC with 20 gb ram and 512mb sdram. THese are done very low budget I must have put almost $100 in this machine and I bought it for about $90 back in 2005. The card was $20, a 4ch sound card was $15 memory was $10 each. I bought a USB hub for $20 and the rest of the money was for the hard drive. When you are on a budget, you don't buy the brand new thing, unless you win it.

[whutdahell31]

H-town!!! This was a great find on here. I'm always lookin for 80's stuff out of Houston. I remeber the Oilers commercial jingle for KODA. "Catch the Oilers on KODA, 99 FM. K.O.D.A!"

[BigVideoFan88]

What format is that radio station? Is it strictly sports or do they just broadcast the local sports regularly?

[willdav713]

KODA "Sunny 99.1" is a 100,000 Watt Adult Contemporary Station owned by Clear Channel Broadcasting the previous owner was SFX broadcasting. SFX owned 99.1 KODA until the late 90s. The Sunny moniker was added in 1989. Sports used to play on the air during season like on 98.1 KVET Austin or the now defunct KSJL 810 Somerset for example.

[stantheman8609]

Very nostalgic look at Houston cable television...who is that voice announcing for the Oilers, btw?

[mdumas43073]

@stantheman8609 Jerry Trupiano. He also did the Astros in those days, and later went to Boston where he spent several years with the Red Sox.

[gvk9r]

Isn't this a earlier version of the Electronic Program Guide (the predisesor of Prevue Guide)? The graffics looks simalar - but only with more colors.

[wolfschmidt11]

can you upload MORE prevue guide/prevue channel videos for me please?

[BRANDASHQ5]

Post more Prevue Guide/Prevue Channel stuff as of tonight.