Prevue Guide on 12/12/1988 - Naperville, IL

[chalklounge]

BET has changed a little bit 1:16.

[ze000ez]

my birthday date

[kshihano]

WOW Prevue was good i hate The tvguide channel

[ThePuffyvueChannel]

Good video. one 7

[mdumas43073]

I love the promo for "It's a Wonderful Life" on Family Channel. Those were the days when it was in the public domain and you could see it all December long on about a dozen different channels.

[distubezero]

they call this the channel 99 but classified big time

[distubezero]

all oldschool tv shit rules lol we need old school tv back that and a bag of potato chips

[rexxdexx]

Wow, BET look good before it was ghettofied

[EStar7580]

What other programs were on Nick back in '88, and, to be random, did cable TV and the radio advertise upcoming Rippingtons albums? lol

[RetroBoyWontDie]

2:01, crank up the speakers, man. EPIC drum beat, swirling synth. Crank it!

[kefkaroth]

agreed

[purplegurl79]

I miss seeing this!! (in Joliet, Ill.). I always use to check on this station to see what was coming on!

[japstoryeditor]

I mss this so much.

[kefkaroth]

man i loved the prevue so much i would watch this for hours of the day. 2:02 was one of my favorite reason for watching the prevue guiide so much ^_^_^_^_^_^

[elkinsinbox]

They called CBN Family Channel. Not The Family Channel until 1990.

[EStar7580]

What happen to that channel since then?

[Rcrby525]

oh god, purolator ads REALLY bring back old 80's memories, i remember purolator the most by their envolvement in NASCAR at the time, i think it's known as FRAM now, not sure though.

[HonoraryMarine]

Comcast Cablevision in NJ didn't get Prevue Guide till 1989 well, at least that's when I discovered it. :-)

[HonoraryMarine]

I know this may sound weird but I used to LOVE to watch Prevue Guide.

[mediadude08]

You're not alone!

[tvpirate05]

Same here...TV Guide Channel has nothing on this!

[gshowguy]

TV Guide Channel sucks monkey balls. Old-school Prevue Channel rules!!!

[gvk9r]

I miss Prevue Guide so much (as well as the old TV Guide Channel). Thank you so much!

[TigerRaptorFX]

Prevue Guide I remember this.

[retrochad]

I love stuff like this! I can remember watching this format of the Prevue guide in around 1992 or so but it was just the electronic scrolling guide and did not have the top video preview portion. It just had music with it.

[gvk9r]

My grandparents once had that version on their cable system too. Its called the Electronic Program Guide.

[sean2015]

In the area where I grew up, Prevue Guide existed in that format only until around 1989. My family didn't get a TV tuner box until 1988, and that was the first time I saw the Prevue Guide Channel on Ch. 53, with what was then known as "Continental Cablevision" (Boston area). Around 1989 or '90, they changed the format to include the top video portion, which I hated because it took longer to see the list of channels and programs. But I love seeing stuff like this - a real blast from the past. :)

[mgsnv2]

Love the music at 2:01! Just what I was looking for. LOL. The idiots at TCI Cable didn't give us Prevue till the early 90's

[dgendvil]

Was CBN & the Family Channel about ready to merge? Seemed like saw both CBN & Family Channel promos, but today it's ABC Family.

[davismv]

I do recall that CBN went to the Family Channel. I think it was right around this time. Maybe a year later or so.

[quiktymevideo]

This is from 1988. I just checked the date on my iCal program on my Computer.

[samhaskell]

On December 12, 1988, Elizabeth was three years old. A woman saying, "If Columbo can do it, so can we." at 0:11-0:14. A man talking at 0:21. Another man talking at 2:25. On December 12, 1988, Sam Haskell's younger daughter was one. Do you have a "Prevue Guide" from September 9, 1989?

[ndvibe]

This would actually be from 1988. Oh, and I noticed the promo @ 0:02 for Remington Steele on The Family Channel was a CBN promo!

[davismv]

Thanks for the date update. It's been so long that I forgot. I have some footage from Prevue guide before they cut the screen in half and included video above. I'll post it when I find it.

[thesnare100]

@davismv Actually in that phase of prevue guide wasn't it called EPG- Electronic Program Guide?

[michaelkrumlauf]

this is awesome!

[swbrwnskin1]

More Prevue Guide Video

[HonoraryMarine]

I agre. More Prevue Guide please!

[davismv]

I do have more. I just need to transfer it.

[kefkaroth]

cant wait to see more ^_^ long live the memories of prevue guide