Ha! Good ol' channel 20. Do you have any of the shorts with the puppets teaching kids to be polite (i.e. the one where the other puppet was picking his nose, then pulled his nose off, still attached to his finger) ?
@lifedoctrinemusic Hah! I remember those puppets...."Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie is that all you know? You got to know the right way to ask some somebody [something]" Yeah those puppets were funny and they sounded like WWF wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage. Those were the days. I'm still looking for the WB50 afternoon movie promo that had a panarama of movies and has Bananarama's "cruel summer" as background music.
I remember WDCA back when I lived in the DC area. They would show cartoons and shows then UPN came in but now UPN was gone then My Network TV moved in
WDCA was "the channel" back in the day. I will never forget Captain 20, All the great cartoons and movies the channel showed as well as being the host for the newest Star Trek shows in the late 80's and beyond. Great times!!
You know? Captain 20, WOW, Cartoon Carnival(casper, Yogi, Woody Woodpecker). I also loved when they ran old reruns of Muppet Show, Get Smart, and the OLD SNL. I miss those days. I was pissed when I found out it became a UPN station and they destroyed all those old shows they made. What a shame. Stuff like that is why I don't watch that much TV anymore. I miss the old days.
Thanks for posting. I grew up in the Northern Virginia suburbs in the 70s and 80s and loved Channel 20, with Chef Combo, Captain 20, Count Gore deVol, etc. I hated it when UPN got its hands on the station, although now I hear it's supposed to be independent again.
Come to think of it, I may have some old Channel 20 stuff on tape, too. Hmmm...going to have to check that.
i think these stations went down hill when they went network im from baltimore and use to watch channel 20 here and like wbff channel 45 they use to be quite good as indy stations with creature feature and ghost host and captain 20 and captain chesapeake
I'm a D.C. native and grew up in the suburbs through the 80's and I'll always remember WDCA being the place to catch the Bullets (Now Wizards), Capitals when they were on the road along with the Orioles during the spring and summer. Things have changed since I was younger that it is now a sister station of WTTG and covers the Nats & ACC Football & Men's Basketball. I never knew that 20 was a superstation back then, so I guess the Bullets, Caps & O's games were shown regionwide back then.
To add on... When I got home from school when I was younger in the mid 80's, I remember watching cartoons on Channel 20 and even remember their brief experiement with a nightly news broadcast, which was produced by News Channel 8 (Sister station of WJLA).
I have been trying for years to try and find WDCA20 material. I grew up watching channel 20. Anyway I could get a copy of any WDCA material you may have?
Be happy you can get anything that's vintage 'DCA, even if it's just on YT. ;-)
I'm not in DC, but I watched 20 when I was a kid in NC (they were on cable back then, as a "regional" indy superstation LOL)...DCA rocked in the 'ol day! Too bad FOX got its greedy hands on 'em now, and made it crap. Ahh, the days of truly local TV are gone. :-(
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jeffersons still comes on on channel 20 but at noon instead of 7pm
cyclonesfan2011 4 days ago
And even today, The Jeffersons are still on WDCA!
jgee201181 1 month ago
Channel 20 was the Sh*t back in the 70's and 80's
Jazzy9964 1 year ago
Ha! Good ol' channel 20. Do you have any of the shorts with the puppets teaching kids to be polite (i.e. the one where the other puppet was picking his nose, then pulled his nose off, still attached to his finger) ?
lifedoctrinemusic 1 year ago
@lifedoctrinemusic Hah! I remember those puppets...."Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie is that all you know? You got to know the right way to ask some somebody [something]" Yeah those puppets were funny and they sounded like WWF wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage. Those were the days. I'm still looking for the WB50 afternoon movie promo that had a panarama of movies and has Bananarama's "cruel summer" as background music.
farcher3 10 months ago
It's interesting to see what channel 20 was like back in the 80s, since I lived here in DC but it was only from 1993.
donjabroni 2 years ago
I remember when WUSA was WDVM after it was WTOP! Back when horse farms populated Burke, VA.
ANDRUREEVE 2 years ago
The legendary Patay Greene once hosted a half-hour-long monologue once a week during the 1970s on DCA. Anyone have a video clip from that show?
zekepig 2 years ago
Another person here who grew up with WDCA-TV.
I still have a tape of the day or so before it became UPN, it was never the same after that.
EnjiBEARatsu 2 years ago
I remember WDCA back when I lived in the DC area. They would show cartoons and shows then UPN came in but now UPN was gone then My Network TV moved in
Digatone 2 years ago
A new MyNetworkTV a new WDCA-TV "My20".
soneyo 2 years ago
priazzo, italian pie! huge flop for pizza hut...
zice39 3 years ago
WDCA was "the channel" back in the day. I will never forget Captain 20, All the great cartoons and movies the channel showed as well as being the host for the newest Star Trek shows in the late 80's and beyond. Great times!!
PoPoNellie 3 years ago
You know? Captain 20, WOW, Cartoon Carnival(casper, Yogi, Woody Woodpecker). I also loved when they ran old reruns of Muppet Show, Get Smart, and the OLD SNL. I miss those days. I was pissed when I found out it became a UPN station and they destroyed all those old shows they made. What a shame. Stuff like that is why I don't watch that much TV anymore. I miss the old days.
iambernig 3 years ago
Thanks for posting. I grew up in the Northern Virginia suburbs in the 70s and 80s and loved Channel 20, with Chef Combo, Captain 20, Count Gore deVol, etc. I hated it when UPN got its hands on the station, although now I hear it's supposed to be independent again.
Come to think of it, I may have some old Channel 20 stuff on tape, too. Hmmm...going to have to check that.
phoenix1861 3 years ago
i think these stations went down hill when they went network im from baltimore and use to watch channel 20 here and like wbff channel 45 they use to be quite good as indy stations with creature feature and ghost host and captain 20 and captain chesapeake
TIMMF65 3 years ago
Where's the other aircheck? I grew up on this channel.
iambernig 3 years ago
I'm a D.C. native and grew up in the suburbs through the 80's and I'll always remember WDCA being the place to catch the Bullets (Now Wizards), Capitals when they were on the road along with the Orioles during the spring and summer. Things have changed since I was younger that it is now a sister station of WTTG and covers the Nats & ACC Football & Men's Basketball. I never knew that 20 was a superstation back then, so I guess the Bullets, Caps & O's games were shown regionwide back then.
cfoster81 3 years ago
To add on... When I got home from school when I was younger in the mid 80's, I remember watching cartoons on Channel 20 and even remember their brief experiement with a nightly news broadcast, which was produced by News Channel 8 (Sister station of WJLA).
cfoster81 2 years ago
The voice over for the WDCA-TV movie promo was none other than staff announcer Ray Freeman, also of WMAL AM63 Radio.
CrabCityKidsTV 4 years ago
I have been trying for years to try and find WDCA20 material. I grew up watching channel 20. Anyway I could get a copy of any WDCA material you may have?
muzikman74 4 years ago
Be happy you can get anything that's vintage 'DCA, even if it's just on YT. ;-)
I'm not in DC, but I watched 20 when I was a kid in NC (they were on cable back then, as a "regional" indy superstation LOL)...DCA rocked in the 'ol day! Too bad FOX got its greedy hands on 'em now, and made it crap. Ahh, the days of truly local TV are gone. :-(
huggyface 4 years ago