FOX Commercials from April 5, 1987 (FOX Primetime Debut)

[USAGiant99]

considering they were starting from nothing, the first ever lineup on Fox, was actually very good.

Without Fox, the world would have never discovered Ed O'Neil, Jim Carey, J-LO, Damon Wayans, Johhny Deep, Christina Applegate just to touch the surface. Thanks VSN for the upload to a major moment in tv history that changed the entertainment biz forever.

PS. I see one of the commericals is a promo for the classic Leonard-Hagler fight that occured that same weekend.

[Diskoboy1974]

I remember watching this. In 1987, this was a huge deal considering ABC, NBC, and CBS pretty much owned network TV for 30 years. The first "fourth network" (the DuMont network) failed miserably back in the 50's. And I remember the first 30 seconds of this video, of the guys rigging the Hollywood sign to read "FOX" ran for at least the first month after the original launch date. FOX didn't even star broadcasting 7 days a week until 1994.

[nativewizard]

does any have the debut of the WB or UPN network?

[zachhoran]

Some of their network IDs called it FBC(Fox Broadcasting Corportation) sometimes early on.

[mst3kanita]

I love that one of the first things we ever saw on fox at 0:02 was some guys ass in cut off shorts. FOX!