Great. Combined with sudden EAS tests in the middle of the night, I'm in dire need for my girlfriend to sleep with me to keep me from being spooked out.
To paraphrase drripco in the 4:01 clip he has posted, this was ABC Chicago affiliate WLS-TV Channel 7's attempt at a pay-tv system called Tele1st (obviously to try to compete with ONTV since SPECTRUM had failed at this time). He did say it was a very short-lived trial of only a few months. Hope this helped you out, "Ivie". Gotta love the cut to the studio. PRICELESS.
Great. Combined with sudden EAS tests in the middle of the night, I'm in dire need for my girlfriend to sleep with me to keep me from being spooked out.
VikutaaChyaaruzu 1 year ago
Drugs must have been popular with those guys back then :-) They seem to be having problems getting their bar generators synced! lmao
GeneDunno 1 year ago
Whats with the weird sounding audio at the beginning and at the end? It appears to be part of the test.
wb8976 4 years ago 3
it's how the sound would be like if you did not have your decoder on
Kargaroc286 4 years ago 2
I happened to find that out later after I posted, which usually happens to me. :(
wb8976 4 years ago 2
Is this an actual TV station?
lviefortoday 4 years ago
To paraphrase drripco in the 4:01 clip he has posted, this was ABC Chicago affiliate WLS-TV Channel 7's attempt at a pay-tv system called Tele1st (obviously to try to compete with ONTV since SPECTRUM had failed at this time). He did say it was a very short-lived trial of only a few months. Hope this helped you out, "Ivie". Gotta love the cut to the studio. PRICELESS.
harps251 4 years ago
@harps251 If it had succeeded in Chicago, ABC planned to expand Tele1st to other major cities. Unfortunately, it was a disaster.
cubdukat 1 year ago
Thanks so much for these videos. They are very unique. Anymore that you can provide would be awesome!
Eric
boomer933 4 years ago