@sygo7g I definately remember. On Century Communications (now Time Warner in my area) had the beautiful/soft music on the community bulliten board station. I do miss the days of seeing somebody doing the messages on the tv screen as it happened, lol. Now my community bulliten board station is just a huge powerpoint presentation...
@sygo7g - I kinda miss these cable channels from when we had them- '78 to around '85.. Sometimes a good default channel to go to for various local radio when nothing else good was on, and also, to check after coming home late night and zoning-out..
@sygo7g - Typical for automated cable messages from that time. I might have taped that part on a weekend, and any disconnect-failure of a scroller would just run until someone showed up again to do a re-set..
In the mid-1970's, Manhattan Cable TV (now Time Warner Cable) had this exact same layout as seen on the first 1.5 minutes of this example; it was seen generally during the "off period" in lieu of white noise when the various stations were off the air. Different channels had different radio station feeds; I remember one of them having the short-lived FM all-news station, WNWS "NewsCenter97."
Both bits ('82/'85) are essentially the same layout. The coloring varied and text info always updated, but the basic design held for many years. Did you happen to record any of those you referred to?
Too bad. I didn't either. In that time frame- the best we had was a used R-to-R B+W Panasonic deck acquired in '76, but the sound heads were shot, so we never got any good recordings out of it.
@sygo7g I definately remember. On Century Communications (now Time Warner in my area) had the beautiful/soft music on the community bulliten board station. I do miss the days of seeing somebody doing the messages on the tv screen as it happened, lol. Now my community bulliten board station is just a huge powerpoint presentation...
newstarcadefan 1 year ago
@ about :53 in the vid: Wouldn't WJIB be pronounced "wa-jib", not "Jib"?? ;-D
TheLegendfamily 1 year ago
@sygo7g - I kinda miss these cable channels from when we had them- '78 to around '85.. Sometimes a good default channel to go to for various local radio when nothing else good was on, and also, to check after coming home late night and zoning-out..
MSTS1 1 year ago
@sygo7g - Typical for automated cable messages from that time. I might have taped that part on a weekend, and any disconnect-failure of a scroller would just run until someone showed up again to do a re-set..
MSTS1 1 year ago
I love the 80s!! (even though I was born in 1990 :-))
TraderVinny 3 years ago 2
1982 was a great year.
jaworskij 3 years ago 3
KIRO (Seattle) also had that layout when they signed off in 1983, I think.
dgendvil 3 years ago 2
In the mid-1970's, Manhattan Cable TV (now Time Warner Cable) had this exact same layout as seen on the first 1.5 minutes of this example; it was seen generally during the "off period" in lieu of white noise when the various stations were off the air. Different channels had different radio station feeds; I remember one of them having the short-lived FM all-news station, WNWS "NewsCenter97."
wmbrown6 3 years ago 2
Both bits ('82/'85) are essentially the same layout. The coloring varied and text info always updated, but the basic design held for many years. Did you happen to record any of those you referred to?
MSTS1 3 years ago
In those days (1975-77), neither I nor those I knew had any access to a Beta VCR.
wmbrown6 3 years ago 2
Too bad. I didn't either. In that time frame- the best we had was a used R-to-R B+W Panasonic deck acquired in '76, but the sound heads were shot, so we never got any good recordings out of it.
MSTS1 3 years ago