Preview Subscription TV WSMW 27 Worcester Sign-Off

This is a technical bulletin that was broadcast over WSMW TV 27 in Worcester, Massachusetts as they were a subscription TV station known as Preview. This was recorded by me in March of 1984 using my home-brew Zenith SSAVI UHF receiver/decoder. You did not need cable to receive this channel in those days...just a good UHF rooftop antenna.

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Education

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• Zenith
• SSAVI
• UHF
• Subscription
• television
• STV
• WSMW
• WUNI
• Worcester
• Boston
• Massachusetts
• MA
• over-the-air
• sign-off
• broadcast

[TheMarshall67]

I had this subscription back when I lived in Boston,MA. The others had Star Case which totally sucked.

[skiggley]

I had both...I built a totally homebrew Starcase decoder which worked great for several years until the end of Starcase in February of 1983 - and after they went out, I had the "modified" Zenith decoder for Preview (actually modified a bunch of them). All service tiers would work...even the NiteView and PPVs came in. My Starcase decoder was better than the STV company because mine actually utilized the TV's speaker as theirs came from the box itself.

[Kargaroc286]

but the screen in the beginning was for OnTV! how could it be on Prevue?

[skiggley]

In 1984, Preview began broadcasting programming from ON TV. I have video clips that bring up the ON TV logo with the announcement: "Preview Presents ON TV"

[Kargaroc286]

one mega-watt!!!!!!

[skiggley]

One million, one hundred and fifty one THOUSAND watts!!

[Kargaroc286]

why is the end's colour inverted?

[OpenArmsRoxxAgain]

Could you please post more Preview,this roxx!

[OpenArmsRoxxAgain]

Please Post it,and any more Preview.I grew up on it in Cleveland.Thanks for posting.