WBTB-TV / WTVG / WWHT Channel 68 Audio Clips

Here are a selection of audio clips recorded over-the-air from WBTB-TV / WTVG /
WWHT Channel 68, Newark, NJ during the mid to late 1970s.

Included are WBTB-TV and WWHT sign-ons and station IDs, the original (?) Uncle Floyd Show Theme ("Swinging Down The Lane"), a promo for "Wall Street Perspective" with host Gene Inger, a WTVG ID, and even the Wometco Home Theatre (WHT) theme song.

For more, see my WTVG sign-on clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzM9iyaPd9U

It was a lot of fun compiling these old recordings. Sadly, we've come a long way from the day when a television station's aim was to offer "The best in community-minded programming".

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• WBTB
• WTVG
• WWHT
• Uncle Floyd
• UHF-TV
• U68
• West Orange

[PatriciaSmear]

Does anyone remember or know of any existing audio from when WHT Wometco home theater took over the broadcast day at 8pm. The signal would become scrambled where you would need a subscription based converter box. The audio is that of a older gentleman who would talk about WHT and play music over that scrambled picture on u68.

[5UP7]

@PatriciaSmear That audio was known as the "Barker Channel", and would explain to people watching that the picture was intentionally scrambled and that "there's nothing wrong with your set". The announcer would provide information about all the movies and sporting events that were available to subscribers, interspersed with songs such as "Arthur's Theme" by Christopher Cross. I probably have a couple of seconds of that announcer's voice on tape somewhere.

[TobyHalicki089]

The old Floyd Show theme song from 1974 to 1998.

[wmbrown6]

The music bed heard over the promo for "Wall Street Perspective," I recall as the opening theme for WOR-TV's "5:30 News" as of 1974.

[eightiesguy69]

love these audio feeds..