1978 Cablevision sign-off and Cable Chuckles from Jericho NY

This was taped in 1978 from a cable system near, but not in New York City- its address is given as Jericho. (I'm in CA and not familiar with the area, so please forgive me.) The channel is ID'd as "Family Channel 10" and available only in that area. It showed a variety of recent and older movies and some local programming- this in particular was shown after "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", which wasn't widely shown on cable and not available commercially on home video until 1990. The movie was uncut with no commercials, but did have an announcer yakking over the end credits about what was coming on later.

After programming ends, they go to a primitive computer-generated display called "Cable Chuckles" that shows jokes that local kids mailed in, and shows their names and addresses onscreen! Don't know if they're still at these addresses, but please don't harrass them. If you know them, tell them to look here and post though! It also shows the lunch menus for nearby schools.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• 1978
• cable
• Cablevision
• Jericho
• Massapequa
• Syosset
• Y97
• WYNY
• text
• display
• jokes
• kids

[ianhawdon]

and also the fact they are addresses of children... We are far to paranoid today!

[freeplay73]

What the hell is up with showing people's addresses, haha!

[chip64c]

So what did the plug say when it wanted power? Socket to me

[JesseL85719]

Whoever wrote the question at number 8 on the list of Cable Chuckles must have poor grammar.

[nonix81]

For the layman- Jericho is a township located in Long Island, NY State

[nomadcowatbk]

@eyeh8nbc

a lot still do that

[coffeeandsugar20]

Michael Jackson was alive in 1978. Didn't anyone think of the children?

[chip64c]

Probably via radio station, so that way, when broadcast, the work receives air time...yes I know it's TV, but TV or radio air time is still air time; my guess as to the licensing

[chip64c]

Probably via radio station, so that way, when broadcast, the work receives air time...yes I know it's TV, but TV or radio air time is still air time; my guess

[eyeh8nbc]

@autodrivex It was common for cable channels to play a radio station over text-based stuff like this. I don't know how the music-licensing stuff was handled.

[autodrivex]

Nowadays, of course, they'd be sued by the RIAA for using a Beatles song.