Ancient TBS stuff 001 (1982)

Some animation, complete with one-inch dropouts and VTR instability, that I worked on for WTBS back in the early 80s.

The music is from 'The Electric Horseman,' which was our 'image' music for some reason...and the voice on the end is Mr. Bill Tullis, who was often the voice of TBS and CNN back then.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• WTCG
• WTBS
• animation
• jcburns
• Tush
• Braves
• CNN

[gameshow1992]

I like the TBS Theatre "Rainbow Countdown" card from 0:20 to 0:22 ; can you find a video that has the opening of that card, please?

[jcburns]

@gameshow1992 Just uploaded it, just for you.

[90sVideoEquipment]

Is that some scanimate I see?

[jcburns]

@90sVideoEquipment Nope. Just early 1980s TV control room stuff. Cameras shooting black and white type and lots of simultaneously rolling tape machines. Very, very old school.

[jcburns]

You are correct. Very sorry to have lost Mr. Troll, AKA Bill Tullis. His sense of musical style gave the SuperStation a quality and vibrancy way, way beyond its meager production budget.

[kylebook]

Is that an AVR-1 Ampex Quad shown at about the 1 minute mark?

[jcburns]

It's one of three AVR-3s that were in the WTCG/WTBS production room on West Peachtree Street. They also had one AVR-2, but never an AVR-1 (unless you count the insides of ACR-25s)

[mankind2112]

Damn Ted you had it all and blew it, now CNN sucks, TBS sucks and TNT blows. The Braves are the bottom of the barrel, WCW is dead. what a damn shame.

[Borntocoast]

I gave up on Cable three years ago. Too many Commercials, too little Variety. Since I stopped paying the Subscription Fee I have accumulated over 15,000 TV Episodes on DVD, along with nearly 1,400 Movies and 1000 Hours of other programming. :)

[KC1971J]

@Borntocoast You should get a free to air satellite receiver.

[vmaxman223]

Hi jcburns, would you happen to have access to the Atlanta Braves theme music on TBS at the beginning of telecast? this would have been in the years 81, 82 or 83. The one posted by RetroBoyWontDie is a little later and not what I'm looking for.

thanks

[MrJacMac1986]

@SBTelevision I miss the live look of 2 inch master videotape. Almost everything now has a" filmized" digital look

[PugFuker]

@pimplimp334 I found the song on someone's blog. Google electric horseman theme. it's on a guy's blog called "Loudman Quietman"

[jmf257]

Bill Tullis, whose voice I think was near this end of this video, was an announcer for TBS for many years. He also did the voice for various commericals, including the beggin strips "bacon dog"....."it's BACON!" Tullis, who recently passed away, got his start as a DJ in Valdosta, GA