Repros of Local TV Station Color Test Patterns - 1960's-1980's (Updated)

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An updated set of reproductions of numerous color test patterns used by local TV stations across the country (and Puerto Rico) from the 1960's through the 1980's. Unlike the blank TP repros of my other video(s), these also strive for the "look" of TP's as reproduced on film chains/slide scanners and positioned on light tables, complete with particular calibrations, fading, etc. Dissolves between individual repros are approximated from transitions from one slide to another as seen from the 1950's into the '80's on WCBS-TV (Channel 2) in New York, with transitions between two patterns from the same station simulating the switches from one title card to the next on several Thames TV programs (notably "The Benny Hill Show") up to 1972. The order of these patterns are grouped by channel number and by DMA ranking (for example, a New York station on channel 7 would come before one from Chicago, which comes before one from San Francisco, and so on). The appearances of these patterns (and typesetting layouts thereof) have been largely confirmed from magazine articles, numerous DX websites, and other YouTube clips; plus input from other YouTube users (including 'MSTS1'). All rights are acknowledged.

NOTE: Of the color test pattern repros here, one TV station is totally fictitious, though immortalized on a famous TV show. See if you can spot it.

Music: "Cobb's Blues" by The Blues Smashers (from the Blue Collar Picture "Lefty-Right") (written by Eddie Curran and Peter Jarvis). (P) & © William Brown Productions.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Color
• TV
• Test
• Patterns
• Vintage
• Repros
• Reproductions
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s

[wmbrown6]

I also invite people watching this clip to chip in as to which other stations across this country used one or more of the color TP designs as in these recreations. I've been apprised, for example, that WRGB Channel 6 in Schenectady used the same late 1960's color TP design as WKYC, WHBF, WAPA, WLS, WNAC, KAET, WOR, WMUR, WNDT, WQED and WYTV - only with their then-current logo in the inner lower right quadrant, a la WOR and WNDT; can anyone confirm or debunk this?

[soulAdequate]

I spotted the fictional one - WJM12 (MTM was my first crush :) )

[MSTS1]

Nice work. Looks good to me, and the corrected '4' in the WBZ pattern now looks like the real thing.