Bugs' Buddies (WWOR-TV on-air promo)

During my tenure at New York's Channel 9, the station acquired a package of Warner Bros. cartoons for which I was lucky enough to create the promos - this is my favorite of the bunch

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[wtcvidman]

Do you know what year this was? I remember wanting to watch Bug's Buddies all the time as a kid, but it was on at 9AM while I was in school. I did tape 1 or 2 episodes once I learned how to program the VCR. I'm guessing this is from 1987 or 1988. I have the bumper & closing of Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck And Friends, which also aired on WWOR. I also have a bumper of Bugs & Porky from 1987, which aired on WNYW (channel 5). IIRC that show was on in the afternoons. I loved those programs.

[StrikeJoe]

I worked at WWOR from late '89 through mid '91, so this promo dates from somewhere within that period.

[johnissoevil]

@wtcvidman Plus I should've remembered what year this was anyway, because I had moved out of NJ for a year and a half to Florida from late 89 to early 91, and I remember this promo airing through having watched the national WWOR EMI feed, but I don't think this was cleared on that feed, just the metro NYC area.

[wtcvidman]

@johnissoevil

Ah, nice move. I actually did the same thing many times myself when I upload videos to Youtube to confirm the year of something I'm uncertain of. I forgot to do it for this one, so thanks for looking it up.

[johnissoevil]

@wtcvidman Just looked back on the computer calendar, September 10 fell on a Monday in 1990, so that's when this promo took place.

[SuperAdventures]

Why air it at such a ridiculous time, when most kids are at school already? The typical schedule for morning cartoons in NYC was from 6-9AM. I know that by 8AM I was headed out for school.

[fromthesidelines]

WWOR also showed the pre-'49 Warner cartoon library on Mario Cantone's Sunday morning "STEAMPIPE ALLEY" (1988-'93). "BUGS' BUDDIES" began airing on Monday, September 10, 1990, 'wtcvidman'.

[gguru1]

oops i mean WWOR. :P

[gguru1]

I'm nearly 22, just old enough to remember Bugs' Buddies. Luckily my mom recorded everything I watched as a kid. I've got lots of WORR programming on VHS. Thanks for the memories.

[Aboutspaul21]

Back in the late 1980's, WPHL-TV acquired the rights to the pre and post-48 WB cartoon library after WGBS/WPSG-TV was moved out while TBS and TNT was showing the pre-48 cartoons and so does Nickelodeon for the post-48 and the Porky redrawns and "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show" on ABC Saturday mornings.

WPHL-TV ran a slew of redrawn Porky Pig cartoons right up until the move to Nickelodeon when it was shown in the 90's as "Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon".