TRI-STATE XMAS MEGA BREAK (PT. 2)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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• york
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[DanZero77]

This break was posted a while back was it? Not in its entirety, I just remember the Dak and Princess Grace ads back to back earlier is all.

[tapthatt2012]

@DanZero77 yes -a while back. using a different editing progam so i can do the mega breaks easier.

[ThisGuyFrritz]

I have a CD with the music box tunes heard on 3 of the commercials. At 1:19 & 2:50 is the Bach/Gounod version of "Ave Maria". I've uploaded it on YouTube. The one at 4:30 (where the voice over mentions "The Yule Log") is "Lobe den Herren (Praise to the Lord, the Almighty!)" You could hear it on YouTube:

(5 of 5) A Music Box Christmas - CD.

[JavaJoelRadio]

Thanks for all the great NYC TV uploads. The 81-82 stuff brings back childhood memories... thanks to Massena Newchannels Cable in far (were talking up near Montreal!) upstate NY.

NY's channel 5 was our channel 2. (9 and 11 were the same).

Good stuff. Thank you!

[DanZero77]

@wmbrown6 Right, that's what I thought. And as for Where Nothing Ever Works, we just have to look back to that ill fated Halloween '82 break posted here on Tap's account, with sponsor and program slides all over the place!

[DanZero77]

@tapthatt2012 That's cool, it's good we can see more!

[wmbrown6]

@DanZero77 - Looks like one of two possibilities: a) the superimposition affected the color phase, or b) one of the matrices (can't tell if it's B-Y or R-Y) somehow got their wires crossed. But it does seem to indicate that to some working at Channel 5, the WNEW calls stood for "Where Nothing Ever Works."

[DanZero77]

@wmbrown6 I agree on 1982 as the first set of ads were certainly from there. Can you explain why the video gets all purple when those "Available At" slides key in? Is it an after-effect from the insertion?

[wmbrown6]

It would have been late '82; from what I can recall, Bill Jorgensen (seen in the "Happy New Year" message before Pat Harper and Steve Bosh) left 'PIX in '83.

[PeerlessPaavo]

If this is late '82, then the airing of Princess Grace's narration of "The Nativity" would have aired a couple months after her death.