I lived in Northern NJ. This was my cable system. It is now known as Altice USA.Channel 14 is now i24 news. I don’t know what channel HBO is now. Channel 24 is now CNBC. I don’t know what channel Showtime is now . Channel 21 is now WLIW. Disney channel is now channel 31. Channel 22 is now WNYE. I don’t know what channel Cinemax is now. Channel 20 is now WMBC. The silent network (which is now defunct) was part of one of my Public Access channel’s programming I think. The Public Access channels are now on channel 76/77. The future MSG Sportsnet is now on channel 72. Channel 19 is now WRNN. I don’t know what channel The Movie Channel is now.
Interesting. My father once had a bunch of VHS tapes of movies recorded off Cable TV that somehow ended with bits of late-night local TV also recorded.
You know, Cablevision's "there's nothing here right now" behavior actually seems better than how DirecTV does it now. Both providers use a radio station and a placeholder screen. However, I really like the fact that Cablevision actually used the screen space for various bulletins whereas DirecTV just shows the DirecTV logo (with the only interesting thing being the occasional holiday variants of said logo screen).
UA - Columbia Cablevision ===================== Please note: This station is NOT broadcasting at this time. ___________________________________ (Ch U-D) Change Channel (Power) Turn off TV
8:50 I went back and checked, and, yep, all the NY local teams had the night off on 13 Feb 87. The Knicks didn't play until the 14th, the Nets til the 15th. (The Devils, Islanders and Rangers, along with the rest of the NHL, had the whole week off due to the "Rendez-vous '87" two-game series pitting the Soviets and the NHL All-Stars.) Madison Square Garden *was* being used that night, however, as Columbia beat Yale, 81-72.
I have a tape similar to this. My dad recorded “Ghost Dad” off of the Request pay-per-view channel. He set it to record at 11:00pm, so presumably he went to bed. In addition to the film, there’s a half-hour of the preview channel, which features audio from then rock station 103 WIQB. Also, since the preview channel is there, it’s one of the few tapes in my collection for which I have an exact date of the recording: Sunday, January 27, 1991.
So interesting to me. I was from this part of NJ and watched this channel, but I was born years after the sign off. But, my parents grew up with this stuff. It's also cool to see what the programming and idents and stuff was like, so different from now and even from when I was younger (mid/late 2000s)
UACC eventually became TCI in the early to mid 90s. This was probably taped in Bergen or Passaic county. In this area of northern NJ, depending on the town you were in, you either could get Cablevision or UACC. I unfortunately was stuck with the former, and UACC/TCI had far better channels (and cool stuff like this old bulletin board footage) and I believe they also had Sega Channel. The channels on UACC went by number and a letter as you see here, depending on the converter/box you had at the time. As for the WNET stuff, this is pretty neat. This was when the famous Thirteen "Radar" logo was in use. The sign-off was from the 70s. WPAT flipped to a Spanish language format by the end of the century.
I had the Sega Channel back in the mid 90s on the cable system back in Texas where I lived at the time, the cable company changed names several times in a pretty short time period in the 90s to early 2000s (first it was United Cable, then it was United Artists Cable, then it was TCI, then it was TCA, then it became Suddenlink, which it still is today).
@@fixman88 I also had memories of the Sega Channel in Texas, albeit through my cousin’s Sega on Warner Cable near Houston (Missouri City to be specific). I don’t recall the thing breaking down, but I did remember spending nights there to play on Sega Channel. The service was ultimately expensive and redundant, and with the rise of N64 and PlayStation was outnumbered. Warner eventually morphed into Comcast when Comcast traded their Dallas/Fort Worth system to Time Warner in exchange for their Houston cluster - the largest single one in the country at the time. P.S. My father spent his early childhood in North Jersey, albeit in west Essex (west of the Oranges), so I find this rather interesting. Have yet to see a Houston bulletin board from the 80s whenever our local stations signed off back then.
I have figured out that the music during the sign-off is Debussy’s “Reverie.” Who is performing this particular version is anyone’s guess. EDIT: I found it! It’s the 1963 recording by the Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting.
Columbia Cable subscribers were obviously spared those scary color bars. TKR in Monmouth County never did anything like that, the channels came in as is, during on and off air times.
The color bars went out on a Valentine’s Day date with the national anthem, so this bulletin board is _totally not_ being broadcasted in its place. Get it? February 14, Valentine’s Day? Man, my joking sucks.
6:58 also unrelated somewhat I was searching for one of the guys from the channel and the spongebob opening theme started playing ( dont judge might have been watching those spongebob episodes online) and the theme started playing I was like holy (word 11) is the poster trolling me turned out I realised it was the episode restarting and in like.... ohhhhh. LOL
"The station is not broadcasting at this time?" Then which station is? Is it "that" station? Doesn't "this" refer to the station is doing the broadcasting?
I’m amazed the cable system bothered to put something on the channel when the station itself stopped broadcasting. To the best of my knowledge when I was a kid my local PBS station just went off the air at night and that was it, black overnight.
RUclips ate my comment initially... but thrift stores, flea markets and estate sales. Also random packs of blank tapes on ebay. I'm lucky that I have a few friends locally that are also collectors and we swap with each other. Good luck!
He can't. YT's copyright bots nibbled on way too many of his videos on the main channel. I still cannot get over somebody claiming a slipshod version of a CCR song on Record Ripoffs Volume 4
First off, I'll have you know that the Sherlock Holmes programme was an *ITV* (specifically Granada) production and *NOT* a BBC show thank you very much. And 1:12 and 1:14 is proof that The Doctor is real. I'm not even sure Matt Smith was even born back then... also was Sam Neill in that Masterpiece Theatre episode? I'm guessing back in the day, when the PBS couldn't make programmes that directly competed with the commerical broadcasters, they just got round it by shipping British shows (who Americans call BBC shows) Also, no national anthem? Un-American pinkos! (which considering the history of WNET and the foudation of the PBS in the first place...) perhaps if WNET was British, theyd broadcast The Sex Pistols' version of God Save The Queen at closedown, with no God damned Epilogue an' all. 19 degrees which I have to remind myself is not warm because you use the Fahrenheit scale, meaning 19 degrees is fucking cold!
GeoNeilUK Personally, I think the fascination people have for the SSB is total nonsense. It should only be used for important political/military events and nowhere else.
Technically note 2 is worded wrong. I think you mean the time between the sign off and the bulletin board but from how you worded it (from going off air to bulletin board) that would be wrong. In that case it's actually about maybe a couple frames between such. Not a couple of minutes. Cause if that was the case we still would be seeing the whatever that stuff is for a couple minutes instead of nothing
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WNET, Channel 13, the station Billy Joel references in his song, "Pressure".
...but what does it mean? :D
The good Era when channel 13 was the best station to tune in
Thirteen may have its studios in Manhattan these days, but it will always be a Newark station to me.
The Spanish-language television station on channel 68 is also a Newark station. I also believe channel 9 is licensed in New Jersey. Secaucus?
Holy shit, this was recorded on the exact day and year I was born. That's a little weird to think about.
Slaashr It was also my parents 12th Anniversary
Well happy 42nd to your parents then. Time to celebrate by watching some TV stations close down. :P
Slaashr In that case, I blame you for all of this!
D: but...but all I did was be born, I didnt take WNET off the air!
I was listening to this while browsing another tab, and was actually sad it ended. It was enjoyable listening.....
I lived in Northern NJ. This was my cable system. It is now known as Altice USA.Channel 14 is now i24 news. I don’t know what channel HBO is now. Channel 24 is now CNBC. I don’t know what channel Showtime is now
. Channel 21 is now WLIW. Disney channel is now channel 31. Channel 22 is now WNYE. I don’t know what channel Cinemax is now. Channel 20 is now WMBC. The silent network (which is now defunct) was part of one of my Public Access channel’s programming I think. The Public Access channels are now on channel 76/77. The future MSG Sportsnet is now on channel 72. Channel 19 is now WRNN. I don’t know what channel The Movie Channel is now.
Of course I am talking about standard definition feeds.
Another nice find...thanks for sharing!
George Flowers (who did the sign-off) would go on to work at many stations, including New York 1 and WCBS-FM.
wmbrown6 i was wondering why that voice sounded so familiar
Interesting. My father once had a bunch of VHS tapes of movies recorded off Cable TV that somehow ended with bits of late-night local TV also recorded.
You know, Cablevision's "there's nothing here right now" behavior actually seems better than how DirecTV does it now. Both providers use a radio station and a placeholder screen. However, I really like the fact that Cablevision actually used the screen space for various bulletins whereas DirecTV just shows the DirecTV logo (with the only interesting thing being the occasional holiday variants of said logo screen).
3:50 name of the song?
UA - Columbia Cablevision
=====================
Please note:
This station is
NOT
broadcasting at this time.
___________________________________
(Ch U-D) Change Channel
(Power) Turn off TV
Nothing about milk fruited jello. Damn!
Dangit.
8:50 I went back and checked, and, yep, all the NY local teams had the night off on 13 Feb 87. The Knicks didn't play until the 14th, the Nets til the 15th. (The Devils, Islanders and Rangers, along with the rest of the NHL, had the whole week off due to the "Rendez-vous '87" two-game series pitting the Soviets and the NHL All-Stars.) Madison Square Garden *was* being used that night, however, as Columbia beat Yale, 81-72.
I have a tape similar to this. My dad recorded “Ghost Dad” off of the Request pay-per-view channel. He set it to record at 11:00pm, so presumably he went to bed. In addition to the film, there’s a half-hour of the preview channel, which features audio from then rock station 103 WIQB. Also, since the preview channel is there, it’s one of the few tapes in my collection for which I have an exact date of the recording: Sunday, January 27, 1991.
3:49 "Se você disser que eu desafino, amor..." :D
I was just gonna post that!
03:50
PLEASE NOTE:
THIS STATION IS
NOT
BROADCASTING AT THIS TIME.
So interesting to me. I was from this part of NJ and watched this channel, but I was born years after the sign off. But, my parents grew up with this stuff.
It's also cool to see what the programming and idents and stuff was like, so different from now and even from when I was younger (mid/late 2000s)
UACC eventually became TCI in the early to mid 90s. This was probably taped in Bergen or Passaic county. In this area of northern NJ, depending on the town you were in, you either could get Cablevision or UACC. I unfortunately was stuck with the former, and UACC/TCI had far better channels (and cool stuff like this old bulletin board footage) and I believe they also had Sega Channel. The channels on UACC went by number and a letter as you see here, depending on the converter/box you had at the time.
As for the WNET stuff, this is pretty neat. This was when the famous Thirteen "Radar" logo was in use. The sign-off was from the 70s.
WPAT flipped to a Spanish language format by the end of the century.
I had the Sega Channel back in the mid 90s on the cable system back in Texas where I lived at the time, the cable company changed names several times in a pretty short time period in the 90s to early 2000s (first it was United Cable, then it was United Artists Cable, then it was TCI, then it was TCA, then it became Suddenlink, which it still is today).
I worked at TCI in the early 90s. That Sega channel was a nightmare. We got more calls that that thing wasn't working right!!
@@fixman88 I also had memories of the Sega Channel in Texas, albeit through my cousin’s Sega on Warner Cable near Houston (Missouri City to be specific). I don’t recall the thing breaking down, but I did remember spending nights there to play on Sega Channel. The service was ultimately expensive and redundant, and with the rise of N64 and PlayStation was outnumbered. Warner eventually morphed into Comcast when Comcast traded their Dallas/Fort Worth system to Time Warner in exchange for their Houston cluster - the largest single one in the country at the time.
P.S. My father spent his early childhood in North Jersey, albeit in west Essex (west of the Oranges), so I find this rather interesting. Have yet to see a Houston bulletin board from the 80s whenever our local stations signed off back then.
I remember Mike Masters from WPAT. My dad worked with him there in the 1970s. Wonder where he is now.
I have figured out that the music during the sign-off is Debussy’s “Reverie.” Who is performing this particular version is anyone’s guess. EDIT: I found it! It’s the 1963 recording by the Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting.
Columbia Cable subscribers were obviously spared those scary color bars. TKR in Monmouth County never did anything like that, the channels came in as is, during on and off air times.
The color bars went out on a Valentine’s Day date with the national anthem, so this bulletin board is _totally not_ being broadcasted in its place.
Get it? February 14, Valentine’s Day? Man, my joking sucks.
Gotta find "Return of Sherlock Holmes" now!
I think WNET went 24/6 in September 1987. Am I right?
24/6?
@@jaworskij 24 hours a day, six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Signing off only on Sun/Mon overnights.
6:58 also unrelated somewhat I was searching for one of the guys from the channel and the spongebob opening theme started playing ( dont judge might have been watching those spongebob episodes online) and the theme started playing I was like holy (word 11) is the poster trolling me turned out I realised it was the episode restarting and in like.... ohhhhh. LOL
"The station is not broadcasting at this time?"
Then which station is? Is it "that" station? Doesn't "this" refer to the station is doing the broadcasting?
"This is not the station you are looking for"
Messages like this would've been standard insertions by cable operators during those days.
Masterpiece.
I’m amazed the cable system bothered to put something on the channel when the station itself stopped broadcasting. To the best of my knowledge when I was a kid my local PBS station just went off the air at night and that was it, black overnight.
How do you find this stuff?
Hit up enough thrift stores and you'll run into tapes like these eventually.
@@Damaniel3 I as well found 5-6 random tapes. I don't have to do much, personally. I just go to my dad's hoarding pile and take a few
I find it amusing.
RUclips ate my comment initially... but thrift stores, flea markets and estate sales. Also random packs of blank tapes on ebay. I'm lucky that I have a few friends locally that are also collectors and we swap with each other. Good luck!
Do you have a WNET sign on?
Can you post the entire tape?
He can't. YT's copyright bots nibbled on way too many of his videos on the main channel. I still cannot get over somebody claiming a slipshod version of a CCR song on Record Ripoffs Volume 4
RUclips's censorship gods will tear everything
First off, I'll have you know that the Sherlock Holmes programme was an *ITV* (specifically Granada) production and *NOT* a BBC show thank you very much.
And 1:12 and 1:14 is proof that The Doctor is real. I'm not even sure Matt Smith was even born back then... also was Sam Neill in that Masterpiece Theatre episode?
I'm guessing back in the day, when the PBS couldn't make programmes that directly competed with the commerical broadcasters, they just got round it by shipping British shows (who Americans call BBC shows)
Also, no national anthem? Un-American pinkos! (which considering the history of WNET and the foudation of the PBS in the first place...) perhaps if WNET was British, theyd broadcast The Sex Pistols' version of God Save The Queen at closedown, with no God damned Epilogue an' all.
19 degrees which I have to remind myself is not warm because you use the Fahrenheit scale, meaning 19 degrees is fucking cold!
GeoNeilUK Personally, I think the fascination people have for the SSB is total nonsense. It should only be used for important political/military events and nowhere else.
Technically note 2 is worded wrong. I think you mean the time between the sign off and the bulletin board but from how you worded it (from going off air to bulletin board) that would be wrong. In that case it's actually about maybe a couple frames between such. Not a couple of minutes. Cause if that was the case we still would be seeing the whatever that stuff is for a couple minutes instead of nothing
This Must Be The Creepiest Broadcast WNET From 1987 In United States History
Would it be possible to send me a digital copy of the complete, unaltered tape via Gmail? Thanks!