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- Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:49 pm
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic: Manistee, MI through the years
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7341
Re: Manistee, MI through the years
Apparently, that's exactly what it was, and it shared the channel with Bravo (which had been launched two years earlier). I hadn't heard of it before either. Not the Bravo we know today? Bravo was like A&E was, featuring cultural entertainment programming, though Bravo was more upmarket. Today's Br...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:43 pm
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic:
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Re: Old cable lineups
Here's the cable lineup for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in December of '89: (3) WNEM Bay City (NBC) ... (30) Home Shopping Interestingly, neither of northern Michigan's ABC or NBC affiliates were apprently carried in the Sault then. I once asked a headend engineer there why WTOM and WGTQ weren't on t...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:29 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethons
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10143
Re: Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethons
I also remember on WNEM 5 when the late Jim Peyton did the Holiday Inn in Buena Vista in 1976 & in 1977!! Also the late Jim Rush & Mel Serow at the Shearton in Pearson Road in Flint back then!!! Also the late Chuck Waters at the Hampton Square Mall in Essexville in 1979, 1980 & 1981!! Any of those ...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:01 pm
- Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
- Topic: 40 years ago in 1979
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13793
Re: 40 years ago in 1979
The last time that I heard the same announcer since August 28, 1979 was in March of 1984 when he said "That's Quiet Riot "Bang Your Head" (edited version) NOW "Stuck On You" by Lionel Richie" but that was it. That same announcer said "That's Marvin Gaye" (BUT did not say "Sexual Healing" when it wa...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:27 pm
- Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
- Topic:
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Re: Network programming preemptions by individual stations
"Smile Train" again?80sTalkRadioFan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:59 amA couple preemptions of note this week. First, looks like WDIV Local 4 has paid programming from 8 to 9 pm tonight (Thursday August 15) preempting another rerun of NBC's "The Wall."
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:45 pm
- Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
- Topic:
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Re: Network programming preemptions by individual stations
So it's a rerun. Yeah. It was brought up because it's during primetime and that's kinda significant. In my eyes that says a lot about a station's financial situation if they're willing to put paid programming on during primetime hours. As discussed on the Detroit board, the "paid programming" on WD...
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WTF is channel 4 doing?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7483
Re: WTF is channel 4 doing?
Showing "paid programming" during the 8pm hour on a Thursday night? This shit should be on at 4am on a Sunday morning. They are showing some bullshit about deformed Vietnamese kids. Yeah I know it's the middle of July but NBCs legacy is Thursday night. Just a strange programming decision. You sound...
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Catholic radio in Detroit
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12185
Re: Catholic radio in Detroit
Spirit 90.5 streams -- one of my superiors back in Florida where I worked listened online, alternating between them and The Joy FM, another local CCM station in Tampa Bay that also streams.
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:41 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Why is Sanilac part of the Detroit DMA?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8415
Re: Why is Sanilac part of the Detroit DMA?
I believe Bad Axe had one or two commercial TV allotments in the analog era. I know Port Huron had one. Obviously, they were never built. WDCQ (PBS) is licensed to Bad Axe and originally had its analog transmitter at Ubly, south of Bad Axe, but relocated its digital transmitter to closer to Bay Cit...
- Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: I now know your pain...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7307
Re: I now know your pain...
I remember back in the late 90s, early 2000s, they always had a black screen showing "no signal". This went on for hours. Channel 48 was supposed to be our local UPN affiliate. However, UPN on half of the days was missing. Then around that point the FCC forced the owners to sell to Cornerstone Chur...
- Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:40 pm
- Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
- Topic: CHBX-TV 2 SSM
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1950
Re: CHBX-TV 2 SSM
As far as I know, it is, and it's still in analog, though CTV has plans to close down its repeater to the north, in Wawa.
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: Gray Stations to revive daily Star Spangled Banner closings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2054
Gray Stations to revive daily Star Spangled Banner closings
According to ABC12, which is making a big fuss out of something that will only be shown in the middle of the night: https://www.abc12.com/content/news/510986662.html?fbclid=IwAR2_EsDAwIAw-XVeJSFmueZO9ZDXNteyXYCi6enId_-QHB8yV5Q-P3IwU40 (Check their Facebook post on the topic, which features hundreds ...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 10:16 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Warren High School TV station signing on for the first time in years this Fall.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3221
Re: Warren High School TV station signing on for the first time in years this Fall.
I would think by now they graduated.lidoshuffle wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:40 pmDoes this mean Lori Irla and Fred (??) are coming back??? Oh be still my fluttering with much anticipation lil 'ol heart...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: America's Rural Radio Stations Are Vanishing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5882
Re: America's Rural Radio Stations Are Vanishing
The use of terminology had rankled a few of my broadcasting friends. "5000 volts" (instead of watts)? The "dungeon"? "Kill zone"?
- Sat May 18, 2019 11:50 pm
- Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
- Topic: So many 50 kW AM signals
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7374