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Pay Movie Channels Bumpers and ID's from the 80s and 90s
Pay Movie Channels Bumpers and ID's from the 80s and 90s
All the pay channels had kind of unique bumpers and ID's, be it Cinemax, HBO, The Movie Channel, and Showtime.
I always liked this one:
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I always liked this one:
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Complete HBO 1983 opening!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMN ... hannel=HBO
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Boy, that brings back memories. Lots of subtlety in that one....passing over and above the neighborhood theater, and the HBO logo in space rotating like the satellite that carried it.matt1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:24 pmComplete HBO 1983 opening!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMN ... hannel=HBO
We were involved in the MDS / MMDS versions of HBO carriage in the early 80s....that 'stargate' effect within that opening would smear if the video was overdriven. Who needed a vectorscope when one had this video running on the TX?
Thanks for the memory.
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https://youtu.be/LaQV-YIpMSw
I remember these bumpers/promos.
Back before every cable system was the same, and carriage or line-ups could vary neighborhood by neighborhood, where I grew up, the only premium channels we were offered were PASS, Showtime and The Movie Channel. At any given time, we had either PASS and TMC or Showtime only.
"At the movie channel, you're never more than five minutes away from a movie"
I remember these bumpers/promos.
Back before every cable system was the same, and carriage or line-ups could vary neighborhood by neighborhood, where I grew up, the only premium channels we were offered were PASS, Showtime and The Movie Channel. At any given time, we had either PASS and TMC or Showtime only.
"At the movie channel, you're never more than five minutes away from a movie"
"Internet is no more like radio than intravenous feeding is like fine dining."
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"Nobody brings it home like HBO....Nobody" (1987)
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"Internet is no more like radio than intravenous feeding is like fine dining."
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I liked when they switched to the round ball myself.
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Our neighbors to the north (or south) had First Choice (debut 1983 - later First Choice-Superchannel, later The Movie Network, now Crave), which recycled some of HBO's pre-HBO-in-Space idents used from 1979-82 (with different music).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIA6R_a6yU
However, prior to HBO encrypting its satellite signal in early 1986, Canadians with satellite receivers could and did watch the "real thing" for free. In the late '70s, cable providers in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, even "simulcast" the HBO signal on a public access channel; I've heard of other Canadian systems doing the same with Showtime. The Windsor Star even carried program listings for HBO in the early '80s.
HBO had many different variations of the "Starship" ident which all concluded with their own unique musical signature. This one, for example, was the "Family Showcase" version, which often meant something like "Fraggle Rock" would be on next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDD5RSeeYmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIA6R_a6yU
However, prior to HBO encrypting its satellite signal in early 1986, Canadians with satellite receivers could and did watch the "real thing" for free. In the late '70s, cable providers in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, even "simulcast" the HBO signal on a public access channel; I've heard of other Canadian systems doing the same with Showtime. The Windsor Star even carried program listings for HBO in the early '80s.
HBO had many different variations of the "Starship" ident which all concluded with their own unique musical signature. This one, for example, was the "Family Showcase" version, which often meant something like "Fraggle Rock" would be on next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDD5RSeeYmc
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Did NOT gotten cable when it debuted until the 1st or 2nd week of April of 1984 in the village of Sanford, MI where I live!!!