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Nostalgia: Page from a '70's TV Guide
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:07 pm
We only got 2 and 9, sometimes 33 if the weather was right. Doesn't seem like we ever complained that "there's nothing on" like we seem to so often today with hundreds of channels. Go ahead, name those Sweathogs without googling. I did it pretty easily and haven't seen an episode of the show in years.
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Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:19 pm to High C
The only person I recognize is Travolta 
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:21 pm to High C
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We only got 2 and 9, sometimes 33
We got 2-13.
It was basically, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Local Access, Univision and I think USA.
You waited all week for this:
One year they showed Star Wars and everyone shite their pants and recorded it on their VCR if they had one.
Those were the days.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:22 pm to High C
I still remember as a kid getting only 8 (cbs), 10 (nbc), 3 (abc), 13 (pbs), and 9 (some local station). I also remember during the summer watching tv late until all channels played the national anthem then went black after midnight.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 6:34 pm to LuckyTiger
I remember Channel 2 used to turn on their broadcast in the morning (either 5 or 5:30, can't remember) and it would be the camera panning back and forth over:
Clock
Thermometer
Barometer
Hygometer
Until they started their actual programming for the day.
Clock
Thermometer
Barometer
Hygometer
Until they started their actual programming for the day.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:07 pm to High C
quote:
Go ahead, name those Sweathogs without googling. I did it pretty easily and haven't seen an episode of the show in years.
L to R: Vinny "who, what, where" Barbarino, Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington, Mister Kotter, Arnold "ohoh(handraised)" Horshak, and Juan Epstein, signed Epstein's Mother
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:08 pm to High C
Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Don Meredith are all dead.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:20 pm to High C
Barbarino, Washington, horse shack, Epstein
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:27 pm to High C
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Go ahead, name those Sweathogs without googling.
Off the top of my head: Vinnie Barbarino; Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington; Mr. Kot-eer; Horshak; and Epstein. I think the chick at the bottom right is Kotter's wife.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 9:27 pm to High C
Me. Kotter’s wife (in the pic below the Sweathogs) was hot to a young Booey. I just looked her up online and she died of breast cancer in 2014. Sad.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 8:02 am to Ace Midnight
Geesh when mnf mattered. ESPN has destroyed that product to the point where they can't give away a spot in the booth.
I bet that game was boring as hell but Howard and dandy Don gave you a reason to watch
I bet that game was boring as hell but Howard and dandy Don gave you a reason to watch
Posted on 4/19/18 at 8:32 am to stapuffmarshy
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I bet that game was boring as hell but Howard and dandy Don gave you a reason to watch
Howard, in particular, understood that sports was evolving to a broader, multimedia entertainment category, and he was willing to do what it took to entertain the folks. That's why he and Ali were so close - they were pioneers in that P.T Barnum-style of metaphorically putting butts in seats.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 12:53 pm to Ace Midnight
In Cossell's book "I never played the Game" He predicted what we would have now on TV sports. He called it "Jockocracy" and that the more ex athletes get involved in sports TV the more they will have to rely on video because they don't have anything to say. Either they are too technical with stuff only another pro would understand, or they are stupid he implied like a certain someone who's still out looking for the real killer!
Posted on 4/20/18 at 12:59 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
In this age of multi platforms and splintered media it is incredible to note that the typical Sunday night episode of Charlie’s Angels would get like a 40 rating. The top shelf was lucky to get like a 12 these days
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:39 pm to Morty
The finale of MASH drew 121 million viewers.
More than the Super Bowl that year.
From 1983 until 2010, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen remained the most watched television broadcast in American history.
Commercials cost more than Super Bowl commercials.
1983 was a different time. Everybody was pretty much watching the same thing.
More than the Super Bowl that year.
From 1983 until 2010, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen remained the most watched television broadcast in American history.
Commercials cost more than Super Bowl commercials.
1983 was a different time. Everybody was pretty much watching the same thing.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 9:16 pm to stapuffmarshy
marshy - NBC really killed it with Football Night, but it was on life support. As a huge college football fan who watches the NFL that’s two days of games. To get excited about another Monday night game hard
Posted on 4/20/18 at 9:20 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Anyone hwre remember the HUGE hype for the tv movie, The Day After. It was about a post nuclear world set at height of the Cold War. It aired im 1983 and starred Steve Gutenberg.
I remember it was part of the curriculum to discuss it in after class it was a homework assignment.
You could never create that kind of communal experience today.
I remember it was part of the curriculum to discuss it in after class it was a homework assignment.
You could never create that kind of communal experience today.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 9:52 pm to High C
I remember we got the 3 Memphis stations plus their PBS. Then if the Razorbacks were on a Little Rock station Dad would turn the antenna.
We got Greenville, MS's ABC affiliate about 1978 and I thought that was exotic as Hell.
We got Greenville, MS's ABC affiliate about 1978 and I thought that was exotic as Hell.
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