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Liked Reducers - Airways.
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Liked 3 videos.
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Liked 3 videos.
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Liked Little Black Boy.
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Shared Lydia Hawksworth!.
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Back when leotards told the story
Thanks to my inimitable friend Joseph, who has a penchant for finding all the weirdest crap that youtube has to offer, I have now watched this 1980 WFAA-TV (Dallas/Fort Worth) promo video eleventy times.
It is nuts how in 1980, mustachioed men in leotards were simply “court jesters” that told the story of TV ratings success, [...]
Junction music
Some of my favorite songs have been used for junction music on BBC, or even sometimes as the theme song.
In the late 1970’s, they occasionally used David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” to announce upcoming programs. The venerable documentary show “Arena” is something else, though, it is simply a work of art, both [...]
Geneaology of a running gag
I might be the only non-Australian (or one in a million!) who has seen enough Australian TV footage to actually have gotten the reference while never having “been there”, so to speak. It’s still totally god damned hilarious, even if you don’t have the full frame of reference.
SBS, by the way, is something akin [...]
I'm your direct connection … to the boob tube.
What I am about to show you is brilliant, in and of itself. It manages to make Philadelphia seem like one gigantic fire hydrant set loose, this weird combination of hip, informed, dramatic and coy at the same time.
However, this is just the song KYW-TV used for their Direct Connection promo spots, which aired [...]
Channel Oh – A Whole World of People
One of my softest of soft spots, as soft as a baby’s skull, is for overwrought, extended television jingles that serve to connect a TV station with some kind of greater cultural meaning. Australia has the best ones, because it has that Commonwealth aesthetic, but tends to involve really folksy, silly montages of people hugging, [...]
