While the previous video was more of an internal self-promotion video for WFAA in Dallas, this video was a major ad campaign used during junctions and station breaks for Philadelphia’s KYW-TV. It is simply stunning — these promos have a futuristic, whimsical, avant-garde tenor paired with a bit of psychedelia. It might be the closest TV ever came to producing something obviously influenced by cocaine.
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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, and not big flaming homosexuals doing pirouettes.
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I’ll leave you with Westchester County’s own Laura Branigan (1957–2004) with her appearance on CHIPs as “Sarah”, singing what else… “Gloria”!
The amount of jokes they throw into each episode is shocking, shockingly good that is. I can watch an episode ten times or more and then during the eleventh, or thirty-seventh, or 892017th viewing, discover yet another play on word or subtle joke.
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“It’s like a cabbage patch… doll!”
Large house, swimming pool, room for a pony… (wink)
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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 from 1979–1980. The background images are the same ones used during the actual commercials, but the footage of the commercials themselves have been taken off ..read more
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