Chris Hadley

I have the one I've posted from WBRZ in 1994 - I suspect I also have a WAFB from the same trip (different tape, though), and just ran across the WBTR/19 "Baton Rouge Today" open. I have some New Orleans from the early 90s somewhere...

 

Also, I'm beginning to wonder - did I do any work in 1994???

 

Jim

I think I missed the WBRZ post. Where was it again?

Back in the day...

1) I had a Sony VideoWalkman

as well as my Super-VHS deck and an 8mm tape deck, and

2) a DC/AC converter (plugs into the cigarette lighter and provides 120V out), and

3) a thing called (as I was originally taught) an aerial, but nowadays it's called an antenna.

 

If you connect them up, you could record stuff off the air! It was amazing!

 

In reality, I just hooked stuff up and recorded - I'd take the 8mm and S-VHS decks, tune them in using the screen on the Video Walkman, then lastly tune the video to record. I learned that you have to be careful with grounding and the antenna to the car, or you end up with white noise (you can see it in some of the videos...)

 

As for Northeast 1994, I don't think so - I have some Burlington, VT, but started in NYC, moved my grandmother to outside of Albany, then did the loop trip up I-87 to Montreal, down through Toronto, and then back to Albany, then headed back to Texas with my mom (thus the Hagerstown/Baltimore, Knoxville & Nashville). I have more, but will have to edit it together once I get it off of tape...

 

Jim

Awesome. Out of curiosity, have you managed to pick up any newscasts from New Orleans/Baton Rouge?

Here's another old YT video that I'm pretty sure nobody has posted on to this thread yet, clips of WABI's Telejournal News from 1981:

The theme music was used in CBS News promos early in the Dan Rather era, including this local spot w/WTVJ's Ralph Renick.

CNN Headline News (via WPXI), on the 1985 crash of Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105.

WGN news teases from May 2, 1986:

From February 16, 1993, a news update from WLBT (Jackson, Miss.)

KEYE Austin, circa 1997:

KCEN from 1993:

WOKR, circa 2001:

More WDSU, this time from 1994. When this newscast was recorded, they were in the early days of the "diamond 6" logo era. Graphics by jCBD, Palmer News Package as the theme, and a new set to boot:

From March 25, 1999, Dan Rather anchors a special report on the Kosovo air strikes:

From December 31, 1999-January 1st, 2000, WDSU rings in the New Millennium:

KTAL Newscenter 6 Nightwatch (Shreveport/Texarkana), from August 7, 1997:

KNOE News' overnight segment from July 2, 1993:

WWL's Eyewitness News at Noon, from March 11, 1996 (the day before Super Tuesday):

From New Orleans, most of WWL-TV's Eyewitness News Nightwatch circa May 28, 1985:

WDSU New Orleans' "Breakfast Edition" from October 10, 1986:

Partial CNN Headline News from December 8, 1985 via WOR (now WWOR):

I'll be posting some soon-to-be newly acquired vintage New Orleans content in the next day or two...

WRAL "Action News 5" promo from 1982:

Don Harrison anchors a KMSP update from 1978:

Stacking the deck in your favor was KMSP in 1979, with future CNN Headline News anchor Don Harrison among the station's winning cards:

More KSTP, this time from 1968:

Then-indie KMSP's "Prime Time News" w/Independent Network News circa June 11, 1981:

KSTP's Eyewitness News from March 29, 1977.