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there were attempts even earlier. Zenith had a service called "Phonevision" that was active in the early to mid 50s. There was also a Paramount-backed service called "Telemeter" where you dropped coins into the receiver to access programming.

A 1989 edition of Rambling Rod has surfaced:

Ah, MuchMusic in it's prime was a glorious thing -- same with Citytv (the Toronto indie station it spawned from). Sadly years of corporate mergers and the departure of Moses Znaimer led Much and City into oblivion. I'm the only person in the US I'm sure with a vintage 80s MuchMusic keychain.

John Marler and Cathy Marshall (they of Peter's Forbidden Cartoon) segueing into a simulcast of KOMO during the 1999 Seattle protests:

Interesting. I always wondered what the Forbidden Cartoon was; a Pokemon series of your own would've been my last guess. Also, as a TV news nerd, seeing John Marler and Cathy Marshall pop up here is fun!

Alright, some things that need pointing out: The Tandy/RadioShack ad's end voiceover is done by John B. Wells, long familiar as a voice for newscasts and local TV/radio stations around the country for many years, but mostly for WFAA-8, the ABC station in Dallas (and the people who commissioned...

Hey Peter, remember that Disney Afternoon segment with Steve Mackall doing a fake newscast you found? Well, I found another, one, from close to the end of the block's run (and subsequent sort-of-replacement with the "Disney-Kellogg Alliance"):

I find your timing (no pun intended) funny -- I just learned they brought back the Time Police for Archie's 80th anniversary digest, where a future Time Police Jughead recruits Archie to help save the multiverse, Crisis on Infinite Earths-style, including the return of Mad Doctor Doom from 80s...

That means you get a better ABC affiliate that isn't owned by Sinclair in KOVR-13, and KCRA-3, one of the most dominant NBC affiliates in the entire country -- they were the ones who coined the slogan Where The News Comes First, to the point of trademarking it! But yeah, Locast is annoying --...

Concerning the endless direct-response ads for encyclopedias and old record collections -- that was the lifeblood of TBS from when they were a tiny little station in Atlanta that had happened to go national via satellite. You go back even further, and they did ads like this: That's right, a...

It should be noted that it wasn't too long after this Fox Kids went away from KNXV, as did Fox. The entire market, excepting KPNX-12 (the NBC station), was caught in the chaos that followed Fox getting the NFL. Almost every station was gaining or losing an affiliation and nobody quite knew what...

Ah yes, RPM. A season only made for contractual reasons, and which got screwed over by Disney at every opportunity. That didn't stop them from making an incredibly-goofy Japanese source show into a show about protecting the last human city from a crazed computer virus and it's robotic forces...

I know that MuchMusic aired R&S up in Canada for a time:

That explains the errors.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark made a sitcom pilot with Mona from Who's the Boss. Apparently CBS commissioned it after Elvira's 1988 film. See for yourself: