The "For Portlanders Only" Update Thread

[ClassicTVMan1981]

There aren't any....I found them on a tape from Goodwill, not YouTube.

Thank you. But still, would you happen to know the approximate dates for them?

~Ben

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Thank you. But still, would you happen to know the approximate dates for them?

~Ben

I wish. There's no way to precisely tell, especially with the ten-minute one. You can only get clues from within the recording itself. Sometimes ads can help; if an ad runs for something airing that evening or later that week, you can look it up in an old TV schedule. I can only tell the ten minute one is from 1983 because there's a recording of something right after it that's also from 1983, and Chuck E didn't appear any earlier.

The hour-long one said "April 1984" on its label, so that was helpful. Nothing in the broadcast narrowed it down from there though.

 

[Edward Joseph]

I can personally vouch for Peter's statement, someone uploaded highlights from a February 8th 1984 episode of Ramblin Rod which contains the aforementioned Chuck E. Cheese's characters:


(For the record, the cartoons included in that broadcast were What's Brewin', Bruin?, Beaus Will Be Beaus, Cross Country Detours, Kittens' Mittens and the 1960 Popeye cartoon Rip Van Popeye)

 

[PrevueLovesAnimeTV]

One time in 1983, KOIN preempted Nightwatch in favor of doing their Technical Adjustments and Maintenance

 

[Peter Paltridge]

One time in 1983, KOIN preempted Nightwatch in favor of doing their Technical Adjustments and Maintenance

They sure did. I still have the clip but haven't uploaded it to the "new" site. Maybe someday.

 

[Chris]

Something interesting for Pete (and others in Portland area)
weeknights at 5:30-6pm on channel 10 - "ambient film." I doubt it'll be on for much longer, so go check it out while it's still airing!

 

[Chris]

You know you're from Salem when you call Willamette Town Center "Lancaster Mall." There's a reason for that...

 

[Chris]

Jeff Gianola is retiring. He co-hosted the special about Bob the Weather Cat dying. That's how long he's been around.

 

[RandomMe]

One time in 1983, KOIN preempted Nightwatch in favor of doing their Technical Adjustments and Maintenance

I think that in those situations they undusted the regular sign-off. For years (1998 to 2017), stations of the Globo network in Brazil still did a conventional sign-off listing the schedule, once a month on the early hours of Monday morning

 

[Chris]

Where is the FPO page? I found an old one but the videos weren't working.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Where is the FPO page? I found an old one but the videos weren't working.

For Portlanders Only

 

[RandomMe]

Where is the FPO page? I found an old one but the videos weren't working.

For the record, the old one used to run on FLV and WMV.

The new one (since 2015) uses MP4.

 

[TheMisterFree]

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

 

[Zorak Masaki]

For Portlanders Only

That site has an Internal Server Error message on it.

 

[Chris]

Jeff Gianola's final broadcast is this Wednesday if you want to tape it.

 

[Chris]

Here he is in 1989.

 

[TheMisterFree]

A 1989 edition of Rambling Rod has surfaced:

 

[Chris]

Grant McOmie has died. He was 74.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Yup, sad about it. Got a DVR full of Grant's Getaways.

 

[Chris]

Am wondering why KATU started news a half-hour early at 3:30pm today.