sfpcc wrote:WDIV is preempting Hollywood Game night tomorrow for a special on Flint, (not the biggest loss in the world.)

It will still air in the Detroit market on WADL.

Those were annoying times to watch anything that wasn't available to you locally, at least for me. Interesting to learn Detroiters missed out on Press Your Luck initially unless they weren't all Toledo 11 watchers. I just found out that by September 1984, WJBK had already started clearing Press You...

I decided to create this thread to discuss preemptions of network programming by individual stations past and present. Any reason for a particular preemption is allowed here. Remember that many years ago preemptions of network programs were common in nearly every market since networks were only allo...

The machine they used during the late 80's was developed up in Canada called the "Telidon", the graphics it produced looks similar to these videos below. Apparently the original use of this system was for two-way interactivity with the customers themselves, but The Blade only used it passively to p...

Well, today, I drove by a house on Oak Street in Wyandotte that still has a "Detroit-style" antenna setup. No photo, so enjoy the best Google Street View I could get of it instead. http://i.imgur.com/xbzHZVe.png The long loop element covers WJBK, then a shorter one behind that is for WWJ, the shorte...

4 has a new one.

Dearborn police bleieve that a rapist...

Hopefully they showed the copyright (and if possible even the Scripps logo) before going to commercial-if not, well, get ready to hear stories about the FCC issuing a big fine to 7. What FCC regulation would trigger a fine for missing a copyright bug and a corporate logo?? A copyright ©2015 visual ...

Hopefully they showed the copyright (and if possible even the Scripps logo) before going to commercial-if not, well, get ready to hear stories about the FCC issuing a big fine to 7.

Apologies for resurrecting such an old thread, but I decided to put this in here. Here's what the Omnicom lineup in Canton/Northville/Plymouth looked like in 1990. 2 MTV 3 CNN Headline News 4 The Weather Channel 5 VH1 6 Lifetime 7 PASS 8 local access 9 AMC 13 WFUM 15 local access 17 Cinemax 19 The M...

My family had that "Detroit-style" antenna setup when they first got television when they were still in Wyandotte in the 50's. Later had another one of those on their new home in Southgate when they moved there in April 1965, later taken down in the early 1980's when Wayne Cablevision (later Maclean...