WJBK/Fox 2 75th anniversary special

[Momo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uahD9jbWgF8

[unscopedaircheck]

I found it very disjointed as it aired last night. Even the piece on Al Allen was only 30 seconds or so.

[SteveS]

Six minutes was a lot to devote to the 2 Hot dance show.

[unscopedaircheck]

Yeah. What they spent time on seemed weird.

[Momo]

Six minutes was a lot to devote to the 2 Hot dance show.

My thoughts, too. And surprisingly very little for their first 15-20 years.

[billmich88888]

maybe very little was archived in those 1st few years..... channel 7 didnt have much either. Channel 4 seemed yo have the most amount of early footage

[Deleted User 15924]

maybe very little was archived in those 1st few years..... channel 7 didnt have much either. Channel 4 seemed yo have the most amount of early footage

I've read elsewhere that early TV stations never thought of saving film. Once something aired, they would just record over for the next show..

[Momo]

Channel 2 was the ratings leader in the early '70s - before Channel 7 raided its on-air talent - yet it has no footage of Jac LeGoff & John Kelly working together, alongside Ray Lane & Marilyn Turner?

[edj]

That is correct. Local shows were either aired live with no need to archive, or taped shows were thought to not be worth saving due to cost. 2" tape is very expensive to store, as well as purchase.

Local stations junked tapes into the 90s. I've heard rumors that even Kidbits, which reran on channel 4 until 97 or 98 was junked after that, despite being a 200 channel universe at the time and the internet emerging.

[jsf]

After watching these celebration shows,did you notice how many of these "stars" bounced around to different channels?

[Colonel Flagg]

All I know is Power 96 seems like a much more fun radio station than the present day WDVD (whose calls perhaps mean "We're Detroit's Venereal Disease")!

Ya think???

I believe I've made that point over and over in these forums.

As for tape of long gone talent, when WWJ and Star97 were in with Fox2, there was a large cavernous attic storage space absolutely filled with who knows what. I wonder if anyone bothered to go look up there? Not that a hot attic is the greatest place to store "tape" There were old remnants from WJBK Radio up there and I think WDEE too. It would take a couple Mayflower trucks to haul away all of that junk. But hey, that was 25 years ago, so who knows.

[ChrisWL1980]

Many of Detroit's major commercial TV stations had a teen dance show at one time or another. In addition to 2Hot, ch2 had Detroit Bandstand in the late '50s (when WJBK radio was a Top 40 leader). Ch7, in addition to American Bandstand, had Club 1270 with Lee Alan and Joel Sebastian; ch9 had Swingin' Time with Robin Seymour; ch62 had "The Scene" which ran IIRC for the station's entire tenure as an indie. They all had co-owned radio stations to tie in with, playing either Top 40 or R&B.
I've heard WKBD planned a show with WKNR's Gary Stevens, but Gary left for New York shortly after WKBD signed on in early 1965, so the show may not have made it to air.

[Dan in Northville]

Many of Detroit's major commercial TV stations had a teen dance show at one time or another. In addition to 2Hot, ch2 had Detroit Bandstand in the late '50s (when WJBK radio was a Top 40 leader). Ch7, in addition to American Bandstand, had Club 1270 with Lee Alan and Joel Sebastian; ch9 had Swingin' Time with Robin Seymour; ch62 had "The Scene" which ran IIRC for the station's entire tenure as an indie. They all had co-owned radio stations to tie in with, playing either Top 40 or R&B.
I've heard WKBD planned a show with WKNR's Gary Stevens, but Gary left for New York shortly after WKBD signed on in early 1965, so the show may not have made it to air.

Ah yes.......The Scene with Nat Morris.

"Sugar is sugar, salt is salt, if you didn't get off today......It's not our fault"

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Are Vic and Pat Caputo related?