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09-29-2001, 06:33 PM
What is local television like where you live?
Anything unusual that one cant find anywhere else? What local shows do you remember watching growing up? Ever had the chance to watch someone on local tv BEFORE they hit it big?
I used to live in the Northern Virginia area
and I still have tapes of Oprah Winfrey ( doing Dialing for Dollars ) and Maury Povich hosting a show called "Panarama" on DC's channel 5 back in the 70s. Really its not that much different that the current Maury show.
I remember Captain 20 and the Count Gore DuGohl I know I mispelled that ) on channel 20 out of Washington. I always thought Baltimore had better channels/local shows. They had Captain Chessapeake, Professor Kool,
Bowling for Dollars ( I read that the set is still intact at WBAL-TV though they havent used it in years ), Until the 70s Baltimore even used a puppet to do the nightly weather ( JP ), then you had the Bill Lefever and the One O'clock movie on channel 45, kind of like Boston's Movie Loft where you actually had a "host" to tell you about the movie.
I always enjoy watching local tv when I go on vacation. From Toronto's City TV to the Fox station I watched in West Virginia airing high school wrestling ( just before the Simpsons ) to Denver's Blinky's Fun Club on their channel 2.
Some local tv is so bad that its actually good.
Anything unusual that one cant find anywhere else? What local shows do you remember watching growing up? Ever had the chance to watch someone on local tv BEFORE they hit it big?
I used to live in the Northern Virginia area
and I still have tapes of Oprah Winfrey ( doing Dialing for Dollars ) and Maury Povich hosting a show called "Panarama" on DC's channel 5 back in the 70s. Really its not that much different that the current Maury show.
I remember Captain 20 and the Count Gore DuGohl I know I mispelled that ) on channel 20 out of Washington. I always thought Baltimore had better channels/local shows. They had Captain Chessapeake, Professor Kool,
Bowling for Dollars ( I read that the set is still intact at WBAL-TV though they havent used it in years ), Until the 70s Baltimore even used a puppet to do the nightly weather ( JP ), then you had the Bill Lefever and the One O'clock movie on channel 45, kind of like Boston's Movie Loft where you actually had a "host" to tell you about the movie.
I always enjoy watching local tv when I go on vacation. From Toronto's City TV to the Fox station I watched in West Virginia airing high school wrestling ( just before the Simpsons ) to Denver's Blinky's Fun Club on their channel 2.
Some local tv is so bad that its actually good.