Ah good ol' WNET and Cinema Thirteen. How I loved thee as a child, and still do. I especially liked the still photo promo of each movie shown with the Cinema Thirteen logo on it. Thanks so much for uploading! :)
You have to love the schizophrenic slides toward the end. They say WNET Newark NJ but show scenes from other places. Since when does Newark look like midtown Manhattan or some bucolic farm?
The use of the name "Cinema Thirteen" dated back to at least 1960 when it was still commercial station WNTA-TV. Alas, the channel number in those days was in numeral form, instead of spelled out, on the title.
A few other things: a) "A Farewell to Arms" was for many years (until a few years before this aircheck) a staple of WABC-TV, and was shown on occasion on "The 4:30 Movie"; and b) Whatever happened to the announcer on duty that night, Shep O'Neal (other than seeing him in an online transcript of something relating to Martin Luther King)?
Hi tapthatt2012 My Name is Jermaine and I would love to see the We Are Thirteen Campaign from 1982 that I remember when they have all the list of shows when it aired on Thirteen like 321 Contact Great Preformances Nature The MacNeil/Lehrer Report Cinema Thirteen Star Movie and I would love to see that campaign!
Ah good ol' WNET and Cinema Thirteen. How I loved thee as a child, and still do. I especially liked the still photo promo of each movie shown with the Cinema Thirteen logo on it. Thanks so much for uploading! :)
This is why I love this old stuff because we already had clear tv we really didn't need HD TVs at all
Heh, I love the message pleading for becoming a member of the station. Sounds pretty heartwarming. :)
Cool.. always like the old slides from the mid-80s back through the 70s, and earlier..
You have to love the schizophrenic slides toward the end. They say WNET Newark NJ but show scenes from other places. Since when does Newark look like midtown Manhattan or some bucolic farm?
i miss these wnet stuff makes me sad not too see em anymore
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A clothing store presenting "A Farewell to Arms"?! Humorously ironic.
WWOR does the same thing sometimes, they're licensed to Secaucus, but in some promos, you see Manhattan.
The use of the name "Cinema Thirteen" dated back to at least 1960 when it was still commercial station WNTA-TV. Alas, the channel number in those days was in numeral form, instead of spelled out, on the title.
A few other things: a) "A Farewell to Arms" was for many years (until a few years before this aircheck) a staple of WABC-TV, and was shown on occasion on "The 4:30 Movie"; and b) Whatever happened to the announcer on duty that night, Shep O'Neal (other than seeing him in an online transcript of something relating to Martin Luther King)?
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Doesn't it look from the way the slides were shown, that Channel 13 may have had RCA TK-27 film chains?
@MSTS1 i might put all these opens together and play them before i watrch an old movie! (which i've been doin alot of lately)
Hi tapthatt2012
My Name is Jermaine and I would love to see the We Are Thirteen Campaign from 1982 that I remember when they have all the list of shows when it aired on Thirteen like
321 Contact
Great Preformances
Nature
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
Cinema Thirteen
Star Movie
and I would love to see that campaign!
If you know, what's the exact date of this recording?
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