Best Era of Cable/Satellite In General

[Thunder]

How many people had cable systems with the time & weather information/community bulletin board channels and would watch them just to watch the graphics get drawn in the same way they were drawn on \"Catch Phrase\"?

 

I\'ll see you and raise you. In the earliest days of our town\'s first local channel, 20 hours of \"no local programming\" was a Lazy Susan-like turntable of a thermometer, a hydrometer, a barometer and a anemometer. The turntable moved to the next position and stopped for 15 seconds, then on to the next gauge.

 

Needless to say, it broke down quite often which became the only fun part of having that station on.

[rockinricky]

I remember when Nick at Nite started, they had a jingle that went:

 

At eight o\'clock

When the moon is bright

Nickelodeon becomes

Nick at Nite.

[Vahan_Nisanian]

A fellow TV fan recalled something else about Nick at Nite when it started. He said that when it started in 1985, they used to show everything they aired uncut (half-hour programs were roughly 25-26 minutes without commercials, and one-hour ones were 52-53 minutes during the 50s and 60s). He recorded many of those programs throughout 1985 off of Nick at Nite, that\'s how he knows.

 

Then in 1987, they acquired Make Room for Daddy (only seasons 5 to 9 of its 11-year-run were syndicated), and they were cut to around 22 minutes. Nobody complained, and as a result, Nick & Nite began cutting EVERYTHING they had shown in the past down to 22 minutes or 44 minutes.