History Tidbit
April 20, 2020I usually find these bits late at night when I am awake enough to surf the net and my Parkinson’s medication allows me an hour or two to actually type instead of shouting at a device that supposedly understands everything you say. (I am also more upfront late at night…)
Anyhow, tonight’s YouTube find is a video piece produced by the Pittsburgh Radio and Television Club in about (near as I can tell 1995 or ’96) for their 50th anniversary celebration. The late Rege Cordic, with his powerful baritone, tells the stories of our local media and many familiar and friendly faces tell their stories and, well, rag a little bit on each other! (Are we surprised?)
The Pittsburgh Radio and Television Club is now the Media Association of Pittsburgh. Is anyone out there in PBRTV land a member?
Thanks for sharing. I seem to remember going to a Pgh R/TV meeting when I was a student a Duquesne. WDUQ was my first on air experience. In the summer of 1971 I was employed at WPGH TV and was there when they declared bankruptcy and went off the air. I then went to WFMJ TV in Youngstown, returning in Jan 1974 to help put WPGH TV back on the air. That was me that you heard on all the station IDs, promos and commercials. for the next few years. Thanks again for sharing.
That’s awesome, I remember hearing about one of the UHF stations in town going off the air and making a comeback, but didn’t know which one it was. I don’t know if our TV had higher than Ch 13 when I was little. Later we had channel 16, 19, 22, and 53, and a few other real distant ones, and my parents would watch the oldies like Beverly Hillbillies and Please Don’t Eat The Daisies on those channels. I barely remember what else they carried in the early days, except the oldies and cartoons, and it didn’t seem like UHF took off really until shows like The Simpsons. One show I always watched was It’s Alive on WBGN, with Prof. MC Square, horror movie classics like Chiller Theater played.
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[…] of weeks ago, I found completely by accident – that is to say I wasn’t looking for it. It is a video that celebrated 50 yearsof Broadcasting in Pittsburgh made in the mid 1990s which, although there were quite a few more than 50 years of Broadcasting at […]