jimmypasta just came a little

CLASSIC! This was the service that Einhorn launched with Reinsdorf that had 2 regular movies, then it went to soft porn at night. Then you could switch over to SPORTSVISION on the box if a game was on and that was the only way to see Sox games for 5 years if you had this service. Meanwhile, the cubs went free cable all over the country.

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-930

Somewhere deep in the archives is the first few minutes of game 1 of the 1983 ALCS, for which channel 32 was allowed to produce a local telecast. It's Hawk Harrelson in the sidekick role, handing the play-by-play over to Don Drysdale.

It's a website of OLD commercials and TV shows

Lil Help here, BARGAINTOWN? Did it become ToysRus? I have a faint memory of getting a sled there as a very very young yute or maybe I wasnt there?

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-4542

Slightly OT, but here is the first German television broadcast, in 1935.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suCaJ0IUw8

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-4449

Wherein Harry and Jimmy can't seem to grasp the relevance of the "WLUP" callsign in Chicago as they promote the infamous night.

I'm definitely not pro-White Sox, as you all know by now, but I'll concede that there was something underground and cool about the Sox in the Veeck days. Just from watching clips like this one, I can feel that there's something just beneath the mainstream about this broadcast, something that might have been appealing to me had I grown up with this era of the team. Jimmy Piersall in particular doesn't sound much like anyone else.

What I love most about the clips of channel 44 and channel 50 is the distinct sense that living, breathing human beings were involved in the station you were watching.

And here I thought Bruce Hornsby actually wrote Mandolin Rain.

We were a Cubs house but my Dad loved Harry and Jimmy. Usually watched the Sox at night.

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-4449

Wherein Harry and Jimmy can't seem to grasp the relevance of the "WLUP" callsign in Chicago as they promote the infamous night.

I'm definitely not pro-White Sox, as you all know by now, but I'll concede that there was something underground and cool about the Sox in the Veeck days. Just from watching clips like this one, I can feel that there's something just beneath the mainstream about this broadcast, something that might have been appealing to me had I grown up with this era of the team. Jimmy Piersall in particular doesn't sound much like anyone else.

What I love most about the clips of channel 44 and channel 50 is the distinct sense that living, breathing human beings were involved in the station you were watching.

The Sox were the more popular team prior to Eddie and Jerrys great sportsvision idea. The cubs might still have overcome them with the WGN thing, the park, etc, but they made it quite easy with firing Harry and going to sportsvision. They dug their own grave.

Slightly OT, but here is the first German television broadcast, in 1935.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suCaJ0IUw8

And the second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw