39:17 - The test pattern announcing the February 1984 move of the Movie Channel's west coast feed to the Galaxy 1 satellite. This was around the time that Showtime and the Movie Channel had merged their operations together, and on February 1, 1984, the Times-Mirror Spotlight service had ceased service, having sold its transponder space and subscriber list to Showtime.
The Al Trautwig segment is awesome. I would of loved to of had a satellite dish back in those days b4 encryption. George Offman who was being interviewed by Trautwig, ended up as a WSCR announcer. Very knowledgeable about the Chicago Soorts Scene. Keep the cool things coming. Do you have a whole game like this?
23:12 That device is a portable microwave transmitter. Probably was easier to use that than to run a cable from a satellite truck all the way up to the top of the Rose Bowl. But it meant they would be sending their signal directly to a local KABC receive tower, and then KABC would turn it around on this satellite feed to WLS.
Who's he kiddin, with that snort, he's a partier
39:17 - The test pattern announcing the February 1984 move of the Movie Channel's west coast feed to the Galaxy 1 satellite. This was around the time that Showtime and the Movie Channel had merged their operations together, and on February 1, 1984, the Times-Mirror Spotlight service had ceased service, having sold its transponder space and subscriber list to Showtime.
Going off the sporting events, at least the back half of the video was recorded on 12/31/83
The Al Trautwig segment is awesome. I would of loved to of had a satellite dish back in those days b4 encryption. George Offman who was being interviewed by Trautwig, ended up as a WSCR announcer. Very knowledgeable about the Chicago Soorts Scene. Keep the cool things coming. Do you have a whole game like this?
December 31, 1983. USA Network. ESPN. CNN. Various news feeds. Thanks for being a pirate surfer !
23:12 That device is a portable microwave transmitter. Probably was easier to use that than to run a cable from a satellite truck all the way up to the top of the Rose Bowl. But it meant they would be sending their signal directly to a local KABC receive tower, and then KABC would turn it around on this satellite feed to WLS.
22:10 1/2/84 - Rose Bowl game - UCLA vs Illinois.
Is that Al Trautwig? 7:58
Thanks for that info. I tried searching for his identification to no avail. I added his name to the description of the video.