Jukebox Network 1988 RARE TV FOOTAGE 80s Music Video Channel
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Some very rare footage from 1988 of the listings on THE JUKEBOX NETWORK. Listen to that robot voice! Most of this footage is from August 27th, 1988. The channel started in 1985 as THE VIDEO JUKEBOX NETWORK. In the 90s, the channel became known simply as THE BOX. In 1999, MTV bought the channel and shut it down in 2001. The UK version of THE BOX still exists.
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I partially named my karaoke channel's name as an homage to The Box. I recorded dozens of The Box VHS tapes as a kid and stashed them for the future... I lost them during a move. Watching this makes me so happy, as I've never seen footage of the channel from before 1990. Thank you.
"Pop, rock, rap, metal what you want when you want it. Power to the people" -Robot voice for Jukebox network
My mom used to be so mad when she got her phone bill lol
I called one time and the phone showed like I called twice for the same video. I knew some people said a video showed up 7 times on their phone bill!! 🤤
My mother was too! Man did we get "in trouble"!!!
This was about the time we got it on Sammons Cable in Fort Worth. It was Channel 40. That was as high as the channels went in those days. They played a lot of rap that MTV and even BET wouldn’t play in those days. I got in trouble for ordering Posse on Broadway.
ALL THIS IS TRUE. CHANNEL 40...forgot about that.
This must've been when it was just on a few UHF stations and cable channels in Miami. Man when they said the station was rough around the edges in the early days they really meant it. I hope more people keep preserving their stuff from this channel, it's in short supply as it is.
It was also on in Pittsburgh (where I taped it).
@@weirdpaulp I vaguely remember this because I was very little at the time like 2 or 3 years old at the time
@@JAG214 same here at my great grandmother and aunt house channel.47
I have a VHS recording of The Box from 1993-94. Too bad I don't have anything to convert footage from analog to digital AND retain high quality.
This was dope to see. I didn't get to see The Box later until 92-93 at my Grandmother's house in NC since she has satellite.
I remember seeing this exact list scroll on our 24in zenith TV.
First time I'd heard of Suicidal Tendencies. Possessed to skate was my favorite song to rock while being a "poser" on my G&S skateboard.
I grew up in Georgia. I remember this station. My little Niece got in trouble for calling.
"THE NUMBER ONE ROCK & ROLL SUPERCOMPUTER."
I suppose the use of a "talking computer" went out very quickly with this channel as I recall these menus being silent when I first watched the channel, though some station may play music from a radio station during these segments as well.
When I first watched it in '90, there was a variant that consisted an audio from a 1986 techno/electro track ("The Telephone Call" from Kraftwerk), but it was an instrumental version. It was played in the background. It was used as a short variant of the menu.
@@mrbensonhurst9229 That sounds cool! Mine was just a normal radio station.
@@ChristopherSobieniak Also, in around the Winter/Spring of 1991, it also had a video montage as a background and there were a few of them. one was for Hip Hop/R&B, the second was for Rock, the third one for Modern rock, I think and the fourth was for House. Along with each of those menus were a megamix of those styles of music.
These were short versions of the menu. In NYC, there were no radio stations embedded into the menus, just the megamixes.
@@mrbensonhurst9229 I remember those!
I assume this is the "House" track... ua-cam.com/video/sCezUwyWEaM/v-deo.html
Hello there! The number one rock & roll supercomputer!
Its cool you saved all this. Got a tape or 2 somewhere of old music videos my buddy taped. You gotta hook me up with some tab for Hot Water Heater and Please Dont Break My Atari. Been watching those videos over and over. Just found your channel a couple days ago when I searched for McDonalds Menu Song to show my daughter. I was only kid in school that could do the whole thing
Omg this took me back 😊
The Box That Rocks!!! The Jukebox Network!!!!
I remember placing my comment many months ago requesting for you to upload this. Thank you very much!
I notice it cuts off when a music video starts, was there any more to this tape that exists?
Wow. I just went back to middle school.
this is so cool!! i was born the year this came out but i was watchin the box as a kid in pgh :). didn't know it was like this first.
In the early 90s Sammons replaced MTV in our town with this and all us kids got PISSED. After a year they brought back MTV and kept this channel, which I would occasionally call up to order Weird Al Songs. I remember repeatedly ordering the Jurrasic Park video he made.
Replaced MTV with it? That must have been awful!
"Hey Talking Moose! What Are You Doing Here?"
So this is what Stephen Hawking did to pay the bills.
Great stuff, Paul! Thanks for posting!
Thanks Michael, glad you dig it! I'm going to try to start posting more "public domain" stuff like this, it can't hurt my channel any!
Would love to see something like this return to cable TV, especially since MTV and VH1 no longer play videos, or if they do, it's in the wee hours of the morning when everyone's still asleep! If it wasn't for outlets like UA-cam keeping this art form alive, it would've gone the way of darn near everything else I enjoyed from the 80's, like making mix tapes, renting VHS movies and my Colecovision Adam gaming system. Stuff like this makes me very nostalgic for times gone by!
Would be nice, or at least on regular broadcast TV again where I first saw this on.
I remember when it was the Jukebox Network where they played music videos like MTV and VH1 did at the time, and it shows a list of songs that are on there during the video. I do remember when the Jukebox Channel ran a music video by Madonna called “Justify My Love” which was the uncensored version that it was on there while MTV and VH1 got banned for sexuality, but it was on the Jukebox Network during 1990.
Did you have the steering wheel and gas pedal for Turbo?
@@dryerlint17 We had that for our Colecovision!
Wow!!! 😮 This is what the Jukebox looked like when it was the 1988-89 period.
I remember this back in Pittsburgh
I used to watch the BOX all the time. That's where I heard Toy Box (think of the band Aqua, that did Barbie Girl. That style of music) for the first time.
I could listen to The Number One Rock And Roll Supercomputer`s voice forever lol. Absolutely love this oldschool computer voice.Ive never seen this when it was out.We only had on our cable system MTV,VH1,AND BET. I dont understand how I didnt know about this. It was probably for the best.I already got in enough trouble playing with the telephone back then.
We used to love this channel in the late 80s...thank you
I remember this. I watched a lot of rap videos on it with my dad.
Selina Crockett Rappin’ Rodney! That’s one I’m going to search next.
Wizard of Wor !!! Got an upgrade. I remember the jukebox network on channel 36 in Chicago back in 89-90.
I've got a question. During the 89-90 period, when did the Jukebox Network changed its menu graphics to the static blue looking background.
We had it in New Orleans on k10ng channel 10
Thank You Weird Paul.
That is a piece of history, very cool!
Love seeing videos of these old channels. This channel feels like a crossbreed between the Prevue Guide Channel (specifically their sister channel, Sneak Prevue), a cable company's 'bulletin board system', and of course MTV.
Also, I wonder how those "videos" would play. Would they had worked in a fashion similar to pay-per-view?
Hey, Paul...greetings from Bethel Park. Love this....thanks for posting....remembering the days watching the Jukebox when 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" would play back to back to back to back....lol
I remember that! I always watched down at the bottom to see what people were requesting!
@@weirdpaulp Someone had money to blow for that!
Yeah, the Jukebox started to get big around 89 through 92, even through the Box phase, it was still big.
@@mrbensonhurst9229 I'm sure playing what MTV couldn't gave then a boost.
Wow. Awesome! Remember the song, “Over My Head” by Toni Basil? And the song, “Live is Life” By Opus?
I really miss the box it was great despite its shortcomings
Wow! Takes me back!
Great stuff paul, please post more of this stuff! Think of it as another way to archive but we get to see it!
I remember Jukebox video in my area in 1990 when Madonna made the Justify my love video. MTV banned the and was playing non-stop on Jukebox video. Prong also released the lost and found video that year with by Faith No More's Epic playing in between Madonna's video like a war of pop and heavy metal for Jukebox domination. I got in trouble calling in to watch Prong, such an underrated band. Good times on TV with music in those days, took me back. Thanks Awesome Paul
That was certainly leverage for the network that it didn't have censorship of any sort with these videos MTV either edited or turned down.
Awesome stuff. Always wanted to see footage of this channel around this time.
Any more you have of this channel?
🤔...I don't reckon I've used a touch tone telephone in about twelve years...💯✔
I used one today.
I know that voice! So this is what Amiga's Chessmaster did after he was usurped. It's sad sometimes to see (or in this case hear) the mighty after they've fallen...
I wouldn't doubt an Amiga was used to display the text here and the voice.
@@ChristopherSobieniak
It might be! Software for the Amiga existed that worked similar to a typical character generator.
@@PajamaFrix I'm sure there was. One I heard of was "TV*Text".
shop.myamigashop.com/products/tv-text-v1-0-1987-zuma-group-for-commodore-amiga
Cool footage!
Wow, the robot voice reminds me of the 1981 Midway Arcade game, "Wizard of Wor" it's weird, and it's cool!
Classic
Awesome
OMG I remember Juicy Gotcha Krazy by Oaktown's 3.5.7 would play damn near non-stop.
I remember seeing that one a lot.
Voice is still better than the India scammers calling me today...
I remember when they changed over to just calling it "The Box Music Channel", I believe. And then shortly it faded away.
It stuck around until 2000 in the US. A version that was set up in the UK continues to this day, though it's focus might be different today from what was started here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Box_(American_TV_channel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Box_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)
In the Memphis/Eastern Arkansas area, it was on ch. 36.
Description: Logo #1. A red/black gradient background. We see seven mint green colored lines going across the screen(the first five are on top, close together and the remaining two on the middle but spreaded apart.). Then we see a greenish metalic 3d marquee style banner on the upper part of the screen. The first five lines that are on top are bisected. In the marquee, the menu, phone number and billing information are provided. In the middle, the artist/title and selection number are separated by the two remaining lines. The artist names are in blue terminal font. The song titles are in orange varsity font. The selection codes are also in blue terminal font, same as the artist names but stretched out. We hear a robotic voice over explaining about the channel. These are heard in intervals.
In the beginning of the clip, who are the musicians on the album covers on the ad? I know one of them are The Gap Band.
When did they start using the standard, graphical look? Was it either in the fall 1989, or Winter 1990?
Out of curiousity, when did they change into the pink or baby blue background? Was it either in Winter of 1990, or the Spring of 1990?
The original UA-cam
Description: Logo #2. A grey/black gradient background. On the middle of the screen, we see a computer grey box with four turquoise green slots in it. The artist names are in blue bold italic Varsity font. Meanwhile, the song titles are in magenta Terminal font. The selection codes are in stretched italic Varsity font. On top of the grey box, we see the words "CALL 976-4747" on the left. On the right, we see the words "THREE DIGIT CODE", all in black bold Terminal font. A dot is placed in the middle of it. On the bottom, we see the words "EACH CALL COSTS $2.00". Below it, we see the words "BELL OF PENNSYLVANIA WILL BILL YOU." in bold white font. They are in upper case format.
Shreveport, Louisiana 1989-1990.
POP ROCK RAP JAZZ METAL
WHENEVER YOU WANT IT
YO
ON THE JUKEBOX NETWORK
YOU BE THE VJ.
Question: When did the channel get to the blueish pink menu background? Was it in the winter or spring of 1990? Just wondering.
@@mrbensonhurst9229 Last time I saw this was July 1990. So maybe 1991! Or maybe each city has its own version!
I first saw it in July or August '90, too. My guess is that it may of came in the winter or spring of that year(1990). When it hit in the NYC area where I'm from, we had the blue/pink static variant. It was the first time that I've seen "The Humpty Dance" video.
@@mrbensonhurst9229 I was 12 years old and I just moved back to Shreveport, La. from Miami, Fl. I was happy to find out that it was located in Miami, Fl. on Biscayne Blvd.
The Box that Rocks!!!! Remember that slogan?
I miss the background hiss of 8th generation VHS.
At 00:01, who are the groups/artists in those album covers on the right side of the ad?
Done po.
O o sige
Wonder what that number is now
What a sobg
Audio:"𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎! 𝚃𝚑𝚎 #𝟷 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 & 𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚛! 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘𝚜. 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎. 𝙰𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘𝚜, 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚘𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙹𝚞𝚔𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚡!"
"𝙿𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢! 𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙹𝚞𝚔𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚡 𝚊𝚝 𝟿𝟽𝟼-𝟺𝟽𝟺𝟽. 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘. 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗. 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝙿𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚜𝚢𝚕𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞."
The box lol first place I seen mc hammer
How much money did you spend on tapes over all these years!
I really don't know! I can tell you that I bought the cheapest ones that I could!
Atlantic City area got this channel circa April 1990, replacing WNYW CHannel 5 IIRC.
What did menu background look like in that time?
STEPHEN!
why did they use a crippled wheelchair using spastic for the voice over
What did the robot say at 0:18 to 0:23?
"I can mention them all one by one."
Thx!
I wonder how much a video cost?
Looking at what was listed at the time, $2 for one video, $5 for three videos.
Hello weird paul
Hello!
S.A.M. from the Commodore 64?
Might be.
I just compared them both. It is S.A.M.
Hilarious 😊
First
I remember the more updated version of this around the early 90s in.chicagoland. i used to throw it on the UHF in thd morning and see what i could see. I definitely dont rekember this vouce tho
Classic