Path: news.lava.net!usenet From: nospam@nospam.net (Mel) Newsgroups: soc.culture.hawaii Subject: Re: TV in the old days Date: 10 Sep 1998 18:05:05 GMT Organization: No New Taxes! Lines: 49 Approved: mjwise@lava.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: malasada.lava.net > > No forget, the TV sets had DIALS like twist-knobs of a stove (but made > > lots of clackety noise). To add to this there were only 12 channels on the clickty clack VHF dial (2 thru 13), and about 60 more channels on the continuous dial UHF one, if your TV even had this. Back in the mid 1960s the only TV stations in Hawaii were the following: KONA Channel 2 (NBC, later became KHON) KHVH Channel 4 (ABC, later became KITV) KGMB Channel 9 (always was CBS) KTRG Channel 13 (indpendent, later became KIKU and then KHNL) KHET Hawaii Public TV @ Channel 10 went on the air in 1967 I believe. > Okay, let me try to out-do this. Growing up on Kauai and before the > advent of cable there we had UHF translator stations. So instead of > watching KGMB on channel 9 we had to tune it to channel 79 I think Kauai still gets some of its programming thru UHF translater stations but I would assume by now most people have cable there. The UHF translater stations are shown on each station's ID logos at the top of the hour.. you have to kind of quickly read the fine type below the main TV station call sign.. i.e. KITV will list Channel 4 very promptly but below that there are the callsigns for the neighbor island translators including the UHF ones on Kauai. The newer stations, KHNL and KFVE rely exclusively on UHF to rebroadcast their signals to the neighbor islands since space is scare on VHF. All of this will be changing in 2006 when federal mandate calls for stations to switch to an all digital signal. > Or the mid-70's when at times the newscast would be broadcast in > black&white and Bob Sevey would say "the reason we are in black&white > is because the color cameras are at the HIC (now called the NBC) arena > being setup to cover tonight's UH basketball game". Geee... I never noticed that because in our house we never got a color TV until the late 1970s...hahaha. Definitely remember the UH basktball games during the fabulous five times... I think Joe Moore was doing the play by play on Channel 9. MEL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: news.lava.net!usenet From: "King Pineapple" Newsgroups: soc.culture.hawaii Subject: Re: TV in the old days Date: 10 Sep 1998 21:05:02 GMT Organization: White Mtn. Pineapple Pickers Cooperative Lines: 15 Approved: mjwise@lava.net Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: malasada.lava.net Here's a couple of blasts from the past from Honolulu TV in the 60's-anyone remember these? 1. "The Weird Beard" hosting the late night horror movies (Saturday nights I think?) Whatever happened to that guy? I know he was a DJ on the old (1380) KPOI. 2. In '65, I believe, they started to fly out the tapes of Huntley-Brinkley report from LA to show on tape delay at 10 or 11 PM. This of course was well before there was live satellite relays from the mainland. I also remember visiting the mainland in '65, seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, flying back home, and seeing the same show a week later!