That's a young me reading the news on WBYU 95.7FM New Orleans! I even built a microwave antenna and converter to pick up the low-power TV station that transmitted from One Shell Square. Fuzzy pictures received at the Riverbend uptown. Not much on the Web about WBYU, but it was my start in commercial radio.

My grandparents had cable for decades. I remember as a little guy watching this for the first time and finding it fascinating.

I remember this back in the 80's. We didn't pay for it, but it sometimes came in free. The antenna was a half-mile from our house. I think it was gone about 1989-90. It was one UHF ch. 16. I think if you had one of those C-band dishes you could pick it up as well. It was really something to have that when all we got was 3 channels.

This news scroll was also ubiquitous on New York City (Manhattan) cable TV in the off-hours when local stations were off the air, during the mid-to-late 1970's.

@singinglawnchair One of the legendary "elevator music" stations was KCTC in Sacramento- they changed formats to adult contemporary about 20 years ago, but their old format was still in the top 10 rated stations when they changed it. The problem was selling commercial time since a large number of their target audience was dying of old age! (It was often played in dentist's offices and places like that and sent me into a violent rage, but now I want it back!)

This is a hoot. I remember watching this when I was a kid in the early 80s. I had no idea other stations had it too. I always found it fascinating waiting to see what the next words were going to be.

HRMMMM ... I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN about being BORED/ANNOYED with the "beautiful music" stations, one of my friends called it "OLD-PEOPLE MUSIC", BACK THEN we HAD them, it SEEMS to BE a LONG-FORGOTTEN format - AND, MISSING it, NOW! In HINDSIGHT, WE SAY THINGS LIKE, "We don't know what we have, until it's gone ..." AND, today's GARBAGE "media" MAKES US NOW LONG FOR the THINGS we got BORED/ANNOYED with BACK THEN, HUH? IT'S COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE, I MISS "old" PBS, Cable-T.A.P., radio stations, EVEN THOSE "beautiful music" station DJs SOUNDED MORE PEACEFUL and HAPPY ... THIS is a GREAT upload, I REMEMBER WHEN you could ADJUST a bit of "MECHANICAL BUSINESS" on your TV, IF it was SO EQUIPPED, and YOU could HEAR the RADIO, or TAKE a PHONE CALL through your TV's "WORKINGS" ... AND - When those "DESCRAMBLING CONVERTER BOXES" (REMEMBER THOSE? 🤪) had SINGLE LETTERS for CHANNELS PRINTED on THEM, and MADE a "RACKETING-ZIPPER" SOUND as you SLID the LITTLE WHITE PLASTIC BIT ALONG THE BOX'S METAL TRACK ... 🤗🤗🤗 WHY do things CHANGE - BUT, NOT ALWAYS for the BETTER ...? AND - DUMB OLD COPYRIGHT NONSENSE! IF "they" were SO CONCERNED about "COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS", THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BROADCAST IT in the FIRST PLACE, HUH? 🤔🤨🙃🥰 AT LEAST, it's the GOOD ol' CARPENTERS! THANK YOU FOR THIS - I'M ALWAYS SO GRATEFUL that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE PRESERVED a STORAGE of THESE TREASURES! HOW I WISH THAT I COULD HAVE - BACK THEN!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Remember this when I little also then they would show two music videos first and then they go on to the movie back in 1981 . Star TV or channel M old school cable before Cox Communications or should I said Cox Cable in 1982 we had it in the summer of 1983 .

News from July 5. 1981.

I think the closest we got to beautiful music stations in the UK was the Test Card or the intervals between Schools TV programmes on BBC! I get the feeling these stations existed for TV stations to play over things like this. Also, is that some early speech synthesis from the "announcer"? I can't remember what Sky Movies used to do between the movies, whether they put on a featurette or just run the next film (this was the 1990s in the UK, I'm guessing the Pages from Reuters and WBYU was long gone in the US by then)

FM-100 was our "beautiful music" station... It was all my mom would listen to on our crappy, K-mart bought dual 8-track Capehart compact stereo. The speakers were sealed-box units w'4" full-range element, with cabinets as big as a 19-24" TV-screen & the depth of a shoebox! Yeah! sounds real-good, mom!

We all miss these stations!

I grew up in NOLA and remember seeing ads for this service and hearing my dad listen to WBYU. There was also another service like this called Channel M that showed movies all the time. I don't know if Star was a successor or competitor to Channel M, but Channel M was popular as there were several of their antennas in my neighborhood and some streets most of the houses had those antennas. I remember hearing Channel M showed adult films late at night. These services started dying out once cable came along. Seeing these graphics is pretty cool, I wonder if there are any from Channel M on KZfaq.

After Channel M, before STAR TV, before COX Cable set in. Ah, I remember it well. :^)

I remember star TV, two movies a night

WBYU-FM 95.7, currently WKBU with a classic rock format, calling itself "Bayou" once again.

I am only 23, so in case you're wondering how I know all the stuff I am going to spill, it's from self-research. About half of my cities market (Detroit) was this kind of music in the 60s and 70s, but the best station for this was Stereo 95 WLDM. 165,000 glorious watts of power (it could be heard as far south as Columbus Ohio, in full stereo). The station is now the shithouse of the Detroit airwaves, WKQI "Channel 9-5-5." Harold Tanner is shivering in his grave!

19:17 Does anyone else notice that the "Great Feature Films" effect is the same lettering as the "Double Showcase Winner" font on the older episodes of "The Price is Right"?

I know of those cable-free subscription-TV services you mention--Around me it was called "ON-TV", and broadcasted out of Joliet over the same airwaves as Ch.44(UHF) during the evening. If you look-around here, you'll find footage of an investigation into "pirate" DIY descramblers, done by the news-team of a local VHF-network affiliate. I found one of those DIY boxes... but not the highly-receptive gold-plated antenna that came with the service, which would still be worth using even today.

Pretty much the last days of "Bayou Stereo" around this time....Advertisers were flocking to the new bright and shiny Soft Rock of Joy FM down the dial.

I lOve how the first song is the elevator version of Rainy Days and Mondays by Carpenters.

This was Sunday, July 5th, 1981.

Second song is like an achter bilk cover of wichita lineman

And I'm ashamed I didn't know that- thanks for mentioning it though :).

This is just before Sadat was assassinated.

The third song sounds like the theme from "The Way We Were".

It's like watching a news

I wish we knew who was doing the first track. I tried using Siri, but she didn't even recognize the song as "Rainy Days and Mondays."

The break lasted 20 minutes? For a film? Why? At least in less boring than Prevue rebooting (even if i like Prevue Guide Music).

what did a home microwave ota antenna look like? the antenna that could recieve these channels back then that werent on regular broadcast ota?

Very clear picture, wonder what frequency range? Was this scrambled or filtered (your channel went to snow with out a decoder) If it was scrambled, more than likely OAK and beautiful music stations still exist, 101.1 out of Naples, FL is on and streaming!

19:06, on the right..... what is going on there? What movie is that from?

The news seems to cover the same stories of problems that never get solved, just going on and on with the names changed (Iran, costly social programs now known as entitlements). Sigh. The wheels keep spinning, like this is where I came in.

@singinglawnchair At least he was LIVE and did you noticed how he mentioned stereo? That was the on going trend, do you know the second track played? It sounds familiar. I think this was on 95.7 FM which is still alive in New Orleans. With 100,000 watts.

@singinglawnchair Do you know if this was a cable ch or TV ch?

@AarHan3 Was this on a scrambled broadcast TV station, or a microwave frequency picked up with a rented antenna?

Those bulletins haven't aged well in over 41 years. 🕸️

No ratings bumper? Why?

Do you know the rest of the tracks? I know the beginning is the Carpenters, in the middle is Neil Diamonds "Play Me"

interesting but eyeh8nbc why did you hate beautiful music stations???!!!!!..I like them at least on those stations is no rap...I not being racist I love black people just can't stand rap...an example of a beautiful music station is KQXY in Beaumont Texas heard of that town????!!!..it's on the border of Texas and Louisiana...anyway it played beautiful music til May of 1989 when it became a top 40 AC (Adult Contemporary) station..I still listen to it but it's not the same

@eyeh8nbc Microwave.

Lake 94.7 Should Get Rid Of Their Hot AC Format And Replace It With Beautiful Music