LMAO

What? They still air that?

I guess they do

Rip jessie

Haha

Huh...

I kind of do, too, actually.

MEE TOO

Me as well

Especially the flying Mickey mouse head of death at 0:14

The 90's happened.

Christopher Sobieniak ...So did Anne Sweeney (she came on board in 1996, then a few months into 1997 the network was retooled)

That's a shame, I guess it was around that time the program breaks started to happen.

Right around the time MTV bought Nickelodeon and the "Cult of Teenhood" was born.

VideoRewind You mean when MTV (Viacom) Networks was created, right? Up until then (1984), both networks were originally owned by "Warner Amex", itself a subsidiary/joint venture of Warner Bros and American Express. Unless you're referring to when Viacom and it's subsidiaries were merged with Paramount in 1994.

First reply

RIP.

I recall A&E having this odd promo feed thing that was just a bunch of listed time codes while jazz music played.

HmMmMmMmMmM You think...

Ain't *that* a perfect fucking metaphor.

Yes

Yes it is

-_-

I know, i already see back then

Which is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7WjnayoqcmciHU.html

That was from the time The Disney Channel was on from 7AM-Midnight.

If you have the means to convert it, you should get that posted.

I did once posted it in a bit torrent group once. Can't realy post it now due to having a 15 minute limit on my account here. What I do remember is at the end after their promo feed wraps up, they display a message over tone that says "The Disney Channel/Good Night/Programming resumes at 6:00 AM EST" or something like that.

Cable networks used to run these feeds all the time. I remember The Discovery Channel running them early in the morning (7 AM Central) just before they began their programming. I also remember seeing those feeds on the old Request PPV network.

By the way, I think that's a young Bill Maher in that Steve Allen clip...

***** Ooooh!

??I guess they want everyone to recorded it from vhs

That music was used all over in the 80's.

Giltch?

8iii

@@hghuyyy7332 9jjj

Is that what that is? I've wondered about that glitch for a long time now but always assumed it was a hiccup with the VHS or someone playing with the channel select - though I never noticed that particular glitch on the tape. The same phenomenon occurs twice here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otmkqJB9zNiRnJs.html, which was the last program of the night before this promo feed.

GeoNeilUK " *_You and Me, Kid_* looks vomit inducing " I assume you haven't even WATCHED the show?

I think that the start up sound would’ve been the usual “zip a Dee Doo dah” theme. (Extended to five minutes)

PIX Promos & More ppo

Oh, and besides, we're almost at 200 comments! WOO-HOO!

Hey, I didn't forget about you. I went looking through a number of films I hoped had been taped on AMC, and most of them ended up being TNT. One was Disney Nighttime. The last was the History Channel, hosted by Sander Vanocur. I'll still be looking though. Something might turn up, even if it's after the end of something that was taped over.

+VideoRewind - Keep looking for AMC tapes.

It's the only one I already knew for certain that I had, but I have many, many more tapes to go through.

Other memorable Disney Channel shows include-"Quack Attack", "The Adventures of the Gummi Bears", "Dumbo's Circus", "DTV', "Aladdin", "Sing Along With Belle", "Under the Umbrella Tree" and "Lizzie McGuire".

It was normal at the time so probably not.

@@lollipopcorndog i think it would've scared me cuz the thx intro (the really loud one before some movies) scared me lol

michael anthony hilario This sign-off most likely occurred at 1am ET/midnight CT. You will also see in the promo feed disclaimer the military time displays in the lower black linear box referring to the start of the promo clips which would be 1:10am ET/12:10am CT. Man do I miss these immensely.

Blueberry Pitbull Back then when cable was still relatively new to the public, some channels did not operate on a 24-hour schedule. They were just on for certain hours then signed off the air for a while mostly for transmitter maintenance and other technical issues that needed to be cleaned up before going back on the air later that morning. When the Disney Channel launched in April of 1983, it incorporated the sign-off/sign-on practice every night until they finally went 24/7 fully in December of 1986. However, TDC still signs off for approximately an hour once a month for the aforementioned equipment maintenance.

If only. And gosh, I probably had so much more. My parents back in the day were a bit too hasty with reusing VHS tapes.

@@VideoRewind Oh.

I've found a few of the shows here on youtube. Five Mile Creek, Edison Twins, Steve Allen's Comedy Room, You and Me Kid etc..

That didn't exist on cable.

It's easier to understand by asking this question: "Why did they ever have sign offs?" The answer to that is, "Because automation wasn't trustworthy enough to keep a network running all night, work ethic was different (making employees work at 2am wasn't done often unless you really REALLY needed to).

Why didn't they just run the promo feed all night

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@@cbsteffen famine is coming

I’m one of them

Agreed Darth McCree forced me.

Me Too! 😂

thats just a satellite eclipse, idk why it happens, im just saying, that is NOT a glitch, it just happened every now and then

The one with Chrome Mickey.

They were already figuring they'd own the Death Star one day.

crazycoollady1999 At 1am EST/midnight CST.

So it only went off the air for 10 mins?

Not exactly. When the Disney channel aired these promotional material spots, they would usually last about an hour or so. Then the sign-off would continue with a new blue screen that would come on and the text would display: THE DISNEY CHANNEL GOOD NIGHT PROGRAMMING WILL RESUME AT 6 AM EDT There's also a strip of color bars in the middle of that slide included with the tone that you hear in the 1st part of the video stating when the promo material begins.

Exactly what it says. But it was for regional and local broadcasters to record the stream of commercials, and then manually splice them into their own taped programming. This is how things worked before digital streaming and computers started handling this automatically.