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WTVG Channel 68 Sign-On (1979)

This is an audio clip, with accompanying ID graphic, from WTVG Channel 68, Newark, New Jersey recorded on April 14, 1979. Channel 68 started out as ...

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5UP7 commented on 14 Aug 2012

Journey to Adventure, Stock Market Today, Wall Street Perspective, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, Green Acres, and (one of my favorites) Dobie Gillis. :-) (Actually, it was through watching Dobie Gillis that I discovered The Uncle Floyd Show.) Channel 68 had their own "TV 68" News program for a while, too.

wmbrown6 commented on 06 Feb 2009

I remember this version of "Theme from Shaft" from a 1972 Pickwick album of the biggest hits of 1971; it seems that this recording may've been by British music conductor Stanley Black, though if anyone knows for sure I'd be glad to know. This sure ISN'T Isaac Hayes' original.

karen sammartine commented on 05 Jan 2013

Does anyone remember a show that came on either right before or right after The Uncle Floyd Show in 1980 on channel 68 or 60 in NJ called Rockers 80? It was hosted by Bob Marley and had guests like The Rolling Stones. Awesome!

Andrew Fernandez commented on 01 Jan 2014

and channel 31 since it is pax/ion. I can pick up this station from n.c. where I live now. I used to pick up channel 9 ten years ago until my cable operator deleted it because it was affiliated with upn,now my tv.

5UP7 commented on 07 Oct 2012

Correct! The station began broadcasting as WBTB-TV, followed by WTVG, and finally WWHT. Check out the video description for a link to recordings taken with the station signing on with these other callsigns.

Ed Kaz commented on 23 May 2013

I worked there. The place was primitive. In a house. Under a huge antenna. Journey to Adventure was on giant 2" reels. If you dropped one on your foot you'd know it. What a lame sign on.

Cary Groneveldt commented on 09 Aug 2012

*ahem* What I want to say is -- Great, great station .... "Mighty Marvel Superheroes", "Rat Patrol", "WoMetCo Home Theater" & of course, "The Uncle Floyd Show"!!

TAMR213 commented on 05 Feb 2013

This is before my time, was born in 1989, but I love all this old school NJ television. Gotta love the Shaft theme in the background of the station info!

ssbohio commented on 14 Jul 2013

The WTVG call letters later were used in Toledo Ohio when a change in ownership required a change in call letters for the former WSPD-TV.

sr71ablackbird commented on 16 Jan 2010

I was watching this and noticed that these call letters are now those of a station 13 in Toledo Ohio which used to be nbc and is now abc

njtom07974 commented on 18 Feb 2013

ahhhhhhhhhhh i miss those days. i watched uncle floyd, mister ed, green acres, speed racer. love that bob and more.

nankerphelge17 commented on 24 May 2013

I just closed my eyes and listened to the beginning of my 10 hr shift.The haunted house on the hill.Where's Mary?

pepitone201 commented on 01 Sep 2015

Love to hear John Pichitino's voice. He was also the voice who did the opening to Uncle Floyd Show .

richmwill commented on 01 Feb 2009

Ah, good old Wometco. I believe this was the first pay-tv station? (during nighttime hours, at least)

Voice123 commented on 28 Feb 2012

Omg! 2 WTC.... This UHF channel was good for only the Uncle Floyd Show and grainy WHT movies. LOL

Andrew Fernandez commented on 01 Jan 2014

channel 55 was also the great uhf. it had classic show and a state of the art newscast.

15steelcity commented on 01 Feb 2013

who can forget "speed racer and hercules!!..dam i miss those years.

Veronica Carreño commented on 17 Oct 2015

wtvg news will be at 6 and 11 in 2002 wtvg 68 swiches to wfut 68

wmbrown6 commented on 15 Feb 2009

Yes, since 1979 - the same year Newark's Channel 68 became WWHT.

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