Those colored cars and sounds bring back so many fond memories for me growing up. I'm so glad people post these old feeds. I grew up with an old big dish sat in isolated mountain town in the middle of nowhere. As I kid I thought it was the coolest thing ever to search for so many different show, news, cartoon and other ect. Feeds, PLACE COMMERICAL HERE. Nobody I know today gets that.
NASCAR fans love watching the classic races from the 1980s and 1990s that you could view on satellite feed. Then somewhere near the end of 2000 all those feeds got digitized and encrypted sadly...
Amazing.....some classic feeds from Telstar 301. I used to enjoy watching a wild feed on Transponder 9 of Thundercats when WOLD would feed it to stations. And of course, there was the Alvin and the Chipmunks feed on Warner Bros' transponder 3.
I thought I was the only one who did this. As a kid in the 80s, I was tinkering around with stuff like this. I wish I had recorded some of the stuff I stumbled on.
This is great to see....my family had satellite from 1995-98....I'm also from NH....we used to be able to just mash buttons randomly for a minute or two on the remote and get free live PPVs...
I remember, how complicated ordering ppv could be, especially for a kid and having to leave the satellite on a certain channel prior to broadcast or it wouldn't transmit. My dad was mad, when he came home from work and the wrestling wasn't appearing on the subscribe channel.
Back in the early eighties I watched this stuff ALL of the time. The feeds were better than the shows. I got to see Hunter Thompson getting ready for a Tom Snyder interview...lots of goofing-off at CNN...it was a short time to look behind the curtain of lies media is, by its very nature dependent on.
growing up, we had cable, or, nothing; just, local terrestrial TV. it was for the most part, very predictable and buttoned down. i am jealous of missing out on this weirdness. You got things like "trouble numbers" and, lines to production offices; as a kid, it would have been tough to avoid the temptation of prank calling.
The good old days of free-range satellite TV signals. My neighbor once had a huge dish antenna in his yard before it was torn down since he had to move to another state.
0:12 is for TV stations such as WEWS in Cleveland, WJLA in Washington D.C., WVEC in Hampton Roads, WPLG in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, WISH in Indianapolis, WTEN in Albany, New York, WDIV in Detroit, WPTV in West Palm Beach and KNSD in San Diego; 0:15 is for WABC in New York City plus WPTZ in Burlington and 0:18 is for WLS in Chicago, KGUN in Tucson, Arizona and KSDK in St. Louis.
WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky KOMO in Seattle, Washington WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania KXTV in Sacramento, California WFTV in Orlando, Florida WALA in Mobile, Alabama WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island
@@trevorpanno516 WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania KGO-TV in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin KTSP-TV (now KSAZ, then-CBS) in Phoenix, Arizona KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas
This brings back memories... I used to to the same thing late at night - scan every sat. looking for unlisted backhaul feeds, never know what you'd find :-)
WBRC-TV (then-ABC now FOX) in Birmingham, Alabama 0:21 The News at Noon with Bill Bolen followed by Jeopardy! at 12:30, 0:18 NEW Episode of Jeopardy! at 4:30 followed by Channel 6 News Live at Five with Scott Richards and Brenda Ladun.
@nomadcowatbk I think signal scrambling still existed during this period on pay per view channels, HBO, etc. What's happening in these videos are raw feeds of non-pay per view channels, etc.
I had one in '91 and I used mainly for NASA SALECT TV Cable NASA sucked. I did have other interests as well like news backhauls from the gulf war for one.
Yes, check the Programming Center website. They still sell subscriptions for many channels. However, many channels are no longer available on C-band. No Discovery or Animal Planet (but you can watch Discovery Family, TLC and American Heroes), no Disney Channel (but Disney XD and Disney Jr. are still there), no ESPN or ESPN 2, only ESPN Classic. No MTV or VH1, only VH1 Classic, MTV2, MTV Hits, etc.
BionicCommander89 Sell subscriptions? I thought the whole point of those big dishes was free tv if you go through the effort of putting one up and use a descrambler box.
Probably not since this was in the days of analogue tv. But chances are, some enthusiasts out there are probably keeping c-band satellite alive with amateur tv and such, like cb radio and shortwave radio enthusiasts now.
Yup! Since a lot of this kind of stuff wasn’t securely encoded/scrambled, you were able to see it if you were lucky enough to have tuned into the right satellite at the right time.
Yep. They are syndicated programs for stations to pull down & basically do whatever they want with. There were also promo rolls that they could run commercial promos with.
Those colored cars and sounds bring back so many fond memories for me growing up. I'm so glad people post these old feeds. I grew up with an old big dish sat in isolated mountain town in the middle of nowhere. As I kid I thought it was the coolest thing ever to search for so many different show, news, cartoon and other ect. Feeds, PLACE COMMERICAL HERE. Nobody I know today gets that.
i remember it totally blew my mind that you could watch what was happening during commercials on live broadcasts
NASCAR fans love watching the classic races from the 1980s and 1990s that you could view on satellite feed.
Then somewhere near the end of 2000 all those feeds got digitized and encrypted sadly...
1991 was the height of pastel colored shapes floating in the background in the overall history of graphic design.
I love this so much. Finding hidden TV gems like this is why TH-cam is so great. Good on you!
It's amazing what you could find on satellite back then.
Truth.
This brings back great memories from the 1990s.
RIP Alex!
Amazing.....some classic feeds from Telstar 301. I used to enjoy watching a wild feed on Transponder 9 of Thundercats when WOLD would feed it to stations. And of course, there was the Alvin and the Chipmunks feed on Warner Bros' transponder 3.
Omg, I thought I was the only one about 1986 or so that did this!
I thought I was the only one who did this. As a kid in the 80s, I was tinkering around with stuff like this. I wish I had recorded some of the stuff I stumbled on.
What did you find with it?
This is great to see....my family had satellite from 1995-98....I'm also from NH....we used to be able to just mash buttons randomly for a minute or two on the remote and get free live PPVs...
That's awesome. Those were some fun times, indeed.
I remember, how complicated ordering ppv could be, especially for a kid and having to leave the satellite on a certain channel prior to broadcast or it wouldn't transmit. My dad was mad, when he came home from work and the wrestling wasn't appearing on the subscribe channel.
Back in the early eighties I watched this stuff ALL of the time. The feeds were better than the shows. I got to see Hunter Thompson getting ready for a Tom Snyder interview...lots of goofing-off at CNN...it was a short time to look behind the curtain of lies media is, by its very nature dependent on.
I used to watch days of alives 2 weeks before It aired love c band i miss it back in 90s i used to get 90210 free it was awesome
growing up, we had cable, or, nothing; just, local terrestrial TV. it was for the most part, very predictable and buttoned down. i am jealous of missing out on this weirdness. You got things like "trouble numbers" and, lines to production offices; as a kid, it would have been tough to avoid the temptation of prank calling.
I loved the Jeopardy segment.
Yeah - fun stuff!
The good old days of free-range satellite TV signals. My neighbor once had a huge dish antenna in his yard before it was torn down since he had to move to another state.
0:12 is for TV stations such as WEWS in Cleveland, WJLA in Washington D.C., WVEC in Hampton Roads, WPLG in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, WISH in Indianapolis, WTEN in Albany, New York, WDIV in Detroit, WPTV in West Palm Beach and KNSD in San Diego; 0:15 is for WABC in New York City plus WPTZ in Burlington and 0:18 is for WLS in Chicago, KGUN in Tucson, Arizona and KSDK in St. Louis.
WWL-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana
WAFB in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WFAA in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Also WKBW in Buffalo, New York.
@@trevorpanno516 WAGA-TV (then-CBS) in Atlanta, Georgia
WBRC-TV (then-ABC) in Birmingham, Alabama.
WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky
KOMO in Seattle, Washington
WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
KXTV in Sacramento, California
WFTV in Orlando, Florida
WALA in Mobile, Alabama
WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island
@@trevorpanno516 WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio.
WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
KGO-TV in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California
WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee
WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi
WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama
WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin
KTSP-TV (now KSAZ, then-CBS) in Phoenix, Arizona
KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas
i love the crt's wall
This brings back memories... I used to to the same thing late at night - scan every sat. looking for unlisted backhaul feeds, never know what you'd find :-)
Dr. Gene Scott!
RIP Alex Trebek.
Rest in Peace alex
Alex Trebek is fucking kool as hell. Good to see him still up and running.
Not anymore, he passed away in 2021.
@@luisreyes1963 Actually, he passed away on November 8, 2020
Yep Jeopardy is still alive and kicking
With some new guest hosts. Ken Jennings is one.
Alex sadly passed away after fighting cancer for a year and a half.
This is priceless. Thank you.
Thanks! I love things like this too. Always on the look out for them!
I wouldn't be surprised if Alex doesn't remember doing this.
Friday evening CONUS bloopers of the week was possibly favorite feed you could count on.
@porphyriaboy Right on. Yeah, whenever I watched C-Band, I never watched the actual programming because I spent all my time looking for wildfeeds!
i sometime come a cross giant satellite dishes still left in back yards always wonder what they did with it
WBRC-TV (then-ABC now FOX) in Birmingham, Alabama 0:21 The News at Noon with Bill Bolen followed by Jeopardy! at 12:30, 0:18 NEW Episode of Jeopardy! at 4:30 followed by Channel 6 News Live at Five with Scott Richards and Brenda Ladun.
When oj chased happend i didn't know because i watching nba finals on sat. It was cool used to wstch oj trail on wild feeds. Love c band sat
Totally remember that day of Nicole Simpson's driver's license photo on practically every news feed, thinking who the hell is this person?
2:24
"Now entering the studio are today's contestants..."
Boy hope that health holds up. Amazing this show has been running since I can remember
Unfortunately…
Randy do you Remember ANC All News Channel by Conus
@nomadcowatbk I think signal scrambling still existed during this period on pay per view channels, HBO, etc. What's happening in these videos are raw feeds of non-pay per view channels, etc.
Around the same time Classic Concentration was canceled
Interesting.. Yeah, that may not have been the most compelling show, but it had its moments.
I had one in '91 and I used mainly for NASA SALECT TV Cable NASA sucked. I did have other interests as well like news backhauls from the gulf war for one.
Is C-Band still used for TV today? Can someone with one of those big, old 8' dishes I see rusting upstate (NY) receive any programming today? Thanks
Yes, check the Programming Center website. They still sell subscriptions for many channels. However, many channels are no longer available on C-band. No Discovery or Animal Planet (but you can watch Discovery Family, TLC and American Heroes), no Disney Channel (but Disney XD and Disney Jr. are still there), no ESPN or ESPN 2, only ESPN Classic. No MTV or VH1, only VH1 Classic, MTV2, MTV Hits, etc.
BionicCommander89
Sell subscriptions? I thought the whole point of those big dishes was free tv if you go through the effort of putting one up and use a descrambler box.
Hubjeep There are still several free channels there too, including some network affiliates, ethnic programming, religious stuff, etc.
+BionicCommander89 do you know if any of the channels can be seen in HD or if a digicipher II required for those HD feeds
+Hubjeep they still using NTSC in C band? if not, when the NTSC sat ceased to be broadcasted?
satellite surfing is where it's at, come join the club~ uh club marioooo
what the ducktales episode at 11:38?
Renan Cordeiro it's been 2 years. I guess we'll never learn what "pep" is.
Is Pep a mimic of Pepsi
before they scrambled signals?
@DuplicatedOnce thanks! I really dig this kinda stuff!
I thought with Jeopardy!'s grid set came the bongo theme. This is definitely not the bongo theme.
+John Lee The theme changed the next season.
Season 8 began with the slow theme, and around October 1992, they pitched it back up and added bongos.
I can't believe the kind of money we'd pay for that back in the day.
Now I’ll never know what pep is.
Does C-Band still works as it is to this day?
Probably not since this was in the days of analogue tv. But chances are, some enthusiasts out there are probably keeping c-band satellite alive with amateur tv and such, like cb radio and shortwave radio enthusiasts now.
What is a trouble number?
Wait, so you could casually just see master reels???
Yup! Since a lot of this kind of stuff wasn’t securely encoded/scrambled, you were able to see it if you were lucky enough to have tuned into the right satellite at the right time.
Show rain man had to watch
so these where raw feeds from before seeing them on the actual tv programs?.
Yep. They are syndicated programs for stations to pull down & basically do whatever they want with. There were also promo rolls that they could run commercial promos with.
What the heck is Geraldo
TheVintageTVArchive it is the show that he broke his nose in.
You sound a lot like ne. Wanted to see everything we were not supposed to
10:56 what the fuck is a trump card??I don`t remember trump owns telecommunication corporations
I'd assume that was either a program title or a reference to one.
yup, i studied the program AND IS REAL but isnt a communicational group even is a trump related thing
WOW, what a waste of time.
Amazing find!
8:01 Chibi Godzilla