A celebration of broadcast history in pictures and sounds
“Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” originally was produced for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the Saturday morning cartoon, which ran from 1969 to 1975 over CBS. Here’s the original opening titles and theme song:
It later aired from 1976 to 1991 on ABC and has run extensively in syndication for decades. “Scooby Doo” has spawned many other films, TV series, comics, video games and other projects. It remains an extremely active franchise owned by Warner Brothers.
Video from 1957 dance show called Teen Canteen on witn t.v. station washington n.c.
Anonymous
Thanks for your note. I think you’re asking for video of the show. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to anything that’s not on YouTube or publicly available on the Internet. Also, recordings of local TV shows from that era are unlikely to exist.
We did feature a short article featuring an ad for WITN’s “Teen Canteen” show:
Richmond Broadcasting Company, owner of the city’s WMBG-AM and WCOD-FM, won the license for TV Channel 6. In 1948, WTVR-TV signed on the air as the first TV station south of Washington, D.C.
The station carried programming from all four networks until other stations began signing on the air in 1955. WTVR ended up as Richmond’s ABC affiliate until 1960, when CBS moved its affiliation back to Channel 6.
Roy H. Park Communications bought WTVR and its sister radio stations in 1966. The radio stations adopted the WTVR call letters.
As of 2015, Tribune Company owns WTVR. It remains a CBS affiliate.
The station aired this video when it signed off the analog signal in 2009:
Here’s a film of the WTVR studios in the mid 1970s:
Clear Channel, now known as iHeartMedia, bought WTVR-AM-FM in 1995. As of 2015, iHeartMedia still owns WTVR-FM. It sold the AM station to Salem Communications in 2001. As of 2015, the station is Spanish Christian station WBTK.
As New York City’s 1010 WINS celebrates 50 years of its all-news format, the station has posted this 5-minute retrospective looking back at its history.
“Match Game” debuted on NBC in 1962. Host Gene Rayburn read fill-in-the-blank phrases. Contestants tried to match the answers that celebrity panelists game. It ended in 1969.
CBS revived the show in 1973 with a much faster format and racier questions. The new “Match Game,” also hosted by Rayburn and featuring celebrity panelists like Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson, became a tremendous hit in the 1970s. A weekly syndicated version called “Match Game PM” ran from 1975 until 1981. The daily daytime version ran on CBS until 1979. The show continued in daily syndication until 1982. As of 2015, episodes still air on GSN.
NBC brought it back in 1983 as part of a hour-long hybrid series, airing with “Hollywood Squares.” It ended in 1984. ABC ran a short-lived revival in 1990. A syndicated revival aired again in 1998, ending after a year.
The “Super-Match” portion of the “Match Game 7x” series was developed into “Family Feud,” which débuted in 1976 starring “Match Game” panelist RIchard Dawson.
Mount Washington Television launched WMTW-TV in 1954 to serve the Portland, Maine, area. The station signed on as an ABC affiliate, licensed to the community of Poland Spring. It originally broadcast from Mount Washington in New Hampshire, giving the station one of the largest broadcast coverage areas in the country.
The nation’s switch to digital TV forced WMTW to leave Mount Washington in 2002. Hearst-Argyle Television purchased the station in 2003. Hearst has invested in WMTW’s news operation in recent years, helping bolster its ratings in Portland’s local news race.