How do TV channels telecast movies in 1980's ?

How do TV channels telecast movies in 1980's ? I mean before digital era.

kingston896 said:

How do TV channels telecast movies in 1980's ? I mean before digital era.

The process was called Telecine
Telecine - Wikipedia

**Insert high grade tape into high grade VCR meant for broadcast stations and feed video output to antenna and/or satellite feed.**

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Back then the TV (boob tube) was glorious. There were many, many great TV shows and cartoons on. Everything from Miami Vice, A-Team, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Air Wold, Magnum PI, Amazing Stories and cartoons like GI Joe, ThunderCats, Inspector Gadget, Care Bears, He-Man, Smurfs, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Rainbow Bright, Pound Puppies, Muppet Babies, Heathcliff, Fat Albert, and the list goes on and on and on. TV was a hell of a lot better back then than it is now. So was the music. And every Sunday was Walt Disney Presents and there would be a Disney movie. Then on your local news channels like ABC, NBC or CBS they'd play some movie at night. I believe this is when I first saw Nightmare On Elm Street. The 1980s were also big for the soap operas. Dallas, St. Elsewhere, Falcon Crest and all the rest. If I'm not mistaken, St. Elsewhere is where Denzel Washington got his start.

Maybe I'm just old, but I truly believe TV and radio (music) back in the day were a lot better than they are now. For one, I enjoy cartoons, the classic cartoons. I find it as a great escape from the harsh reality that is this world where the media reminds me of it on a night by night basis. So I used to watch Cartoon Network all the time which used to play Loony Tunes, Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Dexter's Laboratory, etc. But now the channel has gone to hell and back where they principally play only two shows all damn day long; Teen Titans Go and Amazing World of Gumball. Both are utter crap. They used to play a really great show called Regular Show but that went to the way side. I am only able to buy so many seasons of that damn show on eBay. I can't find the rest on eBay or Amazon in NTSC format. The rest are all in PAL format and I don't know why. The main reason why Cartoon Network went to crap was because back in circa 2008 the CEO decided to do a live promo (for lack of the right term) of the [adult swim] dark comedy adult cartoon show called Aqua Team Hunger Force (ATHF) in which he had people place LED light up characters of the show called Mooninites all over the city of Boston. Well, stupid people being stupid people called the police and thought they were bombs which was all over the news and turned out to be a huge PR nightmare for the Cartoon Network CEO. So with that he stepped down. Now there's this new guy in there and the channel is rank crap. They do own the sister station for satellite TV called Boomerang, but I don't know what that channel is all about. That channel may in fact play more of the classics.

Also back in the day every Saturday morning they'd play cartoons. I loved waking up, grabbing a giant bowl of Boo Berry cereal and sitting on the couch watching cartoons all the way till afternoon. Then the politicians got their fat nose in the mix and decided that there needed to be more "educational programming" So cartoons on a Saturday morning went by the way side. Now there are no Saturday morning cartoons. Then back then the cable channel USA used to play something called USA Cartoon Express. They'd play GI Joe or The real Ghostbusters and Hanna Barbera cartoons I do believe. Then in circa '95 that too went the way side. Now you're pretty much stuck streaming or popping in a DVD/Blu-ray. Gone are the days of just good ol' fashion broadcast television. I remember back then people used to say not to be a "couch potato." Because that was the chief thing to do. You didn't have a major Internet platform like it is now. Many never even had a computer in their house. You either went outside to play or watched TV. Now instead of watching TV all day I find myself sitting in front of my computer.

It's absolutely amazing how times have changed. We never had a VCR in the early 80s. My dad rented one from a gas station and with it VHS movies. The first movie I ever saw was either Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back or Red Dawn. I can't remember which one it was now. When we got cable TV that was the best. HBO and Cinemax always had something decent on. Nickelodeon was pretty cool with shows like Hey Dude, Clarissa Explains It All, Rocko's Modern Life, Little Bits, David The Gnome, or even Eureeka's Castle. Times long gone and of another generation.

Anyway, speaking of movies. This is what you saw on the cable channel HBO every time a movie would start.







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