Extra, Extra

-- $252/night for the Gowanus Holiday Inn? Bananas!
-- Viral marketing goons are accosting people on the subway to promote ABC's Six Degrees teleivision show.
-- Doesn't the 1977 WPIX logo looks like it was drawn during a bad acid trip?
-- Here's something you don't see everyday at the West 4th Street ballcourts: eight scantily clad Knicks dancers.
-- Gary at RunsBrooklyn has jogged 25% of the approximately 1750 miles of streets in Brooklyn. Check out his run map.
-- Stay away from anything prepared with spatulas at Megu-- one of the waitresses alleges that the owner used them to harass her sexually.
-- Bucky is startled by the lack of diversity in this film about 1950s NYC.
-- Tomorrow is One Web Day, and to celebrate, Cardozo is sponsoring a panel with Craig Newmark and Scott Heiferman at Castle Clinton in Battery Park. It starts at 12pm, and just like (most of) Craigslist, it's free!

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on September 21, 2006 6:11 PM

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amsci

It makes me glad to see I'm not the only one who is nostalgic for WPIX.

Since UPN will be gone too, perhaps they can make channel 9 a "WPIX/WWOR Classic" Channel. I'd buy that for a dollar!

Tim N.

Count me in the 11Alive nostalgia fan club. They used to carry the Yankee games (featuring the comedy team of Phil Rizutto and Bill White) so I used to see that commercial all the time. And didn't they used to do Chiller Theater with the six-fingered hand?

Here's a memory... they used to have their VP come on and give editorials at odd times, like commercial breaks of whatever show they were rerunning. And he would end every editorial the same way in the same drone-like voice... "What's your opinion? We'd like to know." That became a "thing" around my school for a while.

Guy

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's nostalgic about the old channel 11 WPIX day. Another great programming stunt they used to do was the 24hour Twilight Zone marathons on various holidays, not just halloween. And everyone knows that you couldn't beat WPIX for movies. The staples in my era were Blues Brothers, Amadaeus, The Breakfast Club, and so on.

Oh and Saved By The Bell reruns after school every day at 5PM.

dave3

dobkin posts about scantily clad women.. zzzzz. please let jen write all the extra extras.

Toby

The old WB 11 logo was much better and they would have done better to just swap out WB for CW. Now, I am partial to the two lines in a circle logo, partly because it makes me think of the WTC and simpler times.

As for the lilly white film, I seem to recall seeing on WNYE some city produced fims of the same era that actually mentioned things like how people came from all over and they showed not just white people! But it was really wierd seeing this film, which was produced by the Encyclopedia Britannica, since I have seen the city produced stuff that is the antithesis of it.

schmod

wow. I really like the first (undated) WB11 logo.

They should revert back to that for a day or two. It's classy.

Drew

If you think the image of that older WPIX station ID is trippy, check out the actual video of the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1EoGMmvq74 Yowza!

mlo

That trippy channel 11 logo brings me back to the days of that "Pix" videogame they had where kids would call up and play an asteroids-type game where they controlled the shooting by saying "pix" into the phone.