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|  #1 Posted on 16.11.06 1049.36 | Instant Rating: 9.00 | Here's your "feel old" moment of the day - the FOX network launched in the fall of 1986 with Joan Rivers' late night talk show. Brodcasting & Cable has an in-depth about the history of the "fourth network" that has of late been finishing #1 with the 18-49 set:
The First Twenty Years (broadcastingcable.com)
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| #2 Posted on 16.11.06 1129.22 | Instant Rating: 6.75 |
Awesome read, thanks for the hookup. I had always read in other articles about Fox that the network launched in 1988 with Married With Children & America's Most Wanted, but I forgot all about Joan Rivers.
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| #3 Posted on 16.11.06 1355.00 | Instant Rating: 5.00 | Bah... No "Beans Baxter," No Peace!
Just kidding...
I can remember a Fox-less universe as a teenager, and as it's morphed into a broadcasting force, it's provided me with some of my favorite TV memories. Who'd a thunk it?
Although I can't believe it's been twenty years...
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| #4 Posted on 16.11.06 1425.59 | Instant Rating: 6.13 | I remember it more because the local affiliate launched with a contest that allowed local viewers to choose what syndicated shows it would air. It was the usual suspects: I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Andy Griffith. The station also was the only one in the area showing Star Trek: TNG and Arsenio Hall when they started.
Otherwise, I remember the network's Werewolf and Duet.
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| #5 Posted on 16.11.06 1554.34 | Instant Rating: 2.28 | I still havent forgiven Fox for canceling PARKER LEWIS CANT LOSE.
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| #6 Posted on 16.11.06 1557.00 | Instant Rating: 6.75 |
Originally posted by StaggerLee
I still havent forgiven Fox for canceling PARKER LEWIS CANT LOSE.
Dont even play around like that, this was my favorite show ever.
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| #7 Posted on 16.11.06 1612.57 | Instant Rating: 2.28 | "There's a sale in the school store on wet wipes"
Funniest moment EVER (to me at least) on that show.
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| #8 Posted on 18.11.06 0618.45 | Instant Rating: 3.39 | | X-E's co-Worst Poster of all time! JKyle.com says: Fun read, but a disheartening lack of Herman's Head references.
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| #9 Posted on 23.11.06 2040.39 | Instant Rating: 1.76 | Originally posted by CRZ
Here's your "feel old" moment of the day -
The First Twenty Years (broadcastingcable.com)
Thank you I come here daily to feel old...actually, this sort of scary, I have a tape from my local affiliate, that means the tape has to be over 20 years old, switch over back in 1986 that had a guy saying you can pick us on rabbit ears, antenna, on August 11, 1986 or September. That's when my UHF station from TV-23 WVAH to Fox 11 WVAH.
Not much changed during the day but yeah I remember some the early stuff. Some stuff that is still on today. Wow.
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