tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post4104114194422138938..comments2024-01-22T09:43:09.570-05:00Comments on Me and You and a Blog Named Boo: WKBS TV Channel 48 PhiladelphiaPhillyradiogeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-53695033555960926212019-07-11T14:03:26.982-04:002019-07-11T14:03:26.982-04:00My father was Dickory Doc, which aired on WKBS 48 ...My father was Dickory Doc, which aired on WKBS 48 in the mid 60’s Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09189547850659899371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-73140307200626599342016-08-29T14:50:17.922-04:002016-08-29T14:50:17.922-04:00As a kid, I loved Channel 48, mainly for Wonder Wo...As a kid, I loved Channel 48, mainly for Wonder Woman and Incredible Hulk, which tended to alternate (I want to say the 6 pm slot), with one running for six months, and then the other. I loved superhero shows as a kid (the campier the better), so this double-whammy was perfect. The Six Million Dollar Man and his pseudo-superheroic adventures didn't hurt any, either.<br /><br />I remember that Channel 17 picked up the Incredible Hulk in syndication after Channel 48 went dark, but they never aired it regularly. The TV guides would say, without fail, that the Hulk would be airing on Channel 17 at 10 pm on Sunday night, and then my brother and I would eagerly tune in to see... a "Feed The Children" infomercial. After a while, they stopped even pretending, and just never aired it at all. After having regular 6 pm superheroes every day for a couple of years, being reduced to merely hoping one would be on once a week was a big letdown.<br /><br />I missed Channel 48 for years. It's nice to see someone remembers it as fondly as I do (and for the same reasons).-DS-https://www.blogger.com/profile/07748711002658533401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-76612070394350561342014-11-22T05:34:23.517-05:002014-11-22T05:34:23.517-05:00WKBS-TV, Burlington-Philadelphia, which aired WWF ...WKBS-TV, Burlington-Philadelphia, which aired WWF Championship Wrestling on Saturday mornings, a much more convenient time than the midnight timeslot on WOR-TV. FOX 48, UPN 48, WB 48, The CW Burlington-Philadelphia, My48...what could've been...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-7474710198395696762013-10-26T15:54:43.717-04:002013-10-26T15:54:43.717-04:00Please feel free to email me the answer, I would g...Please feel free to email me the answer, I would greatly appreciate it. V NealAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14003393300111371761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-52381645606074552902013-10-26T15:50:56.789-04:002013-10-26T15:50:56.789-04:00Can anyone tell me the name of the theme music for...Can anyone tell me the name of the theme music for Bernie Hermans movie show on channel 48? It was a really cool jazz piano piece. Been trying to find it for 30 odd years with no luck.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14003393300111371761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-11301578195043678692013-05-29T08:55:34.658-04:002013-05-29T08:55:34.658-04:00Thanks for your message Flyersrok! As for Uncle Fl...Thanks for your message Flyersrok! As for Uncle Floyd (who I also enjoyed), he appeared on Channel 23, the New Jersey public TV network.Phillyradiogeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-21729274461454014762013-05-28T23:53:13.394-04:002013-05-28T23:53:13.394-04:00Thank you so much for this! I can remember my br...Thank you so much for this! I can remember my brother and I would watch channel 48 in black and white tv, eating a jar of peanut butter. Was this channel also the one that had Uncle Floyd? Flyersroknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-8997791739333752952012-07-31T22:07:29.051-04:002012-07-31T22:07:29.051-04:00Thanks Mike! I'm happy you enjoyed the post. P...Thanks Mike! I'm happy you enjoyed the post. Please try out some other articles I've written over the years. I hope you stick around!Phillyradiogeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-29166555851526876552012-07-31T20:56:55.286-04:002012-07-31T20:56:55.286-04:00I can't thank you enough for this blog post. I...I can't thank you enough for this blog post. I was born in '68 and TV was a big part of my childhood. I grew up in Hamilton Twp, NJ right outside of Trenton, and spent A LOT of my time watching TV. If I wasn't out riding my bike, or playing with a friend or two, it was UHF, and channels 29, 48, and 17! They were like friends for heaven's sake! <br /><br />Seeing this stuff brings a lot of it back. The 70's really were the best days of my life. Thanks a lot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-76896728821048715562012-07-04T13:36:49.779-04:002012-07-04T13:36:49.779-04:00Thanks "Unknown." Nice to know that this...Thanks "Unknown." Nice to know that this post is still so popular this many years later :)Phillyradiogeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-40258389624405828802012-07-03T22:48:42.914-04:002012-07-03T22:48:42.914-04:00Thanks so much for the jingle name! Two years lat...Thanks so much for the jingle name! Two years later - here I am!!!!<br /><br />Made my day - lots of memories when I hear this song.<br /><br />:)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484779814882882004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-61705883500620413582012-01-06T21:49:44.794-05:002012-01-06T21:49:44.794-05:00I just stumbled into this blog, and I am so gratef...I just stumbled into this blog, and I am so grateful for the wonderful memories it has provided. I recall the really early days of Channel 48, when it had talk shows nobody remembers now, like "The Woody Woodbury Show" and "The Alan Burke Show." I can picture endless summer afternoons where there was still time to watch a bit of Bernie Hermann's afternoon movie (I think it was the one that included a dialing for dollars segment.)<br /><br />For the person who asked about the happy music jingle WKBS used -- on the off-chance you ever read this -- it was called "That Happy Feeling" by Bert Kaempfert.<br /><br />Does anyone remember which Philly UHF channel used to show "Of Lands and Seas" with Colonel John D. Craig or "The Lloyd Thaxton Show?" They might have been 48, but I'm not sure, and they both go back to the earliest days of UHF in Philly.Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-8184498256430867352011-08-17T09:04:21.329-04:002011-08-17T09:04:21.329-04:00I am constantly amazed at the huge response this a...I am constantly amazed at the huge response this article gets years after I wrote it--I love it! Thanks to everyone for sharing your memories of this great TV station.<br /><br />Unfortunately I don't know the songs people were asking about. I'd love to see if anyone else knows the answers.Phillyradiogeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-54180186177612468442011-08-16T20:24:36.560-04:002011-08-16T20:24:36.560-04:00I only came inside in the summertime to watch Chan...I only came inside in the summertime to watch Channel 48. First, the Brady Bunch, and then The Monkees. As a little kid, I didn't know these shows were long gone! My goal was to see Davy Jones live (which I have gotten to do quite a few times now!). Love Wee Willie Webber between the episodes. I wish we could keep our childhood memories in a protected place where we could go back and relive them. <3Maryanne McGurknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-16256313047760839862010-06-07T21:36:13.318-04:002010-06-07T21:36:13.318-04:00am going nuts trying to remember the happy instrum...am going nuts trying to remember the happy instrumental Channel 48 would play early in the morning and perhaps at the end of the day for station break. Don't know if it was by Ray Coniff??? It was a happy tune during the 60's. I wanna say "Happy traveler.... or something" but I can't for the life of me remember. Any one know???Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484779814882882004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-30474770867793724802010-05-26T19:11:08.364-04:002010-05-26T19:11:08.364-04:00Does anyone know the theme song of the Bernie Herm...Does anyone know the theme song of the Bernie Herman Show - the afternoon classica movie program in the late 60s/early 70s?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-48418300130224398342009-01-26T01:10:00.000-05:002009-01-26T01:10:00.000-05:00I couldn't believe it either. Of course, I only g...I couldn't believe it either. Of course, I only got 48 and the other Philly stations via cable (I lived in the metro NYC area back then). If that station had still been around today, it'd probably would've become what became of 17, 29, and 57, a netlet-owned station with lack of the local feel it once had. Still missing the station to this dayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-85530330896731345382008-10-16T19:09:00.000-04:002008-10-16T19:09:00.000-04:00I remember that night, Aug. 29th, 1983. I was only...I remember that night, Aug. 29th, 1983. I was only 2 weeks shy of entering the 4th grade. I just got finished playing "Hide and Seek" and ironically "TV Tag." <BR/><BR/>I turned on the 11 O' Clock News (Eyewitness News) on back then NBC affiliate KYW TV Channel 3. The top story was Channel 48 going off off the air. I was shock. I remember switching channels to see if it was true. DAMN IF IT WAS! There was nothing but snow. <BR/><BR/>I felt like somebody close to me in my family died. I remember not being able to sleep that night due to the demise of WKBS. I really loved that station so much that I made a vow to myself and relatives that I was going to work there when I grew up. <BR/><BR/>Had WKBS Channel 48 AND Field Communications remained around I would've worked there (even if it was for free). It was one of the best things Philadelphia had going for itself. That station and company was my passion and I thought that what I was born to do.<BR/><BR/>I took a long time for me to get over Channel 48 going dark and Field Communications dissolving. I hated Woody Woodpecker and Flintstones being on Channel 17. But then Philly 57 fulfilled the void Channel 48 left. But it just wasn't the same without Field and WKBS.<BR/><BR/>Hell, I'm still mourning them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-28052228618004470262008-10-13T03:46:00.000-04:002008-10-13T03:46:00.000-04:00Wow did you open up a huge memory portal...I remem...Wow did you open up a huge memory portal...<BR/>I remember coming down the Passyunk Bridge and seeing that huge 48 in the dish. <BR/>Afternoons of Kimba, the Banana Splits, Saturdays full of movies,<BR/>When the end came in 82, I was a junior in High school and felt like I was at a wake. I remember video of the employees waving goodbye and it hurt me, I was losing my family.<BR/>I thank you again for this postKimbo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/09808306783750740580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-6268566074117503062008-10-13T03:42:00.000-04:002008-10-13T03:42:00.000-04:00Wow you opened a floodgate of memories for me...co...Wow you opened a floodgate of memories for me...coming down the Passyunk Bridge and seeing that 48 on the dish...Kimba the White Lion, the Flintstones, McHales Navy....Band who could forget, 1 banana 2 banana 3 banana 4, 4 bananas make a bunch and so do many more... Bernie Herman, Marty Jacobs. Wasn't Wee Willie there for a bit?<BR/>I remember watching the last video, all the employees were waving goodbye, and it made me sad. I felt like I lost part of me family. <BR/>Thanx again for the memories!Kimbo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/09808306783750740580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-30188348439097330162008-08-29T16:34:00.000-04:002008-08-29T16:34:00.000-04:00Today, August 29 2008, is the 25th anniversary of ...Today, August 29 2008, is the 25th anniversary of the sad cancellation of WKBS Channel 48, the greatest independent station in the country. At midnight tonight, listen to Vincent Baressi's final signoff (http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/wkbssignoff.html) and Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". Both played after the Penn State-Nebraska football game. Philadelphia television has never been the same.<BR/><BR/>Thank you Channel 48 for all the wonderful children's shows and sitcoms you have introduced me to. God Bless!<BR/><BR/>rrunner81sgrrunner81sghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16080973777663364393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-55111462317097624632008-04-22T20:28:00.000-04:002008-04-22T20:28:00.000-04:00OK, I've reminded myself that Ch. 17 in Philly is ...OK, I've reminded myself that Ch. 17 in Philly is the SCRUBS repeat station.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-74178727049716083782008-04-22T20:21:00.000-04:002008-04-22T20:21:00.000-04:00I finally did check their schedules out of curiosi...I finally did check their schedules out of curiosity, and you've hit the nail on the head. Boy, what a waste of air Channel 17 is. 29 has Seinfeld, Simpsons, and King of the Hill, and that's pretty much it for me. 57 is by far the best of the three UHFs, with solid sitcoms and the first-run dramas you mentioned, plus major local sports.Phillyradiogeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-33280788543218907752008-04-22T20:12:00.000-04:002008-04-22T20:12:00.000-04:00With the local CBS-CW duopoly, the CW station 57 r...With the local CBS-CW duopoly, the CW station 57 runs some suprisingly good stuff in the dead of night (FRASIER and RENO 911), for those who just can't get to sleep. It's somewhat annoying trying to keep up with the syndicated drama, with DA VINCI'S INQEST/DA VINCI CITY HALL Usually running on Sunday afternoons on 57. There's surprisingly little to look at on the MyNetwork affiliate, WPHL 17 (MNT should run more FX programming, at least THE RICHES, which would lose the least in the broadcast-standards "cleanup"). The Fox station is sticking with sitcoms and infomercials in late night, and unsurprising choices in weekend fringe (the STARGATE repeats with the FARSCAPE cast members can get me to watch on a slow afternoon).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443354468557521729.post-87442591811100112412008-04-22T13:09:00.000-04:002008-04-22T13:09:00.000-04:00Channel 48 also had CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE on Sat...Channel 48 also had CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE on Saturday afternoons, and Sunday afternoons featured weekly presentations of Abbot & Costello movies, followed by East Side Kids films.<BR/><BR/>I confess, I have no idea what our UHF stations program outside of weeknight primetime these days.Phillyradiogeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06898493001431352624noreply@blogger.com