Friday, September 15, 2006

Local Media History Geek Alert:
Vintage 1982 Keyfax Nite Owl Vids from Channel 32 on YouTube Now



Wow ... total nostalgia trip. Just crazy. Y'see, Theo, way way back in 1982, WFLD-TV 32 experimented for a while with running this blocky computerized news burgoo, with music backing it. As its name suggests, "Nite Owl" ran in the wee hours, and for some reason, I and a few other insane kids found it captivating -- at least for a few days. And now some knucklehead Channel 32 enthusiast has posted several Nite Owl vids to YouTube.com -- click here to get a convenient menu if you wanna see more Nite Owl, and you can delve into his or her (yeah, right, "her" -- hah!) full list of videos, if you're into seeing some ancient local Chicago TV commercials and stuff like that.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

As of today, the Nite-Owl vids are no longer available on YouTube. For some reason, posting the vidfs of old Nite-Owl crap violated their terms of use. Oh, well, the memories....

Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss said...

Bummer. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

Anonymous said...

All of his videos are currently being reposted. He's now under the username FuzzyMemories...