home recording archival

this probably interests pretty much nobody else but here's another one of my projects.

i collect vhs (and other home recordable mediums) recordings of television networks and junk from ages ago.

i already have around 100ish tapes. here is where i'm going to catalogue the interesting ones.

tapes

hosted on archive.org!

• #001 - ABC (WRIC) TGIF blocks for all 4 weeks of November in 1999
• #002 - FOX (WBFF) Family Guy Season 4 premieres and reruns
• #003 - UPN (KNIN) WWE wrestling and the series premiere of the sitcom The Mullets
• #007 - TNT broadcast of the 2002 Budweiser Shootout
• #009 - NBA 2005 All-Star Pre-Game on TNT, 2005 Daytona 500 race on FOX (WUTV)
• #016 - 2006 MLB Baseball Home Run Derby on ESPN, Everybody Loves Raymond reruns on TBS and FOX (WUTV) and more
• #024 - Historic hockey game, last NHL game in the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium (a.k.a. "The Aud")
• #045 - Happy Days 30th Anniversary Reunion on ABC, premiere of a ELR episode, MSNBC Headliners and Legends episode on Ray Romano.
• #053 - Team Night Rider on Q58 (KQCA), PBS Mystery and various other programming on PBS (KVIE), a small portion of local news on ABC (KXTV).
• #056 - 2002 Winter Olypmics opening ceremony on NBC
• #083 - ABC coverage of Liberty Weekend back in 1986
• #104 - Disney Channel airing of Pluto's Day and Mickey's Greatest Adventures
• #105 - Disney Channel airing of This is Your Life, Donald Duck and The Goofy Success Story, plus Beavis and Butthead reruns
• #106 - Disney Channel airing of Totally Minnie and Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald
• #107 - Disney Channel airing of Vacationing with Mickey and Friends
• #108 - Comedy Central airing of Drew Carey: Human Cartoon, The Critic, and Dr. Katz & USA airing of Monday Night Raw and Silk Stalkings
• #109 - Plenty of stuff including Fox Kids, Unsolved Mysteries, and more!
• #110 - Kids WB, Simpsons premiere of "Bart the Mother", Nickelodeon and Fox Kids
• #111 - FOX Tuesday lineup (incl King of the Hill and Futurama premieres) in April 1999
• #112 - The lost TV special Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?, plus Dawson's Creek premiere and more.
• #113 - Codename: Kids Next Door reruns, Kids WB premieres, soap operas, and Teen Titans reruns

more tapes are coming, too! for the whole selection, go here: https://da.gd/riverstape