A broadcast history buff, I enjoy watching stuff from TV with commercials and local stuff from back during the 70s-90s. I am particularly interested in material from WICU, WJET, WSEE and WETG recorded during the 80s and 90s from Erie, Pennsylvania. Tell me if you're also interested in this stuff.

I am.

MeTV (a retro channel that showed up here a few years ago) used to play a couple of old commercials. Just two or three. Petula Clark singing The Beat Goes on in a commercial for Plymouth car, and Rose Marie endorsing Tide detergent.

I don't know why they didn't have more. And now they don't play any any more. Maybe nobody else liked them.

One thing I would like to see is old newscasts. Not just highlights, but the whole show. I think that would convey how things were at the time very well.

Another thing I'm interested in is the Electronicam as used on The Honeymooners.

If you ever visit Chicago, be sure to check out the Museum of Broadcast Communications. It's small but very cool.

Actually, we had RTV and PBJ-TV show up here too a year ago in our area.

Here's a photo of a DuMont Electronicam along with its best-known user...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PZqGiuRpJFw/T1aVOwt3LLI/AAAAAAAABYo/sGPz2pWyjMo/s1600/jackie.jpg

The Electronicam was a 35mm (Mitchell?) motion picture camera coupled to a DuMont TV camera; the TV camera was used to broadcast the show "live," and a 16mm kinescope of the live broadcast was used as the pattern to edit the 35mm film.