http://www.metafilter.com/tags/cabletelevision Posts tagged with 'cabletelevision' at MetaFilter. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:37:15 -0800 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:37:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60551/Welcome%2Dto%2DNight%2DFlight <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/nightflight/">Night Flight</a> aired Friday and Saturday nights on the <a href="http://www.usanetwork.com/">USA Network</a> from 1981-1988 in the <a href="http://www.thescourge.com/nightflight.html">heady early days of cable</a>. It was one of the first places to see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3PLGa3xiNk">shorts</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58XSkGR_KOQ">old</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqYDrIH38Ss">new</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_State_of_Mind">music documentaries,</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-rloWVZ9o">conceptual,</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxMXsWTUDkY">artistically-intended</a> music videos -- not to mention <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEiSr6r-qrI">MST3K-style parody</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRn8cwcpqiw">general weirdness</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyQUm0A5QGg&NR=1">420-addled wonderfulness</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60551 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:37:15 -0800 1980s 420 cabletelevision filmshorts music musicvideos nightflight ronaldreagan television undergroundfilm Methylviolet http://www.metafilter.com/25670/Saturday%2DMorning%2DCartoons <a href="http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&amp;article_no=1751">Whatever happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons?</a> An astonishingly intelligent article about how Cable TV, dual-family households, regulations and more eliminated what more than a few of us remember quite fondly as the magical time when suddenly TV existed for our personal entertainment purposes. Anyone else remember occasionally dragging themselves out of bed at 6AM for what was ultimately five hours of <a href="http://wildcat.arizona.edu//papers/89/154/21_3_m.html">really, really cool</a> <a href="http://www.he-man.org/archives/article_07.shtml">commercials</a>? (Link from <a href="http://www.fark.com">Fark</a>!) tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25670 Fri, 09 May 2003 02:54:36 -0800 cable cabletelevision cartons commercials saturdays television effugas