KPTV – For Portlanders Only

Happy Holidays From KPTV — 1981

Given similar seasonally-themed promos from KPTV around this period, there was probably more than one variant of this spot, but

AHA! This is one of the ones I’ve ALWAYS wanted to find (if you watched The Disney Afternoon, you saw

In the early 80s, the western Comin’ At Ya introduced a revival of the 1950s anaglyph 3D movie trend…in some

See if you can follow this: there’s this dinosaur, and he’s imaginary, but he lives in the time of other

Given that this was 1991, it hadn’t really been that long since all those things were common. One of these

April 3, 2021 Peter Paltridge

The same team behind the Kingdome implosion got back together for the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant implosion six years later.

Beached boats! They happen. And in early 1999, one beached itself off the coast of Coos Bay.

Took me forever to find this…but I found it at last. To any Oregon resident of this era, this particular

July 12, 2018 Peter Paltridge

My dad told me the second I found his news recordings of the Fox Theater’s demise, I was to digitize

Three spots from KPTV’s 1983 holiday season, two long, one short.