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Teletext

1980-1989 KGW Teletext 

Earliest Known Portland Cable Teletext Footage — 1980

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021 Peter Paltridge

Cable TV used to have a channel about its channels — a teletext schedule that scrolled endlessly. It was scored

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1980-1989 KPDX Teletext 

Out & About — KPDX May 1988

May 4, 2019 Peter Paltridge

Here is a second “public affairs” spot from two months earlier. The fuzzy sound midway-through happens because the original recording

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1980-1989 KPDX Teletext 

Out & About — KPDX July 1988

April 28, 2019May 4, 2019 Peter Paltridge

Social media has killed these things, but there used to be short spots called “public affairs” where people would call

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1980-1989 KATU Teletext Weirdities 

KATU Newswire Screen — October 16, 1985

February 19, 2017May 4, 2019 Peter Paltridge

This is one of the rarest finds we’ve ever found — over ten minutes of the KATU newswire screen! During

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