From back-to-back episodes of ANIMANIACS. These are also reruns, this time from the series' first season after the Warner Brothers and Sister left Fox for the new WB network (and Chicago's WGN Superstation in markets that lacked a WB affiliate).
WPIX went on the air June 15, 1948 as New York's second independent station and the television arm of the New York Daily News, then owned by the Tribune Company. Its many personalities over the years included Officer Joe (Bolton), Jack McCarthy (who hosted the station's St. Patrick's Day Parade coverage for 43 years), Bill Britten (the New York performer of Bozo the Clown), Chuck McCann (before he became a voice actor; incidentally, ANIMANIACS had one of his many credits in that field), and Joya Sherrill. WPIX also originated the children's series THE MAGIC GARDEN and an iconic version of the Yule Log that's aired annually since 1966. Since 1977, it has also aired the St. Patrick's Cathedral's midnight mass every Christmas Eve. Its most well-known logos are the Circle 11 and the 11 Alive insignia, which would be used for a far longer time frame by NBC affiliate WXIA-TV in Atlanta. Channel 11 was divorced from the Daily News in 1991 but continues to originate broadcasts from the paper's former 42nd Street building to this day. It was affiliated with the WB from 1995 to 2006 and with the network's successor, the CW, from then onward and is the largest by market size that is not owned by CBS. In 2019, after 71 years of Tribune ownership, channel 11 was taken over by the E.W. Scripps Company, which divested it to Mission Broadcasting after Scripps acquired Ion Television, which owned WPXN, channel 31.
Contents:
WPIX Promo: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD [incomplete]
Slide: The WB
Bumper: Kids WB
Closing credits: THE SYLVESTER AND TWEETY MYSTERIES
Kids WB Bumper: Coming Up Next
Kids WB Promo: Helloooooo Hollywood!
Adverts:
a. Shoppin' Fun Barbie and Kelly [that entire set must have racked up quite a tall licensing bill for Mattel.—Ed.]
b. Burger King Kids Club [with tie-in ties for the OLIVER & COMPANY VHS]
c. Matchbox
Kids WB Promos:
a. FREAKAZOID!
b. EARTHWORM JIM
Kids WB Bumper: ANIMANIACS
Bumper: Kids WB [with Tia and Tamera Lowry]
Adverts:
a. KFC Kids Meal [with tie-in Timon and Pumbaa toys] [did anyone save the bags and the six toys from the promotion? If so, I hope they ate the chicken and fries first; those are probably inedible after 26 years.—Ed.]
b. Ricochet Super Cycle
c. Ricochet
Kids WB Promos:
a. PINKY AND THE BRAIN
b. WAYNEHEAD
Adverts:
a. L'il Makin' Faces
b. Blabber Ball
c. Cocoa Puffs [with tie-in stampers for ALADDIN AND THE KING OF THIEVES]
Bumper: Kids WB
Bumper: Kids WB
Kids WB Promo: SUPERMAN
WPIX Promo: KIRK/BROTHERLY LOVE
Adverts:
a. Airheads
b. Frosted Flakes
c. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
WPIX Promo: THE PARENT 'HOOD
Slide: The WB
Bumper: Kids WB
End Credits: ANIMANIACS
Logos:
a. Amblin Entertainment
b. Warner Bros. Television Animation
Kids WB Promo: Helloooooo Hollywood!
Bumper: Kids WB
Adverts:
a. Tyco VideoCam
b. Spaghetti-Os [with tie-in Jonny Quest holograms]
c. Olympic Gymnast Barbie [please don't tell her about what happened in Atlanta at 1:20 AM on the eighth day of the 1996 Olympics. It'll break her heart.—Ed.]
Kids WB Promos:
a. ROAD ROVERS
b. WAYNEHEAD
Bumper: Kids WB
Bumper: Kids WB
Adverts:
a. Pound Puppies
b. Salon Starcastle
c. Melanie's Mall
WB Promos:
a. SISTER SISTER
b. NICK FRENO: LICENSED TEACHER
Kids WB Promo: FREAKAZOID
Adverts:
a. Honey Comb
b. Melanie's Mall
Kids WB Bumper: ANIMANIACS
Bumper: Kids WB
Kids WB Promos:
a. SUPERMAN
b. PINKY AND THE BRAIN
Adverts:
a. Beetleborgs
b. Fruit by the Foot
c. Pretty Sparkle Dancer
Station ID: WPIX
End Credits: ANIMANIACS
Logos:
a. Amblin Entertainment
b. Warner Bros. Television Animation
Kids WB Bumper: Coming Up Next
Kids WB Promo: Helloooooo Hollywood!
