Location: Columbus
The cover and the tape disagree
The cover says All Sports Bloopers & Incredible Moments. The cassette says Sports Bloopermania. One of them got reused, repackaged, or lost an argument somewhere. It is a budget sports compilation with football, snowskiing, golf, boogie boarding, bungee jumping, auto racing, rodeo, basketball, baseball, and hockey. The orange rainbow cover has a “Special Value” sticker,…
Springer, Jenny Jones, and Columbus in April 1999
A 1999 WSYX Columbus tape with three confirmed lost media items: a Jenny Jones racism episode, the entirely undocumented Jerry Springer: The Lost Episodes compilation, and a gospel musical ad with no surviving records.
1987 World Series Game 7 and Columbus TV breaks
A Columbus VHS with 1987 World Series Game 7, Moonlighting, Family Ties, Amerika, The New Twilight Zone and individual local ads and promos.
Star Trek’s 25th Anniversary on Fox 28 Columbus
Star Trek’s 25th anniversary viewers choice marathon, broadcast September 29, 1991 on WTTE Fox 28 — five hours of fan-voted episodes plus the two-hour anniversary special.
Soul Train, Springer, and a Columbus Afternoon
Columbus, March 1999: Soul Train, Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Young and the Restless recorded back to back. Someone had a very specific afternoon.
A Friday on WEWS Cleveland
Six hours of WEWS ABC 5 Cleveland from August 2, 1996 — a full-day Sunbury Collection recording captured during Olympic coverage week and mid-summer local news.