WBNS-10 Cash Explosion and Columbus ads (December 1, 2001)

Craig’s notes

We put this tape on expecting Lake Placid, The Thomas Crown Affair and Deep Blue Sea. Instead it opened with Cash Explosion on Columbus’s WBNS-10. I thought the lottery show was a better find than the movie on the label.

Why record this particular episode? I wondered if the person recording knew a contestant. Then I wondered if the person recording was a contestant. It’s a theory I had while watching, not something the tape proves, and I can’t connect this copy to anyone on the show.

The drawings are surrounded by local ads for Ricart, Prime Outlets Jeffersonville and Scioto Valley, plus 10TV promos. Near the end I caught a brief glimpse of what I identified as The Thomas Crown Affair. At the time I said someone had recorded Cash Explosion over Lake Placid, and I thought that was a good call. That’s how it looked to me, not proof of what used to be on the earlier part of the tape.

We stopped at the movie glimpse. I don’t know how much of the labeled movies remains beyond it.

Content inventory

Shows and segments (playback order)

1. WBNS-10 Cash Explosion, dated December 1, 2001 in viewing notes.

2. Lottery game and drawings; contestant details withheld pending privacy review.

3. Brief Thomas Crown Affair glimpse identified near the end of the viewing; extent of film footage remains unknown.

Commercial inventory

During or adjacent to the viewed Cash Explosion block (the exact break boundary is not specified):

1. Ricart Auto Showcase 2001 spot

2. Verizon Wireless Christmas ad

3. Prime Outlets Jeffersonville

4. Leslie Nielsen Ohio Lottery holiday ad

5. Arby’s five roast beef sandwiches for $5.95 Christmas ad

6. Scioto Valley pool and game tables, hot tubs

Station and show promos

1. Montel on 10TV

2. Roger McCoy, 10TV Eyewitness News Technology Report

3. Columbus Jobs, Sunday morning on 10TV

4. Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek on 10TV

5. Consumer 10 with Jim Donovan

Tape details

• Home-recorded VHS; English; condition Good. Cash Explosion block identified as December 1, 2001 in viewing notes; not a proven whole-tape recording date. Viewed in part August 16, 2026. Handwritten tape label lists Lake Placid, Thomas Crown Affair and Deep Blue Sea. At the end of the viewed sequence, Craig identified a brief The Thomas Crown Affair glimpse; the other films and extent of remaining movie footage are not verified.