NEON PULSE ARCHIVE

O'Reilly, Hardball, C-SPAN2 Senate roll call, Fox headlines - no ads (paused); heavy tracking noise 0:30:44-1:09:43

Catalog / tape T16

TAPE T163 DISCS3 SPOTS · 3 WATCHABLE

Donated by Tim Nelson, Shorewood, IL

Disc A Disc B Disc C

Disc A · Mar 24, 1990 / Oct 10-11, 2002

Broadcast: Two eras on one tape. First, NBC's Saturday Night Live, season 15 (Weekend Update dates it to Saturday March 24, 1990 — 'the first anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill'; host Debra Winger, musical guest Eric Clapton): Wayne's World 'Chick Court', Weekend Update with Dennis Miller, the Calamity Jane sketch, a Senate record-labelling sketch and Clapton's performance. Then, recorded over the rest of the tape, October 10-11, 2002 cable coverage of the Iraq war resolution: a late replay of The O'Reilly Factor and Fox News Live headlines (Oct 10), MSNBC with Jessica Yellin and a Hardball replay (Ron Paul, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Peter Bergen), Fox headlines and a Special Report replay, C-SPAN2's live Senate roll call on H.J.Res.114 around 1 am ET Oct 11, a Banfield tease, Fox headlines reporting the 77-23 Senate vote, Fox headlines (10-11-02) and The O'Reilly Factor of Oct 11 ('The sniper and the media'). Tape ends mid-segment.

Tracking: 0:30:44-1:09:43 plays back with heavy tracking noise (colour smear, rolling bands, faces often unrecognisable, worst 1:00-1:06). It starts exactly at the 1990/2002 recording boundary — a deck mismatch, not tape damage — and clears mid-shot at 1:09:43 where the tracking was adjusted by hand during transfer. Audio is clean throughout. Re-capturing that stretch with tracking set for it would likely recover the picture.

archive.org copy: the uploaded video (tape_tracking_cut.mkv) has that stretch removed — 0:30:40 to 1:09:43 of the original, 39 minutes (O'Reilly Factor of Oct 10 and the first part of Hardball) — so it runs 1:21:04 and cuts from the end of SNL straight into Hardball. Times in the program log below are for the original full-length rip; after 0:30:40 subtract 39:03 for the archive.org video. The captions and transcript on archive.org match the cut video.

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Program log

Disc B · Oct 11 & 14, 2002

Broadcast: Continues tape 16A. Friday October 11, 2002 (late night, Central time): the end of The O'Reilly Factor replay (the sniper segment, Jesse Jackson's 61st-birthday gala), ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel on the D.C.-area sniper (Chris Bury, Gregg McCrary, Doug Duncan), Fox News Live headlines and a Special Report with Brit Hume replay (Tony Snow hosting). Then Monday October 14, 2002: CNN NewsNight with Aaron Brown on the sniper shooting at the Home Depot in Seven Corners, Falls Church (Kathleen Koch, Patty Davis, Ed Lavandera, Montgomery County police chief Tom Manger's news conference), with the taper flipping to Fox News Alert coverage (Greta Van Susteren, Mark Fuhrman), MSNBC and CNBC. Dates from the cable guide overlays and on-air content. Tape ends mid-program.

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Program log

Disc C · Oct 14-17, 2002

Broadcast: The last disc of tape 16, recorded in sessions from Monday October 14 to Thursday October 17, 2002 (Central time): the end of Monday night's D.C.-sniper coverage (Fox News Alert, MSNBC with Candice DeLong, a channel surf through CNBC, TechTV, Bloomberg and CNBC After Hours, CNN NewsNight); Tuesday October 15 live The Fox Report with Shepard Smith, The O'Reilly Factor ('The Sniper & the Kids', Dan Savage) and Hannity & Colmes (Mark Fuhrman, Michael Baden); Wednesday October 16 late replays of O'Reilly, Fox headlines, Special Report with Brit Hume (Bush signs the Iraq resolution) and MSNBC's Hardball College Tour with John McCain at Fordham; CNN NewsNight; and Thursday October 17 live Hardball (North Korea's nuclear admission) and Fox News Alert coverage of Colin Powell's Al Smith dinner speech. Tape ends mid-speech.

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Program log

The breaks, in airing order

Break 1

TimeSpotLen
1:23:25

Unity in the Spirit of America PSA with George H.W. and Barbara Bush (2002)

Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush for Unity in the Spirit of America: 'Fill a library with books for Hilda Taylor... Plant trees for Tu-Anh Pham... Build a playground for Juliana McCourt...' A volunteer program to honor each American lost on September 11th, from the Points of Light Foundation and the Volunteer Center National Network.

PSA
:25
1:23:51

Fox & Friends Promo - John Walsh on the Beltway Sniper Search (2002)

E.D. Hill: tomorrow on Fox & Friends, police closing in on a killer? America's Most Wanted's John Walsh on the search for the Beltway sniper, 6 am Eastern.

Fox
:10
1:24:01

Fox News 'You Decide 2002 - Team Washington' Election Coverage Promo (2002)

'Investigating. Uncovering...' Trust Team Washington for the 2002 midterm elections - only on Fox News Channel, the network America trusts.

Fox
:20
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