Tape T6 - Jan 20-26, 2001 – Feb 18-19, 2001

TAPE T63 DISCS65 SPOTS · 65 WATCHABLE

Donated by Tim Nelson, Shorewood, IL

Disc A · Jan 20-26, 2001

Broadcast: a program-only recording, January 20–26, 2001, with the VCR paused during every commercial break, so it has no commercials. Five programs:

1. Saturday Night Live, NBC, January 20, 2001, the night of the Bush inauguration. Host Mena Suvari, musical guest Lenny Kravitz. Clinton "citizen Bill Clinton" cold open, the final Janet Reno's Dance Party, Rap Street, a TV Funhouse cartoon with the ex-presidents, and a Gatorade "Love Bucket" parody ad (0:00–50:35).

2. Fox Chicago News at Nine, WFLD, with Walter Jacobson: Clinton pardon and White House damage stories, O.J. Simpson appeal, Florida school crash (50:35–58:15).

3. The Spin Room, CNN, with Tucker Carlson: the inauguration intruder shows up on the show (58:15–1:08:49).

4. Fox News headlines and The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel: California power crisis, Microsoft hacker attack, Capriati's Australian Open win (1:08:49–1:53:33).

5. Fox News Reagan-legacy segment with a Paul Volcker interview (1:53:33–end).

Dated by the Clinton cold open ("earlier today George W. Bush was sworn in"), Capriati's January 2001 Australian Open title, and the second-day Microsoft site attack.

No commercials were extracted. The tape was recorded with the pause button during breaks.

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Disc B · Feb 6 & 18, 2001

Broadcast: a mixed recording. First hour (paused during breaks): CNBC Cisco-earnings coverage and Fox News Hannity & Colmes on Ronald Reagan's 90th birthday (February 6, 2001), then a short CNBC Sector Watch. Second hour: ESPN SportsCenter, Sunday February 18, 2001 — the night of Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash at the Daytona 500 — recorded with its commercial breaks.

Program files in programs/ (CNBC, Hannity & Colmes, CNBC, full SportsCenter with ads).

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The breaks, in airing order

Break 1

Time	Spot	Len
1:20:37	Kawasaki Vulcan Good Times Giveaway - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Buy a Vulcan cruiser now and get $500 in accessories during the Good Times Giveaway. Kawasaki	:30
1:21:07	Miller Lite 'Got a Friend Who's Whipped?' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Bench pressing, mud wrestling… and filling up the potpourri. Grab a Miller Lite, it's Miller time. Miller	:30
1:21:37	State Farm Women's Sports 'Little Girls Have Big Dreams' (2001) Their stories are all different, but their dreams are all the same — State Farm's women's-sports spot. State Farm	:30

Break 2

Time	Spot	Len
1:35:42	Bowflex 'An Entire Gym in One Machine' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial It's here waiting for you — no money down and $33 a month. Who said change isn't easy? Bowflex	:61
1:36:43	ESPN Classic SportsCentury Promo - Arthur Ashe (2001) Slam, bang, serve and volley — SportsCentury profiles Arthur Ashe, tomorrow at 8. ESPN	:30

Break 3

Time	Spot	Len
1:38:42	Chevrolet Corvette Roller Coaster - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial From the roller coaster to the open coast road in a C5 Corvette convertible — a music-only spot. Chevrolet	:30
1:39:13	7-Up Court Logo - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Basketball teams paint their logo at center court, so why not 7-Up? Next time, start a little sooner. 7 Up	:15
1:39:28	Quick & Reilly Personal Financial Consultant - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Retirement fund, college fund — want a second opinion? From a FleetBoston Financial company. Quick & Reilly	:31
1:39:58	ESPN Promo - Dale Earnhardt Coverage on SportsCenter & RPM Tonight (2001) Monday's coverage of how Dale Earnhardt lived and how he died, with John Kernan, Jerry Punch and Scott Pruett. ESPN	:23
1:40:22	Budweiser 'What Are You Doing?' - Whassup Parody (2001) Preppy Brad and Chad answer the phone watching the market recap and drinking an import — Budweiser's own send-up of Whassup. Budweiser	:30
1:40:52	Lycos Music 'My Stepfather Hated It' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial A kid who loved rock and roll grows up and checks the charts on Lycos — dig into it deeper. Dot Com	:30
1:41:21	ESPN 'Tomorrow on ESPN' Lineup Promo (2001) UConn at Syracuse, SportsCenter, The Life on ESPN2 and SportsCentury's Arthur Ashe on ESPN Classic. ESPN	:30
1:41:52	Gatorade 'Is It In You?' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial 'If you feel it in you, you won't stop' — the sweat-orange Is It In You? campaign. Gatorade	:30

Break 4

Time	Spot	Len
1:44:05	DirecTV HBO The Works & Cinemax Package - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Dive into entertainment paradise — HBO The Works and Cinemax Multimax on DirecTV. DirecTV	:30
1:44:36	WCW SuperBrawl Revenge PPV Promo (2001) Betrayed, cut down in a moment of glory — WCW's February 18, 2001 pay-per-view, one of its last. WCW	:30
1:45:06	ESPN 'The Life' Promo - Athletes at Home (2001) Sammy Sosa, Tracy McGrady, Eddie George and more invite you into their lives — The Life, Saturdays on ESPN. ESPN	:30
1:45:36	Beck's 'A Beer Apart' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Wave something much more distracting — fifteen seconds of Beck's. Becks	:15

Break 5

Time	Spot	Len
1:48:11	ESPN2 NBA 2Night Promo Tag (2001) Five seconds of NBA 2Night — Tuesday through Saturday, late night on ESPN2. ESPN	:05
1:48:17	Nike Basketball 'Freestyle' - 2001 TV Commercial (60s) The famous Freestyle spot — streetballers and NBA players turn dribbling into a beat. Sixty seconds, no dialogue, one swoosh. Nike	:60
1:49:17	GMC Yukon XL Denali 'Engineer Chris Marr' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial A 320-horsepower V8 and full-time all-wheel drive, introduced by the engineer who built it. GMC	:30
1:49:47	Charles Schwab IRA Express 'Work Your Whole Life Away' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Open an IRA with a few clicks — because who wants to work forever? Schwab	:30

Break 6

Time	Spot	Len
1:51:07	Miller Lite Race by Day, Party by Night Sweepstakes (2001) Win a trip to Vegas to drive a stock car by day and party in the Miller Lite pit by night. Miller	:31
1:51:38	Paxil Social Anxiety Disorder 'Your Life Is Waiting' - 2001 TV Commercial (60s) 'What it is… what it feels like' — the early-2000s launch of Paxil for social anxiety. Medicine	:60
1:52:38	Enterprise Rent-A-Car 'We'll Pick You Up' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Ellie's renting again, and Enterprise picked her up — free. Enterprise	:15
1:52:53	7-Up court logo — repeat, not uploaded	:15
1:53:08	SportsCentury Arthur Ashe 10s cutdown — repeat, not uploaded	:10
1:53:17	Lincoln Financial Group 'Clear Solutions' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial A doctor worked hard to build a better practice — now her money should work hard too. Lincoln Financial	:30

Break 7

Time	Spot	Len
1:58:03	Bowflex — repeat, not uploaded	:66
1:59:09	ESPN.com 'I Met Kathy With an I' - Vintage 2001 TV Commercial Everything with an I is better — ice cream, Gandhi, candy. ESPN.com: not one eye. ESPN	:30

Disc C · Feb 18-19, 2001

Broadcast: ESPN, night of February 18–19, 2001. Three parts: the close of the Earnhardt-night SportsCenter; an NFL Films Black History Month special on Jim Brown (presented by Heineken), with commercials; and a second airing of the Earnhardt-night SportsCenter, with commercials. All three are saved whole in programs/.

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