eyeh8cbs's video: 1985 KTXL TV40 Monster Tower promo

In October 1985, KTXL started broadcasting from its new 2000-foot "Monster Tower" in Walnut Grove. This brought much better reception to most of the area, as well as a stereo signal, although until the early 90s they had an annoying policy of switching the signal off during mono programming. While that meant no annoying processed sound during mono shows like the other stations used, they would also sometimes forget to turn it on during a stereo movie or program; sometimes it would come on late or turn off early. To celebrate the new tramsmitter's first day on the air, they ran the movies "The Blue Max" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" uncut, in stereo, and with limited commercials (I taped 2001, which is where this came from) and called it "Super Stereo Sunday". The following week started a month-long "Get The Picture" sweepstakes where they would pick someone from the increased signal coverage and give stuff away during commercial breaks. Oddly the wheel usually landed on Sacramento county most of the time. I've got a couple of these live contests on tape which I'll put up soon. Joey Mitchell and Big Jim Hall, from country station KRAK, did this contest promo.