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For Sale Mar 30, 2026 at 12:11 AM

Does anyone have local stations similar to the ones in the 80s/90s anymore?

Posted by Few_Sandwich6308

Not necessarily the programs from the 80s or 90s, because I know we have stations that show them but I meant stations that show a late night movie block that may have a title like "from dusk to dawn late night movie" or a mid day matinee etc...curious if any cities may still have a station like that?
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BrunsonsBurner11 Mar 30, 2026 +20
WPIX 11 in nyc is still going strong
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thedeadone666 Mar 30, 2026 +5
I grew up watching so many movies on that station that I still love.
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OuterSpaceBootyHole Mar 30, 2026 +13
It's an app rather than a local channel but I use PlutoTV to get my fix
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ElectricPeterTork Mar 30, 2026 +7
Yeah, Pluto, Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi, any of the FAST apps. Or, digital subchannels. Stuff like MeTV, Get, Antenna TV, H&I... I think on Saturdays, Antenna airs Svengoolie, which is very close to what OP is asking for. But the local Indie channel is essentially dead. They've all been swallowed up by a megacorp. There ain't no U62 left.
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shelwood46 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yep, most of the indie channels have transformed into the weird digital hop-on channels which you may or may not know exist (Frndly has most of them if, like me, you live way out of antenna range).
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nobot4321 Mar 30, 2026 +6
If you get over the air tv, each “channel” actually has three or four channels embedded. So there will be a 13.1, which is the main channel (say, the local NBC affiliate) but then there will be 13.2, 13.3, etc which are all different channels those are the modern equivalent of what we used to call UHF stations. They’ll have old reruns, b-movies, etc.
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CollateralSandwich Mar 30, 2026 +2
Sure, everyone does, if you use an antenna. Then you pull all the local stations which put you back in those Creature Double Feature / Dialing For Dollars type of channels
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Doctor_KM Mar 30, 2026 +1
Man I grew up watching the Creature Double Feature every Saturday on Channel 56 in Boston!
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All_Lightning879 Mar 30, 2026 +4
Independent stations are a dying breed
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Few_Sandwich6308 Mar 30, 2026 +3
Yea, that's what I wonder if any still exist doing a similar format
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All_Lightning879 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Movies are still on, but primarily during the weekends alongside a bunch of Family Feud reruns and bottom feeder content. Doesn’t have that “presentation” that you get from a station back then.
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Apprehensive_War173 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I’ve wondered this too. There was something really cozy about those late night blocks with a random movie and a simple intro, like you just stumbled into it by accident. Streaming kind of replaced the convenience, but it doesn’t have that same shared moment feeling.
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LiveFromNewYork95 Mar 30, 2026 +1
When I was in college in the early 2010's, I had a year or two stretch of having the hardest time sleeping. One of my local network channels had sitcom block from 11:00pm-2:00am, it was 2 episodes of The Office, 2 of Community, and 2 of 30 Rock. I watched it everyweek night to help me sleep. To this day, watching 30 Rock triggers my brain to say "Time for bed, it's getting late."
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