Night Tracks
| Night Tracks | |
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| Created by |
Thomas W. Lynch Gary Biller |
| Starring | (see article) |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | up to 3 hours per episode |
| Production company(s) | Lynch/Biller Productions |
| Distributor | Turner Program Services |
| Release | |
| Original network | TBS / WTBS |
| Original release | June 3, 1983 – May 30, 1992 |
Night Tracks is an American television series which ran from 1983 to 1992 on SuperStation WTBS (later known as TBS SuperStation) on late night weekends. It premiered on Friday, June 3, 1983 and the first music video aired was "Family Man" by Hall & Oates, from their H2O album.
Night Tracks was created and produced by Tom Lynch and Gary Biller (Lynch/Biller Productions).
Night Tracks produced shows were (in chronological order):
This was the main program which was composed of two 3 hour blocks (1983–1989) of music videos in which the Friday night airings (usually scheduled at 12:05 AM Eastern Time/9:05 PM Pacific Time) were swapped and repeated on Saturday nights. This was done partly to accommodate sporting events programming such as Braves Baseball on TBS and NBA on TBS that ran overtime into Night Tracks' schedule. Night Tracks did not get the benefit of being seen in its entirety and had to abruptly end its broadcast just before 6:00 AM ET/3:00 AM PT. In the Spring of 1989, its cut off time for the Friday night broadcast was changed to 5:00 AM ET/2:00 AM PT. This meant that viewers had to wait until Saturday night to catch the entire broadcast of the second 3 hour block. In the Summer of 1990 the Friday night cut off time was changed to 5:30 AM ET/2:30 AM PT. In a few rare instances a sporting event ended early thus produced extra time for Night Tracks so the first 3 hour block of that evening was repeated until the cut off time just before 6:00 AM ET/3:00 AM PT.
In August 1989, this was changed to two 2 hour blocks and the remaining 2 hours each night became Night Flicks.
In the Spring of 1990, it was further reduced to two 90 minute blocks. This meant that it was possible to see the first 90 minute block again (albeit in abbreviated form just before the cut off time) on the same night.
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