Broadcastaways: Odds and Ends from Three Decades of East Tennessee Television

See Todd Howell and Alan Williams early in their TV careers. Or revisit some of the iconic ads from the 70s. And of course, you'll catch a snippet or two of Dolly. TAMIS is promoting an hour of vintage television on the big screen. This program will include advertisements, news segments, public interest stories, and more, all of which aired on Knoxville-market television between the 1970s and the 1990s. Throw vignettes of beloved on-air personalities into the mix with old-school fashions and fads of yesteryear, and you have the perfect formula for a throwback to an earlier generation of TV.

Rather than focus on specific programs or timeframes, BROADCASTAWAYS simulates the channel surfing experience, jumping freely across diverse vintage segments and even back and forth through time. The selected material demonstrates the ephemeral quality of most late-20th century television, in which entertainment, news, advertising, and public service segments were all optimized for a general audience and a high-turnover schedule across a limited number of channels.