Sacramento TV — KVIE 6 / CBS 13 — Documentaries, Drama, News & Commercials — February 2018

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Complete unedited VHS recording digitized from a home-recorded tape.

KVIE Public Television (PBS) and KOVR CBS 13 (CBS), Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto, California. Recorded during multiple sessions in February 2018. Month-level precision is estimated from dated program, promo, commercial, and copyright evidence; exact local recording dates are not confirmed for every session.

Tape contents: KOVR/CBS 13 local news from Roseville; KVIE/PBS presentations of NOVA's "First Face of America," Independent Lens' "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution," an American Experience documentary about the Palmer Raids and Wall Street bombing, and FRONTLINE's "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia"; KOVR/CBS 13 broadcasts of Bull, Survivor: Ghost Island, SEAL Team, CBS 13 News at 10, station promos, local news and weather teases, and commercial breaks. Several PBS sections contain severe recorded signal breakup, macroblocking, audio dropouts, and "Bad or no signal!" overlays. The tape ends with black/static and a blue VCR screen.

This tape comes from a lot of approximately 150 VHS tapes acquired by Rewind Sacramento in Sacramento, California, in March 2026. The tapes were originally institutional stock from a community college library, later taken home by a staff member and recorded over with off-air television. Because the original library labels were generally left in place, the writing on a tape frequently bears no relation to its recorded contents.

Source format: VHS (EP)

Capture equipment: Sony SLV-779HF VCR → ClearClick Video2USB (Lite) → OBS Studio on Mac

OBS settings: 480x320, 29.97 fps, Indistinguishable Quality, Fragmented MOV (.mov), 48 kHz stereo audio, no video filters

Digitized and uploaded by Rewind Sacramento.

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