K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Sorry I was offline here until recently, or I would have responded right away.
The site went offline very abruptly due to Clarke Ingram's aforementioned illness. He is in managed care these days and is in no position to do anything online ... which included renewing the hosting service. They are the ones who pulled the plug, and I had no legal authority to restore that. Clarke also was unable to renew the domain name when it expired in July.
However, as I was doing all of the site content updates, there are copies of all of the articles archived here at my computer, and as it became obvious that Clarke was not going to be able to restore the original, I approached David Gleason with a proposal to recreate the site as part of WorldRadioHistory.com and he was not only amenable, he thought it would be an excellent fit.
But ... someone cybersquatted on the original domain name when it was released, and they held it ransom for several hundred dollars. (This is not uncommon when a domain, used for years, suddenly goes offline ... they figure whoever had it before will want it back and will pay for the privilege. I refused to play their game, and so -- like so many domains before it, it has been reused for an entirely different type of content. Maybe they think doing porn will make us come around to their terms to get the name back?) So David has registered the domain "uhfhistory.com" and as soon as his IT guy can configure the server space for it, I'll upload everything and we'll be back.
Clarke's history of the DuMont network is also archived here and I intend to restore it as a part of UHF History at some point. His "TVTimeTunnel" site is gone forever, as are all of the image files which never got added to galleries because we never could agree on how to best format that part of the site. He had them archived in a subfolder which the Wayback Machine did not save, and I have no idea if he kept a backup on his laptop. To be honest, he stopped responding to my e-mails early in the year, not long after the site went offline.
So most of it will be back, sometime in early 2022.
The site went offline very abruptly due to Clarke Ingram's aforementioned illness. He is in managed care these days and is in no position to do anything online ... which included renewing the hosting service. They are the ones who pulled the plug, and I had no legal authority to restore that. Clarke also was unable to renew the domain name when it expired in July.
However, as I was doing all of the site content updates, there are copies of all of the articles archived here at my computer, and as it became obvious that Clarke was not going to be able to restore the original, I approached David Gleason with a proposal to recreate the site as part of WorldRadioHistory.com and he was not only amenable, he thought it would be an excellent fit.
But ... someone cybersquatted on the original domain name when it was released, and they held it ransom for several hundred dollars. (This is not uncommon when a domain, used for years, suddenly goes offline ... they figure whoever had it before will want it back and will pay for the privilege. I refused to play their game, and so -- like so many domains before it, it has been reused for an entirely different type of content. Maybe they think doing porn will make us come around to their terms to get the name back?) So David has registered the domain "uhfhistory.com" and as soon as his IT guy can configure the server space for it, I'll upload everything and we'll be back.
Clarke's history of the DuMont network is also archived here and I intend to restore it as a part of UHF History at some point. His "TVTimeTunnel" site is gone forever, as are all of the image files which never got added to galleries because we never could agree on how to best format that part of the site. He had them archived in a subfolder which the Wayback Machine did not save, and I have no idea if he kept a backup on his laptop. To be honest, he stopped responding to my e-mails early in the year, not long after the site went offline.
So most of it will be back, sometime in early 2022.
