Sidewalks: Video Nite
Encyclopedia
Sidewalks: Video Nite is an American television show featuring music video
s. The show is a spin-off from Sidewalks Entertainment
.
Sidewalks: Video Nites music format is primarily POP and R&B. The show also airs country, jazz, and hip hop clips.
decided to create a spin-off
show to handle the amount of tapes that were coming from various record labels.
Early in the show's run, the program used Sidewalks personalities, such as Denise Yvonne (now known as Dee Jones), Erin Willis and Mel Menefee. To produce episodes quicker and present more video clips, the host segments were dropped and replaced by generic tags.
Currently, Sidewalks: Video Nite is a regular series on KCRT-TV
in Richmond, California
and some selected episodes are aired in other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area
.
The exact airdates of the premiere edition and episodes until April 2004 are unknown. As of March 16, 2006, 423 episodes were produced.
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
s. The show is a spin-off from Sidewalks Entertainment
Sidewalks Entertainment
Sidewalks Entertainment is a long-running, weekly American television series that is a combination of a talk show, magazine show and variety show featuring celebrity interviews, music, artistic and novelty acts, and rising performers...
.
Sidewalks: Video Nites music format is primarily POP and R&B. The show also airs country, jazz, and hip hop clips.
Overview
After fifteen episodes were produced under Sidewalks Entertainment banner, creator and executive producer Richard R. LeeRichard R. Lee
Richard R. Lee is a television producer, director and on-air personality.Lee is mostly known for creating, editing and producing Sidewalks Entertainment, his first television series that he started in 1988...
decided to create a spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
show to handle the amount of tapes that were coming from various record labels.
Early in the show's run, the program used Sidewalks personalities, such as Denise Yvonne (now known as Dee Jones), Erin Willis and Mel Menefee. To produce episodes quicker and present more video clips, the host segments were dropped and replaced by generic tags.
Currently, Sidewalks: Video Nite is a regular series on KCRT-TV
KCRT-TV
KCRT-TV is a local cable news cable TV station in Richmond, California. It mostly plays historic archives and historic documentary, news, as well as the long-running Sidewalks Entertainment...
in Richmond, California
Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been...
and some selected episodes are aired in other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
.
The exact airdates of the premiere edition and episodes until April 2004 are unknown. As of March 16, 2006, 423 episodes were produced.