The Alarm live set 1983 TV broadcast

This beta tape was only marked The Alarm 1983, and it includes several songs performed in a live TV broadcast that I don't see anywhere else online, other than a couple of poor quality clips with single songs. The BetaGems channel also has "The Alarm 1-15-88 late night TV performance," "The Alarm 10-30-87 late night TV performance" and the band appears in a BetaGems upload titled "U.S. Top of the Pops 2-19-88 White Lion, the Kingsmen, more."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, old TV news segments, made-for-TV movies and documentaries, religious programming, variety shows, talk show interviews, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.