Marty's Corner

12/21/2023

EPISODE #112 – December 16, 2006 – Christmas showGUESTS: Mary Ann King, Tom Riehl, French horn player Tabitha Greenlees, Musical Guest Truly Lover Trio-NOTE:...

09/01/2021

Classic Episode #71 of Marty’s Corner from March 16, 2002 is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. Guests that evening included; Walnut City Council Candidate Robert Lung (No Show), KIIS FM chain of fool’s contest winner Lydia Tahmizian, Comedian Carly Filio, and Musical Guest Well Spent

-NOTE: Darlene co-hosts, Patrick Stephens' First show (handheld camera op), Top 11 other March Holidays, Lydia eats hand to get away from David Gibson.

EPISODE #71 – March 16, 2002GUESTS: Walnut City Council Candidate Robert Lung (No Show), KIIS FM chain of fool’s contest winner Lydia Tahmizian, Comedian Car...

08/28/2021

Classic Episode #70 of Marty’s Corner from February 16, 2002 is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. Guests that evening included; Backyard Wrestling Promoter Tim Abad, Comedian Randy Trip, Martial Artist Dave Weeks, and Musical Guest Cherry Mae and the Rocket Boys

-NOTE: Darlene’s first episode as co-host, “Top 11 Signs Your Husband Hides that he is a Swing Manager at Taco Bell.”

EPISODE #70 – February 16, 2002GUESTS: Wrestler Tim Abad, Comedian Randy Trip, Martial Artist Dave Weeks, and Musical Guest Cherry Mae and the Rocket Boys-NO...

08/25/2021

Classic Episode #69 of Marty’s Corner from December 15, 2001. Guests that evening included; West Covina Council Member Mike Miller, Marty’s Corner Christmas encore presentation, and musical guest Bayadera.

-NOTE: Frank Co-hosts, Darlene’s first cast appearance as the “Top 11 Chick”, West Covina Rose Parade float, “Top 11 Signs That Santa Hates You.”

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EPISODE #69 – December 15, 2001GUESTS: West Covina Council Member Mike Miller, Marty’s Corner Christmas encore presentation, and musical guest Bayadera.-NOTE...

08/21/2021

Classic Episode #68 of Marty’s Corner from October 27, 2001 is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. Guests that evening included; Representative for the American Red Cross Alex Mendoza, Rigobeagle Fashion Show, Comedian Vince Harper, and Musical Guest Darvoset.

-NOTE: Frank co-hosts, one of the fashion show models is Darlene Marcuzzi who becomes co-host by episode #70, “Top 11 Hidden TV Messages from Osama Bin Laden,” Robbie Hunt’s first episode (the show’s future Technical Director) First episode after 9/11.

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EPISODE #68 – October 27, 2001GUESTS: Representative for the Red Cross Alex Mendoza, Rigobeagle Fashion Show, Comedian Vince Harper, Musical Guest Darvoset.-...

08/20/2021

28 years ago today, (8/20/1993) the first episode of Marty’s Corner went live on Community Access Television channel 33 from the City of Industry.

Episode #1 - August 20, 1993GUESTS: Clown Cop Terry Mace, Jack Benson, Fahtiem, Musical Guest Monkeys to go.-NOTE: The Marty’s Corner Dancers 1st and only ap...

08/19/2021

Classic Episode #67 of Marty’s Corner from August 18, 2001 – 8th Anniversary Episode
Guests that evening included; Belly Dancer Fahtem, West Covina City Council Member Michael Touhey, Comedian Alex Pages, Musical Guest the Love Toyz.

-NOTE: Frank Co-hosts, Marty’s Fun Facts! “Top 11 New Format Ideas for Marty’s Corner,” We totally messed up Alex Pages “2001” cue, Frank gets the Marty’s Corner Volunteer of the year award.

(Side note, this episode was exactly 20 years ago today.)

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EPISODE #67 – August 18, 2001 – 8th Anniversary EpisodeGUESTS: Belly Dancer Fahtem, West Covina City Council Member Mike Touhey, Comedian Alex Pages, Musical...

08/16/2021

This photo of the cast & crew of Marty's Corner was taken after the final broadcast of the show on February 21, 2009.

08/14/2021

Classic Episode #66 of Marty’s Corner from July 21, 2001 is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. Guests that evening included; Charles & Martha House from the Hacienda Heights Concerts in the Park, the famous Dr. Schmooze, Bikram Yoga, Memories Swing Dance Club and musical guest Foil Moil.

-NOTE: Frank co-hosts & announces, “Top 11 Other Activities That Should be Illegal While Driving," Rich Stein as Dr. Schmooze, The musical guest was a no show so Frank created the Foil Moil sketch just before we went on the air. Frank said something like, “Just call it Foil Moil, and I’ll figure something out to fill time when that segment starts.”

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EPISODE #66 – July 21, 2001GUESTS: Charles & Martha House from the Hacienda Heights Concerts in the Park, the famous Dr. Schmooze, Bikram Yoga, Memories Swin...

08/11/2021

Classic Episode #65 of Marty’s Corner from June 9, 2001 is now available to watch on the Marty’s Corner YouTube channel. Guests that evening included; Dave Wallach from the Hacienda Heights 4th of July Parade, Comedian Julie Kidd, exotic animals with John Howard and musical guest Mr. X

-NOTE: Frank Co-hosts, a cue card is thrown at Marty, a flying squirrel jumps onto Julie Kidd, Frank as Monkey Man, John as the Man in the Big Yellow Hat, “Top 4 signs you have really bad Halitosis” – “Top 3 things you don’t want to see when you wake up” – “Top 3 things said during Louie Anderson’s birth.” “Top 1 way to make sure your kids give you a good Father’s Day Gift.” The show didn’t record for some reason in the control room but luckily Dave Wallach recorded the show from home on VHS and only lived around the corner from the studio. Dave gave us the VHS tape as the only master copy.

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EPISODE #65 – June 9, 2001GUESTS: Dave Wallach from the Hacienda Heights 4th of July Parade, Comedian Julie Kidd, exotic animals with John Howard and musical...

08/10/2021

Marty had several co-hosts over the 16 year run of Marty’s Corner who helped him interview guests, stay on schedule and bring in laughs. Loree Sobrito, Frank Atencio, Leann Engel, Tony Ridley, Leonardo Flores & Darlene Marcuzzi. Let’s raise a glass to the co-hosts! Without you Marty may have completely come off the rails.

08/07/2021

Towards the end of 2000 the KCAT station manager in Hacienda Heights had been let go and the Board of Directors hired the Station Manager from WCCTV in Whittier, Tim Keeler. Now we had an advocate and Tim would talk the KCAT board of directors into lifting the ban on our show.

Tim was a great station manager. He believed in allowing total freedom to each of the show producers… within reason. No nudity and keep the cursing to a minimum. Plus, he genuinely enjoyed his job.

During the 17 months we were gone the previous station manager hired a rogues gallery of staff members who had come & gone and weren’t the best qualified to care for the place. Major pieces of equipment in the control room had been damaged, broken, lost or misplaced. Large set pieces and furniture had been thrown out and most of the lights in the studio didn’t work. The place was a mess. None of this discouraged us, we we’re ready to bring the show home.

While the new station staff repaired and replaced equipment, we contacted our dedicated crew and pulled together the old Marty’s Corner set as best we could. The styrofoam floating window frames had seen better days but the band side of the set was even more difficult. The faux brick walls we and every other producer used were gone. For some reason previous staff had thrown them away. So instead, we used a louvered back drop that was from a different show. The station was not even close to firing on all cylinders yet, but that would come in time.

Over the years we had several house bands, “The Corner Band,” “The Corner Combo,” “Sixx Gunn,” & “Second Wind.” The days of the house band was now gone. We always asked the musical guests to use the house band’s drum kit and usually it was fine. But some of the larger more complicated bands that we really wanted to bring in didn’t want to use a different drum set, so they either said no, or there was a fast and not always easy drum set switch during the 3min commercial break. So we eliminated the house band and used canned music going in and out of breaks, with our goal being to eventually pull in better musical acts.

The station’s edit system was down and at the time Frank was the only one on our crew who had a non-linear edit system, so he created a new intro with a synthesized Marty’s Corner theme song. (Trivia time; the original name to the Marty’s Corner Theme Song is called “Around The Town” which was a song that Marty and Frank’s old band had written years before the show started)

From 2001 to October 2002 the show would go through an identity crisis of sorts and It would take nearly two years of changes to the set, the crew & the cast to really start to find what this new version of Marty’s Corner would be like. Essentially we were starting over.

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