The live stream concert of the Uncle Floyd Show on May 21, 2025

The Uncle Floyd Show was broadcast from 1974 to 1998 in New Jersey and New York. It can be read as a children's show or parody of a children's show. Much of the humor has a turn for adults, in the style of soup sales and Pee Wee Herman. The show showed character comedies, puppet shows, some audience participations, musical guests and Floyd's piano game. One of Floyd's doll buddy – actually a ventrilo source – was called Oogie. His on-air interaction with employees and buddies outside the camera is in the style of what Howard Stern and Chelsea Handler would do later. Local bands such as The Smitheens, The Shades and R. Stevie Moore as well as well -known actors such as The Ramones, Tiny Tim, Benny Bell, Bon Jovi, Jan and Dean, Peter Tork, Squeeze, David Johansen, Blue Öster Cult, Joe Jackson and Cyndi Lauter also appeared in Floyd.
The show celebrated its debut on January 29, 1974 in the UA Columbia cable television by New Jersey, which is now part of Cablevision. From November 1974 it was broadcast on the UHF TV station WBTB-TV, Newark, which was broadcast on channels 68 and 60, which later became WTVG, then then when the ownership of the station changed.

The first performers of the show in 1974 included Pat Cupo, Bob D. Caterino – known for his Groucho Marx Sketchche, and Marc Nathan, the cameraman. Later the members were Scott Gordon, Craig “Mugsy” Calam, Richard “Netto” Cornetto, Jim Monaco, Art “Looney Skip” Rooney, Charlie Stoddard, David “Artie Delmar” Burd and Clark the Wonder Dog. A phonograph album based on the show, the Uncle Floyd Show -Album, was published on Mercury Records, and a number of 45 rpm singles were published on the BioA label between 1979 and 83. Vivino has also released some CDs as a solo artist.

In 1982 the uncle Floyd show went to a small syndication circuit, including 17 markets, including WNBC TV channel 4 in New York, then WTAF-TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, WPWR-TV channel 60 in Chicago and WSBK-TV Channel 38 in Boston. It was broadcast on WNBC directly after SCTV. The national syndication deal was considered a big step forward for the show, which up to this point only in and around New Jersey and New York City could be viewed on a single UHF channel and sometimes in a local cable.

From 1983 to 1986 the uncle Floyd Show ran on the nationwide PBS network NJN New Jersey Network, which consisted of 4 channels: WNJS (channel 23, Camden), WNJN (channel 50, Montclair), WNJB (channel 58, New Brunswick) and WNJT (Kanal 52, Trenton).

From the end of 1986, the Uncle Floyd Show was seen on the nationwide cable duct CTN (“The New Jersey cable television network”).[2] During this time, the show went through various incarnations with Floyd, in which sometimes a music-only show organized and presented local bands. Floyd also organized a show called Uncle Floyds New Jersey, in which he would visit various cities and companies in the state.

The first production of uncle Floyd Show ended in 1992, with CTN being repeated until the death of this canal in 1999.

From 1992 to 1996, Cast member Mugsy (real name Craig “CM” Calam) produced in a spin-off show with the title “The Eleventh Hour”. The show was written and produced in the same way as the Uncle Floyd Show. Live from Studios in Nutley, New Jersey, in the nationwide CTN cable network and two public access channels by Northern New Jersey, Cablevision of Oakland and Suburban Cablevision of New Jersey in East Orange (later by Comcast Corporation), broadcast.

In 1998 the production of the Uncle Floyd Show began in the Cablevision Studio in Oakland, New Jersey. A hundred shows were manufactured and broadcast on Cablevision systems throughout the region. Marky Ramone and the outsiders were among the musical guests. Although the reaction of the audience was enthusiastic, the show was canceled after the first episode cycle by Cablevision Management.