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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Cookie Issues
To all registered users: please log-out of the Forums, and then log back in. We are having some issues and had to make a few small changes. In order to make sure that they are active, everyone has to log out and log back in again.
Thanks 
Rick
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Detroit Rocks, Really?
Hey there all you Fuzzkateers - 
As you may have noticed from the clips the past two days, we recently got a major donation of excellent tapes - however, they were recorded off of Detroit television. Now, it does have a Chicago connection since as I've mentioned they were recorded off of WKBD Channel 50 - this was a Kaiser Broadcasting station and eventually a Field station, just like its sister-station WFLD. So there are a lot of similarities.
What we received was 56 Sony K-60 Betamax tapes, each one recorded in Beta I, and each one with one episode of Star Trek on there. They date from late-1976 to a few from 1980 (the majority seem to be from 1977-1978). Fifty-six hours of 70s broadcasts, complete with commercials, in excellent quality - can you believe it? If there were Chicago recordings on these tapes it would probably be one of the all-time best finds for me - but, seeing as it's at least a WFLD sister-station, I'm not going to complain that much. 
So, in the coming months you may see a fair amount of material from WKBD here - I even created a special quick-category for Detroit TV station clips. Tell me what you think - do you enjoy the retro feel no matter what city its from, or does the clip being from Chicago TV mean more to you? (obviously, I'm sure a lot of the commercials were shown on both stations, but personally I still love watching a clip more knowing that it was shown here on a particular date and time)
Just to be clear, I still have plenty of Chicago TV material - but this WKBD stuff is of such great quality and so old that I feel I have to present it.
- Rick
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all...
This coming year is bound to be better than the last! 
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Recent Comments
Comment posted in WFLD Channel 32 - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Humor" (Promo, 1976) by FuzzyMemories on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Ok, it's official - the voiceover is by Doug Dahlgren! (sorry, I still have problems telling Bud Kelly and him apart) | Comment posted in Selchow & Righter - Deluxe Scrabble (Commercial, 1980) by michiganfan on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010I've got the Scrabble PSP game for Christmas and I have to say, I'm SO into that classic game!!! I do believe Trival Pursuit was ALSO owned by Celchow & Righter!! Now both owned by Hasbro. | Comment posted in WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Superfan Slims Down" (1980) by 1980sfan on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The Bears lost the game in Cleveland 27-21. Walter Payton had 11 rushes for 30 yards in the loss. | Comment posted in Atari - "The 1980 Atari Games" (Commercial, 1980) by 1980sfan on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Cool clip Fuzzy. Thanks for posting. Ah back when video games were much simpler. | Comment posted in WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Superfan Slims Down" (1980) by Phantom on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The print ad for "An O'Hare Raising Experience" Week on the 3:00 Movie spoofed the logo for the movie "Airplane!" Along with "Airport" shown in two parts, the other film that week was the musical version of "Lost Horizon" also in two parts. | Comment posted in WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Superfan Slims Down" (1980) by W.B. on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010WLS appeared to be a pioneer among the ABC stations with regard to theme weeks. On the earliest ad to use "The 3:30 Movie" title for its afternoon movie series - Sept. 23, 1968, two weeks before the station shed the prior WBKB calls - there was "Growing Up with Elizabeth Taylor Week." This was less than a year before WABC New York's "The 4:30 Movie" began their tradition of theme weeks.
But as for the ending V/O (which I could swear was largely weekends, and probably filling in here for Al Parker), there were variations on other ABC O&O's (pre-1978, for example, WABC's "EWN" was "a presentation of WABC-TV News" - up to 1976, the V/O, mainly Scott Vincent, started that spiel off with "a color presentation..."). | Comment posted in WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm (Opening Excerpt, 1981) by W.B. on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010From what I gather, the theme was from Frank Gari's "Seven on Your Side" music package. This theme was also used for WABC-TV New York's ill-fated 1984 series "Eyewitness Extra" that ran at 4:30 P.M., prior to the 5 P.M. edition of "Eyewitness News." | Comment posted in WFLD Channel 32 - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Humor" (Promo, 1976) by FuzzyMemories on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Ah, boy. Now I am getting some former WFLD people telling me that it's likely not Bud Kelly doing the voiceover here. I'm stumped. | Comment posted in WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "The Curse Of The Evil Devil Stone" (1980) by smctopia on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Looks like Evelyn is still around:
http://www.mysticalblend.com/pages.php?pageid=2
But I wouldn't want to ask her about that stone! | Comment posted in WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm (Opening Excerpt, 1981) by szake on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Does anyone know the name or company of the music used in the open? |
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