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By: fuzzymemories
Description: Here's a commercial for Zenith's "Do It Now!" sale, with your choice of 23" (diagonal) color TV consoles (in simulated wood grain finish) for only $548.88 - all this, to beat inflation.
Voiceover by Bud Kelly.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 2nd 1979.
Zenith - "Clearance Sale" (Commercial, 1980)
WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News Special Report - Blizzard '79 (Part 1, 1979)
WCIU Channel 26 - Eddie Korosa's Polka Party (Part 1, January 1979)
Midocean Motion Pictures - "Demo Reel" (1979?)
WGN Channel 9 - Lead-Off Man - "Milo Hamilton" (Excerpts, 1979)
WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 2, 1971)
WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Frankenstein" (Ending, 1985)
Sears - "Save $1.33" (Commercial, 1979)
De Beers - "Diamond Collection '80" (Commercial, 1979)
TomChiTV 06/14/2013
Zenith used to be THE name in televisions.
HUdson 3-2700 06/14/2013
Not long after this they got into computers. I think that's when things went sideways on them.
ER3017 06/15/2013
That's the same one when they aired eddie korosas polka party part 1, the same year as they aired this commericial.
ChrisBCritter 06/17/2013
I bought my first Zenith about that time - but I went for the 25" model (just over $600.00, or about $100.00 less than what my first VCR cost a year before).