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Description: Here's an Action News promo for WIFR Channel 23 featuring footage of the Rock River Tower arson fire on November 19th, 1977. Join Jerry Mayer, Chuck Faber, Kerry Donovan, Mark Ovenden, and Sue Mroz for Action News at 5:30 and 10:00 on WIFR TV - Freeport - Rockford. Also includes a Chuck Faber Action News bumper promo slide at the end.
Covers the following towns: New Milford, Beloit, Sycamore, Kirkland, Pecatonica, Janesville, Freeport, Oregon, Sterling, Lena, Belvidere, Rochelle, Marengo, Rockford, Hebron, Byron, Rockfalls, DeKalb, Winnebago, and Dixon, IL.
Background music for the promo sounds like a riff on a part from "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams.
This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Monday, November 28th 1977. (not Chicago, but close enough)
WIFR Channel 23 - Action Newsbreak (1978)
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WIFR Channel 23 - Ending of 60 Minutes & Commercial Break (1977)
NBC News (ID, 1978)
WREX Channel 13 - Dateline Thirteen News (Promo, 1978)
NBC Network - "Elvis Has Left The Building" (Part 1, 1977)
WREX Channel 13 - Dateline Weather (Promo, 1978)
NBC Network - "Elvis Has Left The Building" (Part 3, 1977)
WTVO Channel 17 - "Snow Scene" (Station ID Slide, 1976)
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