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Description: Here's an animated station ID for WTHR Channel 13 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as in the style of many an NBC affiliate between 1976 and 1979, with a promo for an airing of the 1967 George C. Scott film "The Flim-Flam Man" for August 2nd at 3:30pm.

Voiceover by ??

NOTE: This aired precisely two months to the day after WTHR (which had signed on as WLWI on October 30th 1957, and adopted their current call letters in February 1976 after a change in station management) changed their network affiliation from ABC to NBC on June 1st 1979, swapping affiliations with WRTV (formerly WFBM) Channel 6 which remains the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis to this day. As well, a few WLWI / WTHR alumni would wind their way into Chicago over the years, including Paul Udell, Mary Ann Childers, and B.J. and the Dirty Dragon / Gigglesnort Hotel creator and host Bill Jackson.

This aired on local Indianapolis TV Wednesday, August 1st 1979 at 7pm.