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By: fuzzymemories

Description: Here's a station sign-off, and edition of Thought For Today, on WFLD Channel 32.

This was from within the last few months of Metromedia's ownership of WFLD, prior to Fox Television Stations' officially taking over the reins in March.

Includes:

Promo for upcoming Star Search '86 for Tuesday at 7:30pm (main voiceover by ??) (closing voiceover by ??)

Animated station ID with 1984 logo variant

Thought for Today (same graphics and background film as shown in this clip from 1980), with sermon provided (off-camera) by Father Garrett Barton of St. Michael Church (opening and closing voiceover by Jim Barton - any relation to the good Father?) (also note, at the open and close, the continuing use of the Field-era 32 logo)

Station sign-off (same as on this clip from circa 1984), with Chuck Mangione's "Give It All You Got, But Slowly" as the background music and voiceover by Jim Barton - at this point, this was not long before Derk Zimmerman's leaving his position as Vice President/General Manager of the station for the second time

Film with nature footage from the Kaiser / Field-era "Sierra Club SSB" (as seen on the end of this sign-off), only with "America The Beautiful" as background music

After a few seconds of black, the carrier is cut and the clip ends with white noise

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, January 5th 1986 at about 1:30am.