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WBMX FM 103 - "Tuned Into You..." (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 877

Here's a brief commercial (cut off slightly at the end) for WBMX FM 103, which is now playing 20 minutes of commercial-free, uninterrupted music every hour.

"WBMX...tuned into you so you'll tune into us."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 19th 1978.

WRCK FM 95 - "WRoCK" (Commercial #1, 1980)

Views: 1173

Here's the longer, 20-second version of a commercial for WRCK (WROCK) FM 95 - "Chicago's Rock Hits!". Short, like the lifespan for WRCK-FM, which only lasted from May 22, 1980 through December 1980.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, July 1st 1980. (C) American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

WRCK FM 95 - "WRoCK" (Commercial #2, 1980)

Views: 2118

Here's the 10-second, shorter version of a commercial for WRCK (WROCK) FM 95 - "Chicago's Rock Hits!". Short, like the lifespan for WRCK-FM, which only lasted from May 22, 1980 through December 1980.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, August 7th 1980. (C) American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

WKQX 101 FM - "By The Ear" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1999

Here's a commercial for WKQX 101 FM - "Chicago 101" (now Q101).

You can hear a little snippet of Joel Sebastian, one of their DJs, at the beginning.

Were those the famous "NBC jingle" tones at the end?

"We're out to catch Chicago by the ear."

This aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, August 7th 1979.

Star Wars Radio Controlled R2-D2 By Kenner (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1902

Here's a commercial for the Radio-Controlled R2D2 toy by Kenner. I remember seeing this in the Sears catalog but I think it was always too expensive for us.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 28th 1979. (1977 Copyright)

WLAK FM 94 - "The Place to Relax" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3691

Here's a commercial for the "beautiful" music of WLAK - The Lake FM 94 - "The Place to Relax", which played a lot of instrumental easy-listening songs.

This station is now known as WLIT-FM (93.9 "My FM"). Each November and December, they torture Chicagoans with non-stop holiday music.

Featuring actor Patrick O'Neal (who starred in my favorite Columbo episode in 1978, "Make Me A Perfect Murder") (O'Neal also did this same type of ad (and with the same slog...

WCFL AM 1000 - "Counting The Days" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 3453

Here's another commercial for WCFL AM 1000, this time featuring "Deborah" (Deborah Shelton, then a few years away from appearing in Brian DePalma's film "Body Double" and co-starring in Dallas as Mandy Winger, one of J.R.'s many lovers) who has moderate to severe crazy-eyes syndrome.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 16th 1982.

WABX 99 1/2 FM - "Shower Surprise" (Commercial, 1977)

Views: 8094

Here's a funny commercial for Detroit radio station WABX 99 and a 1/2 FM - "Now That's Rock!".

Music by Led Zeppelin - "The Wanton Song"

Voiceover by ?

This aired on local Detroit TV on Thursday, April 7th 1977 (not Chicago TV, but still cool!)

WLUP - The Loop FM 98 - "More Rockin'" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1583

Here's another rockin' commercial for WLUP The Loop FM 98 (97.9).

Songs used are "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin and "Squeeze" by Y&T.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 21st 1981. (My 7th Birthday!)