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WLAK 94 FM - "Sounds Of Lake" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3396

Here's a short commercial for WLAK 94 FM - "The Lake".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, May 29th 1981.

WMET 95 1/2 FM - "The Superstar Cruiser" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1863

(NOTE - this clip was originally broadcast in color but was recorded in Black & White)

Here's a commercial for WMET 95 and a Half FM.

"Chicago's Sound Encounter"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, January 16th 1979.

WKQX 101 FM - "Chicago Is Turning To Us" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2203

Here's a commercial for WKQX 101 FM featuring DJ's Art Roberts and Bob DelGiorno.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 30th 1980.

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

Views: 3663

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...

Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Larry Lujack" (1972)

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Here's a segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop.

This Break #2 from an unknown episode number features Larry Lujack - "Superjock" disc jockey from (at the time) WLS-AM 890 radio.

I'm thinking that "SYT #1" as the clapboard person says, refers to the fact that it's Movie #1. (2 movies a night were shown for most of the run of SYT)

Accor...

WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Dick & Doug" (Part 2, 1976)

Views: 1252

Here's Part 2 of an interview segment from AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7, in which host Steve Edwards interviews the legendary morning drive team of Dick (Sainte) and Doug (Dahlgren) - "Dick and Doug", who were fired from WCFL AM 1000 on March 12th 1976 midway through their air shift, after talking too much about that station's change in format from Top 40 to beautiful music (they had been explicitly forbidden to do so by WCFL's general manager, Lew Witz). In this part, they speak of va...

WLUP - The Loop FM 98 - "Rock On Chicago" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 4174

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

Features that original hot siren Loop chick - Lorelei.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 21st 1981 at a little before 11:00pm.

WJPC AM 95 - "Down Goes Joyner" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1367

Here's a quick commercial for WJPC AM 95 featuring Muhammad Ali, Tom Joyner, and LaDonna Tittle.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 31st 1978 during the 3:30pm to 5pm timeframe.

WMAQ Channel 5 - Rock World (Part 5, 1980)

Views: 1898

Here's Part 5 of a complete edition of Rock World, a weekly pre-MTV music video show that aired on WMAQ Channel 5 (simulcast on WXRT 93 FM). Includes:

Video of a live performance by Steve Forbert - "Romeo's Tune" followed by "The Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes a Long Long Way)"

Commercial: GV Jeans with Hot Pockets by Murjani (same one shown at certain points through the show)

Commercial: Connie Shoes (again!) - at Watertower Place, ...