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WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Just Themselves" (Promo, 1973?)

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Here's a neat promo for the WLS Channel 7 all-star Eyewitness News team Flynn-Daly-Coleman-Frink-And-Drury. (Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly, John Coleman, Bill Frink, and John Drury)

Featuring Don Ferris (former WSNS and WTTW announcer) as the old-time radio guy in the tux at the beginning.

Directed by the legendary Joe Sedelmaier. (of "Where's the Beef" fame, and countless others)

Not sure what year this is from, but 1973 seems a good estimate.

WLS Channel 7 - "News Promo & Network Pre-Emption Notice" (1983)

Views: 2243

Here is a quick WLS Eyewitness News bumper promo (with Jack Jones) for an exclusive "Day After" poll at 10:30pm, followed by the ABC Network pre-emption notice that Hardcastle & McCormick would not air that night - in it's place being the ABC Theater telemovie, The Day After, about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States, which was coming up next.

Voiceover by Ernie Anderson.

This aired on local Chicago TV Sunday, November 20th 1983 @ abou...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "The Angry Sky" (Part 3, 1978)

Views: 1590

Here is Part 3 of some segments of a WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News "Close Up" feature - "The Angry Sky: Tornadoes & Other Natural Disasters (Tornadoes, Lightning, and Floods). This series ran throughout the entire week.

This part features Jim Gibbons reporting, Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly at the end and the complete weather segment with John Coleman that followed the report. There is also a brief glimpse of Tim Weigel at the very end.

This aired on local Chicago ...

WBBM Channel 2 - CBS News Special Report - John Lennon: The Dream Is Over (Part 1, 1980)

Views: 2143

Here's Part 1 of John Lennon: The Dream is Over - a CBS Network news special hosted by Charles Osgood that aired immediately after The 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

WBBM Channel 2 "Rockford" bumper promo (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

CBS Late Night Movies Pre-emption notice (bumped one half hour) (voiceover by Bill Gilliand)

CBS News Special Report opening (voiceover introduction by Bill Gilliand)

Commercial: Riunite wi...

NBC News Special Report - "Crisis In Iran: The Turmoil Spreads" (Opening Segment Excerpt, 1979)

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Here's an excerpt of the opening segment of an NBC News Special Report - "Crisis In Iran: The Turmoil Spreads" (before the tape ran out). Features John Chancellor and Judy Woodruff reporting. Includes:

Tonight Show & Tomorrow Show pre-emption notice (voiceover by Roger Tuttle)

This aired on local Detroit TV Wednesday, November 21th 1979.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm (Opening Excerpt, 1981)

Views: 3241

Here is the opening couple of minutes for Eyewitness News at 10 on WLS Channel 7, featuring Larry Moore. Story covered:

80 year old near-Crete resident Harry Vanheel, a former GM Pipe fitter, arrested in mercy killing of his 79 year old wife Eleta Vanheel. Diane Lawson reporting. Also features Sgt. Ray Van Dyke of the Will County Sheriffs Police. (ending cut off slightly)

(Picture has some interference)

Opening voiceover by Wayne Atkinson.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News Team - "Season's Greetings" (1980)

Views: 3601

Here's a fun Season's Greetings piece from the Eyewitness News team on WLS Channel 7. Featuring Fahey Flynn, Tim Weigel, Diane Allen, Kim Peterson, Jay Levine, Tim Weigel, Joel Daly, Bill Campbell, and other staff making Christmas cookies - can you name the others?

(there's also at least one shorter version from the same series of promos)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, December 1...