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WBBM Channel 2 - The 20th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 11, 1978)

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Here's Part 11 of the Twentieth Annual Chicago Emmy Awards on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Bob Newhart.

This part features Jim Ruddle, Jack Brickhouse, and the voice of Don Ferris, plus vintage footage of Big Bird, Bob Cromie, Julia Child, William F. Buckley Jr., Alistair Cooke, David Susskind, Lowell Thomas, Bill Moyers, Robert MacNeil, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, John Callaway, Dick C...

ON TV - "It's My Turn" (On-Screen ID, 1981)

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Here's another ON TV on-screen station ID - during the movie "It's My Turn" which starred Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas. (I know this drags on, but I couldn't help seeing how long the clip would go without Michael Douglas saying anything coherent) :-)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, December 16th 1981.

WCIU Channel 26 - "Spanish Blue Squares" (Station ID, 1985?)

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Here's another station ID for WCIU Channel 26 given in Spanish.

Not sure when this aired but probably around 1985.

ON TV - "The Blues Brothers" (On-Screen ID #1, 1981?)

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Here's another ON TV on-screen station ID - during the movie "The Blues Brothers" (which as everyone knows is the greatest film in the history of film and any other recorded medium up to and including cave paintings) 8-)

Not sure when this aired, but likely 1981 or 1982.

ON TV - "The Blues Brothers" (On-Screen ID #2, 1981?)

Views: 1588

Here's one more ON TV on-screen station ID - during the movie "The Blues Brothers" (which as everyone knows is the greatest film in the history of film and any other recorded medium up to and including cave paintings) 8-)

Not sure when this aired, but likely 1981 or 1982.

Jewel Food Stores - "Midnight Jewels" (Commercial, 1972)

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Here's a pretty awesome super-vintage commercial for Jewel Food Stores (A.K.A., "Jewels" as we called them back in de olde neighborhood), advertising their "Midnight Jewel" service with over 70 stores open until midnight seven days a week.

Features three people with differing stories - a man who ran out of food while throwing a party (Dick Orkin), a woman who works days and thus can't shop until the evening (Cherie Mason), and a younger woman on the hunt for Corn Flakes for h...

WFBN Channel 66 (Station ID, 1985?)

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Here's a station ID for WFBN Channel 66 Joliet (before they became WGBO Super 66). Includes a quick end of a segment with Boobarella-whoops, I mean Elvira. ;-)

Not sure of the date on this one, but likely 1985 or so.

WBMX "Progressive" FM 103 (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a saucy commercial for WBMX - "Progressive" FM 103.

The call letters WBMX (standing for Black Music EXperience), were originally assigned to 102.7 on the FM dial in Oak Park/Chicago Illinois from 1973 to 1988. (That station frequency is now home to R&B station WVAZ - better known as V-103). In 1991, the call letters WBMX were assigned to 98.5 on the FM dial in the Boston area.

Contains some quick clips of the Chicago White Sox.

This aired o...

WTHR Channel 13 - "NBC-Style Station ID" & Promo (1979)

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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 mana...