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WLUP - The Loop FM 98 - "Ticket To Rock" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 2778

Here's another cool commercial for WLUP - The Loop - FM 98 ( 97.9 ) radio station, featuring the Ticket to Rock promotion.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 13th 1982.

The Rutles Album (Commercial + WMAQ 5 Station ID [Partial], 1978)

Views: 2430

Here is a commercial for an album by The Rutles, which aired during a commercial break for The Rutles special, "All You Need Is Cash".

Album available at Laury's (Anyone remember this chain?).

Also includes a cool (partial) animated WMAQ Channel 5 NBC station ID.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, March 22nd 1978.

WTTW Channel 11 - Station Sign-On & A.M. Weather (#1, 1983)

Views: 4044

Here's another station sign-on (voiceover by Marty Robinson) and AM Weather segment on WTTW Channel 11. (notice, slightly different WTTW logo layout over the colorbars)

A.M. Weather was produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting and sponsored by the Department of Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA), AOPA Air Safety Foundation, Phillips Petroleum, National Business Aircraft Association Inc, Hilton Hote...

WTTW Channel 11 - Station Sign-On & A.M. Weather (#2, 1983)

Views: 3513

Here's the station sign-on (voiceover by Marty Robinson) and AM Weather segment on WTTW Channel 11.

A.M. Weather was produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting and sponsored by the Department of Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA), AOPA Air Safety Foundation, Phillips Petroleum, National Business Aircraft Association Inc, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Continental Grain, Avemco Insurance, PDQ Executive Air...

WFYR 103 And A Half FM - "Variety" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1616

Here's a quick commercial for the radio station WFYR 103 and a Half FM (103.5).

Voiceover by Dave Martin.

"Variety makes our music better."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life (On-Screen ID, 1975)

Views: 1018

Here is an onscreen Station ID during The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life on WFLD Channel 32.

This aired on local Chicago TV likely in the first couple months of 1975, based on the record date for the Walt Bodkin TV Starter Kit ad.

KXTX Channel 39 [Dallas-Fort Worth, TX] - Star Trek - "Arena" (Technical Difficulties Moment, 1979)

Views: 1773

Here's an excerpt from an airing of an episode of the original Star Trek series on KXTX Channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (then owned by the Christian Broadcasting Network, now owned by Telemundo - and thus, a sister station to our own WSNS Channel 44, hence a six-degrees-of-separation Chicago connection).

After the station ID/"Next" promo (voiceover by ??), they start right off the bat with a misthreaded presentation (from the 16mm film projector) of the episode "Aren...

WJZ Channel 13 - "We Love IDs Too!" (On-Screen ID, 1983)

Views: 2577

Here's one more example not from Chicago TV but still interesting to show the differences in stations presentations' of The Day After (an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States).

WLS-TV did not have an on-screen station ID for the entirety of the movie. However, WJZ Channel 13 in Baltimore, Maryland did. I don't have the entire broadcast to see how many there were, but this is at least one example.

WFLD Channel 32 - Convention Notice & Station ID (1971)

Views: 2197

Here's a notice of a broadcasters convention in Chicago as well as a Station ID on WFLD Channel 32.

"Channel 32 welcomes the more than 5000 broadcasters attending the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. WFLD-TV Chicago."

Voiceover by Del Clark.

(Again, sorry for the loud volume - this is the lowest setting I could get it without a lot of hassle)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 28th 1...