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WOR Channel 9 - "Color Trails" (Station ID, 1979)

Views: 3177

Ok, it's not THAT Channel 9, but thought it looked cool anyway - these people must have had an early cable system here that picked this up. It's an animated station ID for WOR Channel 9 in New York.

This aired on Chicago TV (via Cable) likely in October of 1979.

WFLD Channel 32 - "New Style in Two Colors" (Station ID, 1979)

Views: 2331

Here's a station ID slide for WFLD Channel 32. While this is the "new style" Field-era logo set in Eremitage, the color scheme (with the channel and TV picture shape in white and call letters and city in red) is right out of station ID slides from the Kaiser Broadcasting era such as at the start of this clip from 1977.

Voiceover by Ron Beattie.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, Nove...

ON TV (Station Sign-Off, 1981)

Views: 4996

Here's the ending of the ON-TV presentation of the film "Avalanche Express" on WSNS Channel 44, followed by the station sign-off (voiceover by Mal Wyman).

This aired on local Chicago TV early Thursday, May 21st 1981.

WGN Channel 9 - "Old Style" (Station ID, 1981)

Views: 4729

Here's an interesting station ID slide for WGN Channel 9 - a very old style of their logo that dates back to pre-1977. Kind of strange they were using this in late 1981.

Voiceover by Merri Dee.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 27th 1981 at 9pm.

WPWR Channel 60 (Station Sign-On, 1985)

Views: 3190

Here is a station sign-on from WPWR Channel 60 - sorry for the bad quality, but this is the best available right now. Also seems like they forgot to turn the audio up for the first few seconds of the sign-on.

Voiceover by Larry Langford.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, May 4th 1985 at 2:30am.

WSNS Channel 44 - "DePaul Basketball" (Station ID, 1978)

Views: 2039

Here's a station ID slide from WSNS Channel 44, with a promo for DePaul basketball.

Voiceover by Don Ferris.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, January 18th 1978.

WFLD Channel 32 - M*A*S*H (On-Screen ID, 1981)

Views: 1201

Here's an on-screen station ID during an episode of M*A*S*H on WFLD Channel 32. Probably the most surreal station ID moment ever.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, September 9th 1981.

WMAQ Channel 5 - "V" (Bumper, 1985)

Views: 2633

Here's a bumper for "V" the series, with an onscreen station ID for WMAQ Channel 5. Notice that this one is slightly different and a little shorter than the one without the Station ID.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 8th 1985.

WBBM Channel 2 - "Have Your Children Done Their Homework?" (Station ID, 1979)

Views: 2051

Here's a station ID slide from WBBM Channel 2 with the "Project Learning" logo and a voiceover message (by Bob Carrington) asking if your children had done their homework yet. This is followed by the "CBS Bong".

This was along the lines of such famous top-of-hour messages as this one from WNEW (now WNYW) Channel 5 in New York (future sister station to our own WFLD Channel 32) that asked (and still asks) ever...