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WTTW Channel 11 - "Season's Greetings" (Station ID, 1977)

Views: 1429

Here's a Season's Greetings station ID bumper from WTTW Channel 11.

Voiceover by Don Ferris. Music is ??

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 25th 1977 at 10:00pm.

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Station ID" (1975)

Views: 2574

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Here's a station ID slide and voiceover for WMAQ Channel 5. Features the curvy 5 logo that was phased out at the beginning of 1976.

Voiceover by Ed Grennan.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 24th 1975.

WBBM Channel 2 - "TV 2 Chicago" (Station ID, 1973)

Views: 2025

Here's an animated station ID for WBBM Channel 2.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 3rd 1973 at 10pm.

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.

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.