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WBBM Channel 2 - The 10 O'Clock News - "The Death of John Lennon" (Pre-Show Break, 1980)
Views: 1338
Here's a (partial) preview and pre-show commercial break before the beginning of The 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2, where the biggest story of the day was the murder of John Lennon. Includes: WCAU Channel 10 - News 10 (Opening & Partial First Story, 1977)
Views: 3101 Not Chicago, but still interesting: Here's an old opening and partial first story for a local Philadelphia station - WCAU Channel 10 - until the tape runs out. :-( Includes:
Partial preview of The 10 O'Clock News - with Bill Kurtis
Commercial: Yes laundry detergent - "Yes Is All You Need To Buy!"
Commercial: L'Air du Temps perfume by Nina Ricci Paris - available at Marshall Field's
Commercial:
Bumper promo for "The Daily Number" (lottery drawing, apparently?)
News 10 opening (with appropriately beepy music) featuring Joan Dinerstein and Ralph Penza giving the headlines of this day - a massive local transit strike is threatened, and an update on the Canary Islands pl...
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 5pm - "Off-Air Chatter" (Part 2, 1978)
Views: 2663
Here's Part 2 of a complete edition of the Eyewitness News at 5pm on WLS Channel 7. This is from a recording of the studio feed, so there are no commercials - instead we get to see some off-the-cuff moments where the anchors are waiting to go back on the air. Features John Drury, Terry Murphy, Bill Frink, Johnny Mountain, Bob Petty, Hugh Hill, and others.
This part includes Johnny Mountain and John Drury waiting to go back on the air and lightly bantering with each other.
WBBM Channel 2 - The 10 O'Clock News - "Wally Phillips' Mystery" (1982)
Views: 6690
Here's a segment from The 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2 featuring Bob Sirott reporting - regarding the revealing of Wally Phillip's eight year mystery name, kept in a locked black box (or safe, really) that he used as a way to test psychic's abilities. No one ever guessed it to win the cash prize. He finally revealed the name on his WGN radio show - it was actress Jean Rogers, who played Dale Arden on the old Flash Gordon serials.
Also features Bill Kurtis and an introduc...
Independent Network News - "It's a Pacmen-Eat-Pacmen World" (1982)
Views: 1786
Here's an INN (Independent Network News) story on the burgeoning Pac-Man phenomenon in the nation's video arcades, along with a new book called "Mastering Pac-Man" by Ken Uston.
Introduced by Pat Harper, with reporting by Frank Casey. Takes place at the "Fascination Arcade" in Manhattan.
Also features the ending of INN - sponsored by Sanka and Kellogg's Product 19 cereal. INN was produced out of WPIX Channel 11 in New York and shown locally here on WGN Channel ...
WFLD Channel 32 - Candid Camera (Ending, 1971?)
Views: 2290
Here's the ending of Candid Camera on WFLD Channel 32. Includes a brief excerpt of the opening of a Channel 32 Newsbreak at the end.
Featuring announcer Del Clark doing the introduction and beginning the reading of the news, with a story about State Department confirmation of the expulsion of several journalists from Dacca in civil war-torn East Pakistan (the tape cuts off at the point Clark says "Ea--")
Can anyone help date this more precisely given the little b...
Channel 6 (Nashville) - "A Primitive Weather Channel Christmas" (Excerpt, 1975)
Views: 7952
Not from Chicago, but still of historical interest: a weird oddity - an excerpt from cable Channel 6 in Nashville, Tennessee (broadcasting in black and white), with what amounts to a primitive version of The Weather Channel, with readings of Wind Direction, Wind Velocity, Barometric Pressure, Temperature, Time, and Current Speed in MPH (just kidding). Plus, it includes a (literal) community bulletin board (including, at one point, a notice for town carolers). All this with a hypnotic, end...
WBBM Channel 2 - "Nobody Does It Better" (Bumper Promo, 1978)
Views: 2585
Here's a quick bumper promo for WBBM Channel 2's "Nobody Does It Better" news campaign.
Voiceover by ??
This aired on local Chicago TV early Monday, December 18th 1978.
WBBM Channel 2 - CBS News Special Report - John Lennon: The Dream Is Over (Part 4, 1980)
Views: 993
Here's Part 4 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:
More of WNEW Radio's Jonathan Schwartz commenting on Lennon, his impact and the 60s.
More from Albert Goldman, rock music critic (and later controversial Lennon biographer)
Commercial: RCA Selectavision 650 Videotape Recorder
Commercial: Denorex dandruff sh...