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WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial - "Sexist Textbooks" (1973)

Views: 3177

Here's an early editorial on WMAQ Channel 5 where the topic was sexist textbooks. Billie Jean King is brought up as a counter-example after her win in the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match.

Featuring Assistant Editorial Director, Abby Kagen. (sp?)

Voiceover by ??

"Girls are portrayed as meek and passive..."

This aired on local Chicago TV in 1973 (likely, September 1973).

WLS Channel 7 - Editorial Reply - "School Integration" (1979)

Views: 1797

Here's an reply to an editorial on HEW (Department of Health, Education and Welfare - predecessor to Health and Human Services, HHS)-mandated school integration policies, as aired on WLS Channel 7. Featuring Doris "Pixie" Galik, Treasurer of the Chicago Lawn Civic Association.

She maintains that Chicago has done everything it can to integrate its schools (to the point where, according to her, public schools have more black than white students), and rails against government-dic...

WTHR Channel 13 - Editorial - "Urban Homesteading" (1979)

Views: 1378

Here's an editorial by WTHR Channel 13's public affairs director, Barbara Gurwitz, on the issue of Indianapolis' urban homesteading program, which she urges viewers to take advantage of after mentioning of upcoming applications being offered. This editorial was taped outside one of the homes that were part of this program.

Opening and closing voiceover by ??

This aired on local Indianapolis TV Wednesday, August 1st 1979 at a few minutes before 7:00pm.

WLS Channel 7 - Editorial Reply (1982)

Views: 1506

Here's a reply to a WLS Channel 7 Editorial by Tom Stabnicki of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), speaking out against the new Youth Services Bureau agency within the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, explaining that such programs in other areas have been plagued with numerous problems in the past, plus the issue of child welfare worker jobs lost due to budget cuts.

Opening voiceover by Al Parker.

This a...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "GOP On ERA" (1980)

Views: 1892

Here's an editorial on WMAQ Channel 5 regarding the Republican party's stance on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Includes:

Ending of NewsCenter5 at 10pm with Jim Tilmon, Jim Ruddle, Carol Marin, and Mike Leiderman - with voiceover of upcoming editorial (by ??)

Editorial by Dillon Smith - WMAQ-TV Editorial Director.

Ending card for the editorial gets cut off a bit early but you can see the graphics and name of Monte Newman - General Manager at th...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "Season's Greetings from the Smith Family" (1979)

Views: 980

(Wish I could have posted this last December, but alas, I often come upon these clips too late. Still, I am sure Dillon Smith's family will enjoy seeing this clip if they haven't for awhile).

Here's a Christmas-themed editorial started off by WMAQ Channel 5's Editorial Director Dillon Smith at the family's home, in which he says he's in no mood to complain about the Mayor, the state of city government and so on, and instead turns over the soapbox on a rotating basis to ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "Group W Deal" (1982)

Views: 3021

Here's an editorial on WMAQ Channel 5 with Andy Shaw about Group W's bid for the Chicago cable franchise on the Northwest side, involving Tom King - General Manager of the Merchandise Mart and James O'Keefe - a prominent Loop attorney - and how the deal may violate the law.

Editorial Director: Andy Shaw. General Manager: Monte Newman.

Also includes at the end a WMAQ-TV Station ID slide and PSA bumper with voiceover by Jim Hill.

This aired on local...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "ERA for Illinois" (1976)

Views: 890

Here's an Editorial on WMAQ Channel 5 given by Dillon Smith, Editorial Director, on the topic of the E.R.A. (Equal Rights Amendment) and the work being done to ratify it in Illinois. (preceded by a WMAQ-TV station ID slide)

Editorial Voiceovers by Henry Cooke. (thanks to Deb Segal for finally id'ing this other mystery announcer)

Also includes a slide-only bumper commercial for the John G. Shedd Aquarium (hey, is that Dory?) (voiceover by Lorry Young)

WLS Channel 7 - Editorial - "Museum of Science & Industry's 50th Anniversary Salute" (1983)

Views: 1740

Here's a WLS-TV editorial from William C. (Bill) Campbell, Director of Public Affairs, speaking from the Museum of Science and Industry, in a salute to its 50th anniversary, at one point showing a commemorative stamp (20 cents - those were the days) issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Campbell also mentions how the Museum's home previously housed the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1893 Columbian World's Fair, and was also the first home of the Field Museum of Natural History, before the Museum w...