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WMAQ Channel 5 - Sign-On, "Meditations" & Opening of "The Health Field" (1982)

Views: 4420

Here is a station sign-on for WMAQ Channel 5 and the opening of "The Health Field" (which also aired on WSNS Channel 44 at various times) Includes:

16 seconds of Color Bars and tone.

WMAQ-TV Chicago 5 logo and silence for about a minute, 15 seconds.

Black for about 45 seconds. (Exciting, eh?)

WMAQ-TV Chicago 5 logo (brighter?) and Station Sign-On voiceover, "Good Morning. This is WMAQ-TV Channel 5 NBC Television in Chicago, welcom...

Son Of Svengoolie - "Free Picture Post Card" (1979)

Views: 1132

Here's an early segment from Son of Sven featuring his first promotional item - a black and orange photograph "post card" that you could get if you wrote into him at this address:

Son of Svengoolie
WFLD TV
300 N. State St.
Chicago 60610

Not sure what episode this is from, but it was a very early one based on the fact that the coffin still has the Jerry G. Bishop-era graphics.

(opening cut-off slightly)

This aired...

A Viacom Presentation - "The V Of Doom" (1982)

Views: 4829

Here's an example of the Viacom "V of Doom" as it is known - this one in extra creepy black and white. (from an episode of The Twilight Zone)

The logo that launched a thousand mid-afternoon nightmares.

This aired on local Chicago TV in 1982.

Various Local Newscasts - "The Death Of Peter Sellers" (Excerpts, 1980)

Views: 2606

Here are some recordings made on the night that the death of British comic actor Peter Sellers was reported in Chicago. Features Walter Jacobson, Fahey Flynn, John Drury, Gene Siskel, and Carrie Cochran - as well as some short clips from a few of his best known movie roles.

*Note*: Peter Sellers is usually reported to have died on 7/24/80, and this is because it was after midnight in London that he died. So, these clips actually aired on 7/23/80 since Chicago is 6 hours behin...

WRCK FM 95 - "WRoCK" (Commercial #2, 1980)

Views: 2108

Here's the 10-second, shorter version of a commercial for WRCK (WROCK) FM 95 - "Chicago's Rock Hits!". Short, like the lifespan for WRCK-FM, which only lasted from May 22, 1980 through December 1980.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, August 7th 1980. (C) American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

WRCK FM 95 - "WRoCK" (Commercial #1, 1980)

Views: 1167

Here's the longer, 20-second version of a commercial for WRCK (WROCK) FM 95 - "Chicago's Rock Hits!". Short, like the lifespan for WRCK-FM, which only lasted from May 22, 1980 through December 1980.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, July 1st 1980. (C) American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

WLS Channel 7 - Makin' It (Opening, 1979)

Views: 2414

Here's the opening for the short-lived disco-era series Makin' It starring David Naughton (star of "American Werewolf in London" and the Dr. Pepper "Be a Pepper" guy)

Also includes a WLS-TV Chicago 7 bumper slide at the beginning (voiceover by Al Parker)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 9th 1979 at 7pm.

ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980)

Views: 2770

Here's the opening moments of the premiere night of ON TV Subscription Television which aired in Chicago on WSNS Channel 44.

This starts with the video animated ON TV ID, then the introductory promo which promotes the new subscription channel as a "revolution in Chicago broadcasting."

The first night's lineup includes "10" with Bo Derek, Dudley Moore and Julie Andrews; "Norma Rae" with Sally Field; and "Slap Shot" with Paul Newman. Brief clips from other films...

WBBM Channel 2 - Station ID Slide (Tiny Excerpt, 1971)

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Here's a very brief excerpt of a station ID slide from WBBM Channel 2. The "2" at this point was from the network-mandated "CBS Didot" serif font, unlike sister stations WCBS Channel 2 in New York and then-KNXT Channel 2 (now KCBS) in Los Angeles which then used sans-serif Grotesque No. 9 whose size was the same as the CBS Eye. It should be also noted that another sister station at the time, WCAU...