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WJPC AM 95 With Sammy Davis, Jr. (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's another commercial for a long-gone Chicago radio station - WJPC AM 95 (950 AM) - where Tom Joyner got his start in Chicago. (Along with LaDonna Tittle and BeBe D'Banana)

Featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. doing an impression of Humphrey Bogart.

Is that Tom Joyner doing the voiceover at the end?

WJPC was apparently owned by Johnson Publishing Company, who put out Jet and Ebony magazines.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Su...

WYEN FM 107 - "Request Radio" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 3220

Here's a commercial for WYEN FM 107 ("Request Radio," licensed to neighboring Des Plaines - and today Spanish-language WPPN, "Amor 106.7"), featuring snippets of such tracks as "No Tell Lover" by Chicago, "Last Time I Saw Him" by Diana Ross, "Forever In Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond, and "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees.

The "Request Radio" slogan referred to the station playing music requested by listeners.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 22...

WJPC 95 AM - "The Station All Your Friends Are Listening To" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1047

Here's a commercial for WJPC 95 AM, with celebrity endorsements from Michael Jackson (wearing a London police constable's hat and sporting his first nose job as would be seen on his breakthrough album Off the Wall) and his pet parrot named Ricky, Muhammad Ali, Redd Foxx (with Tom Joyner holding the microphone - and being KO'd by him), the Commodores, Soul Train host Don Cornelius, and Slappy White. Also seen with Joyner at the end are fellow WJPC air personalities Jo Jo Bell Wi...

Kaiser Broadcasting - "Doing Things in a Big Way" (Promotional Sales Film) (Part 2, 1968)

Views: 3302

This clip made possible by the donations from our generous group of "Fuzzketeers" during the Spring 2012 Tape Transfer Fundraiser.

Here's the second and final part of a neat promotional sales film from Kaiser Broadcasting Company which owned WFLD Channel 32 from 1973 to 1977. This 1968 film, dealt with the company's pre-WFLD early years in operation; at the time of this promo fil...

WDHO Channel 24 - "Nuclear Destruction: Catch It On WDHO!" (On-Screen ID, 1983)

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Here's something not from Chicago TV but still interesting to show the differences in stations presentations' of The Day After (an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States).

WLS-TV did not have an on-screen station ID for the entirety of the movie. However, WDHO Channel 24 in Toledo, Ohio apparently thought it was appropriate to put several of their ID's on screen throughout the movie - the most distracting of th...

WGN Channel 9 - John Drury and NewsNine (Opening & Excerpt, 1979)

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Here's the first five minutes of John Drury and NewsNine on WGN Channel 9. Besides the aforementioned once-and-future WLS Channel 7 anchor whose name was incorporated into the newscast's title upon his joining Channel 9, the opening moments also feature weatherman Tom Skilling and sportscaster (and fellow WLS alumnus) Bill Frink, and this clip features reports from David Margulies and Elizabeth Brackett. (Commentator Len O'Connor was mentioned in the open, but he does not appear anyw...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - Saturday Night Fright (Promo, 1982)

Views: 3807

Here's a promo for Saturday Night Fright - a two-movie Son of Svengoolie Halloween special. Featuring Pat Callahan from the radio station Q101 FM.

Movies shown that night were "The Mummy" and "House of Horrors".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 30th 1982.

WGN Radio 720 - "Bob Collins' Low Budget" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1245

Here's a commercial for WGN Radio 720 AM in which their afternoon drive personality, Bob Collins, complains about the threadbare props he's being forced to use for this commercial (with an RCA 77DX microphone thrown in for good measure), while bemoaning how the station's other personalities (such as Wally Phillips, Roy Leonard and Bill Berg) get better setups for theirs. (Collins moved into the 2pm-6pm slot in June 1981.) Features the animated "We've Got Chicago Talking" at the end.
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WFLD Channel 32 - The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show (Part 1, 1972)

Views: 6859