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WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Outrageous Talk Show Hosts" (Part 2, 1985)
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Here's Part 2 of an episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7. The topic was controversial, provocative and outrageous radio talk show hosts and featured Alan Burke of WGBS in Miami, Morton Downey Jr. (on this show just going by Mort Downey) of WERE in Cleveland, Warren Freiberg of WLNR in Lansing, IL, Irv Homer of WWDB in Philadelphia, and Jerry Williams of WRKO in Boston. Starring Oprah Winfrey as host.
This episode featured the infamous "soap spraying" incident by Warren Frei...
WLS Channel 7 - Kennedy And Company - "WLS Deejays" (1972)
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Here's a rare segment from the morning show Kennedy and Company on WLS Channel 7, hosted by the late Bob Kennedy. This was the predecessor to AM Chicago (which was begun after Kennedy's death in 1974), and is considered in some corners to be an ancestor to the recently-ended The Oprah Winfrey Show.
This segment was devoted to the disc jockeys of WLS Musicradio 8...
WMAQ Channel 5 - The Woody Woodpecker Show (Pre-Show Break & Opening, 1971)
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Here's a local commercial break and opening moments of The Woody Woodpecker Show on WMAQ Channel 5. The popular character ran on the NBC Network from 1970 to 1977. Includes:
Commercial: WMAQ Channel 5 News - "Watch Yourself" - with Harry Volkman (comes in at tail end of commercial) (with "5" derived from Impact font)
Promo for National Geographic Special
WMAQ Channel 5 - "The Wizard of Oz" (Commercial Break #2, 1973)
Views: 2120
Here's a second surviving commercial break for the 1973 airing of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" (starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr) on WMAQ Channel 5. This was the seventh airing of this classic by NBC, which held the rights from 1967 to 1975. (Among the fare preempted this evening: The Wonderful World of Disney.) Includes:
Commercial: McDonald's - with a mother and her children driving to have a meal after her husband bids them goodbye ...
WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Tarantula" (Ending Excerpt, 1982)
Views: 1760
Here is an excerpt from the ending of the Son of Svengoolie presentation of "Tarantula" on WFLD Channel 32. This was Episode #154.
Features Jim Barton doing an on-camera reading of the credits.
Also features a Field Communications ID at the end.
Credits:
The Son of Svengoolie Movie Show!
Starring Rich Koz
Written and Produced by Rich Koz and Joe Oher
Directed by Joe "When Did You Lose Control?" Oher
WLS Channel 7 - ABC Movie Special - "Rudolph and Frosty" (Commercial Break #4, 1981)
Views: 1016
Here's the fourth commercial break from the ABC Movie Special presentation of "Rudolph and Frosty" on WLS Channel 7. Includes:
"Rudolph and Frosty" bumper (voiceover by Joel Crager)
Commercial: Bubblicious - with new "way out" watermelon flavor - "The Ultimate Bubble Has the Ultimate Flavors"
Commercial: Black & Decker Dustbuster mini vacuum cleaner - with a kid who leaves messes everywhere he goes - "Perfect for Under the Tree"
WMAQ Channel 5 - newsfive - "Streaking" (1974)
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Here's a segment of the ending portion of newsfive with legendary anchor Floyd Kalber (a.k.a. "The Big Tuna") on WMAQ Channel 5, from the height of the "streaking" craze in 1974. Also features weatherman Harry Volkman. Includes:
Outro of weather report by Harry Volkman, who mentions the temperature at 57 degrees - which Floyd characterizes as "not weather for streaking," whi...
WBKB Channel 7 - News - "Local Kennedy Assassination Coverage" (1963)
Views: 8292
Here's a really rare clip - some local coverage of the JFK assassination on WBKB Channel 7 (which later became WLS Channel 7). This is from the day after the event, when they were still trying to connect the dots. (although I am amazed at how much they have already tracked down, including Oswald's alias and where he bought the gun - Klein's Sporting Goods Company (!) at 227 West Washington Street in Chicago - owned by Mr. Milton Klein) (no relation) ;-)
Features Frank Reynol...
WGN Channel 9 - Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #1, 1981)
Views: 4054
Here's the first commercial break for Bugs Bunny & Friends on WGN Channel 9. Includes:
Ending moments of "Buckaroo Bugs" (1944 - the first Bugs Bunny cartoon to be released in the Looney Tunes series)
Bugs Bunny & Friends "We'll Be Right Back" bumper slide (voiceover by Merri Dee)
Promo for The Muppet Show with guest Bob Hope, for 5pm (ending voiceover by Merri Dee)
Commercial for pair of super-soft Nyamy...