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WFLD Channel 32 - Station Sign-Off, Sign-On & Thought For Today - "Station Doze-Off" (1987)

Views: 3960

Here's a station sign-off, sign-on and edition of Thought For Today on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Ending moments of 1959 movie "A Touch of Larceny" with James Mason and Vera Miles

Closing title sequence for Latenight 32 (which dated to the Metromedia era) and voiceover (by Jim Barton) advising WFLD will return to the air at 6am

Promo for Fox 32 News (which debuted in August 1987) at 7pm and 11pm weeknights - "It's a Sure Thing...

WLS Channel 7 - News Bulletin - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 2, 1979)

Views: 3413

Here's Part 2 of WLS Channel 7's news coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 (a DC-10 manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas; scheduled to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles), 1/2 mile northwest of O'Hare Airport. Featuring Diane Allen and the voice of eyewitness Bruce Zupek. Includes:

News Bulletin bumper slide (voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)

Diane Allen is on the phone with Bruce Zupek, a private pilot who was an eyewitness to the crash as he...

WCIU Channel 26 - "Spanish Blue Squares" (Station ID, 1985?)

Views: 1428

Here's another station ID for WCIU Channel 26 given in Spanish.

Not sure when this aired but probably around 1985.

The Greenhouse Cards (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 981

Here's another commercial for those popular info-card sets they were always selling back in the early eighties, such as Safari Cards.

"The Greenhouse - A Guide to Indoor Gardening"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

WFBN Channel 66 (Station ID, 1985?)

Views: 4567

Here's a station ID for WFBN Channel 66 Joliet (before they became WGBO Super 66). Includes a quick end of a segment with Boobarella-whoops, I mean Elvira. ;-)

Not sure of the date on this one, but likely 1985 or so.

WBMX "Progressive" FM 103 (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 4621

Here's a saucy commercial for WBMX - "Progressive" FM 103.

The call letters WBMX (standing for Black Music EXperience), were originally assigned to 102.7 on the FM dial in Oak Park/Chicago Illinois from 1973 to 1988. (That station frequency is now home to R&B station WVAZ - better known as V-103). In 1991, the call letters WBMX were assigned to 98.5 on the FM dial in the Boston area.

Contains some quick clips of the Chicago White Sox.

This aired o...

Sports Illustrated - "Biggest Present" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 981

Here's a holiday Sports Illustrated commercial, which is similar but different from a later version.

(tape had a crease in it so there is a horizontal line in the picture)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 9th 1979.

Andre Champagne - "Another Season" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2732

Here's a later variation of the Andre Champagne commercial - this one with champagne flutes being clinked instead of smaller glasses - also, they updated one of the pictures probably for looking too "70's".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 18th 1983.

WTHR Channel 13 - "NBC-Style Station ID" & Promo (1979)

Views: 1367

Here's an animated station ID for WTHR Channel 13 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as in the style of many an NBC affiliate between 1976 and 1979, with a promo for an airing of the 1967 George C. Scott film "The Flim-Flam Man" for August 2nd at 3:30pm.

Voiceover by ??

NOTE: This aired precisely two months to the day after WTHR (which had signed on as WLWI on October 30th 1957, and adopted their current call letters in February 1976 after a change in station mana...