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WBKB Channel 7 (Station ID & Pre-Emption Notice, 1968)

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Here is a rare animated station ID for WBKB Channel 7 (which became WLS Channel 7 on October 7th 1968), with a promo for an appearance by Chicago-based jazz legend Ramsey Lewis on a midnight program that aired right after The Joey Bishop Show (not Chicago with Ronnie Barrett, which premiered in July of that year). Also included is a preemption notice for The Invaders (while the slide indicated the show was in color, this bumper is presented here in living black-and-white...

WFLA Channel 8 - Channel 8 Reports (Part 4, 1965)

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Here's Part 4 (the final part) of an edition of Channel 8 Reports on WFLA Channel 8 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida, anchored by Arch Deal. Also featuring longtime sports director Milt Spencer.

Includes:

Milt Spencer reading the following sports items:

- High school basketball scores (only one of which was played in Tampa), printed on a long sheet and panned down: Brandon 72, King High 58; East Bay 94, Brewster Tech 46; Pasco 64, Plant C...

WLUP - The Loop FM 98 - "Lorelei's Rock Show" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for WLUP - The Loop - FM 98 (97.9), taking place at a rock concert with Lorelei the Loop Girl lip-synching to such tunes as "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin, "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush, "Refugee" by Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers, and "Who Are You?" by The Who - and backed by the station's air talent of the time including Steve Dahl & Garry Meier (on a Hofner violin-style "Beatle" bass, Bruce Carey, Mitch Michaels, and Sky Daniels, all on stage as...

WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Dick & Doug" (Part 1, 1976)

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Here's Part 1 of an interview segment from AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7, in which host Steve Edwards interviews the legendary morning drive team of Dick (Sainte) and Doug (Dahlgren) - "Dick and Doug", who were fired from WCFL AM 1000 on March 12th 1976 midway through their air shift, after talking too much about that station's change in format from Top 40 to beautiful music (they had been explicitly forbidden to do so by WCFL's general manager, Lew Witz). In this part, they speak of th...

WYCC Channel 20 - "First Broadcast" (Part 4, 1983)

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Here's Part 4 (the final part) of the first broadcast of WYCC Channel 20, hosted by Program Director Elynne Chaplik. This part also features Dr. Salvatore Rotella, Vice Chancellor and Channel 20's original General Manager. Includes:

Elynne introducing Dr. Rotella, who speaks of how WYCC had started with a dream the City Colleges had for a long time, and its overall mission which is at one with the City Colleges, and how WYCC has become the vehicle through which they could acc...

WGN Channel 9 - Emergency Broadcast System - "This is NOT a Test" (1985)

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Here's a pretty spooky clip - transferred from an RCA Quad cart (for playing on model TCR-100 cart machines) loaded with 2" videotape.

A Fuzzy Personal Note: "I grew up at the height of the 2nd great nuclear war scare period (the first being the Cuban Missile Crisis of course), having been chilled to the bone from seeing movies like “The Day After” in 1983 when I was nine years old. So this clip was very fascinating to me, and seems to be a glimpse at what we might ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Newscene with Kathy McFarland (Promo & Station ID, 1979)

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EARLIEST KATHY MCFARLAND FOOTAGE YET FOUND! (woo?) ;-)

Here's a promo for the upcoming premiere of Newscene with Kathy McFarland, in which she promises the "earliest late-night news" every weeknight at 9:55pm following Sanford & Son.

Ending voiceover (with station ID) by Ron Beattie.

Based on a few pieces of evidence, including what was recorded on top of this, there are only four possible dates that this promo could have air...

WFLD Channel 32 - News/Sports Wrap With Chet Coppock (Tiny Excerpt, 1972?)

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Here's a very small excerpt of the very tail end of a News/Sports Wrap (try one, they're delicious) with Chet Coppock that aired on WFLD Channel 32. At the time, Mr. Coppock was one of the station's staff announcers (as was Del Clark), as well as sportscaster; only in his early 20's at the time, he went on to a long career in sports broadcasting, and is regarded as one of the fathers of spo...

WIFR Channel 23 - The CBS Sunday Night Movies - "That's Entertainment Part 2" (Opening & Partial Break, 1977)

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Here is the opening and partial first commercial break to The CBS Sunday Night Movies presentation of "That's Entertainment Part II" on WIFR Channel 23. Includes:

"WIFR-TV Freeport - Rockford" - Sunday Late Show and Station ID slide (voiceover by ??)

A CBS Special Presentation of The CBS Sunday Night Movies opening for the first TV airing of That's Entertainment Part 2 (voiceover by Allan Berns)

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