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WLS Channel 7 - "Older Women/Younger Men" (News Promo, 1980)
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Here is a promo of a piece on the WLS Channel 7 10pm news, "Older Women/Younger Men" featuring Dr. Joyce Brothers (voiceover by Gary Gears). Also includes a promo for Attica (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) and a bumper promo for "She Lives!" - Tuesday at 3:30pm (voiceover by Gary Gears).
This promo aired on Monday, February 25th, 1980 between 8 and 10pm.
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm - "The Freeze Of '79" (Part 4, 1979)
Views: 2800
Here is Part 4 (the last part) of a complete edition of the WLS Eyewitness News at 10pm on WLS Channel 7. Includes:
Joel Daly with "Odds & Ends" news - including the story of an abandoned dog hobbling along the river bank near Montgomery Ward who has been there for weeks
Ending of the News
Commercial: Continental Bank - "Collector Chicago Plates" (with voiceover by Tom Bosley of "Happy Days" fame)
Commercial: Yellow Pages - "Get In ...
WLS Channel 7 - The 4:30 Eyewitness News (Part 3, 1983)
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Here's Part 3 of the 4:30 Eyewitness News with Mary Ann Childers and Tim Weigel. Includes:
Eyewitness Anonymous segment with Tim Weigel. Features Dick Johnson reporting on how to make a good witness, a dramatization of a "Smash and Grab" with Eyewitness News researcher Yvonne Small playing the "victim", and Chicago Police officer Jim Hamill.
Commercial: Viva paper towels - "Is it or isn't it a Paper Sponge?"
Commercial: Taco Bell - New "Taco Ligh...
A&P Food Stores - "A Butcher Shop with Supermarket Prices" (Commercial, 1979)
Views: 1883
Here's a commercial for A&P Food Stores, with a butcher on duty pointing to the right kind of London broil for two women to buy (one with a pretty obvious voice overdub) while on their shopping trip. This scenario was cited as "another reason why you'll do better at A&P."
Ending voiceover by ??, with sale on center cut Chuck Roast (wasn't he a former anchorman here in Chicago?) for 98 cents a pound, available at all Indianapolis area A&P stores through Saturday, August 4th.
WMAQ Channel 5 - Rock World (Part 7, 1980)
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Here's the seventh and final part of a complete edition of Rock World, a weekly pre-MTV music video show that aired on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:
Videos by Billy Burnette - "Memphis, Tennessee's ripe proud rock 'n' roll legacy" (Burnette, along with Rick Vito, later joined Fleetwood Mac following Lindsey Buckingham's departure from the band in 1987):
- "Don't Say No"
- "In Just a Heartbeat" (both from his 1980 self-titled LP Billy Burnett...
WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News At Five - "Trib Buys Cubs" (Opening, 1981)
Views: 6430
Here is the opening (mostly complete) for the Channel 2 News At Five on WBBM Channel 2. The lead story at that hour was the selling by the Wrigley family of the Chicago Cubs to the Tribune Company. Also includes stories on Chicago Public Schools, a Ronald Reagan press conference, and the condition of James Brady.
Finally we see a snippet of an old Earl Scheib commercial before the tape cuts off. :-)
Featuring Walter Jacobson, Johnny Morris, William Wrigley Jr....
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News (Opening, 1979)
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Here is the opening segment for the Eyewitness News at 10 on WLS Channel 7; featuring Jay Levine, Mike Hale, Jay Berry, and Carol Bogart. Includes:
Skycam 7 bumper
Eyewitness News open (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
90 Americans held hostage by Iranian students as they storm U.S. Embassy
Chicagoans facing gas shortage due to teamsters truck drivers' strike
International Harvester strike
Coo...
WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC News Chicago Report - "Russian/American Culture" (Excerpt, 1972)
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Here's an excerpt from a broadcast of the NBC News Chicago Report on WMAQ Channel 5. This clip comes in at the end of a report on a local radio station, WEDC (1240 AM), that at the time primarily aired Polish and Spanish programming - and also some Russian-language programming for Chicago's Russian-American community; the reporter noted a heightened interest in Russian culture in the wake o...
ABC News Viewpoint - The Day After - "Introduction & Schultz Interview" (Part 1, 1983)
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Here is Part 1 of the live ABC News Viewpoint special on "The Nuclear Dilemma". This aired after The Day After on WLS Channel 7 - an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. Hosted by Ted Koppel.
Panel of guests were Dr. Henry Kissinger, Carl Sagan, Brent Scowcroft, William F. Buckley, Jr., Elie Wiesel, and Robert McNamara.
Part 1 features a one-on-one interview with then Secretary of State George Schul...