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FM 100 - "All Wound Up?" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3300

Here's another commercial for FM 100 ( WLOO 100.3 FM ) - The Music Station. Features the mime act Shields and Yarnell as "The Clinkers". (Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, November 19th 1981.

Hooray for Reading - "The Glad Man" (#1, 1979)

Views: 555

Here is the first in a series of 10, minute-long shorts (or interstitials as they are sometimes known) created by Field Communications for children called Hooray for Reading. These would air during the commercial breaks on kid's shows and cartoons.

These featured kids briefly doing some other activity besides reading (the "hook") and then describing a book they like using a brief dramatization of a part in the story.

This one is based on the book "The Glad Man" ...

Hooray for Reading - "The Accident" (#5, 1979)

Views: 861

Here is the fifth in a series of ten, minute-long shorts (or interstitials as they are sometimes known) created by Field Communications for children called Hooray for Reading. These would air during the commercial breaks on kid's shows and cartoons.

These featured kids briefly doing some other activity besides reading (the "hook") and then describing a book they like using a brief dramatization of a part in the story.

This one is based on the book "The Accident" ...

Italian Dance Party (Record Offer, 1984)

Views: 3454

Here's a record offer commercial for Italian Dance Party, featuring disco-fied versions of such familiar all-time Italian hits as "Arrivederci Roma," "More," "O Sole Mio," "Mama," "Come Back to Sorrento," "Tarantella," "Amena E Core," "C'e'la Luna," "Volare," "Non Pensare a Me," "Theme from 'The Godfather'," "Scusa Me," "Quando, Quando, Quando," "I Have But One Heart," "Kiss Me," "Santa Lucia," "Al Di La," "Come Prima," "Tra Veglia E Sonno" and "Mala Femmina," as performed by the Festa...

WLUP - The Loop FM 98 - Johnny B - "The Loop Team" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2089

Here is a commercial for Johnny B (Jonathan Brandmeier), a DJ for WLUP - The Loop FM 98. This dates to April 1983. It's a take-off on the A-Team, foo!

WIND News Talk 56 - "Reaching Somebody" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1948

Here's a commercial for radio station WIND News Talk 56.

Who's that actor again? I keep thinking Jeffery Tambor but he just looks like him a little bit.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, November 13th 1980.

WFLD Channel 32 - Mighty Mouse (On-Screen ID, 1981?)

Views: 719

Here is an on-screen station ID during a cartoon shown on Mighty Mouse on WFLD Channel 32. Not sure on the year, but probably from 1981-1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Green Acres - "Four of Spades" (Commercial Break #2 & On-Screen Station ID, 1979)

Views: 804

Here is Commercial Break #2 (last one I have) as well as a Channel 32 on-screen station ID from an episode of Green Acres on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

WFLD "Zooming" Green Acres bumper

Blistex & Blistik lip balm (Main voiceover by ??, ending voiceover by Ron Beattie) - Available at DeKoven Drug Centers and Kohl's Wonderful Foods

WFLD Happy Days Again promo (voiceover by Ron Beattie)

WFLD "Zooming" Green Acres return bumper (voiceov...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Sign-On, "Meditations" & Opening of "The Health Field" (1982)

Views: 4394

Here is a station sign-on for WMAQ Channel 5 and the opening of "The Health Field" (which also aired on WSNS Channel 44 at various times) Includes:

16 seconds of Color Bars and tone.

WMAQ-TV Chicago 5 logo and silence for about a minute, 15 seconds.

Black for about 45 seconds. (Exciting, eh?)

WMAQ-TV Chicago 5 logo (brighter?) and Station Sign-On voiceover, "Good Morning. This is WMAQ-TV Channel 5 NBC Television in Chicago, welcom...