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WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness AM News with Jim Gibbons (1978)

Views: 1377

Here's an edition of Eyewitness AM News on WLS Channel 7 that aired within Good Morning America. The anchor of this edition was Jim Gibbons, and the items are as follows:

- Jay Levine reporting on the previous day's events in the trial of Nola Jean Weaver of Long Grove, accused of murdering her husband Larry in 1977; prosecutor Ann Regan's tales of sordid love affairs and Larry's beating his wife, shouting matches between prosecution and defense, and swinging moo...

WTHR Channel 13 - Today (Opening Moments, 1979)

Views: 1749

Here's the opening moments of the Today show with Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley, as aired on Indianapolis TV. Also featuring reporter Steve Delaney. Includes:

Station ID with promo for Name That Tune at 7:30pm (voiceover by ??)

Opening titles for Today, with Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley opening the program before Tom goes right into the news of the morning:

- Anti-American demonstrations outside the U.S. Embassy compound in Islama...

WBBM Channel 2 - Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown (Opening & Break, 1981)

Views: 1637

Here's the opening minutes and first commercial break of the CBS Special, Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown as aired on WBBM Channel 2.

Includes:

WBBM-TV News bumper promo for Special Report on "The Heir Apparent of Chicago's Mob - Tonight at 10" (voiceover by John Drummond)

CBS Preemption notice for The Incredible Hulk (voiceover by ??)

"A CBS Special Presentation" spinning, animated graphic

Cold op...

Toyota - "Own A Toyota Today" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 674

Here's a commercial for Toyota.

Also includes a quick WBBM Channel 2 news bumper at the end featuring Mike Parker.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 28th 1980.

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "Clock Excerpts #1" (1971)

Views: 4543

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Here's the good news - someone recorded The Ray Rayner Show at various times in the early seventies! Now the bad news - they only recorded the cartoons, and cut out nearly everything else. :-( I bring you the only snippets left - a few excerpts of the clock that they would show the time on, and in some cases, the chalkboard with the date, weather, and sports scores. Some might wonder why...

WCFC Channel 38 - Liberty Temple Full Gospel News - "Mad" (Part 1, 1987)

Views: 4873

Here's some footage from WCFC-TV Channel 38 - our religious station in Chicago. Features Sharleatha Collins introducing the movie "Mad" during the program "Liberty Temple Full Gospel News". This feels like something that should be part of the Found Footage Festival.

Mad: A true story about the life of Pastor Clifford E. Turner growing up as a young man in the inner city of Chicago, in the 60s. Written, Produced, Directed, Filmed & Scored at Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church....

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "Clock Excerpts #2" (1971)

Views: 3647

The transfer of this video clip made possible by your generous donations!

Here's the good news - someone recorded The Ray Rayner Show at various times in the early seventies! Now the bad news - they only recorded the cartoons, and cut out nearly everything else. :-( I bring you the only snippets left - a few excerpts of the clock that they would show the time on, and in some cases, the chalkboard with the date, weather, and sports scores. Some might wonder why...

ABC Network - "Reagan Assassination Attempt Coverage" (Part 3, 1981)

Views: 1865

Here is some more news coverage from the ABC network, recorded on the day of the President Reagan assassination attempt - 30 years ago today. Includes:

Tape starts in the middle of a report by ABC News' Bettina Gregory in Washington about Presidential would-be assassin John W. Hinckley, Jr. and the events leading up to the shooting; she explains the Secret Service had no knowledge of a prior arrest of Hinckley in Nashville.

Back to Anchor Frank Reynolds in the st...

WLS Channel 7 - News - "Armed Gunman Inside Channel 7 Building" (Part 3, 1990)

Views: 1738

Here's Part 3 (the final part) of WLS Channel 7's news coverage of an armed robbery suspect who hid out for 40 hours at the 190 North State Street building that houses the station.

This part begins with anchors Jim Rosenfield and Sylvia Perez at the Eyewitness News desk. The tape comes in as Sylvia explains that the third floor where the studios are have been sealed, and that no one in the building would be let in or out. They then introduce Paul Meincke who's still ou...