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WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Show - "Pre-Emption Notice" (1975)
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Here's the opening of The Jack Benny Program on WFLD Channel 32, featuring a pre-emption notice. Includes:
Pre-emption notice for Bill Burrud's Travel World (from the host of Animal World) with show logo bumper slide from WFLD (which used a serif typeface called Windsor Bold, which apparently preceded Avant Garde Medium as Kaiser-era WFLD's font du jour)
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WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Program - "Technical Difficulties Moment" (1975)
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Here's a technical difficulties moment from within the opening moments of The Jack Benny Program on WFLD Channel 32. This starts with a bumper for Bristol-Myers Company (typesetting in Kabel Medium) - "The Makers of Bufferin" (voiceover by Bud Kelly) which lasts on-screen for the first 23 seconds.
Next is the opening of the show (with voiceover by Jack's longtime announcer Do...
WGN Channel 9 - The WGN 8:00 Movie - "A Hard Day's Night" (Opening, 1977)
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Here's the opening of The WGN 8:00 Movie presentation of "A Hard Day's Night" featuring the Beatles, on WGN Channel 9. Also includes a "Last Farewell" animated WGN station ID at the beginning, and a snippet of the beginning of an Imperial margarine ad at the end (voiceover by Peter Thomas).
The opening graphics seen here are the same as those in
Here's a theatrical movie trailer for TV for the film "Heroes" starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field.
Ending voiceover by Carl Greyson.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 23rd 1977 at about 7:59pm.
WGN Channel 9 - Family Theatre - "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" (Opening, 1972)
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Here's something incredibly rare (tape-tracking problems notwithstanding) - another local movie show opening yanked from the dustbin of TV history! Tracking is kind of rough, but here is the opening of the Family Theatre presentation of "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" on WGN Channel 9. We see a dancing man with a hat and cane, who eventually gets yanked by the hook, as in the vaudeville days...
WGN Channel 9 - Emergency Broadcast System Test - "Tone Deaf?" (1980)
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Here's a test of the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) as broadcast on WGN Channel 9.
If the tone sounds off to you, it's because they screwed-up and only used the 853 Hz tone, instead of a combo of 853 and 960 Hz, as required.
Voiceover by Merri Dee.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, April 10th 1980 during the 12:00pm to 1pm timeframe.
WLS Channel 7 - Kennedy And Company - "WLS Deejays" (1972)
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Here's a rare segment from the morning show Kennedy and Company on WLS Channel 7, hosted by the late Bob Kennedy. This was the predecessor to AM Chicago (which was begun after Kennedy's death in 1974), and is considered in some corners to be an ancestor to the recently-ended The Oprah Winfrey Show.
This segment was devoted to the disc jockeys of WLS Musicradio 8...
Chuck Wagon - "Chase The Chuckwagon" (Commercial, 1976)
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Here's a very memorable commercial for Chuck Wagon dog food by Purina with the dog that likes to chase the chuckwagon right out of the TV. :-)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 9th 1976.
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Film Developing" (1974)
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Here's a rare excerpt from WLS Channel 7's Eyewitness News, from back in the days when all reports from out "in the field" came from film, and sometimes were being developed as the newscast was running.
Frank Mathie introduces the "Action Seven" piece, with Geoff Smith reporting about how film stories aired on Eyewitness News are shot; in this instance, one film crew is...