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WMAQ Channel 5 - Red, White & Blue with Bob Hope (Promos & Station ID, 1976)

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Here's a series of promos by comic legend Bob Hope as aired on WMAQ Channel 5, for NBC's Red, White & Blue special celebrating the Fourth of July, coverage of Chicago area celebrations of Independence Day at 5pm, and Bob Hope's Bicentennial Star Spangled Spectacular at 7:30pm with guests Sammy Davis Jr., Donny & Marie Osmond, The Captain & Tennille, and Debbie Reynolds.

The promos - designated PR-1039 - are in :30 second (TAKE 1) and short station ID (TAKE 2) form...

WLAK FM 94 - "The Place to Relax" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for the "beautiful" music of WLAK - The Lake FM 94 - "The Place to Relax", which played a lot of instrumental easy-listening songs.

This station is now known as WLIT-FM (93.9 "My FM"). Each November and December, they torture Chicagoans with non-stop holiday music.

Featuring actor Patrick O'Neal (who starred in my favorite Columbo episode in 1978, "Make Me A Perfect Murder") (O'Neal also did this same type of ad (and with the same slog...

Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #1, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)

(There is also a slightly different version of the same commercial)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

WBBM Channel 2 - Newsbreak with John Drummond (1978)

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Here's a Newsbreak update on WBBM Channel 2 featuring the venerable Chicago newsman John "Bulldog" Drummond. Includes:

"This is CBS" 'Eye' Station ID.

September heatwave continues with today being the hottest day of 1978.

Police discover body of unidentified man in the trunk of a car at O'Hare airport. (Long Term Parking?)

Board of Elections rules that Governor Thompson's tax limit referendum will be on the November ballot.
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CBS Network - "Star Wars Holiday Special" (Promo, 1978)

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Here's a CBS Network promo for the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special" which aired the next day on Friday, November 17th 1978. Also includes a promo for the short-lived series "Flying High" and a CBS "Eye" ID. (Voiceover by Bob Hite)

Featuring Valerie Bertinelli.

This aired on local Cleveland TV (and presumably Chicago too since it's a network promo) on Thursday, November 16th 1978.

WTTW Channel 11 - Movie Eleven - "Dr. Who" (Intermission Ending, 1976)

Views: 2613

Here's the ending of an Intermission during Movie Eleven's presentation of the Doctor Who story "The Claws of Axos". We see just a smidge of a WTTW ID slide and the ending of Don Ferris' voiceover and a Movie Eleven Intermission slide before they fade up with Part 3.

Previous to this we saw the opening with the snazzy music from the same broadcast.

Voiceover by Don Ferris.

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WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Show (Black & White Notice, 1974?)

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Finally - some WFLD stuff from the same batch that isn't from March 1971. ;-) Here is an on-screen notice during The Jack Benny Show on WFLD Channel 32 informing you of a "Black & White Telecast".

Can anyone with access to the old TV guides find a listing for The Jack Benny Show on WFLD? Also, refresh my memory - when was Kaiser Broadcasting in control of WFLD? I know it ended in September of 1977, but not when they began exactly.

Not sure when this aired exa...

Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #2, 1980)

Views: 2660

Here's another commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)

(This is a slight variation from a previously posted version)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 12th 1980.

GK Chevrolet Of Downers Grove - "General Motors Raises Prices" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2167

Here's another commercial for GK Chevrolet in Downers Grove. The last time we saw one it had a really bad technical difficulty moment in it.

GK Chevrolet is now Bill Kay Chevrolet - part of the Bill Kay Automotive Group - still at the same place, 1601 Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove - even has the same phone number, except the area code is now 630 of course. :-)

Ending voiceover by J...