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WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 At 10pm - "Soderholm Profile" (1977)

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Here's an excerpt of NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5 with the Sports report by Tim Weigel, including a profile of Chicago White Sox third baseman Eric Soderholm. You also get to see a brief appearance of anchor Ron Hunter at the beginning and end.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, August 4th 1977 during the 10pm to 10:30pm timeframe.

NBC News Digest With Jessica Savitch - "One of Her Last" (1983)

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Here's a mostly complete NBC News Digest with Jessica Savitch. This is notable for being one of her last appearances on television before her untimely death on Sunday, October 23rd 1983. October was not a good month for her, starting out on October 3rd with this infamous, apparently drug-impaired NBC News Digest appearance.

According to the NBC Archives (reported to Jessica's sister Lori Savi...

WLS Channel 7 - Fridays (Promo, 1980)

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Here's a promo for the next edition of ABC's ultimately short-lived Saturday Night Live knockoff, Fridays, on WLS Channel 7, featuring clips of sketches from prior shows. (This program featured not only a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards, but also Seinfeld's future creator Larry David, plus the likes of Melanie Chartoff, Brandis Kemp, and Maryedith Burrell.)

This coming edition's musical guests will be Devo. (NOTE: This is a repeat of an episode that...

WKBD Channel 50 - NBC Saturday Night (Bumper Promo, 1977)

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How many people knew Kaiser/Field affiliate WKBD Channel 50 in Detroit showed NBC Saturday Night (A.K.A. Saturday Night Live) first-run before the NBC affiliate did? Here's a bumper promo for the episode featuring Steve Martin and The Kinks.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Detroit TV on Saturday, February 26th 1977 at 5pm. (not Chicago TV, but still cool)

WFLD Channel 32 - America 2 Night (Bumper Excerpt #3 & Ending, 1978)

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Here's a brief glimpse at a couple commercial bumpers from America 2 Night on WFLD Channel 32 from 1978 - the waning months of the Kaiser era!

This one is also very quick - but you can see it features Fred Willard.

I included the end credits of the show too (no 32 voiceover unfortunately) because there is a little snippet of a commercial that followed immediately after (no Station ID?) - for The Children's Photographer. Is that Bud Kelly again doing the live rea...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 At 5pm - "The Blizzard of '78" (Part 3, 1978)

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Everyone remembers the great Blizzard of '79 - but how many people remember the Blizzard of 1978? Before the big snow in 1979 hit, this seemed fairly significant I guess, although not as bad as the Big Snow of 1967. Was this just a case of snow-perbole? You decide.

Here is Part 3, the final part, of some footage from the NewsCenter5 airing at 5pm on WMAQ Channel 5, with Mike Jackson, Ron Hunter, and Jerry Taft. Also features a very brief glimpse of one of WMAQ-TV's sports guys...

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Saturday Night Live" (Local Promo, 1982)

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Here is a local bumper promo on WMAQ Channel 5 in Chicago for Saturday Night Live featuring Mary Gross.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV in July of 1982.

WGN Channel 9 - Ending of The Cisco Kid and Opening of The Lone Ranger (1980)

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Here's the ending of an episode of The Cisco Kid (starring Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Leo Carrillo as Pancho) and beginning of an episode of The Lone Ranger on WGN Channel 9. (picture's a bit fuzzy) ;-) Includes:

Ending moments of final act of Cisco Kid episode, "Magician of Jamesville" (original airdate March 15th 1956, per IMDb)

Commercial: 1st Metropolitan Builde...

WNBQ Channel 5 - The Dorsey Connors Show (Part 1, 1963)

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Here's Part 1 of an edition of The Dorsey Connors Show on WNBQ Channel 5 (which, like most shows of this period, is only available via 16mm kinescope film). Ms. Connors, who died on September 5th 2007, was a fixture on Chicago radio and television in the early years of the latter medium, with a daytime program that was along the lines of shows such as that of Lee Phillip on WBBM Channel 2. But whereas Ms. Phillip continually remade herself (and in the process, remained a Chicago TV p...