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Hooray for Reading - "Bad Times of Irma Baumlein" (#9, 1979)

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Here is the ninth 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. (Sorry, I don't have the 10th and final one)

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.

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WFLD Channel 32 - Thought For Today & Station Sign-Off (1986)

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Here's a station sign-off, and edition of Thought For Today, on WFLD Channel 32.

This was from within the last few months of Metromedia's ownership of WFLD, prior to Fox Television Stations' officially taking over the reins in March.

Includes:

Promo for upcoming Star Search '86 for Tuesday at 7:30pm (main voiceover by ??) (closing voiceover by ??)

Animated station ID with 1984 logo variant

Thought for ...

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WXRT 93.1 FM - "Give Our Rock A Listen!" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2562

Here's a commercial for radio station WXRT 93.1 FM.

"Chicago's Finest Rock" (and finest boom mike)

Featuring actor/musician Rick Pickren as the WXRT spokesman. Check out his website - BigStrikeMusic.com.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 13th 1983.

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WBBM Channel 2 - Station Sign-On, SSB & Meditation (1979)

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Here's a rare sign-on sequence from WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

Roughly 6 seconds of EIA RS-189A color bars, followed by 5 seconds of black

"Color Lightning" animated station ID (voiceover by Bob Carrington)

Sign-on with same shot of Chicago skyline as on this circa-1978 sign-off (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

National Anthem (a.k.a. "CBS SSB"), with shots of variou...

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WFYR 103.5 - "Chicago's Warmest Rock" (Commercial, 1984)

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Here's another commercial for the radio station WFYR 103.5 FM.

"Chicago's Warmest Rock" (Not hot, just warm apparently)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, May 27th 1984.

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WTVT Channel 13 - Pulse Featuring Jim Ruddle (Part 1, 1964)

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Here's Part 1 of a complete edition of Pulse, the nightly newscast of WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida (then a CBS affiliate, now affiliated with Fox). This newscast - transferred from the original 2" quad videotape - is notable in that one of the anchors, based out of the station's St. Petersburg studios, was Jim Ruddle, some three months before he first joined WGN Channel 9 in Chicago as co-anchor with Gary Park of The Park-Ruddle Report, as the beginning of...

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WFLD Channel 32 - 7 O'Clock Movie (Opening, 1978?)

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Here's the opening titles for the 7 O'Clock Movie on WFLD Channel 32, featuring the station's Kaiser-era logo - and a montage of various stars from vintage films, including (but not limited to):

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (from "The Way We Were")
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
Audrey Hepburn (from "My Fair Lady")
John Wayne
Elvis Presley (from "Jailhouse Rock")
Vera-Ellen and Gene Kell...

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67 WMAQ Radio - "Dancing Dollars" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for 67 WMAQ Radio's Dancing Dollars contest, with offers of cash and prizes for station listeners, featuring the memorable "stacks of cash with legs" dancing and doing a "Rockettes" type number.

"Everyone's coming up a winner!"

This aired on local Chicago TV late Saturday, February 16th 1980.

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WSNS Channel 44 - All Night Movies - "Magical Mystery Tour" (On-Screen IDs, 1980)

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Here's a collection of all the on-screen station IDs from the Saturday All Night Movies presentation of "Magical Mystery Tour" on WSNS TV-44, edited together.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday morning, May 25th 1980.