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Emergency Broadcast System Test (1981)

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Here's another Emergency Broadcast System test that aired on WMAQ Channel 5 one Saturday afternoon.

"This is a test. For the next sixty seconds this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test.

This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency.

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WGN Channel 9 - Len Johnson and the News (Part 1, 1965)

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Here's Part 1 of an incredibly rare find - an edition of Len Johnson and the News on WGN Channel 9 from 1965! This was a forerunner to their overnight Night Beat newscast that ran from the late-sixties well into the 1980s.

You'll notice that this was during that awkward transition phase from black-and-white to color with most of the broadcast appearing in black-and-white, but then interspersed by random color commercials and a few color slides.

Thi...

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ON TV Sports (Commercial, 1984)

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Here's a commercial for ON TV - touting their Sports coverage.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV in February of 1984.

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Chicago White Sox - "Na-Na Hey-Hey Goodbye" (Commercial, 1978)

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Here's a memorable commercial for the White Sox - featuring fans singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, first popularized during White Sox games by team organist, Nancy Faust. Featuring a young Kathy Griffin (in her first acting job, years before making it big as a comedian and TV personality) wearing braids and Sox hat and playing a kazoo, all the way at the far left of the screen in the second row around :15 (among the attendant Sox fans), and Theodore "Ted" Noose as the traffi...

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WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show (Ending, Break & ID, 1980)

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Here's the ending credits for The Ray Rayner Show on WGN Channel 9, followed by a commercial and station ID. Includes:

Ending credits (with loop of 1941-45 opening "Merrie Melodies" theme of Warner Bros. cartoons):

Musical Director - Don Orlando
Chelveston Lives at the Animal Kingdom
Assistant Director - Barbara Shikami
Executive Producer - Ray Rayner
Directed by Bill Hartmann

The prizes awarded on this show were...

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WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life (Break #3, 1975)

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Here is Commercial Break #3 of The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life on WFLD Channel 32. (In Black and White, unfortunately) Includes:

Quasar TVs - at Nelson Brothers Furniture (with jingle!)

Shrinky Dinks - The Entire Family

Identifax Security System - Burglary Prevention Kit (featuring an Ex-Burglar) (Voiceover during ordering information is Bud Kelly, right?)

This aired on local Chicago TV likely in the first couple months of...

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WFLD Channel 32 - Weather Alert (1978?)

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Here's an emergency weather alert from WFLD Channel 32, advising of "severe snowstorms and travelers advisories."

Notice at the end, the Kaiser-era "32" logo, plus the use of various weights of the Avant Garde typeface, that typified the station's "look" within its 1973-77 interregnum under Kaiser Broadcasting ownership, plus the first year or so after Field Communications reasserted control.

The music that opened this segment and was heard throughout this aler...

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Buy Your Cubs Season Tickets Early! (Commercial, 1979)

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Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau encourage you to buy your Cubs tickets early. Spring is on the way!!!

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 9th 1979.

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Halls - "Cab Driver Relief" (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's a commercial for Halls Mentho-Lyptus cough tablets (cough drops).

"Vapor Action"

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV in early January 1979. (not Chicago, but close enough)