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Magnavox - "Price Breakthrough" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for Magnavox, announcing a "price breakthrough" on their 25-inch Videomatic Console color TV's - in either beautiful detailed Mediterranean or early American style, with electronic tuning and high-resolution filter that provides a 25% sharper, crisper and clearer picture - available for only $599.95, and only while quantities last.

Ending voiceover ("At Your Chicagoland Magnavox Dealers") by Mike Rapchak.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thur...

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WGN Channel 9 - The Wall Street Journal Business Report with Floyd Brown (1981)

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Here's an edition of The Wall Street Journal Business Report on WGN Channel 9, anchored by longtime WGN voiceover announcer, Floyd Brown. (pretty cool to see him here in his prime!) Includes:

Opening titles and sponsor billboard for Amtrak ("America's Getting Into Training - Training the Amtrak Way") (voiceover by Merri Dee)

Floyd Brown reading the following business items:

- A revision to a measurement of the Consumer Price Index, with a ...

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Northwest Federal Savings - "The Tax Savings Place" (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for Northwest Federal Savings advertising their new Tax Free CD (which in those days only meant "certificate of deposit" - the Compact Disc wasn't introduced until a year later). Note how one of the business-suited people sheds his suit and leaves that crowd to join the more middle-class crowd nearby. As noted in a lower-third text, the terms are $500 minimum deposit, one year term, penalty for early withdrawal. (Ah, the days . . . )

"You don't have to...

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WGN Channel 9 - "Old Style" (Station ID, 1981)

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Here's an interesting station ID slide for WGN Channel 9 - a very old style of their logo that dates back to pre-1977. Kind of strange they were using this in late 1981.

Voiceover by Merri Dee.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 27th 1981 at 9pm.

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WGN Radio 720 - "Bob Collins' Low Budget" (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for WGN Radio 720 AM in which their afternoon drive personality, Bob Collins, complains about the threadbare props he's being forced to use for this commercial (with an RCA 77DX microphone thrown in for good measure), while bemoaning how the station's other personalities (such as Wally Phillips, Roy Leonard and Bill Berg) get better setups for theirs. (Collins moved into the 2pm-6pm slot in June 1981.) Features the animated "We've Got Chicago Talking" at the end.
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WLS Channel 7 - Charlie's Angels - "Mt. St. Helens Bulletin" (1980)

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Here's a bulletin from ABC News as aired on WLS Channel 7, pertaining to another eruption of Mount Saint Helens. This bulletin interrupted a late-night ABC repeat of the Charlie's Angels episode "Angels on Vacation" (originally broadcast on January 10th 1979) which had aired after ABC News Nightline.

Voiceover by Bob Lloyd.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Friday, June 13th 1980 during the 12:00am to 12:15am timeframe.

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WTTW Channel 11 - Image Union (Promo, 1980)

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Here's a neat promo for Image Union, WTTW's weekly showcase of films and tapes you don't usually see on TV. Featuring "Kup" - Irv Kupcinet giving a nice endorsement of the show, and "Bob" - the cardboard cutout guy voiced by series creator Tom Weinberg.

Ending voiceover by Don Ferris.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, June 13th 1980.

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Hamm's Beer - "Duck Trouble" (1980)

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Here's one of the memorable animated commercials (in color) for Hamm's, the beer refreshing, starring the Hamm's bear and a duck family that gets sucked into some rapids.

Ah, the days when you could use a cartoon to advertise beer.

Featuring the "From the land of sky-blue waters..." jingle.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, April 2nd 1980.

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WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "This Song is Your Song" (1975?)

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Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44.

This time Steve Hart, Little K and guitarist/singer Mike Lazar (of Lazar's Juvenile Furniture) do their rendition of "This Land is Your Land" whose lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie, as well as McNamara's Band and a melody of jazzed-up nursury rhymes including Old King Cole, Little Miss Muffet, Jack Sprat, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Humpty Du...