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WMAQ Channel 5 - "Just Watch Us" (Promo, 1982)

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Here is an NBC "Just Watch Us" promo made especially for our Chicago affiliate WMAQ Channel 5. Features a lot of cool things including:

Kidding Around clip
Ron Magers
Linda Yu
Carol Marin
Chet Coppock
Jim Tilmon
Jerry Taft (with a lot of hair!)
On Stage On 5
Warner Saunders
Jorie Lueloff
Roger Ebert
Deborah Norville (Whoa!!!)

This aired on local Chicago TV in the last week of July 1982.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness Newsbrief With Joel Daly (Bumper Promo, 1980)

Views: 2450

Here is an Eyewitness Newsbrief bumper promo featuring Joel Daly on WLS-TV Channel 7.

Joel previews a story regarding accused terrorists.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, April 7th, 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - News Bulletin - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 4, 1979)

Views: 3699

Here's Part 4 of WLS Channel 7's news coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 (a DC-10 manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas; scheduled to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles), 1/2 mile northwest of O'Hare Airport. Featuring Fahey Flynn and Diane Allen. Includes:

News Bulletin bumper slide (voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)

Fahey Flynn has joined Diane in the Eyewitness News studio, and is leading off this part recounting on what he terms "the...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 at 10 - "Hey, That's Jorie Lueloff!" (Promo, 1978)

Views: 1460

Here's a neat promo for NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5, one of a series where "regular people" out and about in the city of Chicago run into various WMAQ-TV newscasters and have trouble recalling their names.

Featuring Edie McClurg as "the excited fan". (You might remember her from such films as "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and a ton of other TV and Movie appearances and voiceovers)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday,...

WFLD Channel 32 - Newstalk With Naurice Roberts (Ending, 1979)

Views: 2011

(NOTE - this clip was originally broadcast in color but was recorded in Black & White)

Here is the last few minutes of an episode of Newstalk with Naurice Roberts.

This program came on at 6am before Comedy Classics at 6:30am. What a scary piece of music to start your morning with.

(The end voiceover by Ron Beattie also references a memorial mass for Dr. Martin Luther King - whose birthday is January 15th.)

This aired on local...

WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News At Six - "Disco Demolition - The Day After" (1979)

Views: 9170

Here's the coverage from WBBM Channel 2 of "Disco Demolition Night" as aired on Channel 2 News at Six. Featuring anchors Bill Kurtis and Harry Porterfield, a report from John Quinones, Bruce Roberts at Comiskey Park, and on the open weatherman John Coughlin, sportscaster Johnny Morris and "Perspectives" commentator Walter Jacobson. Includes:

Opening with brief shots of Kurtis, Porterfield, Coughlin, Morris, Jacobson, and a full shot of the Channel 2 newsroom (with Thom...

WBBM Channel 2 - Noonbreak - "Disco Dance Lessons" (1978)

Views: 2736

Here's a partial segment from Noonbreak on WBBM Channel 2 featuring Bob Wallace and Lee Phillip with guest Karen Lustgarten, Disco Dance Instructor and author of the book "The Complete Guide to Disco Dancing".

Bob Wallace was a good sport. :-)

"In Disco you don't stop..." (unfortunately the tape did)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 18th 1978 during the 12 noon to 12:30pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - "Nite-Owl" (Part 4, 1982)

Views: 1723

The fourth 10 minutes of the Keyfax Nite-Owl Service program from August 25th, 1982 as broadcast on Channel 32 WFLD in Chicago.

WFLD Channel 32 - Newstalk with Naurice Roberts - "Healthcare In The Inner City" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 2163

Here's the opening few minutes from an episode of Newstalk on WFLD Channel 32 featuring Naurice Roberts as host. The topic was healthcare in the inner city. Guests were Julius Alexander, administrator at Provident Hospital (the first Black-owned and operated hospital in America) and Sherle Anasteen (?)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, April 20th 1981 at 11:30pm.