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WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 Weekend News (Part 1, 1978)
Views: 3533
Here's Part 1 of a complete edition of the Channel 2 Weekend News on WBBM Channel 2, anchored by Bob Wallace (substituting for Harry Porterfield). Also featuring Brian Boyer. Includes:
Tail end of commercial for Arlington Race Track - "That's Entertainment" (post time 2pm, Monday-Saturday)
Animated WBBM Station ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper?)
Opening of Channel 2 Weekend News (with Dick Marx's famous "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home...
WGN Channel 9 - NewsNine (Ending, 1979)
Views: 5729
Here's the final segment and ending of NewsNine on WGN Channel 9 featuring Jack Taylor (in some funky glasses) anchoring. Includes:
Story on a Teamsters Strike
Cook County Hospital employees will get paid
Roy Leonard reviews Neil Simon's Chapter Two at the Blackstone Theatre.
Tom Skilling answers a weather question posed by Jack Taylor as Bill Frink busts his chops a bit.
Ending weather update and some credits ...
WTTW Channel 11 - The Callaway-Ruddle Report (Opening, 1976)
Views: 1840
Here's another "end of tape" find - the first minute or so of The Callaway-Ruddle Report on WTTW Channel 11, anchored by John Callaway (formerly of WBBM Channel 2, soon to be a Channel 11 mainstay) and Jim Ruddle (formerly of WGN Channel 9, later to go to WMAQ Channel 5), and featuring arts critic Johanna Steinmetz. Includes:
Station ID slide with a crowd of children peering from behind a gated fence (voiceover by Don Ferris)
Cold open, with previews of f...
Emergency Broadcast System Test (1981)
Views: 6583
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.
WLS Channel 7 - Fahey Flynn Presents Seven's Greetings (Part 5, 1972)
Views: 1548
Here's Part 5 of Fahey Flynn Presents: Seven's Greetings, a Christmas Eve special hosted by the legendary news anchor on WLS Channel 7. This was transferred from the original 2" quad master tape (long since trashed) onto 3/4" Umatic, from which this transfer was made. The show was recorded on Tuesday, December 19th 1972.
Featured in this part are Fahey's longtime co-anchor Joel Daly, "Action 7" reporter Frank Mathie, Suzy Streetnoise, and the puppets Mike Raphone and M...
WBBM Channel 2 - "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales" (Opening Excerpt, 1982)
Views: 4673
Here's the opening of "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales" on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:
Don Craig WBBM News bumper promo
Spinning CBS Special graphic
CBS pre-emption of Private Benjamin notice (voiceover by Lee Jordan)
Opening of the show
"We'll be right back" bumper (voiceover by Danny Dark)
Note: I had to edit this together from two different off-air recordings of this broadcast since the tape cut...
WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "Chicagofest '81" (1981)
Views: 5402
Here's a segment from the 10pm NewsCenter5 telecast on WMAQ Channel 5 with a look at Chicagofest '81. Featuring Chuck Henry, Warner Saunders, Barry Bernson, and Linda Yu at the end.
Chaka Khan is shown performing, and then Barry Bernson takes us on a tour of the video game area with over 200 machines, and a look at Williams Electronics, the company that created Defender - at 3401 North California, and then Midway Manufacturing in Franklin Park - responsible for producing Pac-...
NBC Network - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 2, 1979)
Views: 1630
Here's Part 2 of continuing coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at O'Hare Field, the worst air disaster in U.S. history; this includes the second half of an NBC News Special Report anchored by Chuck Scarborough, as aired on WMAQ Channel 5. Featuring Jim Ruddle, Jim Tilmon, Carole Simpson. Includes:
The tail end of Jim Ruddle's interview with Jim Tilmon (Ruddle saying, "Back to New York").
Chuck Scarborough recounts numerous design proble...
Kentucky Fried Chicken - "The Colonel in Chicago" (Commercial, 1977)
Views: 2114
Here's another commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken with its legendary founder, Colonel Harland Sanders (the original, not an incredible simulation) in Chicago. Here, he helps an old lady with one of her packages inside a building while explaining a deal for Chicagoans relating to his restaurants ("The Colonel's Special," an under $3.50 meal which is applicable only to those which have that banner and lasts until February 20th).
Voiceover by ??
This was part of...