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WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News Special Report - "Blizzard '79: Public Questions, City Answers" (Part 2, 1979)

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Here's Part 2 of a Channel 2 News Special Report, "Blizzard '79: Public Questions, City Answers," a call-in show hosted by Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson on WBBM Channel 2, with Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Chairman James McDonough, Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Francis Degnan, Fire Commissioner Richard Albrecht, and Police Superintendent James O'Grady taking questions from irate Chicagoans. Also featuring Steve Shepard at the 6200 block of South Archer in Southwest Chicago,...

WBBM Channel 2 - TV 2 News at 6pm (Part 2, 1974)

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Here's Part 2 of a complete edition of the TV 2 News at 6pm on WBBM Channel 2 with anchor Bob Wallace. Also featuring John Callaway and Christopher (Chris) Wallace. Includes:

Bob introduces a report by John Callaway about a hearing conducted by the Illinois Legislature's Insurance Subcommittee at the uptown center of Hull House, on the high fire insurance rates for slum buildings; speakers featured in this report include attorney Fred Cohen and Maryilou Hedlund, Alderw...

WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts (Part 2, 1979)

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Here's Part 2 of Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts, a local interview program hosted by Kathy McFarland that followed an encore presentation of the Academy Award-winning Scared Straight! on WFLD Channel 32. Also featuring Gayle Franzen, Chief of the Illinois Department of Corrections, and Harold Thomas of the Chicago Police Department's Youth Division. Includes:

Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts bumper (voiceover by Ron Beattie)

In this part, K...

WLS Channel 7 - 30th Anniversary Special (Part 3, 1978)

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Here's Part 3 of WLS Channel 7's 30th Anniversary Special, broadcast from Chicago's Park West and hosted by Eyewitness News anchors Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly.

This part includes:

Joel opening this segment by giving a shout-out to Jim Moran "The Courtesy Man," Marty Faye, Jim Conway, "Mr. Chicago" Irv Kupcinet, Norman Ross and Sandi Freeman, each of whom take their respective bows; Fahey then quips that Moran was "the only commercial spokesman to apo...

The Don Ferris "Sampler" (1977-1991)

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Here's a compilation I created of some of the fine work of Don Ferris, announcer emeritus for WSNS TV-44 and WTTW Channel 11. I am going to present this to him today when we meet for the first time! (more on that later) Includes:

Fan-made Museum of Classic Chicago Television "Station ID" (Created by (and voiceover by) Roger Berton with audio edit by Rick Klein)

Ending excerpt of the WSNS Channel 44 Saturday All Night Movies presentation of Magical Myste...

WTTW Channel 11 - The Callaway-Ruddle Report (Opening, 1976)

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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...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Bride of Frankenstein" (Break #1, 1983)

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Here's the first commercial break for the Son of Svengoolie presentation of the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

"WOOO in Berwyn" segment, with Sven as disk jockey playing "all music, all the time," starting off with a mock commercial for House of Lard (voiceover by Rich Koz) with an editorial from "Vice President and General Mangler" Zallman T. Tombstone, Jr. in which Tombstone complaining about somebody eating lunch at his desk; Sven then...

WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts (Part 3, 1979)

Views: 1643

Here's Part 3 (the final part) of Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts, a local interview program hosted by Kathy McFarland that followed an encore presentation of the Academy Award-winning Scared Straight! on WFLD Channel 32. Also featuring Hon. Judge William Sylvester White, Chief of the Juvenile Division of Cook County Circuit Court and President of the National Association of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Includes:

Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts bumpe...

ABC Network - World News Tonight - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 3 - Non-Crash News, 1979)

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Here's Part 3 of a complete edition (with commercials) of ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in London and Max Robinson in Washington (Frank Reynolds was on vacation), from the day of the worst air disaster in U.S. history, the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 just outside Chicago's O'Hare Airport. This segment has more of the non-crash news of the day. Featuring Dan Cordtz and Sam Donaldson. Includes:

Max Robinson introduces a report on the latest gove...