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WIIC Channel 11 - 6:30 News Roundup With Len Johnson (1962)

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Exactly 56 years ago today (at 6:30 PM)!

Here's an incredible find - usually anything this old, if I am lucky to find it, is on a 16mm kinescope (remember, in 1962 Quad tape itself was only 6 years old). And even though it's from a Pittsburgh station, it has a very strong Chicago connection, as it is anchored by Len Johnson, whose voice (if not face) will no doubt be very recognizable to people who watched WGN in the 60s, 70s, and very early 80s. He was one of the ub...

WGN Channel 9 - Lead Off Man - "Opening Day With JFK" (Part 2, 1961)

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Here's Part 2 of an interesting piece of history - The beginning of the Lead-Off Man show on WGN Channel 9 on Opening Day 1961, White Sox At Washington, featuring an interview with the president.

Vince Lloyd interviews both John F. Kennedy and LBJ from the President's box. Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen are right behind JFK. Panoramic shots of the old (and now long gone) Griffith Stadium, with the National Anthem. JFK throws out the first ball, caught by Jungle Jim Rive...

WTVT Channel 13 - Pulse Featuring Jim Ruddle (Part 1, 1964)

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Here's Part 1 of a complete edition of Pulse, the nightly newscast of WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida (then a CBS affiliate, now affiliated with Fox). This newscast - transferred from the original 2" quad videotape - is notable in that one of the anchors, based out of the station's St. Petersburg studios, was Jim Ruddle, some three months before he first joined WGN Channel 9 in Chicago as co-anchor with Gary Park of The Park-Ruddle Report, as the beginning of...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 at 4:30pm - "Ugly Face Contest Winner" (1982)

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Here's a NewsCenter5 report (one of "Barry's People?) from Barry Bernson on WMAQ Channel 5 about the winner of the National Enquirer's annual "Ugly Face Contest" (first prize: $500 plus a trip to Las Vegas for an appearance on The Mike Douglas Entertainment Hour), 37-year-old Geneva Winters of Carpentersville, IL (population: 23,300). A cover of a recent National Enquirer issue (with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers of Hart to Hart on the cover, following the dea...

WLS Channel 7 - Early Eyewitness Newsbrief With Alan Krashesky (1986)

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Here's an early morning Eyewitness Newsbrief with Alan Krashesky on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

Weather - Traffic

Contested 26th Ward election battle continues

Tim Quinn - girls basketball coach and Social Studies teacher at Richards High School in Oak Lawn, resigns after allegations of an affair with a student

16 year old student at Marshall High School suffers collapsed lung in knife fight

Federal investigators investi...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 At 5pm - "The Blizzard of '78" (Part 3, 1978)

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Everyone remembers the great Blizzard of '79 - but how many people remember the Blizzard of 1978? Before the big snow in 1979 hit, this seemed fairly significant I guess, although not as bad as the Big Snow of 1967. Was this just a case of snow-perbole? You decide.

Here is Part 3, the final part, of some footage from the NewsCenter5 airing at 5pm on WMAQ Channel 5, with Mike Jackson, Ron Hunter, and Jerry Taft. Also features a very brief glimpse of one of WMAQ-TV's sports guys...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Chicago Sizzlin' - The 31st Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 3, 1989)

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Here's Part 3 of the 31st Annual Chicago Emmy Awards broadcast, titled Chicago Sizzlin'.

This part features Warner Saunders, Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow, Bill Kurtis, Carol Marin, Don Mosely and Wendy Frame.

Mr. Kurtis and producer Molly Bedell won in the "Documentary Program - Documentary of Current Significance" category for "Getting Out . . . Staying Out" which aired on WBBM Channel 2, and Ms. Marin and producers Mr. Mosely and Ms. Frame won in the "Document...

WBBM Channel 2 - 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 2, 1985)

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Here's Part 2 of the (mostly complete) 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards broadcast.

This part features Lee Phillip, Floyd Kalber, Bill Campbell, Walter Jacobson, and Nicolette Larson singing "Lotta Love."

Mr. Campbell won in the "Editorial & Commentary - Editorial Achievement" category for Bill Campbell Editorials on WLS Channel 7, and Mr. Jacobson won in the "Editorial & Commentary - Commentary Achievement" category for Perspectives on WBBM Channel 2.
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WHEN Channel 5 - Channel 5 Morning Report with Mike Leiderman - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1971?)

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Transferred direct from Quad 2" tape, and not from Chicago itself, but Chicago-related, as this features Mike Leiderman who would go on to become a fixture both in front of and behind the camera in Chicago television (mainly at WMAQ Channel 5 and WFLD Channel 32).

This was from the days when he was an anchor at CBS affiliate WHEN Channel 5 (now WTVH) in Syracuse, NY. It is one of the four-minute Channel 5 Morning Reports he anchored at 8:55am and 9:55am (ET). On this p...