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WLS Channel 7 - 30th Anniversary Special (Part 1, 1978)

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Here's a special anniversary special for our anniversary! Pretty special, eh? ;-) Actually 10/31/12 marked 5 years that FuzzyMemories.TV has been around - thanks to our wonderful crew (Dave, John, Mark, Dale, Mike, Kevin, Chris, and William), and to all the Fuzzketeers that make this website a fun place to visit! :-)

Here's Part 1 of WLS Channel 7's 30th Anniversary Special, hosted by Eyewitness News anchors Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly. The broadcast ori...

WNBQ Channel 5 - Flight 529 [Crash] (Part 1, 1961)

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This clip made possible by the donations from our generous group of "Fuzzketeers" during the Spring 2012 Tape Transfer Fundraiser.

Here's Part 1 of a special report on the crash of TWA Flight 529 on WNBQ Channel 5 (which became WMAQ Channel 5 on August 31st 1964), produced by NBC News Chicago. The anchor of this report is Charles McCuen. Also featuring Floyd Kalber and Jim Hurlb...

Inside Out - The Magic Of TV (Part 4 - Last, 1981)

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Here's Part 4, the last part, of a neat WBBM special, ostensibly for kids but which everyone can enjoy and learn something from - Inside Out - The Magic of TV. Reviews some of the basic tools of a television station including Chroma Key, TelePrompTer, CG, Editing Consoles, Electronic Still Store, and more.

Includes lots of behind-the-scenes footage in WBBM-TV's studios, newsroom, mini-cam vans, and production facilities. Features cameos by lots of famous Channel 2 people incl...

WBBM Channel 2 - "Living History (Bloopers)" (Part 1, 1978/1979)

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Here's Part 1 of a blooper reel from WBBM Channel 2, of outtakes of taped material that never made it to broadcast and a few live moments where anything could and did happen.

This part starts with a still of a live report with the socket of the CBS eye in the superimposed graphic escaping and falling to the bottom, accompanied by various sounds of breaking glass.

Next is a still taken in the WBBM control room, with titles:
Living History - Volume 1...

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Elsewhere On The Day After" (1983)

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On the night that The Day After - an ABC presentation about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States (and one of the most-watched movies for television) aired, NBC Sunday Night at the Movies aired Part 1 of the mini-series Kennedy. Here's the ending of it and the post-show commercial break. Incidently, the creators of The Day After originally envisioned the movie to also span over multiple nights, but they decided against it after consideri...

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 ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 Update, Break & Today Excerpt (1975)

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Here's a NewsCenter5 update on WMAQ Channel 5 anchored by Royal Kennedy, followed by a commercial break and the first two minutes of the second half-hour of the Today show, featuring Jim Hartz, Barbara Walters and Lew Wood. Includes:

Royal Kennedy reporting the following local items:

- Tail end of story on Illinois primary

- Chicago Board of Election Commissioners investigating charges that Alderman Tyrone Kenner's petition contained...

WBBM Channel 2 - 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 5, 1985)

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Here's Part 5 of the (mostly complete) 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards broadcast.

This part features Jim Ruddle, Elynne Chaplik, the hosts of WMAQ's Kidding Around - Jill Leiderman and Steve Smith accepting their Emmy award, Diane Whiteley, [edit in recording], (not) Oprah Winfrey, Charlotte Koppe, Walter Jacobson, John Callaway, Bruce DuMont, John Coleman, and Scott Craig.

Ms. Leiderman, Mr. Smith and Ms. Whiteley won in the "Children's Programming For ...

R/Greenberg Associates - "Demo Reel" (1979?)

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Here's a demo reel from R/Greenberg Associates (now known as R/GA Media Group Inc.), which was a New York-based graphic production house that worked in film with animation and live-action effects.

This came from a 3/4" Umatic tape that was kept by Cathy Mustari, art director for WFLD Channel 32 from 1974 to the late '80's, from a time when the station was actively shopping for production houses to handle their graphics for opens/closes, bumpers, promos, etc.

Incl...