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Chicago White Sox - Fan Appreciation Day (Promo, 1984)

Views: 3187

Here's a promo for the Chicago White Sox for a Fan Appreciation Day on Sunday, September 23rd 1984 where you can win thousands of prizes, including a microwave oven!

This aired on local Chicago TV in September of 1984.

WGN Channel 9 - Afternoon Weather Break With Tom Skilling (1980)

Views: 5809

Here's an afternoon weather break on WGN Channel 9 featuring Tom Skilling.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, September 5th 1980 during the 4:30pm to 5pm timeframe.

"Today in Music History" (Commercial Feature, 1986)

Views: 702

Here is a commercial feature - "Today in Music History" for June 28th, 1964. Brought to you by Trident Gum.

This short aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday June 29th, 1986.

"Today in Music History" - Copyright 1985 Man in the Moon Prod., Inc.

WFLD Metromedia 32 - Election Night Specials - "The Best Of Saturday Night" (Promo, 1984)

Views: 1847

Here's another promo for part of WFLD Metromedia 32's Election Night Specials - this one for The Best of Saturday Night.

Voiceover by Jim Barton.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV in the last week of October 1984.

WFLD Channel 32 - Tic-Tac-Dough - "The Saturday Round" (Promo, 1981)

Views: 2007

Here's a quick promo for "The Saturday Round" on Tic-Tac-Dough.

Voiceover by Jim Barton.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 11th 1981.

President Carter - "The Future Is Waiting" (Political Ad, 1980)

Views: 655

Here's a long-form paid political announcement for President Jimmy Carter that aired after an ABC Sunday Night Special Movie presentation of "Jaws" (only the 2nd time the movie aired on Network TV). Reagan got the first 4 minutes and 20 seconds, Carter got the next.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 5th 1980 during the 9:45pm to 10:01pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service (Opening, 7/16/82)

Views: 2603

Here's another rare example of WFLD Channel 32's Keyfax Nite-Owl Service, notably the first six minutes thereof on this particular day.

Nite-Owl was WFLD's equivalent to two primitive (by today's standards), digital-based overnight "tele-text" services prevalent on British television, BBC's long-running Ceefax and ITV's (Independent Television, the commercial TV outlet) Oracle. Ceefax lasted up to the end of analogue television in England in ...

WCFL AM 1000 - "Counting The Days" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 3455

Here's another commercial for WCFL AM 1000, this time featuring "Deborah" (Deborah Shelton, then a few years away from appearing in Brian DePalma's film "Body Double" and co-starring in Dallas as Mandy Winger, one of J.R.'s many lovers) who has moderate to severe crazy-eyes syndrome.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 16th 1982.

Trix Cereal - "Vote For Me!" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3172

Here's a cute commercial for Trix Cereal with a political theme - the Trix Rabbit wants kids to vote for him to be able to eat the cereal. What do you think's gonna happen?

"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!"

This aired on local Chicago TV sometime around May of 1980.