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WBBM Channel 2 - "Mobile Army Surgical Thunderstorm" (1980)
Views: 1746
Here's an on-screen crawl message regarding bad weather on WBBM Channel 2, during a repeat of the M*A*S*H episode "Yessir, That's Our Baby" (originally aired on December 31st 1979):
...From the Channel 2 Newsroom... A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect until 9 PM for Kane... DuPage... Cook... and Kendall counties... and a marine warning has been issued for the southern third of Lake Michigan... Boaters still in port are urged not to depart until heavy thundersto...
WMAQ Channel 5 - 5 Cheers Chicago's New Year (Part 2, 1980/1981)
Views: 1408
Back to Warner and Jerry, who (as well as the chyron display) remind the audience that they're at Miomir's Serbian Club at 2255 W. Lawrence, and Jerry explaining he'd earlier done a weather report in the middle of the street; he then happens on a sharp-dressed guy, Scott (?) of Evanston, IL, in a three-piece suit, having a real good time with friends and relatives (including his father, mother and aunt); Jerry explains his wife is working the other side of the place, and he's not having that ...
1st Metropolitan Builders - "Helping Chicagoland Families" with Peter Lawford (Commercial #1, 1979)
Views: 758
Here's a commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders featuring legendary actor Peter Lawford outside and inside a Chicago area mansion, explaining how 1st Metropolitan helps "thousands of families" in and around the Chicago area remodel their homes to suit their changing needs.
This ad was produced five years before the co-star of such now-classic films as "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Good News" and "Royal Wedding," and onetime member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," died, on Dece...
WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service (Opening, 7/16/82)
Views: 2596
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 ...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Chicago Sizzlin' - The 31st Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 7, 1989)
Views: 539
Here's Part 7 of the 31st Annual Chicago Emmy Awards broadcast, titled Chicago Sizzlin'.
This part features Steve Rashid and the Pork Pie Orchestra performing "'Deed I Do." No awards were given out in this segment.
Chicago Sizzlin' sponsor billboard tag for Ethan Allen, Tropicana, and your local Chevrolet & Geo Dealers (voiceover by Ed Grennan)
Commercial: Ethan Allen Furniture (same as on break #5)
Commercial: Tropi...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Weekend (Opening, 1979)
Views: 1646
Here's the opening moments for an edition of one of the 100 or so newsmagazines NBC attempted until finally hitting it in the 1990's with Dateline NBC. This is of Weekend, which had aired every so often since the mid-1970's (in the first year or so of NBC's Saturday Night Live, Weekend aired once a month in that same time slot). The hosts at this juncture were Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns, who would later co-anchor the short-lived NBC News Overnight tog...
The Roast Of Tim Weigel - "Pre-Show Eat & Gab" (Part 1, 1981)
Views: 2313
Here's Part 1 of an interesting "backstage" glimpse at some local TV personalities of yore - raw footage shot at a dinner event "roasting" Tim Weigel. (Roasting Weigel's Weiner?) Included are such notables as Fahey Flynn, Ray Meyer, Joel Daly, Bill Veeck, Al Lerner, Bill Gleason, Jack Brickhouse, Linda Lerner, and more. (Can anyone help ID any? They don't have to be famous, if you know who someone is, let me know)
Part 1 includes b-roll (I guess you might call it) of the ev...
WBBM Channel 2 - Baker's Dozen (Opening & Break, 1982)
Views: 2093
Here's the opening and first commercial break for a short lived CBS series called "Baker's Dozen" on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:
WBBM News promo bumper with Don Craig - "Verdict in the Marquette 10 Bribery Trial"
Opening credits to Baker's Dozen - starring Ron Silver, Cindy Weintraub, Alan Weeks, Sam McMurray, Thomas Quinn, and Doris Belack as Captain Baker. The show only lasted 6 episodes, and this one - "Sauce for the Goose" was the last aired.
WFLD Channel 32 - Ending Of Newstalk, Thought For Today & Station Sign-Off (1980)
Views: 7282
Here's a true rarity - the ending of Newstalk with Naurice Roberts, followed by the Thought For Today and Station Sign-Off for WFLD Channel 32.
Thought For Today given by Emerson Tiller - Pastor of Christ Community Church in Crown Point, Indiana.
Also includes a promo for All in the Family with a mistaken voiceover for Happy Days.
Voiceover during the ending to Newstalk, Thought For Today Intro and Outro, and Sign-Off, is Jim Barton.
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