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WBBM Channel 2 - TV 2 News at 10pm (Pre-Show Break, 1973)

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Here's a partial commercial break that preceded the TV 2 News at 10pm on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

Commercial: (recording starts late) Skippy dog food - inside a limousine - "$100,000, That's How Good New Skippy Is," an offer to show no other dog food is better than Skippy Nuggets or Skippy Premium, and to pay $100,000 to the first competitor to prove Skippy wrong

Commercial: Glad Heavyweight Trash Bags - holds up to 50 pounds of garbage, with "key lock...

WLS Channel 7 - Sunday Night Movie - "The Burglars" (Opening, 1980)

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Here's the opening to the Sunday Night Movie presentation of "The Burglars" on WLS Channel 7. We can see it uses the same swirling-star motif as used on the 3:30 Movie and Late Night Movie shows of the period.

Previous to this we had only seen a small snip...

WFLD Channel 32 - Promotional Sales Film (Part 2, 1970)

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Here is Part 2 - the final part, of a WFLD promotional film for (I assume) the sales department, meant to be shown to prospective advertisers on why WFLD was such a kick-arse station to buy time on.

The second part features company man Bill Jackson eliciting the help of his Cartoon Town denizens (such as Dirty Dragon and Weird) to explain the finer points of share, cumes, ratings, coverage, UHF penetration, and other reasons why you should advertise on "WFLD TV 32".

WFLD Channel 32 - License Renewal Notice (1980)

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Here is an FCC license renewal notice from WFLD Channel 32 featuring Naurice Roberts.

"On November 30th, 1979, WFLD-TV was granted a license by the Federal Communications Commission, to serve the public interest as a public trustee until December 1st, 1982. Each August 1st we place in our public inspection file a list of what we consider to have been some of the significant problems and needs of our service area during the preceding 12 months and some of our programming aired t...

WSNS Channel 44 - The Good Time Bunch Christmas Special (Part 3, 1977)

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Here's Part 3 of The Good Time Bunch Christmas Special with Mary Pat (Byrne) and Brian (Vandenbroucke) on WSNS Channel 44. Featuring several behind-the-scenes crew members of the station, including Datavision operator Kathy Dalheim, director Kurt Mendelsohn and producer James A. Angio.

This part starts with Mary Pat and Brian waxing on the dance from Part 2 and thanking the Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre, and segues into the behind-the-scenes makeup of the show, starting w...

WBBM Channel 2 - The 10 O'Clock News - "Nosferatu" (Ending & Break, 1979)

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Here's a partial review of the new version of "Nosferatu" by Gene Siskel on The 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2, followed by the end of the news, and a post-show commercial break. Includes:

Partial Review of "Nosferatu" (1979) by Gene Siskel including a look at the original version

Commercial: Sears Bank and Trust with Bobby Hull

Commercial: FM 100 - The Music Station - "Mystery Songs Contest"

Commercial: Wool - from The Wo...

WMAQ Channel 5/NBC Network - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 1, 1979)

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Here's Part 1 of continuing coverage from WMAQ Channel 5 and the NBC Network of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at O'Hare Field, the worst air disaster in U.S. history; this features Jim Ruddle and Jim Tilmon, with NBC News coverage from Chuck Scarborough (longtime anchor at WNBC Channel 4 in New York, having worked there nonstop since 1974), featuring Jim Cummins, Fred Briggs and Heidi Schulman. Includes:

The tail end of NewsCenter5 at 10pm with Jim Ruddle, a...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Program - "Technical Difficulties Moment" (1975)

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Here's a technical difficulties moment from within the opening moments of The Jack Benny Program on WFLD Channel 32. This starts with a bumper for Bristol-Myers Company (typesetting in Kabel Medium) - "The Makers of Bufferin" (voiceover by Bud Kelly) which lasts on-screen for the first 23 seconds.

Next is the opening of the show (with voiceover by Jack's longtime announcer Do...

Way to Go! Special (Part 5, 1980)

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Here is Part 5 of the Field Communications produced Way to Go! Special - an hour long (compilation?) showcase of some special kids and what they do. Has a lot of nice little slices of late seventies life as a kid. :-) The tape was dated May of 1980. My contact says that only a few of these "Specials" were made. Like I said, I'm not sure if these were compilations of segments shown on the regular Way to Go program, or if they were specifically produced for these specials. I am pretty sure thi...