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ON TV - "Rock Rock Rock!" (On-Screen ID, 1981)

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Here's another ON TV on-screen station ID - during the movie "Rock Rock Rock!".

This aired on local Chicago TV early Thursday, December 17th 1981.

Various Stations - "TV DX Potpourri" (1979/1980)

Views: 3498

Here are some clips from as far away as Detroit and Cleveland that were recorded in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago using a tall antenna - "TV DXing" as it was known.

As described by Wikipedia, TV DX is a term referring to the active search for distant television stations received during unusual atmospheric conditions. The term DX is an old telegraphic term meaning "long distance." TV DX aficionados would at...

WSNS Channel 44 - "Sox Rainbow Bat" (Promo ID, 1979)

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Here is a neat slide with a voiceover White Sox promo and WSNS TV-44 Station ID featuring a rainbow colored baseball bat.

Voiceover by Don Ferris.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, March 14th 1979.

WHEC Channel 10 - Banana Splits (Bumper Promo, 1978)

Views: 1763

It's not WFLD unfortunately, but I did find this short bumper promo for the Rochester New York station WHEC Channel 10 airing The Banana Splits weekdays at 4pm.

Not sure when this aired exactly on local Rochester TV but we did narrow it down to June of 1978.

Kaiser Broadcasting Company (ID #2, 1977)

Views: 5062

Here's a different Kaiser Broadcasting ID than the one we just saw - this one is a few months older and by this time they had upgraded to an animated one. Same music and voiceover though.

We can probably assume that the exact same ID would air on WFLD during this period.

Voiceover by ??

"KBC - The Kaiser Broadcasting Company"

This aired on local Detroit TV on ...

WWJ Channel 4 - "Partial Station Sign-Off" (1978)

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At the end of a tape, after a recording of a movie ended, there was a bit of a previous recording that was taped over. We see most of the National Anthem, then some strange black and white bars, and then static. In the static you can hear bleeding through what perhaps was on another channel at the same time (during the static the tape kept speeding up which is why the audio races at times)

RetroNewfoundland (Vintage Canada) was enterprising enough to slow down the audio heard a...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life (On-Screen ID, 1975)

Views: 1018

Here is an onscreen Station ID during The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life on WFLD Channel 32.

This aired on local Chicago TV likely in the first couple months of 1975, based on the record date for the Walt Bodkin TV Starter Kit ad.

WD-40 (Commercial, 1977)

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How do you make a name like WD-40 catchy? Just repeat it a bunch of times very fast.

"What do you have that sticks or squeaks?"

This aired on local Detroit TV on Thursday, April 7th 1977 (not Chicago TV, but still cool!)

Kaiser Broadcasting Company (ID #1, 1977)

Views: 6936

Here it is at long last! A complete Kaiser Broadcasting ID! I wish I could say this was from a Chicago recording, but it actually comes from a tape made off of one of WFLD's sister stations - WKBD Channel 50 in Detroit.

As you can hear at the end of this clip (in an extremely brief snippet) - the same music was used in the WFLD one, so it's very likely that they were identical (except perhaps for the ...