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WDIV Channel 4 - News 4 Detroit (Part 1, 1979)

Views: 3778

Here's the opening segment for News 4 Detroit and the first commercial break, on WDIV Channel 4. Includes:

Opening to WDIV News 4 Detroit (voiceover by ??)

Mort Crim reports on growing tensions in Iran

Kai Maxwell reports on the hostage situation in Iran including comments from some of those recently released (includes Lloyd Rollins - Mount Vernon, VA)

Anti-american outburst in Pakistan

Comments about Mecca from Muham...

WGN Channel 9 - Night Beat - "More on The Death of John Lennon" (1980)

Views: 2516

Here's another report on the murder of John Lennon from Night Beat on WGN Channel 9, with Jack Taylor anchoring. Features reports by Independent Network News' Tim Malloy and Frank Casey in New York (they worked at WGN's sister station in that city, WPIX Channel 11, at the time; it was there that the nationally-syndicated INN originated), and a local report from WGN's own Elizabeth Brackett. Also featured in clips within the two reports from the INN feed are James...

WMAQ Channel 5 - News 5 Chicago Night Report (Opening Segment, 1972)

Views: 1629

Here's a neat superVintage clip - the first three minutes of the Channel 5 10pm News from 1972! Includes:

Station ID with voiceover "This is WMAQ-TV, Chicago" by ??

Opening to the News 5 Chicago Night Report "with Floyd Kalber, Harry Volkman, Johnny Morris, and Len O'Connor" (voiceover by ??)

Floyd Kalber reports on the proposed 1973 Chicago School Budget and cuts and layoffs deemed necessary by Chicago Public Schools Superintendent James R...

WSNS Channel 44 - Sign-On & ONTV Transition (1985)

Views: 9694

Here is a rare and neat video - a sign-on for WSNS Channel 44 followed by the transition to ONTV's scrambled signal. Includes:

Color Bars, Tone & "WSNS-TV Transmitter Maintenance Until 5:57 A.M." text message for about 65 seconds.

WSNS Channel 44 Sign-On

National Anthem along with scenes of Chicago (Marina City Towers, Soldier Field)

Metro Focus community calendar notice

(Looks like there was a cut in recording here. ...

WLS Channel 7 - ABC Movie Special - "Rudolph and Frosty" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 2310

Fuzzy Claus returns with his yearly bagful of Christmas-themed goodies!!!!

Here's the opening moments of the ABC Movie Special presentation of Rankin/Bass' "Rudolph and Frosty" (originally released in 1979 as "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July," per IMDb) on WLS Channel 7. (NOTE: At the start of this clip, there is some "channel-surfing" (or more accurately commercial/pre-show c...

WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 4, 1979)

Views: 586

Here's Part 4 of the controversial Academy Award-winning documentary Scared Straight! (hosted and narrated by Peter Falk) as aired on WFLD Channel 32. This was from an "encore presentation." Includes:

"27 Years" orders the audience members to sit up, and gets into the face of several of them, even so far as to threaten to bite off the nose of one teen; he bluntly points out that what they see on TV is "fantasy," and that in real life when one does time, they do time...