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WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News At Six - "Disco Demolition - The Day After" (1979)

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Here's the coverage from WBBM Channel 2 of "Disco Demolition Night" as aired on Channel 2 News at Six. Featuring anchors Bill Kurtis and Harry Porterfield, a report from John Quinones, Bruce Roberts at Comiskey Park, and on the open weatherman John Coughlin, sportscaster Johnny Morris and "Perspectives" commentator Walter Jacobson. Includes:

Opening with brief shots of Kurtis, Porterfield, Coughlin, Morris, Jacobson, and a full shot of the Channel 2 newsroom (with Thom...

WBBM Channel 2 - The 20th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 11, 1978)

Views: 861

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Here's Part 11 of the Twentieth Annual Chicago Emmy Awards on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Bob Newhart.

This part features Jim Ruddle, Jack Brickhouse, and the voice of Don Ferris, plus vintage footage of Big Bird, Bob Cromie, Julia Child, William F. Buckley Jr., Alistair Cooke, David Susskind, Lowell Thomas, Bill Moyers, Robert MacNeil, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, John Callaway, Dick C...

WBBM Channel 2 - So You Think You Know Chicago? (Part 2, 1974)

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Here's Part 2 of a special called So You Think You Know Chicago? on WBBM Channel 2. This was the third broadcast in a continuing series of shows called Chicago Alive. The hosts were legendary anchors Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson, and...

WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 4, 1971)

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Here's Part 4 (the last part) of the final episode of Al Lerner Sports on WSNS Channel 44. Lerner was the station's first sportscaster, and would go on to a long career with such stations as WLS Channel 7, WMAQ Channel 5, WGN Radio 720 and WSCR-AM, as well as being a wrestling announcer. Also featuring a young (and at this point, moustacheless) Tim Weigel, then a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, who himself would become a familiar face on Chicago television, worki...

WBBM Channel 2 - The CBS Late Movie - "The Darker Side Of Terror" (Commercial Break, 1981)

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Here's a commercial break from The CBS Late Movie presentation of "The Darker Side of Terror" on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

CBS Late Movie bumper. (voiceover by Norm Stevens)

Tostitos tortilla chips featuring restaurant owner Fernando Escandon and his "father".

Ray-O-Vac batteries - "Makes the fun last." (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Clorets - The Breath Deodorant - with Actizol.

Rolaids - "Rolaids spells relief." (Voi...

WBBM Channel 2 - Station Sign-On, SSB & Meditation (1979)

Views: 5226

Here's a rare sign-on sequence from WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

Roughly 6 seconds of EIA RS-189A color bars, followed by 5 seconds of black

"Color Lightning" animated station ID (voiceover by Bob Carrington)

Sign-on with same shot of Chicago skyline as on this circa-1978 sign-off (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

National Anthem (a.k.a. "CBS SSB"), with shots of variou...

WBBM Channel 2 - The CBS Wednesday Night Movies - "The Concrete Cowboys" (Opening & Break, 1979)

Views: 1615

Here's the opening moments of The CBS Wednesday Night Movies presentation of the made-for-TV movie "The Concrete Cowboys" (starring Jerry Reed and a pre-Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck, and featuring Morgan Fairchild, Claude Akins, Ray Stevens and Barbara Mandrell) on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

"Project Learning" station ID slide (voiceover by Bob Carrington) followed by the CBS "bong" and a partial...

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Station ID Animation" (1980)

Views: 2460

Here's an animated station ID for WMAQ Channel 5 with voiceover - "For all it's worth - Energy: Save it!"

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, July 13th 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - "Older Women/Younger Men" (News Promo, 1980)

Views: 1429

Here is a promo of a piece on the WLS Channel 7 10pm news, "Older Women/Younger Men" featuring Dr. Joyce Brothers (voiceover by Gary Gears). Also includes a promo for Attica (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) and a bumper promo for "She Lives!" - Tuesday at 3:30pm (voiceover by Gary Gears).

This promo aired on Monday, February 25th, 1980 between 8 and 10pm.