WGN Channel 9 - The Hollywood Squares - "Technical Difficulties Moment" (Promo, 1980)

Here's a promo for The Hollywood Squares on WGN Channel 9 which had some audio difficulty, followed by a bumper for The Morning Movie and the opening titles for a WGN Editorial. Includes:

Promo for The Hollywood Squares - now based out of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas - for weeknights at 10pm. "Squares" shown in rapid-fire order after host Peter Marshall's "Hello, stars!" are:

Loretta Swit
Mike Farrell
Lauren Tewes
Gavin MacLeod
Melissa Gilbert
Michael Landon
Lynda Carter
Roy Clark
Dolly Parton
Pat Harrington
Valerie Bertinelli
Bonnie Franklin
Paul Lynde
Robert Urich
Isabel Sanford
Herve Villechaize
Dennis Weaver
Loni Anderson
Erik Estrada
Jack Klugman (sans toupee)
Madame (Wayland Flowers' puppet)
Mac Davis
Bob Newhart
Suzanne Pleshette
Don Rickles
"WGN 9" title card
Linda Lavin
Vic Tayback
Martin Mull
Lily Tomlin
Mel Brooks
Alice Cooper
Hal Linden and James Gregory
Dick Van Patten
George Gobel
Robert Mandan and Robert Guillaume
Cathryn Damon and Richard Mulligan
Kenny Rogers
Burt Reynolds
Bernadette Peters
Ed Asner
John Davidson (who later hosted the late 1980s incarnation)
David Brenner
Cher
Paul Lynde (again)
Rock Hudson
Joyce DeWitt
John Ritter
Suzanne Somers

10 seconds into the clip (as Mr. Weaver is seen), a faint tone of slightly over 1 kHz is heard, and remains audible for the next 40 seconds, spilling over into The Morning Movie bumper. At first I thought maybe this was a misplaced EBS test tone, but it doesn't really sound like it - not the right frequency. Any ideas what happened here?

After the tone ends, we join Len Johnson's voiceover already in progress, as he previews the next film to be shown on The Morning Movie, "Raw Deal.", followed by a WGN Editorial bumper introduction.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

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