WGN Channel 9 - The Wall Street Journal Business Report with Floyd Brown (1981)

Here's an edition of The Wall Street Journal Business Report on WGN Channel 9, anchored by longtime WGN voiceover announcer, Floyd Brown. (pretty cool to see him here in his prime!) Includes:

Opening titles and sponsor billboard for Amtrak ("America's Getting Into Training - Training the Amtrak Way") (voiceover by Merri Dee)

Floyd Brown reading the following business items:

- A revision to a measurement of the Consumer Price Index, with a change in the home mortgage component starting in 1983; this would mean slower growth in people's paychecks

- Sterling Drug touting its new Inocor drug as "a major advance in the battle against heart disease"

- U.S. Steel reporting 600% surge in third-quarter earnings from prior year

- Condos found to comprise more than half the nation's multi-family housing market for the first time in the second quarter

Commercial: Amtrak - contrasting a driver on the road with an Amtrak passenger (voiceover by Peter Thomas) (ending jingle sung by Jake Holmes)

More business items:

- Dollar ends New York trading lower

- Gold closes at $430.30/ounce (up $5.60)

- Silver closes at $9.10/ounce (up $0.21)

- Dow Jones Industrial index closes at 838.38 (up 7.42) - Average share up $0.27 - Volume 53,000,000 shares (those were the days) - 1,000 stocks up, 481 down

End of report - (C) 1981 Dow Jones Incorporated.

Station ID with pre-1977 style WGN 9 logo (voiceover by Merri Dee)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 27th 1981.

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