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WSNS Channel 44 - TV44 Sports Spotlight with Jim Durham - "The San Diego Chicken, Pre-Demolition" (Part 4, 1979)

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Here's a special and rare treat for the 35th Anniversary of the infamous "Disco Demolition" event! (please excuse the ghosty picture quality and buzzy audio)

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Part 4 (the final part) of the TV44 Sports Spotlight with Jim Durham, with the San Diego Chicken (a.k.a. Ted Giannoulas) as guest, as aired on WSNS Channel 44 just before the first game of a proposed doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers that was followed by the infamous "Disco Demoli...

WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News Special Report - "Blizzard '79: Public Questions, City Answers" (Part 2, 1979)

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Here's Part 2 of a Channel 2 News Special Report, "Blizzard '79: Public Questions, City Answers," a call-in show hosted by Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson on WBBM Channel 2, with Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Chairman James McDonough, Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Francis Degnan, Fire Commissioner Richard Albrecht, and Police Superintendent James O'Grady taking questions from irate Chicagoans. Also featuring Steve Shepard at the 6200 block of South Archer in Southwest Chicago,...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 4:30 (Opening Segment Excerpt, 1984)

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Here is the opening and first three minutes of the WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News featuring Mary Ann Childers, Joel Daly, Steve Deschler, and Jim Rose.

Jim Gibbons reports on the search for a missing Crete, Illinois boy, 2 and a half year old Michael DesForges, Jr., that was called off on that day. His father, Michael DesForges, Sr. speaks as well as Lt. Ray Van Dyke of the Will County Sheriffs Department. Also features a report on the search by Cora-Ann Mihalik.

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WGN Channel 9 - I Dream of Jeannie - "Meet My Master's Mother" (Commercial Break, 1980)

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Here's a commercial break from a repeat of the I Dream of Jeannie episode "Meet My Master's Mother" (originally aired on the NBC Network on November 14th 1967) on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Commercial offer for the Ginsu knife - "Now how much would you pay?" (main voiceover by Bill Silver) - (C) 1978 Dial Media Inc.

Promo bumper for The Wall Street Journal Business Report with Marty McNeeley, weeknights at 9:57pm (voiceover by Steve Hunter)

WGN Channel 9 - The Morning Movie - "Caught in the Draft" (Opening, 1979)

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Here's the opening and first commercial break from The Morning Movie presentation of the 1941 Bob Hope comedy "Caught in the Draft" on WGN Channel 9. The same opening and theme music as on their 1975 showing of "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948) are still in use, but the color and picture are in overall better shape than the earlier clips. Includes:

WGN "Last Farewell" video animated ID (voiceover by Le...

WFLD Channel 32 - Weather Alert (1978?)

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Here's an emergency weather alert from WFLD Channel 32, advising of "severe snowstorms and travelers advisories."

Notice at the end, the Kaiser-era "32" logo, plus the use of various weights of the Avant Garde typeface, that typified the station's "look" within its 1973-77 interregnum under Kaiser Broadcasting ownership, plus the first year or so after Field Communications reasserted control.

The music that opened this segment and was heard throughout this aler...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Seven's On Your Side" (Short Promo, 1981)

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Here's a short WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News "Seven's On Your Side" jingle promo sung by Florence Warner and featuring Steve Deschler, Al Lerner, Fahey Flynn, Tim Weigel and Joel Daly.

Produced by Karen Yellen Dillon. (Karen says, "I was the on-air promotion manager at WLS at the time. This was how we promoted Channel 7 when we were 5th place in the ratings and really had nothing else to say. The music...