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WCAU Channel 10 - News 10 (Opening & Partial First Story, 1977)

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Not Chicago, but still interesting: Here's an old opening and partial first story for a local Philadelphia station - WCAU Channel 10 - until the tape runs out. :-( Includes:

Bumper promo for "The Daily Number" (lottery drawing, apparently?)

News 10 opening (with appropriately beepy music) featuring Joan Dinerstein and Ralph Penza giving the headlines of this day - a massive local transit strike is threatened, and an update on the Canary Islands pl...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 5pm - "Off-Air Chatter" (Part 2, 1978)

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Here's Part 2 of a complete edition of the Eyewitness News at 5pm on WLS Channel 7. This is from a recording of the studio feed, so there are no commercials - instead we get to see some off-the-cuff moments where the anchors are waiting to go back on the air. Features John Drury, Terry Murphy, Bill Frink, Johnny Mountain, Bob Petty, Hugh Hill, and others.

This part includes Johnny Mountain and John Drury waiting to go back on the air and lightly bantering with each other.

WBBM Channel 2 - The 10 O'Clock News - "Wally Phillips' Mystery" (1982)

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Here's a segment from The 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2 featuring Bob Sirott reporting - regarding the revealing of Wally Phillip's eight year mystery name, kept in a locked black box (or safe, really) that he used as a way to test psychic's abilities. No one ever guessed it to win the cash prize. He finally revealed the name on his WGN radio show - it was actress Jean Rogers, who played Dale Arden on the old Flash Gordon serials.

Also features Bill Kurtis and an introduc...

Independent Network News - "It's a Pacmen-Eat-Pacmen World" (1982)

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Here's an INN (Independent Network News) story on the burgeoning Pac-Man phenomenon in the nation's video arcades, along with a new book called "Mastering Pac-Man" by Ken Uston.

Introduced by Pat Harper, with reporting by Frank Casey. Takes place at the "Fascination Arcade" in Manhattan.

Also features the ending of INN - sponsored by Sanka and Kellogg's Product 19 cereal. INN was produced out of WPIX Channel 11 in New York and shown locally here on WGN Channel ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Candid Camera (Ending, 1971?)

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Here's the ending of Candid Camera on WFLD Channel 32. Includes a brief excerpt of the opening of a Channel 32 Newsbreak at the end.

Featuring announcer Del Clark doing the introduction and beginning the reading of the news, with a story about State Department confirmation of the expulsion of several journalists from Dacca in civil war-torn East Pakistan (the tape cuts off at the point Clark says "Ea--")

Can anyone help date this more precisely given the little b...

WBBM Channel 2 - "Nobody Does It Better" (Bumper Promo, 1978)

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Here's a quick bumper promo for WBBM Channel 2's "Nobody Does It Better" news campaign.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV early Monday, December 18th 1978.

WBBM Channel 2 - CBS News Special Report - John Lennon: The Dream Is Over (Part 4, 1980)

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Here's Part 4 of John Lennon: The Dream is Over - a CBS Network news special hosted by Charles Osgood that aired immediately after The 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

More of WNEW Radio's Jonathan Schwartz commenting on Lennon, his impact and the 60s.

More from Albert Goldman, rock music critic (and later controversial Lennon biographer)

Commercial: RCA Selectavision 650 Videotape Recorder

Commercial: Denorex dandruff sh...

NBC News Special Report - John Lennon - The Man And His Music (Part 1, 1980)

Views: 1586

Here's Part 1 of an NBC Special Report on John Lennon: The Man and his Music, which aired the day after his murder, hosted by Jane Pauley. (who seems to have too smirky an attitude for this) Includes:

NBC News Special Report opening (voiceover by Fred Facey)

Stephen Frazier reports outside the Dakota apartment building.

John Cochran reports from Liverpool. (Manager George Martin?)

(reception is a little ghosty)
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NBC Network - V: The Final Battle - Part 3 - "Primary Crawl" (1984)

Views: 1785

Here's an on-screen crawl message regarding the results of Presidential primaries in North Carolina, Maryland, Indiana and Ohio in the race between Democratic candidates Walter Mondale and Gary Hart on WMAQ Channel 5, during an airing of Part 3 of the mini-series V: The Final Battle.

... From NBC News... Mondale takes North Carolina and Maryland... Hart takes Indiana... Ohio too close to call... Tom Brokaw reports following Local News...

This aired ...