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WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "Clock Excerpts #3" (1974?)
Views: 3033
The transfer of this video clip made possible by your generous donations!
Here's the good news - someone recorded The Ray Rayner Show at various times in the early seventies! Now the bad news - they only recorded the cartoons, and cut out nearly everything else. :-( I bring you the only snippets left - a few excerpts of the clock that they would show the time on, and in some cases, the chalkboard with the date, weather, and sports scores. Some might wonder why...
WFLD Channel 32 - Sign-On & Thought For Today (1988)
Views: 4850
After being off the air for a short period, WFLD Channel 32 returns with "America The Beautiful", a Fox 32 ID and Station Sign-On (Jim Barton announcing), a "Thought For Today" segment with Rev. Princella Hudson-Gilliam of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Chicago, and a Public Service Announcement for the RP Foundation - Fighting Blindness - before beginning the days' programming.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, July 22nd 1988 @ about 5:54am!
KOCO Channel 5 - Lunch With Ho Ho (Promo #1, 1965)
Views: 6888
Here is a promo for "Lunch With Ho-Ho" on KOCO-TV Channel 5 in Oklahoma City. This was a children's program featuring HoHo the Clown (played by Ed Birchall) and Pokey the Puppet (played by Bill Howard, the station's long-time stage manager wearing a sock-puppet on his arm). (we also see Jeanie the Dog here)
From the clapboard (held by Bill Howard) we can see that this promo was recorded on Wednesday, August 11th 1965. The Director was "Thrash" (Bill Thrash (originally Carrol...
WFLD Channel 32 - Thought For Today & Station Sign-Off (1986)
Views: 2187
Here's a station sign-off, and edition of Thought For Today, on WFLD Channel 32.
This was from within the last few months of Metromedia's ownership of WFLD, prior to Fox Television Stations' officially taking over the reins in March.
Includes:
Promo for upcoming Star Search '86 for Tuesday at 7:30pm (main voiceover by ??) (closing voiceover by ??)
Animated station ID with 1984 logo variant
Thought for ...
WXRT 93.1 FM - "Give Our Rock A Listen!" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 2729
Here's a commercial for radio station WXRT 93.1 FM.
"Chicago's Finest Rock" (and finest boom mike)
Featuring actor/musician Rick Pickren as the WXRT spokesman. Check out his website - BigStrikeMusic.com.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 13th 1983.
WBBM Channel 2 - Station Sign-On, SSB & Meditation (1979)
Views: 5490
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...
WFYR 103.5 - "Chicago's Warmest Rock" (Commercial, 1984)
Views: 3215
Here's another commercial for the radio station WFYR 103.5 FM.
"Chicago's Warmest Rock" (Not hot, just warm apparently)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, May 27th 1984.
WTVT Channel 13 - Pulse Featuring Jim Ruddle (Part 1, 1964)
Views: 6255
Here's Part 1 of a complete edition of Pulse, the nightly newscast of WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida (then a CBS affiliate, now affiliated with Fox). This newscast - transferred from the original 2" quad videotape - is notable in that one of the anchors, based out of the station's St. Petersburg studios, was Jim Ruddle, some three months before he first joined WGN Channel 9 in Chicago as co-anchor with Gary Park of The Park-Ruddle Report, as the beginning of...
WFLD Channel 32 - 7 O'Clock Movie (Opening, 1978?)
Views: 2638
Here's the opening titles for the 7 O'Clock Movie on WFLD Channel 32, featuring the station's Kaiser-era logo - and a montage of various stars from vintage films, including (but not limited to):
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (from "The Way We Were")
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
Audrey Hepburn (from "My Fair Lady")
John Wayne
Elvis Presley (from "Jailhouse Rock")
Vera-Ellen and Gene Kell...