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ON TV Sports (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 2328

Here's a commercial for ON TV - touting their Sports coverage.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV in February of 1984.

Chicago White Sox - "Na-Na Hey-Hey Goodbye" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 5526

Here's a memorable commercial for the White Sox - featuring fans singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, first popularized during White Sox games by team organist, Nancy Faust. Featuring a young Kathy Griffin (in her first acting job, years before making it big as a comedian and TV personality) wearing braids and Sox hat and playing a kazoo, all the way at the far left of the screen in the second row around :15 (among the attendant Sox fans), and Theodore "Ted" Noose as the traffi...

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show (Ending, Break & ID, 1980)

Views: 6838

Here's the ending credits for The Ray Rayner Show on WGN Channel 9, followed by a commercial and station ID. Includes:

Ending credits (with loop of 1941-45 opening "Merrie Melodies" theme of Warner Bros. cartoons):

Musical Director - Don Orlando
Chelveston Lives at the Animal Kingdom
Assistant Director - Barbara Shikami
Executive Producer - Ray Rayner
Directed by Bill Hartmann

The prizes awarded on this show were...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life (Break #3, 1975)

Views: 2051

Here is Commercial Break #3 of The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life on WFLD Channel 32. (In Black and White, unfortunately) Includes:

Quasar TVs - at Nelson Brothers Furniture (with jingle!)

Shrinky Dinks - The Entire Family

Identifax Security System - Burglary Prevention Kit (featuring an Ex-Burglar) (Voiceover during ordering information is Bud Kelly, right?)

This aired on local Chicago TV likely in the first couple months of...

WFLD Channel 32 - Weather Alert (1978?)

Views: 4863

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...

Halls - "Cab Driver Relief" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2652

Here's a commercial for Halls Mentho-Lyptus cough tablets (cough drops).

"Vapor Action"

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV in early January 1979. (not Chicago, but close enough)

Buy Your Cubs Season Tickets Early! (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2907

Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau encourage you to buy your Cubs tickets early. Spring is on the way!!!

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 9th 1979.

WLS Channel 7 - Delta House - "The Legacy" (Opening & Break, 1979)

Views: 2081

Here's the opening and first commercial break for the premiere episode of the very short-lived series Delta House, "The Legacy," on WLS Channel 7.

The program was a spin-off of, and produced by the very same people (and studio) as, the 1978 box-office smash "National Lampoon's Animal House," with John Vernon reprising his role as Faber College's Dean Vernon Wormer from the said movie, as well as Stephen Furst as Kent Dorfman; Bruce McGill as Daniel Simpson Day; and James...

WFLD Channel 32 - Lost in Space (Promo, 1977)

Views: 2629

Here's a neat promo for Lost in Space on WFLD Channel 32. The opening super is patterned after the first (released) "Star Wars" movie which was referenced in the intro.

We also see the production slate at the beginning showing that this was number 8977 and was directed by Don Shannon. The promo was recorded on 8-10-77 - eight days after Channel 32's prior owner, Kaiser Broadcasting, was subsumed by original owner Field Communications.

Voiceover by Bud Kel...