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Video clips of classic Chicago television & radio moments!
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Published on Tuesday, 08 February 2011 19:42
Here is a look at how WBBM-TV's newscasts looked back in the late 70's. All of the local legends are here: Bill Kurtis, Walter Jacobson, Harry Porterfield, John Coughlin, along with glimpses of Johnny Morris and Gene Siskel. This is taken from a CBS 2 newscast from November 24, 1978.
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Published on Friday, 04 February 2011 14:05
Ed Smaron, reporter for Chicago's Shadow/Metro services, just put together this video about the Blizzard of 2011 called "Diggin' Out," done to the music of Billy Joel's "Movin' Out." Enjoy...
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Published on Friday, 21 January 2011 12:15
With the Green Bay Packers coming to town to challenge the Chicago Bears for the 2010 NFC Championship, it seems like the right time to post up this video from Chicago radio superstar Jonathon Brandmeier. The following is a live version of the "Hey Der Milwaukee Polka" from Johnny & The Leisure Suits from his 1988 video concert.
Ya, Hey Der!
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Published on Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:56
The Sun-Times' Roger Ebert and the Tribune's Gene Siskel give a lesson on how students can become great film critics. This was done from their "Siskel & Ebert At The Movies" television show.
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Published on Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:43
WGN Morning News Producer Jeff Hoover happens to be one of the funniest people on a planet (not Earth necessarily, but some planet, somewhere). Here, the hilarious Hoover does his stellar Christopher Walken impersonation in a Christmas video, featuring none other than John Tesh on piano.
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Published on Monday, 13 December 2010 08:49
Before he became a worldwide TV & movie sensation, Steve Carell was a Second City comedic actor just looking for work in Chicago. Here is a commercial only shown on Chicago television in 1989 starring Steve Carell, promoting Brown's Chicken. (Note: The audio is a little low on this one, so turn up your speakers.)
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Published on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 17:23
Here is a little something to get you into the Christmas spirit. WGN's Tom Skilling does a commercial parody for the WGN Morning News, with some holiday flair...
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Published on Wednesday, 01 December 2010 14:24
Of course, the hot radio station this December is WLIT-FM, which is currently called "The Holiday Lite" - Chicago's all Holiday music station. Here is a look at some news clips from when the station flipped in 2008.
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Published on Monday, 22 November 2010 14:58
With
the news that classic episodes of "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" are finally now out on DVD, here is a peak at one of those episodes, "Lemonade" from August 17, 1949.
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Published on Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:07
In the fall of 1998, Chicago radio icon Dick Biondi was inducted into the national Radio Hall of Fame. Here is the video of that induction...
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Published on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:33
A classic Chicago-only commercial from 1989's Chicago Challenge Wrestling, feature the legendary Midwest wrestling promoter Bob Luce and 70's/80's wrestling superstar Bobo Brazil for the store, One Stop.
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Published on Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:41
Back when Bob Sirott hosted "Fox Thing In The Morning" on WFLD-TV, he did an interview with John Mellencamp, an artist he has interviewed many times before (and since). Here are both parts of that interview from November 28, 1996.
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Published on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:59
With the news that Randy Michaels will soon be out and no longer darkening the doorway of Tribune Company, let's look at what ol' Randy was like when he was on the radio. This is a clip of Randy from 1987, while he was at WLW-AM in Cincinnati, doing what he loves to do best... make controversy.
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Published on Friday, 15 October 2010 09:18
From 1989, here is a TV commercial for WGCI, then known as "Power 107." It features Doug Banks and Tom Joyner, who are now nationally known, but back then, were exclusively Chicago's own.
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Published on Monday, 11 October 2010 13:51
With the
news today that Bill Garcia & Nancy Turner have joined up with ChicagoRadioOnline for their new Country channel, here is some "classic" Nancy Turner from her days at WUSN-FM from 1989:
