Tag: television
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Vintage TV: A WGN Christmas
Looking back at what was for many years a Chicagoland Christmas television tradition.
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Vintage TV: Bill Cullen
A look back at game show master Bill Cullen.
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Vintage TV: The New Price is Right
A look at the first ever episode of The Price is Right, with Bob Barker.
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Why local news is no longer appointment TV for me
Essay: why I hardly watch local TV news anymore. Hint: no substance.
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Channel 16, Father Hesburgh, and the Prayer for Peace
Seen for the first time in 30 years: the recording of Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame reading the Prayer for Peace of St. Francis at WNDU-TV’s sign-on/sign-off.
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Ozzie and Harriet for Kodak
Vintage commercials for Kodak cameras, via Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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1950s TV commercials for Ansco cameras and films
Remembering camera and film company Ansco through some 1950s commercials for its products.
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Vintage TV: Garfield Goose and Frazier Thomas
Even in the 1970s, children’s television could be frenetic. Frazier Thomas and his friend, puppet Garfield Goose, were the gentle antidote. A pleasant morning breeze upon the children’s TV landscape, Garfield Goose and Friends aired each weekday at 8 AM on WGN-TV in Chicago. The premise was that Garfield Goose thought he was the king of the…
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Vintage TV: The CBS Late Movie
I mentioned this post recently here and decided it’s high time to rerun it. It’s an oldie, originally published in August, 2008. Starting in the late ’70s, my brother and I got sent to Camp Grandma in southwestern Michigan for a couple weeks every summer. The rules were extremely relaxed at Camp Grandma. Pepsi and…
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Vintage TV: Freakies
It was a sugar-sweetened cereal for kids. But the cartoony characters that advertised them connected with young viewers in new way, at least for the early 1970s. My mom was not usually a sucker for TV commercials aimed at kids, but she fell hook, line, and sinker for the Freakies. And so we ate Freakies until…
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