The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) | Channel 2 News Update at 11pm - KNXT Channel 2 (Los Angeles, CA) (Complete Broadcast, 6/23/1981) 📺 @FuzzyMemoriesTV | Uploaded 9 months ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Not from Chicago, but with at least two Chicago connections (and one name shared with another), is the Channel 2 News Update at 11pm on KNXT (now KCBS) Channel 2, anchored by Jess Marlow and Marcia Brandwynne (the latter substituting for Connie Chung).
(This aired right after a repeat of the 1979 TV-movie "Dummy": youtu.be/pNHw80izUVY)
Includes:
CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell)
Jess and Marcia preview coming update edition
Commercials for:
Mervyn's - Men's Week of Values
Mexicana Airlines
Kotex Maxi-Pads with tie-in to latest Redbook issue
Station ID touting Channel 2 News' Emmy wins
Newscast opening (with Dick Marx' "Channel 2 News Theme" which use started in Chicago), followed by items:
- L.A. government agencies face massive budget cuts after shortfalls resulting from Proposition 13, as reported by Phil Barnow on cuts in D.A.'s office; with comments from L.A. District Attorney John Van de Kamp, Jim Bascue of Hardcore Gang Program, and L.A. County Supervisor Deane Dana
- Detroit voters approve 1% tax increase to offset budget shortfalls in that city
- WLS alum Terry Murphy (another Chicago connection) on the case of the disappearance of elderly couple Lewis and Betty Balas from Wilshire district on December 13th 1980; Larry Eugene Boyce is a main suspect (during report, tape damage causes picture issues); Joe De LaDurantey of L.A.P.D. is interviewed
- Shift in winds making fighting Napa Valley fires easier
Promo for 2 on the Town
Commercials for:
Pontiac T 1000
Robinson's Spring Air Mattress Sale
Ralph's and McDonald's - $4 Million Los Angeles Bicentennial Fiesta
- Investigation of hospital deaths in Riverside and San Bernardino spreads to L.A. County; assistant coroner Richard Wilson speaks of latest case
- Dave Lopez on Orange County Judge William Murray who proves why he isn't paid to be nice to prisoners - namely in case of Jackie Peak (sp?) serving time for drugs, forgery, welfare fraud and other charges
- Orange County jury hears evidence in freeway killing cases
- Wayne Williams to remain in jail in relation to recent Atlanta child murders
- Reagan administration claims end of double-digit inflation, but House Speaker Tip O'Neill isn't buying
- French President Mitterand names four Communist Party members to government posts
- In Russia, Brezhnev calls for new arms limitation talks with U.S.
Commercials for:
Bolla Trebbiano wine (with Franco Bolla)
Builders Emporium Summer Sizzler Sale (voiceover by Danny Dark)
Allstate - about Homeowner's Insurance
Xerox - comparisons to henhouses
- Jim Hill (not the longtime WMAQ Channel 5 announcer) on Wimbledon tennis, baseball negotiations (strike in its 12th day), and a baseball game in Pawtucket, RI, that finally ended after 33 innings
Commercials for:
Schweppes (Buckingham Palace guard answers "call of Schweppervescence")
Dreamspun sheet by Fieldcrest
Mountain Grown Folger's (with Virginia Christine as Mrs. Olsen)
Minolta Weathermatic-A camera
- Search for 11 climbers who fell to their deaths on Mount Rainier, WA, has been called off; Bill Briggle of National Park Service speaks
Jess next handles weather forecast in place of vacationing Maclovio Perez, then:
- Music arranger Louis Halmy celebrates 50th anniversary in music business, honored by Mayor Bradley, Governor Brown and President Reagan - and, thanks to son Richard, South Gate Youth Marching Band of California (station cuts off report before item could be finished)
Commercials for:
Home Savings of America (with George Fenneman)
Federal Express (voiceover by Simon Oakland?)
Jess and Marcia close newscast
Commercials for:
1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (with Nancy Harrington)
San Diego (spotlighting Sea World and San Diego Zoo)
Moët champagne (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Station ID / PSA for First Amendment
First minute of The CBS Late Movie presentation of Columbo episode "Étude in Black" (originally broadcast under the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie umbrella on September 17th 1972) (voiceover by Norm Stevens) (opening with the Mystery Movie music theme had to be "echoed" to avoid YouTube blocking)
This aired on local Los Angeles TV on Tuesday, June 23rd 1981 during the 10:58pm to 11:31pm (Pacific) timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
Not from Chicago, but with at least two Chicago connections (and one name shared with another), is the Channel 2 News Update at 11pm on KNXT (now KCBS) Channel 2, anchored by Jess Marlow and Marcia Brandwynne (the latter substituting for Connie Chung).
(This aired right after a repeat of the 1979 TV-movie "Dummy": youtu.be/pNHw80izUVY)
Includes:
CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell)
Jess and Marcia preview coming update edition
Commercials for:
Mervyn's - Men's Week of Values
Mexicana Airlines
Kotex Maxi-Pads with tie-in to latest Redbook issue
Station ID touting Channel 2 News' Emmy wins
Newscast opening (with Dick Marx' "Channel 2 News Theme" which use started in Chicago), followed by items:
- L.A. government agencies face massive budget cuts after shortfalls resulting from Proposition 13, as reported by Phil Barnow on cuts in D.A.'s office; with comments from L.A. District Attorney John Van de Kamp, Jim Bascue of Hardcore Gang Program, and L.A. County Supervisor Deane Dana
- Detroit voters approve 1% tax increase to offset budget shortfalls in that city
- WLS alum Terry Murphy (another Chicago connection) on the case of the disappearance of elderly couple Lewis and Betty Balas from Wilshire district on December 13th 1980; Larry Eugene Boyce is a main suspect (during report, tape damage causes picture issues); Joe De LaDurantey of L.A.P.D. is interviewed
- Shift in winds making fighting Napa Valley fires easier
Promo for 2 on the Town
Commercials for:
Pontiac T 1000
Robinson's Spring Air Mattress Sale
Ralph's and McDonald's - $4 Million Los Angeles Bicentennial Fiesta
- Investigation of hospital deaths in Riverside and San Bernardino spreads to L.A. County; assistant coroner Richard Wilson speaks of latest case
- Dave Lopez on Orange County Judge William Murray who proves why he isn't paid to be nice to prisoners - namely in case of Jackie Peak (sp?) serving time for drugs, forgery, welfare fraud and other charges
- Orange County jury hears evidence in freeway killing cases
- Wayne Williams to remain in jail in relation to recent Atlanta child murders
- Reagan administration claims end of double-digit inflation, but House Speaker Tip O'Neill isn't buying
- French President Mitterand names four Communist Party members to government posts
- In Russia, Brezhnev calls for new arms limitation talks with U.S.
Commercials for:
Bolla Trebbiano wine (with Franco Bolla)
Builders Emporium Summer Sizzler Sale (voiceover by Danny Dark)
Allstate - about Homeowner's Insurance
Xerox - comparisons to henhouses
- Jim Hill (not the longtime WMAQ Channel 5 announcer) on Wimbledon tennis, baseball negotiations (strike in its 12th day), and a baseball game in Pawtucket, RI, that finally ended after 33 innings
Commercials for:
Schweppes (Buckingham Palace guard answers "call of Schweppervescence")
Dreamspun sheet by Fieldcrest
Mountain Grown Folger's (with Virginia Christine as Mrs. Olsen)
Minolta Weathermatic-A camera
- Search for 11 climbers who fell to their deaths on Mount Rainier, WA, has been called off; Bill Briggle of National Park Service speaks
Jess next handles weather forecast in place of vacationing Maclovio Perez, then:
- Music arranger Louis Halmy celebrates 50th anniversary in music business, honored by Mayor Bradley, Governor Brown and President Reagan - and, thanks to son Richard, South Gate Youth Marching Band of California (station cuts off report before item could be finished)
Commercials for:
Home Savings of America (with George Fenneman)
Federal Express (voiceover by Simon Oakland?)
Jess and Marcia close newscast
Commercials for:
1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (with Nancy Harrington)
San Diego (spotlighting Sea World and San Diego Zoo)
Moët champagne (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Station ID / PSA for First Amendment
First minute of The CBS Late Movie presentation of Columbo episode "Étude in Black" (originally broadcast under the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie umbrella on September 17th 1972) (voiceover by Norm Stevens) (opening with the Mystery Movie music theme had to be "echoed" to avoid YouTube blocking)
This aired on local Los Angeles TV on Tuesday, June 23rd 1981 during the 10:58pm to 11:31pm (Pacific) timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
![KMBC Channel 9 [Kansas City, MO] - Leap Day News (Partial Newscast, 2/29/1980)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pzScXYppR6Y/hqdefault.jpg "KMBC Channel 9 [Kansas City, MO] - Leap Day News (Partial Newscast, 2/29/1980)
Heres part of a newscast of The News: 6 OClock Report on KMBC Channel 9 in Kansas City, MO, which fell on a Leap Day. The anchor is Scott Feldman, with Don Fortune (not seen here, but referred to in the open) and meteorologist Dave Dusik (who is featured).
Includes:
Recording coming in during promo for Benji and Andy Kaufman Special (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Recording then cuts to preview for 6pm News
Commercials for:
Braniff International Airlines (voiceover by Doug Jeffers?)
Pearle Vision Center (with Edward Binns)
1980 Chrysler Cordoba - Corinthian Edition (with engineers Jim Royer and Tom Hildebrandt, and Ricardo Montalban)
Station ID / promo for PM Magazine
The News open (with same cut of Lalo Schifrins Tar Sequence theme from Cool Hand Luke that was used for years for ABC-owned stations Eyewitness News and variants such as WXYZ Detroits Action News and KGO San Franciscos News Scene)
- Dave on Arctic weather from Canada coming into Kansas City area to bring bitter cold throughout weekend
- March 31 jury trial date set for reputed mob bosses Nick Civella and Peter Tamburello
- Kansas City massage parlor owner Daryl Burkhead (sp?) found guilty on 5 of 6 drug-related charges
- Marion, KS judge sentences Timothy Newfield to one life and two 15-to-life terms for his part in kidnapping and slaying of 24-year-old Peabody State Bank employee last summer
- Congressional investigation into job hazards at Postal Service, spurred by death of bulk mail handler in New Jersey last December; Brenda Williams reports on safety record of Kansas City post office, with interviews with Bob Kessler of the postal union, employee Mary Wiggins and KC postal officer in charge Donald Ethier
- Bob Doles presidential campaign hanging by a thread
Commercials for:
The Lady Vanishes (theatrical trailer) (main voiceover by Jerry G. Bishop)
Jansens Furniture (with Ed Jansen)
Good News Missouri (with Diana Ward)
Volkswagen Rabbit Diesel
- Pam Whiting (?) on program (Utilicare) to help seniors pay utility bills and how its working (or not); interviews with Sally Fahrenthold of Metro Lutheran Ministry and Grace Meek of the KC office of the Division of Family Services
- W. Robert Semple resigns as Independence City Manager at request of Mayor Lee Comer; they disagreed over discipline of Power & Light Company employee over gratuities received for long-term coal contract
Commercials for:
Wards (Montgomery Ward) Hardware Week Sale
John Ray and Pete Franklin Chrysler-Plymouth
Promo for PM Magazine for 6:30pm
Dave with more detailed weather forecast on just how cold it will be the next few days (recording ends as hes midway through)
This aired on local Kansas City TV on Friday, February 29th 1980 during the 5:58pm to 6:17pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!")
![WGN Channel 9 - Ray Rayner & Friends [with Bozo!] (Promo, 1979) 🤡](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qKmQUyWrToY/hqdefault.jpg "WGN Channel 9 - Ray Rayner & Friends [with Bozo!] (Promo, 1979) 🤡
Heres a (perhaps moderately confusing?) short commercial promo for Ray Rayner and Friends on WGN Channel 9 - BUT featuring Bozo the Clown (Bob Bell), advising kids to tune-in every school day at 7am. For Ray Rayner. Not Bozos Circus. (until like a year later, then - err, nevermind) Cross-promotional action!
Bonus: Closing segment of Star Blazers which featured a preview of the next episode (voiceover by Phil Tonken). (Ntrivia: Princess Invidia later went on to found the worlds most valuable publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of over $3.3 trillion.) Followed by the first moments of the ending credit sequence.
WGN Television 9!
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, October 29th 1979 within the 6:55am to 7:00am timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!")
