The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) | WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Complete Broadcast, 11/14/1981) 📺 @FuzzyMemoriesTV | Uploaded 8 months ago | Updated 4 hours ago
Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of the Channel 2 News Weekend Report on WBBM Channel 2, anchored by Mike Parker and Susan Anderson.
A little bonus will follow.
Includes:
Promo for the made-for-tv movie "Skokie"
The CBS Saturday Night Movies ending bumper (music only)
Promo for Alice, The Jeffersons and Trapper John, M.D. (voiceover by Rick Dees)
CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Don Robertson)
Preview of coming newscast
Commercials for:
Illinois Lottery's 7-11-21 Instant Lottery
Long John Silver's Seafood Platter
Illinois Bell - "Reach Out - Right Now"
Animated station ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
News opening, with lead item return of space shuttle Columbia for 2nd time after grueling 2-day mission; Terry Drinkwater reports on astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly's arrival after landing
- 'Operation Brightstar' involving military exercises by U.S. and four other nations kicks off in Egyptian desert
- IRA blamed for assassination of Protestant MP Rev. Robert Bradford in Northern Ireland
- Bomb explodes in British attorney general Sir Michael Havers' home in London, he and wife were in Spain at the time
- Governor Thompson accepts debate challenge from Adlai Stevenson III; Channel 2-Sun Times Newspoll shows them in dead heat
- Carol Krause on 20th anniversary reunion of University of Illinois, Navy Pier campus graduates; NBC News anchor John Chancellor, jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and Governor Thompson (the only of that group who showed up) among first inductees into Navy Pier Alumni Association's Hall of Fame
Commercials for:
May's/Belscot/Community Shopping Center Pre-Holiday Sale
Homemakers (with Shelley Long)
Progresso foods
American Airlines - 1 Check-in Line (voiceover by Mason Adams)
- Labor Department reports over half of under 18 chilldren have mothers who work away from home
- Susan with conclusion of Special Factfinder Report on child care; interviews with parents Bruce and Linda Keegstra, and home day care worker Madeline Wangler
Commercials for:
First Alert (with William Conrad) (ending tag voiceover by Bob Carrington)
Dry Sack (with Frank Gifford)
Static Guard (with Marion Ross)
WCLR 102 FM
- Confusion over Jet America Airlines' promo for $4.05 trip to California at O'Hare
Roger Field with the weather
Daily Lottery number
Commercials for:
Data General (with story of Lois Butterball of Aspen, CO) (voiceover by Burgess Meredith)
1982 Audi 5000 Turbo
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Insulation (with Pink Panther) - "Beat Ol' Man Winter Sale" (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
John Drummond with sports:
- Michigan on track for Rose Bowl if they beat Ohio State; followed by Big 10 and Top 10 college football scores
- Highlights of Iowa-Wisconsin, Notre Dame-Air Force and Alabama-Penn State games
- Washington beats Bulls, 104-99
- Final scores in 6A and 5A quarterfinal high school football games, and girls' high school volleyball games
- State Soccer finals
- Princeton beats Yale 35-31
With that, newscast ends
Commercials for:
Gloria Vanderbilt jeans (ending tag voiceover by Bob Carrington)
Arby's promo for Currier & Ives drinking glasses
Closing credits (with Thomson-CSF TTV-1518 cameras with Q-TV VPS-100 teleprompters in background)
Commercials for:
Beck's Beer (with bartender filling glass) (voiceover by Karl Weber)
Holiday Inn - "People-Pleasing Locations"
Panasonic Omnivision Home Video Recorder (with Reggie Jackson) - "Reggievision"
Station ID slide
Bonus: The Best of CBS open, with preview of "True Grit" (voiceover by Bob Carrington)
Commercials for:
WCLR FM 102
Pampers - with New Cushion Quilting
Toys "R" Us (with Arte Johnson as Professor Wolfgang von Busch promoting Asteroids and other Atari video game cartridges)
Volkswagen Rabbit and Pickup
First 15 seconds of film (with title theme song sung by Glen Campbell)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 14th 1981 during the 10:58pm to 11:33pm timeframe.
This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.
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!
Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of the Channel 2 News Weekend Report on WBBM Channel 2, anchored by Mike Parker and Susan Anderson.
A little bonus will follow.
Includes:
Promo for the made-for-tv movie "Skokie"
The CBS Saturday Night Movies ending bumper (music only)
Promo for Alice, The Jeffersons and Trapper John, M.D. (voiceover by Rick Dees)
CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Don Robertson)
Preview of coming newscast
Commercials for:
Illinois Lottery's 7-11-21 Instant Lottery
Long John Silver's Seafood Platter
Illinois Bell - "Reach Out - Right Now"
Animated station ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
News opening, with lead item return of space shuttle Columbia for 2nd time after grueling 2-day mission; Terry Drinkwater reports on astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly's arrival after landing
- 'Operation Brightstar' involving military exercises by U.S. and four other nations kicks off in Egyptian desert
- IRA blamed for assassination of Protestant MP Rev. Robert Bradford in Northern Ireland
- Bomb explodes in British attorney general Sir Michael Havers' home in London, he and wife were in Spain at the time
- Governor Thompson accepts debate challenge from Adlai Stevenson III; Channel 2-Sun Times Newspoll shows them in dead heat
- Carol Krause on 20th anniversary reunion of University of Illinois, Navy Pier campus graduates; NBC News anchor John Chancellor, jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and Governor Thompson (the only of that group who showed up) among first inductees into Navy Pier Alumni Association's Hall of Fame
Commercials for:
May's/Belscot/Community Shopping Center Pre-Holiday Sale
Homemakers (with Shelley Long)
Progresso foods
American Airlines - 1 Check-in Line (voiceover by Mason Adams)
- Labor Department reports over half of under 18 chilldren have mothers who work away from home
- Susan with conclusion of Special Factfinder Report on child care; interviews with parents Bruce and Linda Keegstra, and home day care worker Madeline Wangler
Commercials for:
First Alert (with William Conrad) (ending tag voiceover by Bob Carrington)
Dry Sack (with Frank Gifford)
Static Guard (with Marion Ross)
WCLR 102 FM
- Confusion over Jet America Airlines' promo for $4.05 trip to California at O'Hare
Roger Field with the weather
Daily Lottery number
Commercials for:
Data General (with story of Lois Butterball of Aspen, CO) (voiceover by Burgess Meredith)
1982 Audi 5000 Turbo
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Insulation (with Pink Panther) - "Beat Ol' Man Winter Sale" (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
John Drummond with sports:
- Michigan on track for Rose Bowl if they beat Ohio State; followed by Big 10 and Top 10 college football scores
- Highlights of Iowa-Wisconsin, Notre Dame-Air Force and Alabama-Penn State games
- Washington beats Bulls, 104-99
- Final scores in 6A and 5A quarterfinal high school football games, and girls' high school volleyball games
- State Soccer finals
- Princeton beats Yale 35-31
With that, newscast ends
Commercials for:
Gloria Vanderbilt jeans (ending tag voiceover by Bob Carrington)
Arby's promo for Currier & Ives drinking glasses
Closing credits (with Thomson-CSF TTV-1518 cameras with Q-TV VPS-100 teleprompters in background)
Commercials for:
Beck's Beer (with bartender filling glass) (voiceover by Karl Weber)
Holiday Inn - "People-Pleasing Locations"
Panasonic Omnivision Home Video Recorder (with Reggie Jackson) - "Reggievision"
Station ID slide
Bonus: The Best of CBS open, with preview of "True Grit" (voiceover by Bob Carrington)
Commercials for:
WCLR FM 102
Pampers - with New Cushion Quilting
Toys "R" Us (with Arte Johnson as Professor Wolfgang von Busch promoting Asteroids and other Atari video game cartridges)
Volkswagen Rabbit and Pickup
First 15 seconds of film (with title theme song sung by Glen Campbell)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 14th 1981 during the 10:58pm to 11:33pm timeframe.
This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.
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!
