Jack Taylor and NewsNine - WGN Channel 9 (Complete Broadcast, 2/2/1979) 📺

Рет қаралды 4,687

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)

6 ай бұрын

Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of Jack Taylor and NewsNine from WGN Channel 9.
A little bonus will follow.
Includes:
WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Carl Greyson)
Preview of coming newscast
Opening (with a version of "Wichita Lineman" as the theme, and voiceover by Carl Greyson)
- Larry Roderick on contracts awarded for former Deputy Mayor Kenneth Sain's consulting business; excerpt of news conference from Police Superintendent James O'Grady
- Full service restored to all CTA subway and 'L' stations after suit filed against agency by Chester Blair
- Len O'Connor commentary on whether Mayor Bilandic is really in charge of the city
- Illinois to get over $10 million in Federal disaster money in wake of '79 blizzard
- In Iran, Prime Minister Bakhtiar and Army primed to have anyone named to Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council arrested; Simon Braim (sp?) reports on tens of thousands converging outside Ayatollah's home
- Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. seeks 4.1% natural gas rate hike
Stock closing figures
Commercials for:
"The Old West" from Time Life Books (book set offer)
Harris Bank
- Merrillville, IN police searching for Willard Melcher, 22, in connection with murders of two women, Paula Otterman and Toni Penner, both 20, in townhouse
- Ex-Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious found dead in his New York apartment
- Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping continuing his tour of U.S., visiting Houston, TX, as reported by Rita Flynn of WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; a Ku Klux Klansman who tried to lunge at Deng is stopped by Secret Servicemen
- Labor Department says unemployment in Illinois fell 1.5% in January (from 6.5% to 5%), nationally down 0.1% to 5.8%
- Steve Bosh of WPIX Channel 11 in New York reports on memorial service for Nelson Rockefeller at Riverside Church, attended by such figures as New York Governor Hugh Carey, Gerald Ford, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Walter Mondale; select snippets of Henry A. Kissinger's eulogy is played
Commercials for:
Sony Betamax video recorder (the very format this broadcast was recorded on!)
Northwest Orient Super Saver Fares
White Cloud bathroom tissue (with Mrs. Kathy Young)
- Don Harris on whether Lincoln Park Zoo's groundhog, Toby, saw his shadow; but he had no doubt as to a chimp's prognostications
- which segues into Roger Triemstra's weather forecast
- Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Kiro found guilty of stealing $380,000 from estate of South Side upholsterer
- Two CTA buses collide at 66th and State, more 52 taken to St. Bernard and Billings hospitals
Commercials for:
Sports Illustrated 1979 swimsuit issue
Robitussin - 4 different cough medicines
Air Canada
Jack Brickhouse sports, including:
- Tracy Austin beats Sue Barker at Women's Professional Tournament held at Amphitheatre
- Bulls defeat New Orleans Jazz in NBA action
- 3 named to College Basketball Hall of fame; Jack speaks with one of the inductees, Jim Enright (the others are Tennessee State Coach John McLendon and DePaul's Ray Meyer, a clip of the latter speaking is shown)
Commercials for:
- Pint-size Dannon Natural Yogurt
- Family Circle Magazine
- Dominick's Finer Foods - sale on crisp firm head lettuce
- United Airlines faces midnight shutdown over threatened strike
- O'Hare Exposition Center faces criticism for hosting two weapons conventions later in month; "Arms Bazaar" opponent Mrs. Marge Benton speaks
- In New York City, parking attendant Giuseppe Terranova, 51, indicted on charges of stealing 21 cars from a car rental firm
Newscast ending (with end credits voiceover by Carl Greyson)
WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Carl Greyson)
Bonus: WGN Television Presents open with "spotlight" motif and various actors inside (theme, as always, is "The Oracle Speaks" by Louie Bellson)
Preview for tonight's movie, "Bonnie and Clyde" (voiceover by Carl Greyson) (10 seconds or so of the preview scenes had to be removed to avoid Copyright issues)
"This Feature Is Intended for Adult Viewing Only" bumper and voiceover (by Carl Greyson)
First 40 seconds of film opening
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 2nd 1979 during the 10:00pm to 10:32pm 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. 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!

Пікірлер: 29

@meetjohndoe1078 6 ай бұрын

I worked at the CBOT in the 80's and I remember Jack Taylor on channel 26 doing the Stock Market Observer

@meetjohndoe1078 6 ай бұрын

contract corruption in chicago? i'm shocked!!!

@richardszablewski1420 6 ай бұрын

It happens all over the Country, it’s just not Chicago, it’s happens in very rural towns in Kentucky too big cities.

@SybilKibble 6 ай бұрын

Utica, NY too. Chicago is famous for it though LOL@@richardszablewski1420

@ken_danerdiest1 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for another vintage newscast! I think I've seen the rare WGN Presents opening sequence somewhere.

@mysticakhenaton1701 6 ай бұрын

at the END, WGN television presents. that music and that program takes me back. when WGN was the shit here in Chicago.

@davidsharp3110 6 ай бұрын

Love that Wichita Lineman open music.

@scottym9778 6 ай бұрын

Man, I was only 14 when this aired but I remember all these people

@tkaye2 6 ай бұрын

1:09 Just how many directions does the text go on that paper?! He only turns it a half dozen times.

@josephgillespie571 6 ай бұрын

And I am Len O'Connor

@beejls 6 ай бұрын

Len O'Connor is blistering in his commentary on Bilandic. I always saw Bilandic as incompetent and a tool, but Len paints a picture of someone who was seriously corrupt. Not surprised.

@thomash.schwed3662 6 ай бұрын

Of course. After all, the people who wanted Bilandic to serve as acting mayor were looking for someone who would follow in the corrupt footsteps of Daley. The report on the quarter-million in taxpayer dollars going to Kenneth Sain for what amounted to redundancies and duplications of what the city itself was already doing is rather emblematic of that. Frankly, it's the kind of thing I have learned over the years to expect in places like Jacksonville more than in the Middle West.

@kingofmadprops 6 ай бұрын

Idk about all that, but his style of commentary reminds me of David Brinkley

@wmbrown6 6 ай бұрын

@@kingofmadprops - It may well be because he honed his style while at WMAQ Channel 5 at a time when "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" was still on. Floyd Kalber's delivery, I noticed, also had a bit of Brinkley in him.

@SagittariusQueen1980 6 ай бұрын

Corruption in Chicago, oh you don't say! 🙄

@videosuperhighway7655 6 ай бұрын

No way corruption in the city hows this possible?

@batterymakermarkii2654 6 ай бұрын

I was living in woodridge when this was aired...

@57buickcentury 6 ай бұрын

8:54 Did a newspaper search on this case; pretty frustrating unfortunately. The two suspects in the case (Willard - not William - Melcher and John Allen Haak) were released due to lack of evidence; both of them died in 2006 (Haak in prison, on another murder charge) before DNA testing in 2007 connected them to the crime. Paula's last name was Otterman, not Ottoman. (Source: the Times of Northwest Indiana, Portage edition, September 21, 2007, pgs. A1 and A9)

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 6 ай бұрын

Corrected - thanks.

@dgendvil 5 ай бұрын

Was that when Tom Skilling came to the stattion?

@andyrose5616 6 ай бұрын

9:17 The death of Sid Vicious, relegated to the second story of the B block.

@wmbrown6 6 ай бұрын

Wasn't it more the top story on the NYC TV stations? I know it would likely have been among the last stories introduced by Bill Jorgensen while he was still at WNEW-TV (before he moved to WPIX). But in the U.S. (unlike the UK), punk rock in general was not a "thing" beyond the coastal cities like New York or L.A. The Sex Pistols flamed out while on a tour of middle America, after all, where they were seen as little more than a joke - and a very bad one at that. So in a sense, it figures that a Chicago TV newscast would give barely a mention to Mr. Vicious' death.

@andyrose5616 6 ай бұрын

@@wmbrown6 I agree. You get the sense that Jack had to be talked into doing that story.

@wmbrown6 6 ай бұрын

@@andyrose5616- Same, I presume, with the other Chicago anchors (Kurtis/Jacobson at WBBM, Flynn/Daly at WLS, the WMAQ lot . . . ).

@awahl5099 6 ай бұрын

Ha! I watch for the vintage Chicago-ey-ness and commercials. This story was a bonus, but yeah…

@wmbrown6 6 ай бұрын

@@awahl5099 - At then-sister station WPIX, reporter Jeff Kamen did a long report about Mr. Vicious' saga upon his death. It ran over two minutes, with photos, videos, and clips of the police sergeant and chief medical examiner who were investigating his death. (It was likely from that edition of "Action News" that the report on Nelson Rockefeller's memorial service originated.)