WFLD Channel 32 - Nite-Owl (Complete & Remastered, 8/25/1982) 🦉

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

4 жыл бұрын

Here's a remastered, more complete version of the first hour from one night of the overnight Keyfax Nite-Owl Service on WFLD Channel 32.
Includes:
Animated 'Field Communications' ID (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)
Station ID / Wonder Woman promo (voiceover by Jim Barton)
'Nite-Owl' slide
Nite-Owl logo, intro (voiceover by Jim Barton) and 'blast-off' (music is "Burning Bar" by Tangerine Dream)
Behind the Scenes Tonight - Producers: Bill Mahlock - Jim Sulski - Heywood Hoffman. Editors: Jeff Weinstein, - Joe Shaughnessy - Sue Christy - Roger Weiss - Suzanne Riordan (now Suzanne Cosgrove). Production - Cora Moir.
Bulls Eye Club - 405 Busse Road in Elk Grove Village
On to Orbit 1:
Sports segment, with scores and reports including Cubs and White Sox scores, Bears cutting five players (Larry Delviche, Dupre Marshall, Glenn Inverso, Mike Scharnus and Guy Boliaux) to meet NFL roster deadline, doctors unable to remove a brain tumor in former New York Giants running back Doug Kotar (who would die from the disease on December 16th 1983), and former New Orleans Saints running back Mike Strachan (NOT Michael Strahan) about to be arraigned on charges of cocaine possession and dealing.
News items include U.S. Marines landing in Beirut; Archbishop Joseph Bernardin taking over as head of the Chicago Archdiocese; Federal agents' seizing a militarily important computer that had been illegally exported to the Soviet Union; a Federal court upholding the Reagan administration's punishment of companies that defied a pipeline embargo against Moscow; rebels killed in El Salvador; and an Iranian revolutionary court considering a closed-door verdict against former foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh for treason.
Local items include: Mayor Byrne trying to head off a teachers' strike; 60,000 hit by electrical outages due to Tuesday night storms; and major crime had declines in first eight reporting periods of 1982.
Next is the weather forecast for Chicago and other areas
Then market numbers
Orbit 2 - Nite-Owl Leisure, with astrology readings by Fran Smith; jokes from Lisa Moroniak of Schiller Park (23:27) ; What's On in Chicago (classical concerts, festivals including Summerfest '82, concerts including Rick Springfield and Joni Mitchell, and dance including Summerdance '82); Mail Bag with comments from viewers (including S.C. Kostrevski of Chicago, Flo Naurot of Chicago, Joseph Kimball of Waukegan, Robert Rogers of Markham, Laurie Williams of Chicago, Laura Demchucls of Chicago, Dorothy Jones of Kankakee, and Paul and John Stack of Brookfield); Noticeboard (with items of community interest); Trivia Quiz; Nite-Owl Recipe for hot olive cheese puffs; plus items about Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Prince Edward of England, fans gathering in a Hollywood park to remember Rudolph Valentino, and B.B. King cancelling an appearance in Mexico; another trivia quiz from the Trickster; This Day in History; Lottery numbers; news on network ratings race and top programs; Dolly Parton canceling public appearances for health reasons; and Margaret Thatcher's feelings during the Falklands war.
Orbit 3, starting with more sports scores and news; national, world and state news (Israeli Defense Minister Sharon to visit the U.S., Reagan assuring UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar that Marines will not engage in combat in Beirut, a man who phoned in a threat to Reagan arrested by police and Secret Service, Alabama's insanity plea abolished, 750 special-education teachers walking off the job in Pittsburgh, FAA handing out air rights to increase number of commercial flights, judge to decide whether to allow an abortion for a comatose woman; Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky says world fears "insanity" of Israeli leaders, Philippines President Marcos recovering from pneumonia; Credit-Pak owner denies not following up on loan guarantee promises to farmers), off-beat news, weather, and business news (ending with news that Field Communications will sell WFLD to Metromedia for $140 million).
Songs played during this hour include:
- "Love Is In The Air" by John Paul Young
- "Who Am I" by Petula Clark
- "Biggest Part Of Me" by Ambrosia
- "Carpet Of The Sun" by Renaissance
- "Laugh, Laugh" by The Beau Brummels
- "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
- "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind
- "Somebody's Knockin' " by Terri Gibbs
- "I Believe In You" by Don Williams
- "I Say A Little Prayer" by Aretha Franklin
- "Babe" by Styx
- "Time" by The Alan Parsons Project
- "Ferry Cross The Mersey" by Gerry & The Pacemakers
- "I'm Into Something Good" by Herman's Hermits
- "A Summer Song" (U.K. Version) by Chad & Jeremy [MUTED TO PREVENT KZfaq BLOCKING]
- "Seven Year Ache" by Rosanne Cash
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "The Look Of Love" by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
- First minute of "With Your Love" by Jefferson Starship
This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, August 25th 1982 at about the 12:00am to 12:58am timeframe.

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@timharper73 4 жыл бұрын

Ah...the memories of staying up late some nights to catch this (only in summer time - I was 9 years old at the time of this airing and had to go to school the next day)...plus the awesome music they'd play through it. It's how I learned to appreciate "easy listening" music as I grew older. Hopefully this stays up. What a great time travel to 1982! Thank you!!!!

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

Tim Harper Great show to chill to in bed.

@sonjafoster1103 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. My Mom would put it on channel 32 when I went to bed so if I woke up in the middle of the night, I would hear the music :)

@pauldouglas3212 8 ай бұрын

I remember this as well

@JenXdgaf 4 жыл бұрын

8-bit heaven for the insomniacs back then. 🤣 I remember watching this during summer vacation, and 12 yr old me was just amazed.

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Barnes It is relaxing to hear easy listening tunes

@sonjafoster1103 3 жыл бұрын

I loved Nite Owl! I would be so sleepy at school because I tried to stay up and watch it...lol

@Engelbird 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, same here. I remember watching it in my bedroom in Oak Lawn after my parents had gone to sleep

@Deayjay 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! hahaha

@SchroedingersGato 5 ай бұрын

Why did kids love it so much? I was memorized. Still am some 40 years later and 8500 miles away

@jamesborlan2850 4 жыл бұрын

The nite owl soundtrack has some of the best music choices I’ve ever heard

@itme999 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! This soundtrack is great. 👍

@sonjafoster1103 3 жыл бұрын

I loved falling asleep to Nite Owl. The songs were awesome!

@saraflint2982 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed- I've put many of them on my iTunes and Spotify. It's just like listening to the real Nite-Owl videos. This was before my time, so I'm glad I could find it here.

@anthonysalvaro2979 2 жыл бұрын

@@stimoceiver very cool! so did i ...i had an Atari 8 bit also and would call BBS's looking for games with Night Owl on..cool memories

@TrickmanTerry 2 жыл бұрын

@@stimoceiver Wow, thanks for this! I was dumbfounded trying to find out who did that opening song. Finally! Tangerine Dream! Now I can sleep nights. Haha! I'm just getting back into synth and synth creation in my 50s, so this is a welcome treat. I'm gonna put that soundtrack list on repeat for a long time. Thanks again!

@VideoArchiveGuy 3 жыл бұрын

I was 16 and if I angled things just right I could watch this from Milwaukee with a snowy but completely watchable signal on a Quasar black and white TV… and loved it.

@nejojohnson 4 жыл бұрын

I was obsessed with Nite-Owl as a kid. I even wrote in to them and and got a nice letter back.

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

NeJo Johnson What did the letter say?

@nejojohnson 4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbertalotto2355 From what I recall, the tone was very kind. She said that she liked the E.T. sticker I sent and she put it on her typewriter. She also said she never heard of a 'pomerwawa' - it was my childish description of my pomeranian/chihuahua mix, but it sounded very cute. :D

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

NeJo Johnson You went the ET emblem? Awesome

@ernestconnell8087 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely better than than the old test pattern and also better than watching infomercials.

@Rockstaralan 4 жыл бұрын

An incredibly novel idea this must've been at the time for any local TV station. Rather than simply go off the air with station ID and the national anthem, followed by a few minutes of test pattern and nothing but snow and white noise to follow until 6 am the next morning as most stations in smaller markets still did in 1982, some genius comes up with this as a way to keep Chicagoland insomniacs, nighttime workers, and others who were up when the sun was down, entertained through the wee hours. Well before overnight news and paid infomercial programming came along to fill the void for those who did not have cable. I must say though, that this is INFINITELY more entertaining than both! Very cool!

@MrHereWeGoYo Жыл бұрын

Well said! At the time this was the very definition of "cutting edge".

@christopherseat9871 2 жыл бұрын

My folks would watch this when I was couldn't sleep....I was barely 2 months old. May they R.I.P. ♥️

@Deayjay 3 жыл бұрын

Boy does this take me back! I remember watching Nite owl when I was a kid in the summertime. The music was great and the graphics were so "high tech" for the time hahaha

@Fygee 3 жыл бұрын

"Hey, we need you to whip up a realistic picture of the new Archbishop with ASCII text and lines." "......say no more, I'll have it done in 10 minutes." What a magical time 1982 was.

@Engelbird 3 жыл бұрын

Haha comment gold

@MichaelHansenFUN 3 ай бұрын

where?

@MichaelHansenFUN 3 ай бұрын

did you see et and reagan?

@johnrodriguez9528 2 жыл бұрын

My brother and I were talking about this today…. We were very young but we waited up for our mother to come home from work….. Brings back great memories of our childhood … thank you for posting

@maxxxmodelz4061 2 жыл бұрын

Man, this brings me back. I was only 10yo when this Keyfax Nite Owl came out, so I rarely got to see it except when I was up late sick or something. I remember it though. My mom would allow me to leave the TV on this channel if I was sick and I would try to fall back asleep with the music.

@DonzCoolVids 3 жыл бұрын

This is what got me into the IT field.

@morrisonAV 4 жыл бұрын

This reminds me so much of watching The Weather Channel back in the early 80sl in between the live segments. Not sure why I found it so fascinating. Maybe because I didn't get cable until 1982 so anything on cable was new to me.

@timharper73 4 жыл бұрын

Same here. Plus the music they played during the forecasts were very relaxing

@norellpolk 4 жыл бұрын

@@timharper73 they should bring this back

@morrisonAV 4 жыл бұрын

@BreeinMaryland I'd obsess over snow reports before ski trips out west.

@sonjafoster1103 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! You all are taking me back! I hate that the Weather Channel stopped playing smooth jazz during weather on the 8s. The music was on point!

@MsSissiePooh Жыл бұрын

When I had bouts of insomnia back in the early 80’s (due to a traffic accident), I found myself watching Nite-Owl until around 2 to 3 in the morning. Loved the music playlist they had, and oddly enough, I felt so relaxed that I fell asleep while Nite-Owl was on. The jokes and puzzles were a lot of fun, too. Thanks for posting this… so many awesome memories.

@MrHereWeGoYo 2 жыл бұрын

This is an awesome 80's time capsule. The graphics, the voice over, the music. I was 12 years old at the time but Nite Owl didn't air where I grew up. As a kid I would have been all over this. Great stuff.

@Gigi_8087 6 ай бұрын

Gosh I remember watching this. Thanks for posting and bringing back pleasant memories.

@sgtbrownty 3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the days when my mom couldn't afford to pay for ONtv and Spectrum cable tv subscriptions. Nite Owl was my companion throughout the night. Insomniac memories.

@SupremeNerd Жыл бұрын

see!!!! I thought I was the only one

@andyarvai3199 Жыл бұрын

Loved this.... my nightly schedule always was mash, benny-hill and then niteowl at Midnight. :-) miss my childhood.

@svrandall 4 жыл бұрын

I completely forgot about this! I was 13-ish and bored during the summer, so this was a good late night diversion!

@ceefaxbbctv8788 10 ай бұрын

Wow 🤩 this is amazing! What a time to have been alive. This is really quite something, many thanks for the video

@jtlynn23 4 жыл бұрын

Well done!

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 жыл бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen, the original recorder of this footage, Mr. Joe Lynn... :-) If you have any complaints that more wasn't recorded, please direct your comments to him. ;-)

@timharper73 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saving this for all these years to help preserve it in the Museum Joe!

@wilyjapan8200 3 жыл бұрын

Hope you can find more of Night Owl soon. Thank you for recording this Joe..

@Albendova666 6 ай бұрын

What a fantastic time capsule. Growing up in rural northern Michigan we grew up on antenna television and i very much miss the simplicity and mystery of just what was gonna be on tv at any given time, especially late at night.

@MrPoppyDuck 4 жыл бұрын

Love those graphics! Nice to see news that was just that, news. Nowadays it seems to be just lots of editorializing and partial news. Too bad it's nearly impossible to get just news these days.

@cheapthrilll6323 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent point.

@camcordernonsense5264 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I wish our news people now would be quiet and just deliver the news

@Albendova666 6 ай бұрын

We didn't have this up in rural northern Michigan but as a young kid id have watched and fell asleep to stuff like this. ❤

@jesusnodal8948 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh good memories of staying up late and watching this program!!!

@karza0 4 жыл бұрын

I remember staying up at night and watch this, was 14 when this aired.

@youyatubetak7624 2 жыл бұрын

BIG UP JERRY and the Pacemakers repping Liverpool @ 42 Minutes!!!! Gives us heart to imagine this song transmitted to the people of Chicago back then- it meant something to those with ears- it wasn't just background muzak ... then Lennon at 53 minutes... Liverpool calling Chicago ... above us only sky and signals

@MultipleOffenses Жыл бұрын

I remember being absolutely fascinated by this as a little kid. I couldn't have cared less about the news, I just wanted to see the graphics -- which is pretty funny to think about now, given how archaic they are. Something about them and the music was intriguing at the time.

@Bonzi_Buddy 6 ай бұрын

Pioneer eras for things are special in a nearly magical kind of way. You lived through that… these graphics were “cool” back then. Now high end graphics are almost taken for granted. Yes, it is spectacular but the “magic” is not there. Comic books, video games, music, cars, radio, etc… those who experienced those early advances truly lived through something special.

@Engelbird 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought the synth effect in the opening theme song was reminiscent of the synth effect in the background of Bob & Doug's "12 days of Christmas", haha. Long live Nite Owl!

@jacksakai60 3 жыл бұрын

About time you posted a full hour of Nite Owl.. Hope you post more from this program very soon.. Thank you very much for this vid!

@CJODell12 3 жыл бұрын

During 1982, Nite-Owl was attracting between 35,000 and 75,000 viewers every night in the Chicago area.

@angelocervantes4950 2 жыл бұрын

I was one of those just 9 years old watched this and benny hill lol

@syferdet Жыл бұрын

2:34 Heywood Hoffman sounds like he should be the starting first baseman for the Sox.

@guspolly 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, 1982... “Man in wheelchair sues after being jailed for not being able to get to a court appearance because the courthouse wasn’t accessible” - filed in “OFFBEAT”! (54:48)

@DeadAbeVigoda 4 жыл бұрын

That theme music was "Burning Bar" by Tangerine Dream, from the "Thief" soundtrack.

@JosephPratt1986 4 жыл бұрын

This is so neat! Thank you for posting more Nite-Owl stuff. It's really fun to watch it.

@alexandernelson647 Жыл бұрын

I'd watch anything from old Chicago from 1940s to 2009. If you find any breaking news like September 11th or Beirut from 1982-83, I would want to see that too. Anything from the 70s, 80s too, when I was a kid too. I love your channel and I will support it when I am able to as much as I can. There's lots of Chicago people who would watch your KZfaq channel if they knew about it. It's amazing to see the things from back then because Chicago commercials had prices in their commercials and dates, phone numbers and details of things like locations ad more. So you can really see how things and areas and life have changed.

@bethdibartolomeo2042 3 жыл бұрын

35:00 One gets a shiver down the spine realizing that Princess Grace had three weeks to live.

@pauldouglas3212 8 ай бұрын

I'm remember this brings back memories when I was young

@aquaman199 4 жыл бұрын

Classic songs.love it

@pernelldh 4 жыл бұрын

59:05 Field should have been owning 7 television stations: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

@robolson9924 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know who the announcer is? He was the voice of channel 32 during this era. His voice is ingrained in my brain , as I did a lot of viewing of this station back then.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 жыл бұрын

Jim Barton

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) What became of him?

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbertalotto2355 - He's still around - BartonVoice.com

@thomasbrown3356 2 жыл бұрын

Me and my best friend would stay up hours, til dawn some nights. At 16, We would get someone to cop alcohol for us. We'd talk about girls and sip on Richards wild Irish rose, watching Nightowl. 1982 was so magical.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a little slice of heaven. :-)

@davidwollenberg9319 4 жыл бұрын

Good to hear 'Somebody's knockin'' on the soundtrack. Dave

@525Lines 4 жыл бұрын

I like the format. I wouldn't mind 15 minutes of news with a little music every day, just to make sure World War Three hasn't started.

@rss2105 4 жыл бұрын

There was a short version of this a long time ago, then it disappeared. Glad it's back.

@bethdibartolomeo2042 3 жыл бұрын

It's nice to see a full version, I know what ones you're talking about. Fuzzy Memories had the short ones posted way back when YT had a ~10 minute limit on video length.

@johnissoevil 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad Field didn't do this on sister station WKBS in Philly, would've loved to see something like this back then.

@niteowl5223 4 жыл бұрын

OMG perfect!! xoxo

@alexandernelson647 Жыл бұрын

Someone should download and backup every video into 4k or 8k if they can to keep copies in the highest quality should anything happen to Google, KZfaq or the videos so this doesn't get lost forever as can be shared forever

@rnman99 4 жыл бұрын

I was at Camp Bullis TX when this aired...

@dootuss83 4 жыл бұрын

It's like watching an Atari 2600 in action.

@hlarks Жыл бұрын

I remember this.

@norellpolk 4 жыл бұрын

They should bring this back.it first premiered in June 1981.it was good

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 жыл бұрын

September 1981 it actually premiered.

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

Norell polk When did it end?

@norellpolk 4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbertalotto2355 January 1984

@jasonbertalotto2355 4 жыл бұрын

Norell polk Why do you think it went off the air?

@norellpolk 4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbertalotto2355 the station always changes their format.at that time they started showing movies late night and into the early morning into the next day

@jeffw6248 2 жыл бұрын

This was on my birthday lol

@softrockrules 4 жыл бұрын

This does hit the Bulls Eye!

@MR_MRM_ 4 жыл бұрын

OK someone from Chicago please explain this program. It looks like the cable public access program menu from the early 1980s, but it was on OTA UHF?

@timharper73 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Nite Owl was an experiment WFLD used as their version of a newscast since the station at the time had no real news operation aside from Newstalk and Newscene - except they were only 5-15 minutes long! Kind of like some stations would do a "sign-off edition of the news" before ending the day's broadcasting. The inspiration for this was from Britain as were the originators of the Keyfax news. I believe this concept lasted up until Metromedia took over 32 in fall of 1983. I hope this cleared up some of your questions.

@525Lines 4 жыл бұрын

There are several versions of this, including at least one in the UK. Text and music. And I remember sitting there and watching it.

@jamesbriskin1299 4 жыл бұрын

Yes this looks primitive compared to today’s graphics. You have to remember this is 1982. The IBM 5150( The First mainstream commercial PC) came out in Aug of 81. All graphics generator of the time looked alike wether it was a local cable company or a broadcast network. Yes we’ve come along way in 40 years

@guspolly 4 жыл бұрын

The British stations had a teletext service - they would transmit pages of text and blocky graphics in the vertical blanking interval that could, with a decoder, be seen on demand by the viewer. This began in 1974 with Ceefax on BBC, followed by Oracle on ITV in 1980. Their overnight service would be a selection of pages from teletext played over music, much like this. But WFLD gave their overnight show a bit more production value and pizazz. A 1982 article from New Scientist confirms that WFLD was transmitting this on-demand teletext during the day. Unfortunately the technology never caught on broadly in the US for several reasons, but in Europe it was used until analogue was closed down in the early 10s.

@marvy3022 3 жыл бұрын

@@guspolly Correction: ITV started their service in 1978.

@guspolly 4 жыл бұрын

A bit of Chicago TV history tucked in at 59:05

@johnnynbk 3 ай бұрын

Good ol nightfowl

@robertonline6543 4 жыл бұрын

I miss field communications... Especially the voiceover... I don't remember this? What happened to field communications? This kinda nice 👌😊

@VolumedMusicMan 4 жыл бұрын

38:47 ? Alan Parsons Project?

@dit076 3 жыл бұрын

Yep!! It's called "Time." :)

@camcordernonsense5264 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's because I grew up with it. Yes I did praise the tech advances. But I really miss bad audio

@hateut 4 жыл бұрын

The Atari 7800 graphics 😀😀😀

@jackdemus7890 4 жыл бұрын

How was it remastered?

@JenXdgaf 4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing Grandpa found a VHS in the back of the closet 🤣

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 жыл бұрын

New transfer was done direct from the original recording tape into a Panasonic AG-1980 SVHS machine and then video file captured at high-definition.

@RickinBaltimore 4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh yes the US version of what the UK had with Ceefax or Oracle teletext. The difference here is that there isn't any pages to browse unlike in the UK

@guspolly 4 жыл бұрын

Rick K. WFLD did transmit browsable pages during the day, but there were very few receivers. Teletext died in the US because it was sold as a subscription, and because it had little to no support from over-the-air broadcasters and relied on cable to be received. This service on WFLD was one of the very few OTA teletext services and it was basically experimental.

@timdailey2690 4 жыл бұрын

How long did 32 air this?

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 жыл бұрын

One year - September 1981 to September 1982.

@timdailey2690 4 жыл бұрын

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

@timharper73 4 жыл бұрын

Fuzz thanks for the info! My sketchy memory thought that this went to 1983...so this recording is even more special then as it's one of the final Nite-Owl airings!

@Davey7358 4 жыл бұрын

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Really???? I thought it was longer. Why so short? Wasn't one of the reasons; they wanted people to pay for it?

@dit076 3 жыл бұрын

@@Davey7358 I thought that it was on longer, too!