May 21, 2012: Help Wanted

I added fifteen more ads today, from March and April 1975, plus nine more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Monday, 3/24/75 story by Norman Dresser, “Don Wolfe Speaking Weeknights on Radio” and a Tuesday, 3/25/75 AP story, “NBC Soap Opera To Be Stretched,” about Days of Our Lives. There are six more stories by Norman Dresser, a Thursday, 3/27/75 story, “Program Director Named at WGTE-TV, about Margaret Emerson, a Monday, 3/31/75 story, “WJR Disk Jockeys To Switch Times,” about Jimmy Launce, Marc Avery and Warren Pierce, and two Tuesday, 4/1/75 stories “Ch. 30 To Show 18 Bergman Movies” and “Does More TV News Add Up To Good News?” Next is a Thursday, 4/3/75 story, “Toledo Viewers Follow National Trend” followed by a Monday, 4/7/75 story, “Buckeye Cablevision To Get Service Award.” There's also a Saturday, 4/12/75 picture of Annette Funicello, promoting the returm of The Mickey Mouse Club to channel 13, and a Thursday, 4/17/75 story, “Street Fair To Mark Ch. 30 Auction Display.” There's one ad in the Channel 11 gallery, a Thursday, 4/25/75 ad for Family Affair. There's another one in the Channel 11 News gallery, a Friday, 4/11/75 ad, proclaiming ratings dominance for Toledo Eleven News. There are two in the Channel 13 gallery, a Monday, 4/14/75 ad for The Mickey Mouse Club and a Thursday, 4/17/75 ad for NBC's Bob Hope on Campus, a special sponsored by Sears. There are two in the Channel 24 gallery, a Wednesday, 3/26/75 ad for Sammy (Sammy Davis, Jr. and his father) and a Monday, 4/14/75 ad for ABC Theater “I Will Fight No More Forever” (Ned Romero). There are five WGTE-TV 30 ads in the PBS gallery including a Friday, 3/21/75 ad for Wall Street Week (Louis Rukeyser). There are two more for Your Children Your Schools, a Wednesday, 3/26/75 ad for “Sports! What's the Score?” and a Wednesday, 4/2/75 ad for “Discipline: Who's Responsible?” There's a Friday, 4/4/75 ad for “Wild Strawberries” on The Ingmar Bergman Film Festival and a Wednesday, 4/9/75 ad for the PBS special, Solar Energy. There's one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 4/18/75 ad for The Bob Kelly Morning Show on WCWA.

There are three more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 3/27/75 ad for Ohio Bell's Candlestick phone, a Monday, 4/7/75 ad for Winegard Antennas and Alliance Rotors at eight Toledo area dealers, and a Saturday, 4/19/75 ad for burglar alarms at TAS Electronics. The ad said, “Protect Your CB (or 8 track or anything valuable).”

More 1975 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

May 18, 2012: Festival 75

I added 18 more ads today, from February and March, 1975 plus four more Random Pages gallery additions, all from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Wednesday, 2/26/75 AP story, “Cher Banned in Time Slot As 'Too Mature'” and five more stories by Norman Dresser, a Friday, 2/28/75 story, “WSPD Radio Plans Juvenile Series,” about Juvenile Justice: A Time for Change, three Thursday, 3/13/75 stories, “Frank Blair To Make Final Newscast,” “Ch. 24 To Carry Ohio Lottery Show” and “Promotions Reported By Ch. 13 and Ch. 11,” about Larry Whatley and Marc Stover, and a Wednesday, 3/19/75 story, “Ch. 30 Begins Series On Schools,” about Your Children, Your Schools, a five-part series. There's an ad for the first part, below. There's one ad in the Channel 11 gallery, a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for a Bowling Green vs. Central Michigan basketball game. There are three in the Channel 24 gallery, the first one, a Thursday, 3/6/75 ad for ABC Theater, “Love Among the Ruins” (Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier) and two for the weekly Thursday night Ohio Lottery show, a 3/13/75 ad (for the first show seen in Toledo, see related story here) and a 3/20/75 ad. There are seven channel 30 ads in the PBS gallery, several for their Festival 75 programming. There's a Wednesday, 3/5/75 ad, and a Friday, 3/7/75 ad for The 1975 Ski Jumping Championships, Washington Week in Review, Wall Street Week, Masterpiece Theatre, and Profile in Music: Beverly Sills. Next is a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for Big Band Cavalcade, Lowell Thomas Remembers, and Of Pure Blood and a Saturday, 3/15/75 ad for The Grover Monster—Jean Marsh Cartoon Special, Tom T. Hall: The Story Teller, An Hour with Jaon Baez and Austin City Limits with Willie Nelson. There's also a Thursday 3/13/75 ad for Soundstage with the Pointer Sisters, a Sunday, 3/16/75 ad for The Romagnoli's Table (Franco and Margaret Romagnoli) and a Wednesday, 3/19/75 ad for the premiere of the channel 30 series, Your Children Your Schools, “The Multi-Unit School: What's It All About?” There are four ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, two for WTUU-AM 1520 coverage of AAA High School Basketball games, a Thursday, 2/27/75 ad for sectional finals and a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for district finals. Teams playing included Macomber, St. John's, Clay, Whitmer, Scott, Rogers, Sylvania and DeVilbiss. There's also a Thursday, 3/6/75 ad for a district finals game on WKLR-FM 99.9 with Scott playing Clay, and a Friday, 3/7/75 ad for Green Up Tips on WCWA-AM 1230, with Art and Shirl Landseadel, formely on WSPD. There are three more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 3/6/75 ad for Kroma Antenna Service, a Saturday, 3/8/75 ad for Pappy Parker famous fried chicken at the Roy Rogers Family Restaurant in Bowling Green, and a Tuesday, 3/11/75 ad for Tab and Fresca, in 32 oz. Returnables. I also added another ad to the AutoPilot Companion gallery, a Sunday, 9/12/93 ad for the Sequest DSV series premiere, on NBC. It will be the subject of next Wednesday's (May 23, 2012) AutoPilot podcast. More 1975 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

May 16, 2012: Star Trekking at BGSU

Today I added sixteen more ads from February, 1975 plus five more Random Pages gallery additions, four from Peach Sections, and one from a Sunday Entertainment-Leisure Section, of The Blade. There's a Tuesday, 2/11/75 story by Norman Dresser, “WSPD-TV Names News Director,” about Richard Steuber replacing Bill Peterson, and two Thursday, 2/20/75 stories, again by Dresser, “Geographic Specials To Switch To PBS” and “Michigan Time Shift Upsets TV Schedules.” There's also a 2/20/75 AP story, “CBS To Carry Stock Car Races” and a Monday, 2/24/75 story, “Ch. 30 Campaign Gets Under Way.” There's also a Sunday, 2/23/75 story, on the front page of the Entertainment-Leisure Section, by David Shutt, “Star Trekking,” a story that answers the question, What's the most popular activity at Bowling Green State University from 6 to 7 p.m., Monday to Saturday? (about students at BGSU watching Star Trek on Detroit's channel 50). There's a larger, easier-to-read version here. There are two in the Channel 11 gallery, a Sunday, 2/16/75 ad for the series premiere of Cher, on CBS (Tatum O'Neal, Wayne Rogers, Raquel Welch), and a Tuesday, 2/18/75 ad for four movies on The Big Show, “Diamond Head” (Charlton Heston), “Walk, Don't Run” (Cary Grant), “Stage Door” (Katharine Hepburn), and “How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life” (Dean Martin). There are four more “Straight from the newsroom” ads in the Channel 11 News gallery, including a Monday, 2/10/75 “Dear Newsroom” ad (also includes Family Affair and The Price is Right). There's also a Thursday, 2/20/75 ad, a Friday, 2/21/75 ad (Orris Tabner) and a Monday, 2/25/75 ad (Orris Tabner, Joe Ashton, Jeff Heitz). There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Wednesday, 2/26/75 ad for a series of reports by Linda Brown and Mel Martin, “Toledo's $1,000,000 Habit.” There are also three channel 13 ads in that gallery for The Venner-Ward Report, a Monday 2/10/75 ad for a seies of Chase Clements reports on Toledo's new paramedics, a Monday 2/17/75 ad for a series of reports on rape, by Elaine Hughes, and a Monday 2/24/75 ad for a series of reports on heart attacks, by John Saunders. There's also one in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Tuesday, 2/18/75 ad featuring eighteen TV-13 News personalities. There's one more in the Channel 13 gallery, a Friday, 2/7/75 ad for The Phil Donahue Show. There are two ads in the Channel 24 gallery, a Tuesday, 2/11/75 ad for Burt Bacharach and Associates (Sammy Davis, Jr., Vicki Carr, Anthony Newly), and a Saturday, 2/22/75 ad for Big Time Wrestling. There's one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 2/7/75 ad for a Grand Funk concert at the Toledo Sports Arena, presented by WIOT-FM 104.7, and there's one in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 2/20/75 ad for Toledo Trust, “Everybody's Bank Wants YOU.” More 1975 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

May 14, 2012: Straight from the Newsroom

I added 16 more ads today, from January and February, 1975, plus eight more Random Pages gallery additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade.There's a Wednesday, 1/8/75 story by Norman Dresser, “June Miller Quits Ch. 13 News Show” and a Friday, 1/17/75 story, “Storer, Benny To Be Honored,” about George B, Storer and Jack Benny. Next are three more Norman Dresser stories, a Monday, 1/20/75 story, “Blake Shines as 'Baretta' Star,” about Robert Blake, a Tuesday, 1/21/75 story, “Ch. 11 Inaugurates 'Newsroom' Format” and a Thursday, 1/23/75 story, “Ch. 13 Newsman Gets Post In San Diego,” about Bill Peterson. There's also a Thursday, 1/23/75 story, “Ch. 24 Refuses to Carry Show, 'Hot l Baltimore'” and five Tuesday, 2/4/75 stories, again by Norman Dresser, “Toledo Outlets Reject Lottery Telecasts,” “'Monitor' Leaves Air To End Era in Radio,” “'The Doctor Speaks' Gets New Air Time,” “Channel 30 Names Production Manager” and “Dean Miller Resigns As Ch. 4 Newsman.” The last one is a Wednesday, 2/5/75 story, “Kahle Quits Channel 24,” about Brian Kahle going to Los Angeles. There are two additional ads in the Channel 11 gallery, a Saturday, 1/25/75 ad for a Toledo vs. Miami basketball game and a Friday, 2/7/75 ad for the premiere of the short lived Khan!, “A Mask of Deceit” (Khigh Dhiegh). There are four more “Straight From the Newroom” ads in the Channel 11 News gallery, a Monday, 1/20/75 ad (Orris Tabner, Jeff Heitz, Joe Ashton), a Tuesday, 1/21/75 ad, a Wednesday, 1/22/75 ad, and a Thursday, 1/23/75 ad, asking viewers to tell them why they like the new format. There's one ad in the Channel 13 gallery, a Tuesday, 2/4/75 ad for The Merv Griffin Show. There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Thursday, 1/16/75 ad and a Tuesday, 1/21/75 ad, in response to channel 11's “Straight from the Newsroom” format. There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Monday, 2/3/75 ad for the Jim Rudes series of reports, “The Con Man Cometh,” on The Venner-Ward Report. There are three channel 30 ads in the PBS gallery, two Thursday, 1/9/75 ads, the first one for Consumer Survival Kit and the second one for their coverage if the 81^st. Meeting of the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce, and a Wednesday, 1/15/75 ad for The Quarterly Report: State of the Union/'75. There's one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Wednesday, 1/29/75 ad for WIOT Presents Midnight Movies at the Maumee Indoor Theatre and other area theatres, showing The Beatles' “Magical Mystery Tour.” There are two in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Friday, 1/31/75 ad for stereo service at the House of Tapes, and a Thursday, 2/8/75 ad for The Anderson's, thanking those who helped following the 1/29/75 grain elevator fire in Maumee. More 1975 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...

May 11, 2012

Due to technical difficuties, the regularly scheduled update will not happen today. My PC's motherboard failed yesterday. If all goes well, regular updates should resume on Monday.

-- Mike