November 8, 2012: Getting Up For The Game

 

I added twenty more ads today, all from November, 1979 plus one Random Pages gallery addition with Wednesday, 11/7/79 stories from the Peach Section of The Blade, “Networks Keep Wary Eye On Cable, Video Recorders” and “About People, Events In World Of Radio-TV” which includes four other items. There are six additions to the Channel 11 gallery, all for movies on The Big Show. First is a Thursday, 11/1/79 ad for “Pittsburgh” (John Wayne) followed by a Monday, 11/5/79 ad for “How to Murder Your Wife.” Next is a Tuesday, 11/6/79 ad for “The French Connection” (Gene Hackman) and a Wednesday, 11/7/79 ad for “Tom Jones” (Albert Finney). There's also a Tuesday, 11/13/79 ad for “Tickle Me” and a Wednesday, 11/14/79 ad for “Follow That Dream” (both with Elvis Presley). There's another channel 11 ad in the News/Special Reports gallery, a Monday, 11/5/79 ad for a Scott Clark story on Toledo Eleven News, “Getting Up for the Game.” There's a similar TV Guide ad here. There are four other additions to that gallery as well, three for 13 Nightly News, The first two are for the Randy Price series of reports on “Toledo: Growing Up,” a Monday, 11/5/79 ad and a Wednesday, 11/7/79 ad. There's also a Monday, 11/12/79 ad for a Bill Clark series of reports, “Having Our Baby.” And there's one for 24 Nightly News, a Monday, 11/5/79 ad for a Larry Whatley “Eyewitness Close Up” report on Stress. There's also one addition to the Channel 13 News gallery, a Tuesday, 11/6/79 ad for their election coverage (Stan Odesky, Frank Venner, Randy Price, Phyllis Quail) and one addition to the Channel 13 gallery, a Saturday, 11/10/79 ad for two weekend movies, “The Good Guys and the Bad Guys” (Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy) and “A Big Hand for the Little Lady” (Henry Fonda). There are two additions to the Channel 24 gallery, including a Tuesday, 11/13/79 ad for The Benny Hill Show. There's a similar TV Guide ad here. There's also another 11/13/79 ad for a Ronald Reagan presidential campaign program. There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Thursday, 11/8/79 ad for a special offer on Showtime. There are three additions to the Radio Station Ads gallery, including a Thursday, 11/1/79 ad The Classical Top 50, a part of Fall Festival '79. Note the extra “the” in the ad. There's also a Tuesday, 11/6/79 ad for WSPD-AM's election coverage and a Wednesday, 11/14/79 ad for WLQR-FM's 90% Off Sale. The last of today's ads is an addition to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Monday, 11/11/79 ad for Holland House Moronburgers. More November, 1979 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...