January 18, 2015: Bil Keane and The Family Circus

 

You'll find thirteen more ads today, all from September 1996, plus three more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of the Blade. The first two are by Chris Borrelli, a Monday, 9/16/96 story, "WJZE Shifting Its Format to Classic Rock," and a Monday, 9/23/96 story, "Today's a Day of Many Changes for Channel 13 News." There's also a Thursday, 9/26/96 story by Nara Schoenberg, "'Family Circus' Author Draws on His Sharp Wit." There's one addition to the Channel 24 gallery, a Saturday, 9/28/96 ad for Bil Keane's appearance on The Editors, which was mentioned in the Nara Schoenberg story above. Also see the first addition to the "Other Vintage Ads Gallery," below. There's also one addition to the PBS gallery, a Sunday, 9/15/96 ad for Ken Burns' presentation of The West, directed by Stephen Ives. There are three additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Wednesday, 9/11/96 ad for HGTV's The Good Life, followed by a Friday, 9/13/96 ad for E!'s Emmy Awards Fashion Review (Joan and Melissa Rivers) and a Friday, 9/20/96 ad for The Ultimate Fighting Chanpionship XI on Impulse Enteratinment. There are six additions to the ToledoVision 5 gallery, all for shows in first-run syndication, starting with a Tuesday, 9/17/96 ad for Strange Universe (Dana Andrews, Emmett Miller). Next is a Saturday, 9/21/96 ad for The Adventures of Sinbad, followed by a Monday, 9/23/96 ad for Viper, and a Tuesday, 9/24/96 ad for Highlander: The Series. There's also a Wednesday, 9/25/96 ad for the premiere of Baywatch Nights, "Terror of the Deep" and a Saturday, 9/28/96 ad for the pilot episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy. The last two ads today are additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery. The first one is a Friday, 9/20/96 ad for "Authors, Authors," presented by The Blade, arranged by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, and featuring Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane. The other one is a Tuesday, 9/24/96 full-page ad for Buckeye TeleSystem. October 1996 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...