June 4, 2013: More Local News

I added fourteen more ads today, all from June 1985 plus two more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Friday, 5/24/85 story by Bruce Vernyi, “New TV Station Aiming For September Debut,” about Channel 36. There's also a Tuesday, 5/28/85 story by Kenneth R. Clark, “The Wall-Size TV Screen Right Around The Corner.” There's one addition to the Channel 13 News gallery, a Friday, 5/3/85 ad for 13 News with Jerry Anderson and Jeannine Lauber and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. There's also one addition to the Channel 24 gallery, a Tuesday, 5/21/85 ad for a prime-time showing of The ABC Afterschool Special, “One Too Many.” There are four additions to the Channel 24 News gallery, all 24 News Tonight “More Local News” ads. The first one is a Wednesday, 5/8/85 ad, featuring Jane Aldrich, followed by a Friday, 5/10/85 ad, featuring Jim Tichy. There's also a Wednesday, 5/15/85 ad, featuring Matt Lundy, and a Thursday, 5/16/85 ad, featuring Dave Carlson. There are also four additions to the PBS gallery, all for programs on channel 30. First is a Thursday, 5/2/85 ad for Jean Shepherd's America, “Mosquitoes and Moon Pies.” There are two Wednesday, 5/8/85 ads, one for the premiere of Spaceflight, “Thunder in the Skies,” Normandy to Berlin: A War to Remember and an encore presentation of Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents, which the other ad is also for. Also included is a Peach Section story by Arthur Unger, “'Spaceflight' Totally True, Completely Fascinating” along with the Wednesday TV Highlights listings for Spaceflight and Normandy to Berlin. There's also a Thursday, 5/16/85 ad for Heart of the Dragon, “Remembering” and a Thursday, 5/23/85 ad for two movies, “Flamingo Road” (Joan Crawford) and “Summer Stock” (Judy Garland). The last three ads today are all additions to the Radio Station Ads gallery, two for WIOT-FM 104.7's Saturday and Sunday morning programming, a Tuesday, 5/28/85 ad for The Roots of Rock'n Roll, and a Wednesday, 5/29/85 ad for The Jazz Brunch. There's also another 5/29/85 ad, for WSPD's morning team, Jack Mitchell and Mary Beth Zolik. June 1985 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

June 2, 2013: Watch, Bid and Buy!

I added 21 more ads today, all from April 1985, plus six more Random Pages gallery additions from The Blade. The first one is a Friday, 4/5/85 Peach Section story by Dave Hackenberg, “Archbold's WHFD Agrees To broadcast Mud Hens,” a follow-up to this 3/21/85 story. Next is a Sunday, 4/7/85 Entertainment Section story from the Dallas Times Herald, “Bugs Bunny Rescued By Audience Demand.” The other four are all from the Peach Section, starting with a Wednesday, 4/10/85 story, “St. Eligius's Loudspeaker Is Home To 'In' Jokes.” There are two Thursday, 4/11/85 stories, “Northwest Ohio Oil Wells Subject of Ch. 57 Shows” and “Ch. 30 Buy-In Starts Next Week.” There's also a Friday, 4/12/85 AP story, “WTBS Signs Broadcast Pact For College Football,” and a Saturday, 4/20/85 story by Seymour Rothman, “New Boys On The Block Are Really On The Block,” about Tigers announcers Jim Northrup and Bill Freehan (PASS) and George Kell and Al Kaline (WDIV). There are no ads today for channels 11, 13 and 24, but there are eleven for channel 30, in the PBS gallery. There's a Tuesday, 4/9/85 ad for Frontline, “Crisis in Central America” and ten more for the 17th Annual Great Channel 30 Buy-In, as WGTE was celebrating their 25th anniversary. The first one is a Tuesday, 4/16/85 ad. Next is a Thursday, 4/18/85 ad (LaChoy), followed by a Friday, 4/19/85 ad (O-I). There's also a Saturday, 4/20/85 ad (The CableSystem / Dana) and a Sunday, 4/21/85 ad (The Video Connection / O-C Fiberglas). Next is a Tuesday, 4/23/85 ad (Sheller-Globe), a Wednesday, 4/24/85 ad (Toledo Trust), a Thursday, 4/25/85 ad (Lauerer-Markin-Gibbs) and a Friday, 4/26/85 ad (LOF). The last one is a Saturday, 4/27/85 ad (AP / Champion). There's one addition to the CableSystem Channel 5 gallery, a Sunday, 4/7/85 ad for 125 Tigers games on The CableSystem's Channel 5A, both WDIV and PASS telecasts. The ad also mentions that The CableSsytem is now carrying VH-1 (instead of WDIV-TV 4) and The Weather Channel, on a part-time basis. There's also one addition to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, two Sunday, 4/7/85 TV Tab ads for The Nashville Network, one for Play it Again, Nashville, Video Country, and Country Notes (Merle Haggard, Janie Fricke) and the other one for The Grand Ole Opry, Live (Loretta Lynn, Minnie Pearl). The other seven ads today are all additions to the Radio Station Ads gallery, five of them for WCWA-AM 1230. There's a Monday, 4/1/85 ad (Sophisticated Ladies), a Wednesday, 4/3/85 ad (Before You Call It a Day...) and a Monday, 4/8/85 ad (The World's Best Sports Coverage). Next is a Tuesday, 4/23/85 ad (Dan Rather Reports), followed by a Tuesday, 4/30/85 ad (Great Composers). There's also a Friday, 4/26/85 ad for WOHO-AM 1470 (Take the Radio Ear Test) and a Sunday, 4/28/85 ad for WIOT-FM 104.7 (Free Vacation For Two). May 1985 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

May 30, 2013: Swing Down Memory Lane

I added fourteen more ads today, all from March 1985, plus four more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. The first one is a Tuesday, 3/5/85 story, “Sports Time Sets Operations End,” followed by a Thursday, 3/7/85 story, “Movies, Specials Slated For WGTE's Festival '85.” Next is a Thursday, 3/21/85 story, “Mud Hens Unlikely To Get Radio Contract For Season.” I'll post a follow-up story to this one next time. There's also a Wednesday, 3/27/85 story, “CableSystem To Carry 125 Detroit Tigers Games.” The first and last stories posted today mention the start of the CableSystem's carraige of PASS and the last one indicates when they began carrying Video Hits One (VH-1) and the Weather Channel. There are no ads today for channels 11 and 13 and there's just one addition to the Channel 24 gallery, a Friday, 3/29/85 ad for the 1985 Easter Seal Telethon, hosted by Paula and Paul W. Smith. There are nine additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30, most of them for their Festival '85 (TV Worth Paying For) programming. There's a Wednesday, 3/1/85 ad for Great Moments With National Geographic, and a Friday, 3/15/85 ad for Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser, “An Investment Primer II.” Next is a Saturday, 3/16/85 ad for “Country Western Favorites,” Legends of Country Music, “The Far Country” and Charlie Pride at Devil's Lake, followed by a Tuesday, 3/19/85 ad for “The Benny Goodman Story” (Swing Down Memory Lane). There's also a Wednesday, 3/20/85 ad for Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music, hosted by Mary Martin, and two Thursday, 3/21/85 ads, the first one for The Living Planet, “The Sky Above” and the second one for Great Performances, “Judy Garland: The Concert Years.” There's a Tuesday, 3/26/85 ad as well, for an Issues Ohio Special Report, “The Ohio Savings and Loan Crisis,” and the last channel 30 ad today is a Wednesday, 3/27/85 ad, thanking viewers for their supports of the Festival '85 membership drive. There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Sunday, 3/30/85 full-page TV Tab ad for their free preview weekend for Easter Seals, of the Disney Channel, Showtime and the Movie Channel. There's also one addition to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, it's another 3/30/85 TV Tab ad, for Radio City Music Hall Welcomes the Nashville Network (Lacy J. Dalton, Ricky Skaggs, Ray Charles, Exile, George Jones, Mickey Gilley). There's one addition to the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 3/29/85 ad for the NCAA Basketball Playoffs on WCWA-AM 1230. Today's last ad is an addition to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Friday, 3/22/85 ad for Tony Packo's Cafe, now open on Sundays. April 1985 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

May 28, 2013: Diet Riot

I added twelve more ads today, all from February 1985, plus two more Random Pages gallery additions. There's a Thursday, 2/21/85 Blade Peach Section story by Hank Harvey, “WBGU Show Helps Area Farmers Win 'Crop Game'” and a Sunday, 2/24/84 Blade front-page AP story, “Ok, All Together—Who Was That Masked Man?” which includes a picture of Clayton Moore. This was a follow-up to this story. There are two additions to the Channel 13 News gallery, a Friday, 2/8/85 ad for sportscasters Neil Hartman, Frank Gilhooley and Dan Saevig, and a Sunday, 2/10/84 ad for “The Team to Watch,” Jerry Anderson, Jeannine Lauber, Stan Stachak and Neil Hartman. There are also three additions to the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, all for 13 News stories, a Monday, 2/4/85 ad for a Jim Rudes series of “Diet Riot” reports, a Monday, 2/11/85 ad for a Diane Larson series of “Stranger Danger” reports with Officer Charlie Beck, and a Monday, 2/25/85 ad for a Gordon Ward series of reports on farming (“Growing Pains”). There's one addition to the the Channel 24 gallery, a Thursday, 2/28/85 ad for a local Black History Month special, A Tribute to a King, which featured Rev. Floyd Rose's portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There's also one addition to the Channel 24 News gallery, a Friday, 2/22/85 ad for 24 News Tonight and ABC News World News Tonight (Jane Aldrich, Matt Lundy, Dave Carlson, Jim Tichy, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings). There are two additions to the PBS gallery, a Wednesday, 2/6/85 ad for Tony Brown's Journal, “Thank God” and a Wednesday, 2/27/85 ad for Save Your Heart and My Heart, Your Heart (Jim Lehrer). There's one addition to the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 2/22/85 ad for WIOT's 6th Annual FM 104 Cabin Fever Sale. There are three additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, including a Sunday, 2/10/85 half-page ad for “Toledo Alight.” the campaign to light the Anthony Wayne and Cherry Street bridges in Toledo. Next is a Sunday, 2/10/85 full-page ad for the Lucas County Recreation Center, “The Place to Be.” Today's last ad is a Friday, 2/15/85 ad for the 28th Annual Auto-Rama at the Toledo Sports Arena, featuring an appearance by General Hospital's Steve Bond. March 1985 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

May 26, 2013: The Judge and Louie are Moving

I added ten more ads today, from December 1984 and January 1985, plus three more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Tuesday, 12/4/84 story, “Toledo Television Stations Losing Key Personalities,” about Diane Larson, John Gillespie and Terry Thill. Next is a Friday, 1/18/85 story, “Lone Ranger Swaps Shades For His Mask” which includes an AP photo of Clayton Moore. There are also two Tuesday, 1/22/85 stories, “Jane Aldrich Gets Anchor Position At Channel 24” which also includes other items, and “Channel 30 Starts Cinema.” There's also There are two additions to the Channel 13 gallery, including a Tuesday, 1/8/85 ad for The People's Court and Taxi (the two shows swapped time slots). There's also a Wednesday, 1/9/85 TV13 ad for The Jefferson Awards. There's one addition to the Channel 24 News gallery, a Monday, 1/21/85 ad for new anchor, Jane Aldrich. There are five additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30, including three more Winter Festival ads. There's a Tuesday, 12/4/84 ad for Glen Miller: A Moonlight Serenade, a Friday, 12/7/84 ad for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and a Saturday, 12/8/84 ad for five movies (Classic Cagney...Unforgettable Bogie). The films shown were “Captains of the Clouds,” “Public Enemy,” “Angels with Dirty Faces,” “The Maltese Falcon” and “Chain Lightning.” There's also a Tuesday, 1/1/85 ad for Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents, narrated by James Stewart. There's also a Wednesday, 1/16/85 ad for In Search of Excellence (Why are the Golden Arches Always in the Black?). There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Sunday, 12/9/84 ad for About Your Health, “Saving the Blue Babies” on Community Cablevision Channel 10-B. Today's last ad is an addition to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Friday, 1/18/85 ad (Your Blade Subscription brings the World of Television Information Into Your Home), similar the these two ads. February1984 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...