April 11, 2013: Live From the Valentine Theatre

 

I added fifteen more ads today, all from April 1983, plus three more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. The first one is a Saturday, 4/2/83 story by Seymour Rothman, “How High School Basketball Got To Toledo Television.” Next is a Friday, 4/8/83 story by Tom Gearhart, “WGTE Opens 15th Buy-In With Goal of $275,000” and also includes an item about channel 24 adding Tom Cottle/Up Close to their morning lineup. There's also a Saturday, 4/23/83 story, again by Seymour Rothman, “Cable's Mud Hens Debut Wasn't Bad, Will Get Better.” There are no ads today for channels 11, 13 or 24, but there are seven additions to the PBS gallery for channel 30, including a Thursday, 4/7/83 ad for The MacNeil-Lehrer Report (“Draw Your Own Conclusions”). The other six are for The Great Channel 30 Buy-In. There's a Friday, 4/8/83 ad (“What's Going On Tonight?” underwritten by Toledo Trust, a Saturday, 4/9/83 ad (“Spend Saturday at an Auction”) underwritten by Dana, and a Wednesday, 4/13/83 ad (“Live From the Valentine Theatre”) underwritten by The Andersons. There's also a Thursday, 4/14/83 ad (“The Greatest Show in Town”) underwritten by LaChoy, a Friday, 4/15/83 ad (again, “Live From the Valentine Theatre”) underwritten by LOF, and a Saturday, 4/16/83 ad (“Saturday Night Toledo Alive”) underwritten by Champion. There's also an addition to the Channel 31 gallery, a Sunday, 4/24/83 TV Tab ad for it subscription TV. There are two additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Thursday 4/7/83 ad for The Cliff Erickson Show which was seen on channels 5A and 12B, and a Friday, 4/22/83 ad for Atlanta Braves Baseball on SuperStation WTBS. There are also two additions to the CableSystem Ch 5 gallery, both of them for the Thursday, 4/21/83 premiere of Toledo Mud Hens Baseball on The CableSystem, a Leisure Sports Supplement ad (Frank Gilhooley), and a Peach Section ad. There's one addition to the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 4/8/83 ad for Drake Chenault's History of Country Music on WTOD. Today's last two ads are additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Saturday, 4/2/83 ad for a Toledo Goaldiggers vs Peoria Prancers game, sponsored by Stroh's, and a Friday, 4/8/83 ad for The Blade's TV listings, probably in response to the TV Guide ads they were running. More April, and May 1983 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...