There are twelve more ads today, from September 8-17, 1999 editions of The Blade, plus one Random Pages gallery addition
, a Monday, 9/13/99 Peach Section column by Chris Borrelli, "Radio Ratings Show Few Changes" which also includes an item about WTVG-TV 13 and an item on
how the Viacom takeover of CBS affects Toledo. There are seven additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Wedne
sday, 9/8/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple II," on TMC. Next is a Friday, 9/10/99 ad, also in the Peach Section, for Cartoon
Cartoon Fridays on Cartoon Network, followed by a 9/10/99 full-page Peach Section ad (Buckeye CableSystem! The Ultimate Home Improvement! The Easiest, Most Entertaining Hom
e Renovation.) There's also a Saturday, 9/11/99 ad, in the 
Peach Section, for "Antz" on HBO, 
and a Sunday, 9/12/99 full-page TV Week ad, for "P.T. Barnum" on A&E, Restore America on HGTV, and Buckeye's installation special
which included gift certificate from The Andersons. And there's a 
Thursday, 9/16/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for The Real McCoys on TNN, and a Friday, 9/17/99 ad for High School Football on the Community Channel. That week's game featured Perrysburg at Rossford. There are four additions to the ToledoVision 5 gallery, starting with three
Sunday, 9/12/99 TV Week ads, the first ad for three shows on the WB, 7th Heaven, "There Goes the Bride," Felicity, "Felicity Was Here," and For Your Love, "The Art of War." The second ad was another "TV5 Millennium Moment" ad, this one about the
Fassett Street Bridge. The ad included a picture of TV5 host Theresa Pollick. There's also a full-page back cover ad for "Home Style Television" shows on TV5, Everyday Living with Martha 
Stewart, Let's Eat Toledo, Ron Hazelton's House Calls, Living Better with Carrie Wyatt, Rebecca's Garden, and B. Smith with Style. And there's a Monday, 9/13/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for more Indians and Reds baseball games. Today's last ad is an addition to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Wednesday
, 9/8/99 ad, in the Sports Section, for Sign Pro (Field Your Way To The Field Of Mud Hens!). All of today's "TV Week" ads were scanned from an actual newspaper "TV Week" in my collection. More ads, from the September 18-24, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
February 12, 2017: A TV5 Millennium Moment
There are eleven more ads today, from September 4-8, 1999 editions of The Blade, plus two Random Pages gallery additions
. The first one is a Monday, 9/6/99 Peach Section story by Chris Borrelli, "N
FL TV Rules Border on the Absurd." The other one is a Wednesday, 9/8/99 front page story by Lawrie Mifflin, "Viacom to Acquire CBS for $37 
Billion." There are six additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Saturday, 9/4/99 ad, in the Sports
Section, for ESPN Game Plan on Impulse Entertainment. Next 
are two 9/4/99 Peach Section ads, the first ad for "P.U.N.K.S." on Disney Channel, the second ad for Sci-Fi Channel's Three
Dog Night of "Atomic Dog," "The Fury Within," and "Cujo." There's also a Sunday, 9/5/99 full-page TV Week ad for Chicago Cubs baseball games on WGN, "Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie," on TMC, "Star Wars" on TBS, 
and "Hamlet" on TNT. There's also a Monday, 9/6/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for Labor Day
Movies on TBS, including "Space Jam" (Michael Jordan) and "Back to the Future." And there's a Tuesday, 9/7/99 ad, also in the Peach Section, for A&E's Biography of Kurt Russell. There are three additions to 
the ToledoVision 5 gallery starting with a Saturday, 9/4/99 ad, in the Peach Section, one of two for their 10th Anniversary
(Get to Know Us Better!...Visit us on www.tv5toledo.com...Get the latest!), followed by a Sunday, 9/5/99 TV Week ad for 
three shows on The WB, 7th Heaven, "All Dogs Go to Heaven," Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Consequences," and Dawson's Creek, "Reunited." There's also another 9/5/99 TV Week ad, "A TV5 Millennium Moment" about 
the Toledo Museum of Art (TV 5 host, Teresa Pollick). The last two ads today are additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery. There's a Tuesday, 9/7/99 full-page ad for "Truth: The Anti-Drug," an "Office of National Drug Control Policy/Partnership for a Drug-Free Ohio and America" ad. It's followed by a Wednesday, 9/8/99 full-page ad for Gander Mountain's Toledo grand
opening (You're the kid. We're the candy store. Only with tents and lures and camo and stuff.) By the way, all of the "TV Week" ads today were scanned from an actual newspaper "TV Week" in my collection.
More September 1999 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
February 5, 2017: Don't Touch That 'dile!
You'll find eleven more ads today, from the August 28 - September 3, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine and from August 31 and September 1 & 2, 1999 editions of The 
Blade, plus one Random Pages gallery addition, a Tuesday, 8/31/99-Wednesday, 9/1/99 TV Guide Magazine page with some 1-2:05 am listings and
a "close-up on a classic" for the Mary Tyler Moore episode, "Chuckles Bites the Dust." There's one addition, from TV Guide, to the Ohio & W. Pennsylvania gallery, a Monday, 8/31/99 full-page ad 
for Divorce Court on WOHL-TV 25 in Lima. There are four additions, from The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Tuesday, 8/31/99 ad, in the Peach
Section, for Bravo Profiles: Grace Kelly. Next is a Wednesday, 9/1/99 full-page ad, on page 26, for Buckeye Express (How fast is Buckeye Express High-Speed Internet Service?
It's Blazing!) There's also a 9/1/99 Peach Section ad, for Powerpuff Girls, on 
Cartoon Network, followed by a Thursday, 9/2/99 ad, also in the Peach Section, for Alice on TNN. There are four additions, from TV Guide, to
the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, too, starting with a Sunday, 8/29/99 full-page ad for "Croc Week" with 
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, on Animal Planet (Don't Touch That 'dile!) There's another 8/29/99 full-page ad for the Showtime Original Picture, "Strange Justice." followed by one more 8/29/99 full-page ad, for the 
HBO special, Cher: Live in Concert. There's also
a Thursday, 9/2/99 ad, for the Turner Classic Movies 44-movie festival, Hollywood Heavyweights, featuring "Somebody Up There Likes Me" and "Gentleman Jim." The ad's picture was of Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire from "Rocky." The last two ads today are additions to 
the Other Vintage ads gallery. The first one, from TV
Guide is a two-page color ad for Dish Network. There's a larger version, here. It's followed by a Thursday, 9/2/99 ad, from The Blade, announcing the 12th annual Blade Corporate Spelling Bee at the Radisson Hotel. I seem to be missing a couple of TV Guides from my collection (September 4-9 and 11-17, 1999 issues) so more ads, only from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
January 29, 2017: Now on 13 ABC
There are eight more ads today, from the August 21-27, 
1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine and from August 24, 26 & 27, 1999 editions of The Blade, plus 
one Random Pages gallery addition, a Thursday, 8/26/99 TV Guide page with some 8-8:30 pm listings and a "close-up" for the premiere of WWF Smackdown! on UPN. There's one addition, from The Blade, to the Channel 13 gallery, a Monday, 8/24/99 ad, in the Peach 
Section, for Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, "Now on 13 ABC." There's also one addition, from TV Guide, to the NBC gallery, a Saturday, 8/21/99 ad for the movie, "The Bridges of
Madison County" (Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep). There are three additions, from The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery. The first
one is a Thursday, 8/26/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for R.E.M.: This Way Up,
on Bravo. The second one is a Friday, 8/27/99 half-page ad, on the Weather 
Page, for the HBO special, Cher: Live in Concert. There's also another 8/27/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for the movie, "Private Parts," on USA (Howard Stern), The rest of today's
ads are additions, from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery. There's a full-page color ad for the VH1 movie, "Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol," followed by a Saturday, 8/21/99 full-page ad for the HBO original movie, "Introducing Dorohty Dandridge" (Halle Berry). Today'
s last ad is a Sunday, 8/22/99 ad for E! True Hollywood Story, "Bewitched" (Elizabeth Montgomery). More ads, from the August 26 - September 3, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
January 15, 2017: Its Only Logical Home
There are ten more ads today, from the August 14-20 & 21-27 issues of TV Guide Magazine, and from August 16 & 18-20, 1999 editions of The Blade. There are two additions, in color, from TV Guide, to the PAX gallery, the first page of a four-page fold-out ad (...It's premiere week! PAX 2000...) followed by pages 2-4, for Destination Stardom, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Twice in a Lifetime, It's a Miracle, and Little Men. A larger version of the
second ad can be found here. There are also two 
additions, from Peach Sections in The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Thursday, 8/19/99 ad for Star Trek, with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, on Sci-Fi Channel (...its only
logical home...), and a Friday, 8/20/99 ad for Turner Classic Movies' Summer of Darkness. Next are two additions, also 
from Peach Sections in The Blade, to the ToledoVisio
n 5 gallery, both for their baseball coverage. There are two side-by-side Monday, 8/16/99 ads, for a Toledo Mud Hens game, against the Indianapolis Indians, and six Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds games. 
There's also a Wednesday, 8/18/99 ad, for the Mud Hens-Indians game (See the NEW Buckeye CableSystem Technology on Display...). The last 
three ads today are additions, from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery. There are two Monday, 8/16/99 ads for programs on Lifetime, the first ad for 
the series premiere of Beyond Chance, "Night Caller," hosted by Melissa Etheridge, followed by the second ad, for the movie, "The Price of a Broken Heart," with Laura Innes and Park Overall. There's also a full-page color ad for WWF SummerSlam, on pay-per-view (Jesse Ventura). More ads, from the August 21-27, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
January 8, 2017: A Space Odyssey Concludes
There are seven more ads today, from the August 7-13, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from August 10 and
11, 1999 editions of The Blade, plus two Random Pages gallery additions. The first one is a Sunday, 8/8/99 TV Guide page with some 9-10 pm listings and a close-up for Mystery Science Theater 3000's last first-run episode on Sci-Fi
("Danger Diabolik"). There's also a Monday. 8/9/99 Peach Section story by Chris 
Borrelli, "Ch. 24 Changes Have Staff Wary," in The Blade. There's one addition, from TV Guide, to the FOX gallery, a Thursday, 8/12/99 ad for The 1999 Teen Choice
Awards (Tonight, Teens Rule!). There are two additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery. There's
a Tuesday, 8/10/99 ad for "Legionnaire" on USA (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and a Wednesday, 8/12/99 ad for Tur
ner Classic Movies' 24-hour tribute to director Vincente Minnelli. There are three additions, from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery starting with a Sunday, 8/8/99 full-page ad for Live From Inside A Shark Cage, part of "Shark Week," on the
Discovery Channel. Next is another 8/8/99 ad, for E! True Hollywood Story
, "Alfred Hitchcock." There's also a Thursday, 8/12/99 full-page ad for Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 
Summer Games, on HBO. Today's last ad is an addition, from The Blade, to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Tuesday, 8/10/99 Food Town ad for the National Tractor Pulling Championships in Bowling Green (Roar into "Pulltown USA"). More ads, from the August 14-20, 1999 and August 21-27, 1999 issues of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
January 2, 2017: Happy 10th Anniversary, TV5
There are eight more ads today, from the August 7-13, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the Sunday, 8/8/99 edition of The Blade, and one Random Pages gallery addition, a Sunday, 8/8/99 TV Guide page with
some 8pm listings and two "close-ups," one for Live From a Shark Cage, part of shark week on the Discovery Channel, and one for programming related to Alfred Hitchcock's 100th birthday celebration. There's one addition, from The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Sunday, 8/8/99 full-page ad in the Living Sunday Section, for Buckeye Express high-speed internet service from
Buckeye CableSystem. There's also one addition, again from 
The Blade, to the ToledoVision 5 gallery, an 8/8/99 two-page ad, for TV5's 10th Anniversary. You can find a larger version, here. The next five are additions to Vintage Cable Ads gallery, all from TV
Guide, starting with a full-page color ad for the "Close, Closer, Closest Sweepstakes" contest, for Shark Week, on the 
Discovery Channel. It's followed by a Saturday, 8/7/99 full-page ad for the Fox Family Channel Original Movie, "Heaven's Fire." Next
is another 8/7/99 full-page ad, for the HBO comedy special, D.L. Hughley Going Home. There's also a Sunday, 8/8/99 full-page ad for two movies on TNT, "Dumb and Dumber" with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and 
"Mars Attacks!" with Jack Nicholson. There's also another 8/8/99 ad, for A&E's Biography of Michael Landon (He yearned for the ideal
family life. He found it only on TV.) Today's last ad, also from TV Guide, is an addition to the TBS gallery, a Sunday, 8/8/99 ad for the TBS Superstation presentation of "Vegas Vacation." More ads, from the August 7-13, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
December 27, 2016: Wait Until Dark to Bang the Drum Slowly
There are 17 additional ads today, from the July 31-August 6, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from July 31 and August 3-5, 1999 editions of The Bla
de. There's one addition, from TV Guide, to the FOX gallery, a Tuesday, 8/3/99 ad, on two pages, for Woodstock 99, with Sugar Ray, DMX, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Alanis Morissette (Only Fox can bring you the hottest concert of
the year!). There's also a larger version, here. Next are four additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, starting 
with two AMC ads, a Saturday, 7/31/99 ad for "Bang the Drum Slowly" with Robert De Niro, and a Tuesday, 8/3/99 ad for "Wait Until Dark"
with Audrey Hepburn. Next is a Wednesday, 8/4/99 ad for Ripley's Believe it or Not on 
Fox Family Channel, followed by a Thursday, 8/5/99 ad for WCW Thunder on TBS. The rest of today's ads are additions, from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, starting
with a Sunday, 8/1/99 ad for an FX marathon of all thirteen 
episodes of The Ben Stiller Show. Next is a 8/1/99 full-page ad for The Animal Planet/USDAA Grand Prix of Dog Agility Championships, followed by 
two more 8/1/99 ads, an E! ad for E! True Hollywood Story, "The Monkees," and a TLC ad for Ultimate Universe: The Human Body (Your fingernails will grow 84 feet 
in your lifetime.) There's 
also a Monday, 8/2/99 full-page ad for a week's worth of History's Mysteries on the History Channel, followed by five more ads, in one image, fo
r E! True Hollywood Story, for "Batman Unmasked: Adam West," "The Brady Bunch," "Diff'rent Strokes," "Three's Company," and "Family Affair: Anissa 
Jones." Next is another 8/2/99 ad, for Ultimate Universe: The Human Body (Your hair will grow 590 miles in your lifetime.),
followed by today's last addition, a Friday, 8/6/99 ad for Turner Classic Movie's Summer of Darkness: A Film Noir Festival, featuring "Crack-Up," "Johnny Angel," and "Key Largo" (Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart). More ads, from the August 7-13, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
December 21, 2016: Millennium
You'll find sixteen additions today, from the December 25-31, 1999 and January 1-7, 2000 issues of TV Guide Magazine, and from the January 1, 2000 edition of The Blade. The first nine are from TV Gui
de, part of twelve additions to the Holiday Season Ads gallery, starting with a full-page color ad for HBO ('Twas the night
before Christmas...Happy Holidays!). Next is a Johnson+Johnson a
d, also in color, for The Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade, on ABC. It's followed by a Saturday, 12/25/99 ABC ad and TV Guide "Holiday close-up" for that same event. Next are three Friday, 12/31/99 "Millennium close-ups," one for MTV 2 Large, the cable channel's Y2K countdown show (The Backstreet Boys), one for Millennium 2000 
on PBS (Gwen Ifill), and one for ABC 2000 (Dick Clark). It's followed by three Friday, 12/31/99 
"Millennium" ads, a PBS ad for Millennium 2000 (Around the World, Around the Clock!), a full-page ad for ABC 2000 (24 
Hours. 7 Countries. 1 Network.), and a page-and-a-half CBS ad, for their New Year's Eve line-up of Late Show with David Letterman, at 8:00, Grammy's Greatest Performances
, at 9:00, and America's Millennium, at 10:00 (Will Smith). You can also 
find a larger version of that ad, here. There's also a Saturday, 1/1/2000 TV Guide page with some 12:00-1:30 pm listings and a "holiday close-up" for The Tournament of Roses Parade on ABC, CBS, and NBC. There are also three additions from The Blade's 1/1/2000 edition, the front page (2000, We're still here. Happy New Year, everyone), followed by a full-page Business Section ad for Team Toledo (2000 Toledo, a millennium 
community...) and two Peach Section ads. The first one is an HGTV ad for The 2000
Tournament of Roses Parde. The second one is a TBS ad for the New Year's
Day Comedy Cure movie marathon, featuring 
"City Slickers," with Billy Crystal and Jack Palance. There are also four additions, all from TV Guide, to the Football Bowl Game Ads gallery starting with a full-page color ad for Ford's Taurus
Touchdown Drive Sweepstakes. The Bowl Championship Series consisted of The Rose Bowl, The Orange Bowl, The Fiesta Bowl, and The 
Sugar Bowl, all on ABC. The ad ended with the line, "The more touchdowns scored - the more Ford Taurus' given away!" Next is a Saturday, 12/25/99 full-page Jeep ad for The Aloha Bowl on ABC and The O'ah
u Bowl on ESPN. There's also a Saturday, 1/1/2000 full-page "sports close-up" with the New Year's Day Bowl Guide, followed by a 1/1/2000 full-page ad, for The Cotton Bowl, on Fox (Texas Longhorns vs. Arkansas Razorbacks). Happy Holidays, everbody! More ads, from the July 31-August 6, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...(after Christmas.)
December 17, 2016: Holiday Movies & Specials
There are nine more additions to the Holiday Season Ads gallery today, from the December 18-24, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from December 19, 20 & 24, 1999 editions of The Blade. The first two are from The Blade's Sunday
, 12/19/99 edition, a Living Sunday Section ad for Toledo Children's Hospital's "Make-A-Wish for the Millennium." on New Year's Eve, at The Pinnacle." It's followed by a TV Week cover for "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart and Donna Reed, broadcast on Christmas Eve, on NBC. I scanned this from an actu
al newspaper, not from the online archives. There's a larger version, here. The next two are TV Guide listing pages. There are two Sunday, 12/19/99 pages which include some 6:30 - 8:00
pm listings and two "close-ups," one for The Simpsons, "Gift of the Magi." on Fox, and one for A&E's Biography, 
"The Unknown Jesus." You can find a larger version of those two pages, here. Next is a Monday, 12/20/99 page, with some 10:00-11:00 pm listings and a "close-up" for Ally McBeal, "Blue 
Christmas" (Calista Flockhart). The rest of today's ads are from pages of The Blade. There's a Monday, 12/20/99 full-page ad for "1st Night Toledo Together 2000" (Don't drop the ball this New Year's Eve). Next is a Monday, 12/
20/99 Peach Section column by Chris Borrelli, "For Some, Christmas is 30 Days 
Long," about Holiday music on Toledo radio stations. There's also a Friday, 12/24/99 ad for Food Town (Open Christmas Eve until 6 PM. Closed Christmas day. Season's Greetings from all your friends at Food Town). Next is a 12/24/99 full-page ad. It's the annual "from our family to yours" ad with The Blade's employees
names. The last ad today is another 12/24/99 full-page ad with TV5's "Holiday Movies & Specials," Christmas From Quebec, Christmas in Toledo, The Eyes of Christmas "Scrooge", Christmas Service from Washington Cathedral, "Scrooge," Mi Gente, My People, David Sheehan's Holiday Movie Magic, Christmas with the Stars, Christmas From Hollywood, "The Christmas Box," and Great Moments of the 20th Century. More 1999 Holiday ads, from the December 25-31, 1999 and January 1-7, 2000 issues of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
December 13, 2016: 12 Days of Christmas on CBS
There are ten more additions today to the Holiday Season Ads gallery, six from the December 11-17, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and four from the December 15 & 16, 1999 editions of The Blade. The
first four are from TV Guide starting with a full-page color ad for greetings.com, followed by a Saturday, 12/11/99 full-page ad for Target Stars on Ice with Scot
t Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinski, Ekaterina Gorseeva, Ilia Kulik, part of "The 12 Days 
of Christmas on CBS!" Next is a Sunday, 12/12/99 ad for Christmas in Washington on TNT (98 Degrees, Jewel, 
Christina Aguilera, B.B. King), followed by a 12/12/99 full-page ad, for "A Season for Miracles," a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation on CBS. The next four are from The Blade, strating with a 
Wednesday, 12/15/99 ad in the Peach 
Section, for Katie Brown's Christmas Special on Lifetime. The next three are Thursday, 12/16/99 ads, a Peach Section ad for The 2nd Annual Nobel Concert for Peace, on Fox
Family Channel, followed by a Sports Section ad for Great Eastern Shopping Center (Holiday shopping without the hassle), and a Neighbors-Metro Section ad for Miracle Mile Sh
opping Center (Holiday shopping close to home). The last two ads today are from TV Guide, a Thursday, 12/16/99 full-page ad for The 2nd Annual Nobel Concert for Peace, on Fox Family Channel (Sting, Tina Turner), followed by a Friday, 12/17/99 ad, on two pages, for the Fox line-up of Olive, the Other Reindeer, 
The PJs, "How the Super Stole Christmas," and a repeat of That '70s Show, "The Best Christmas Ever" (A night of holiday magic and Laughs). There's also a larger version of that ad, here. More holiday ads, from the December 18-24, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
December 7, 2016: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Santa was Impressed with the Speed and Efficiency of Buckeye Express
You'll find eleven additions to the Holiday Season Ads gallery today,
from the December 4-10, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from December 7 & 8, 1999 editions of The Blade. The first one is a Tuesday, 12/7/99 ad from The Blade's Peach Section, for Kenny Loggins December, 
on TNN. The next two are Tuesday, 12/7/99 ads from TV Guide. The first ad is for Frosty the 
Snowman and Frosty Returns, on CBS. The second ad is for The Little Drummer Boy, Book II, on Fox Family Channel. It's followed by
a 12/7/99 TV Guide page with some 9-9:30 pm listings and a "Local Focus Holiday Close-up" for the Cornerstones Holiday Special 
on Channel 30. The next two are from The Blade's Wednesday, 12/8/99 edition. There's a Living Section full-page ad for Buckeye CableSystem's Millenium Celebration (An exciting offter to help ring in the new year!...First Night Toledo Together 2000). It's followed by a half-page Peach Section ad for Buckeye Express ('Twas the night before Christmas, and Santa was impressed...with the speed and efficiency of Buckeye Express!). The rest of today's ads are all from TV Guide
, starting with three more 
Wednesday, 12/8/99 ads. The first ad is for Martha 
Stewart's Home for the Holidays, on CBS. The second ad is for "The Christmas 
Gift" with John Denver and Jane Kaczmarek, on Fox Family Channel. The third ad is for "A Holiday Romance" with Naomi Judd, Gerald McRaney and Andy 
Griffith, on The CBS Wednesday Night Movie. There's also a Thursday, 12/9/99 ad for the Popular Christmas episode, "Fall to Your Knees," on The WB (Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope,
Tammy Lynn Michaels, Bryce Johnson), followed by today's last ad, a Friday, 12/10/99 ad for "Babes in Toyland," on Fox Family Channel (Keanu Reeves, Drew Barrymore). More holiday ads, from the December 11-17, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
December 5, 2016: Season's Eatings
There are twelve additions today to the Holiday Season Ads gallery, eleven from the December 4-10, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and one from the S
unday, December 5, 1999 edition of The Blade. The first four ads are from
TV Guide, starting with a Saturday, 12/4/99 ad, the first of three for the world premiere of TNT's "A Christmas Carol," with Patrick Stewart. The first ad is for a TNT/Mail Boxes Etc. contest where you could win a trip to London. Next is another 12/4/99 ad, for the CBS special, Amy Grant: A 
Christmas to Remember, on which Tony Bennett appeared. There's a Sunday, 12/5/99 ad for the one-hour animated special, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, on Fox Family Channel. It's followed by another 12/5/99 ad, for the 
ABC special, A Rosie Christmas. Also included is the TV Guide 
"holiday close-up." There's also a larger version, here. Today's only ad from The Blade is a Sunday, 12/5/99 full-page ad, in the Real Estate Section, for TNT's "A Christmas Carol," the second ad for that movie. It was sponsored locally by Promedica Health System, on Buckeye CableSystem. The rest
of today's ads are all from TV Guide. The next one is a 12/5/99 full-page ad for the 
Fox Family Channel world television premiere of "Richie Rich'$ Christmas Wish" with David Gallagher, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and Eugene Levy. It's 
followed by another 12/5/99 full-page ad, the third one for "A Christmas Carol" on TNT. There's also a 12/5/99 ad for the Sunday line-up on Food Network, Emeril Kicks Up the Holidays, From Martha's Holiday Kitchen, and Decadent 
Desserts with Jacques Torres (season's eatings!). There's one more Sunday, 12/5/99 ad, for the CBS holiday movie, "Santa & Pete" with Hume Cronyn and James Earl Jones. The last three ads
today are all Monday, 12/6/99 ads. The first ad is for Frosty's Winter Wonderland on Fox Family Channel. The second ad is for the Fox holiday special, CinderElmo with Keri Russell, sponsored by K-Mart. The third one is a full-page ad, for the CBS special, And
So This i
s Christmas, with Baby Face, Celine Dion, Harry Connick, Jr., Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, and Charlotte Church. More holiday ads, from the December 4-10, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 29, 2016: They're the Most Wonderful Times of the Year
You'll find sixteen additions today, to the Holiday Season Ads gallery, from the November 27 - December 3, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from November 27 & 28, 1999 editions of The Blade. The first two ads are from TV
Guide, a full-page color ad for upcoming holiday specials on CBS including Snowden's Christmas, And So This Is Christmas, The Snowden, Raggedy Ann & Andy Holiday, and Stars On Ice, fo
llowed by another full-page color ad, for Celebrity Dish: The Holidays, hosted by Mark McEwen, on Food Network. Next are two ads from The Blade's Saturday, 11/27/99
edition. The first ad is for Hatfield Oldsmobile-Honda's "Christmas in a Trunk" sale, followed by a half-page Peach Section ad for TNT's Sunday night holiday premieres, "The 
English Patient," "A Christmas Ca
rol," Christmas in Washington, "Evita," and One Love: The Bob Marley Tribute. There's also a Saturday, 11/27/99 TV Guide page with some 9:30-10:30 am listings and a "Local Focus Holiday Close-Up" for Toledo's Holiday Parade (Diane Larson). The next two are Sunday, 11/28/99 full-page ads from The Blade, a Kroger ad (Share the Spirit), followed by a Food-Town ad for the International Festival of Lights at Toledo's 
International Park. The res
t of today's ads are all from TV Guide, starting with a Sunday, 11/28/99 ad for "The Santa Clause" on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, followed by a Wednesday, 12/1/99 ad for Rudolph, the
Red-Nose Reindeer, part of "The 12 Days of Christmas on CBS!" The next two are 12/1/99 full-page ads for NBC specials, 
the
first ad, for Christmas in Rockefeller Center, the second ad for Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas.
The next three are for Fox Family Channel's "25 Days of Christmas," a Thursday, 12/2/99 ad for The Little Drummer Boy, followed 
by a 12/2/99 full-page ad, for the animated "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town." There's also a Friday, 12/3/99 ad for Rudolp
h's Shiny New Year. Today's last two ads are for CBS specials, a Friday, 12/3/99 ad, on two pages, for A Charlie Brown Christmas and Snowden's
Christmas (Two Great Gifts!), followed by another 12/3/99 ad, 
for The Nuttiest Nutcracker. There's also a larger version of the first ad, here. More holiday ads, from the December 4-10, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 22, 2016: Thanksgiving Helper
There are 11 additions today, all additions to the Thanksgiving gallery, from the November 20-26, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magaine and from The Blade's Nove
mber 24, 1999 Peach Section and Novemeber 25, 1999 Section A. The first one is from TV Guide, a Monday, 11/22/99 ad, on two pages for the CBS shows, The
King of Queens, "Roamin' Holiday, Ladies Man, "Thanks for Nothing," Everybody 
Loves Raymond, "No Thanks," and Becker, "Pain in the Aspirin." There's also a larger version, here. Next is a Wednesday, 11/24/99 Buckeye CableSystem ad from The Blade's Peach Section, for The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't, on Cartoon Network. The next two are full-page ads from Section A of The Blade's Thursday, 11/25/99 edition. The first ad is for Marshall Field's 'afterthanksgivingsale." The second ad is for 
Jacobson's "After Thanksgiving Clearance." The rest of today's ads and "pages" are from TV Guide
, starting with a Thursday, 11/25/99 page with some 7-8:05 am listings and a "holiday close-up"
for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, followed by NBC's ad for that parade, with pictures of hosts 
Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, and Al Roker. There's also another TV Guide page, with some 1-3pm listings and a close-up for the two NFL games that day (Bears vs. Lions on Fox and Dolphins vs. Cowboys on CBS). Following tha
t are four more Thursday, 11/25/99 "close-ups," for Shania Twain: Come On Over, on CBS, Friends, "The One Where Ross Got High," 
Frasier, "The Apparent Trap." and ER, "Great Expectations." The
next two are NBC ads. The first one is a two-page ad for Friends, "The One Where Ross Got High," Just Shoot Me, "First Date," Frasier, "The Apparent 
Trap," and Will and Grace, "Homo for the Holidays," on "The Biggest Thursday Ever." The second one is a full-page ad for the ER Thanksgiving episode, "Great Expectations." There's a larger version, here. There's also a Friday, 11/26/99 full-page NBC ad for the two-hour Providence Thanksgiving episode, "Thank You Providence." More 1999 Holiday ads, from the November 27-December 3, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 18, 2016: Entertaining America
The
re are nine more ads today, from the July 24-30, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from July 25, 26, 27, 29 & 30, 1999 editions of The Blade. All of today's ads are for shows on cable. There are five additions, from pages of The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Sunday, 7/25/99
"TV Week" ad for Chicago Cubs Baseball games ("Great Sports Action on WGN this Summer!"), followed by a Mo
nday, 7/26/99 Peach Section ad for VH-1's The 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll (Madonna). Next is a 
Tuesday, 7/27/99 ad, also from the Peach Section, for Vs. with Greg Proops, on Comedy Central. There's also a 
Thursday, 7/29/99 half-page ad, in the Peach Section, for Restore America, with Bob Vila, on HGTV. It was on 
The Blade's Weather Page. It's followed by a Friday, 7/30/99 ad, also in the Peach Section, for "Bringing Up Baby" with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, on AMC. The rest of tod
ay's ads are additions, from TV Guide Magazine, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, starting with a full-page color ad for The 100 Greatest Women of Rock 'n' Roll on VH-1. Next is a S
unday, 7/25/99 full-page ad for the Fox Family Channel original movie, "Don't Look Behind You" with Patrick Duffy and Pam Dawber. It's followed by another 7/25/99 full-page ad, for Showtime's "Bonanno: A
Godfather's Story," shown in two-parts. Today's last ad is one more Sunday, 7/25/99 ad, for the pilot episode of Millennium, with Lance Henriksen, on FX. 1999 Thanksgiving ads, from the November 20-26, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 14, 2016: Close-Up on a Classic
You'll find seven more ads today, from the July 17-23, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from July 17, 20 & 22, 
1999 editions of The Blade. There are also four additions to the Random Pages gallery, three from TV Guide, a "To Our Readers" page which announced some changes in the weekly magazine, a
Saturday, 7/17/99 full-page prime-time listings grid, and a Monday, 7/19/99 page with some 6-8 pm listings and a "close-up on a classic" box for the 
Seinfeld episode, "The Merv Griffin Show." There's also a Monday, 7/19/99 Peach Section story by Chris Borrelli, "Spring Ratings Bring Ch. 13 Mysterious Bad News." The column also
includes an item on WCWA-AM and an item about Stephanie 
Roberts. There are two additions. from TV Guide, to the PBS gallery, a Monday, 7/19/99 ad for
Frank Lloyd Wright, and a Tuesday, 7/20/99 ad for The Life of 
Birds (David Attenborough). Next are three additions, from Peach Sections in The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery. There's a Saturday, 7/17/99 ad for Super Chunk:
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, on Cartoon Network. 
It's followed by a Tuesday, 7/20/99 ad for HGTV's Gardening by the Yard (Paul James). There's also a Thursday, 7/22/99 ad for The Chimp Channel, "Telethon," on TBS. The last t
wo ads today are additions, from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, starting with a Monday, 7/19/99 ad for Cooking Live and Cooking Live Primetime with Sara Moulton, on Food Network. Ther's also a Monday, 7/19/99 ad for
Discovery Channel's The Ultimate Guide "Dolphins." More ads, from the July 24-30, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 10, 2016: Ch. 24 Continues Anchor Search
There are fourteen more ads today, from the July 10-16, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from July 15 & 16, 1999 editions of The Blade, plus two Random Pages gallery additions, one from The Blade, a Monday
, 7/12/99 Peach Section column by Chris Borrelli, titled "Ch. 24 Continues Search for Anchor, a title which could have been used throughout 
most of Channel 24's existence. There are two more items, too, one about Jerrry Anderson returning to WSPD-AM and one about an S. Amjad Hussain documentary on Channel 30. There's also a Tuesday, 7/13/99 full-page TV Guide "sports close-up" for the 1999 MLB All-Star Game on Fox. 
Included are pictures of Ken Griffey, Jr., Pedro Martinez, and Sammy Sosa. There's also one addition, from TV Guide, for that game, to the FOX gallery, a 7/13/99 full-page ad (Mac and the Monster. Baseball's All-Stars take on 
Boston's legendary "Green Monster.") There's one addition, from TV Guide, to the NBC gallery, too, a Sunday, 7/12/99 ad for Passions (Last week, millions of people gave in 
to their passions...This week, give in to YOURS!) There are three 
additions, again from TV Guide, to the PBS gallery. There's a Sunday, 7/11/99 ad for Savage Seas, followed by a Tuesday, 7/13/9
9 ad for Nova, "To the Moon" (Neil Armstrong). There's also a Wednesday, 7/14/99 ad for The Living 
Edens, "Kakadu: Australia's Ancient Wilderness." There's one addition, from TV Guide, to The WB gallery, a Sunday, 7/11/99 full-page ad for the premiere of Movie Stars, with Jennifer Grant, Harry
Hamlin, and Marnette Patterson. There are two additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade, to Buckeye CableSystem gallery. 
The first one is a Thursday, 7/15/99 ad for Dream Builders on HGTV (Scott Morgan). It's followed by a Friday, 7/16/99 ad, for Lifetime's
coverage of the WNBA. The ad included two games which had already been played. The rest of today's ads are additions, from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery
, starting with a full-page color ad for TNN's coverage of NASCAR's Winston Cup Jiffy Lube 300. Next is a Saturday, 7/10/99 full-page ad for Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker, on HBO
, followed by a Sunday, 7/11/99 full-page ad, for the TNT original movie, "The Hunley" with 
Armand Assante and Donald Sutherland. There's also a Monday, 7/12/99 full-page ad, for A&E's Biography by Demand and another 7/12/99 ad, for AMC's Monday night lineup of Hollywood Fashion Machine
, followed by the 1954 film, "Sabrina" with Audrey Hepburn. Today's last ad is a 
Wednesday, 7/14/99 full-page ad for the season three premiere of HBO's Oz, "The Truth and Nothing But" (...it's no place like home.) More ads, from the July 17-23, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 6, 2016: Times Change - Great TV Doesn't
You'll find ten more ads today, from the July 3-9, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from July 5 & 6, 1999 
editions of The Blade. There are two additions, from TV Guide, to the NBC gallery. Both of them are Sunday, 7/4/99 full-page ads for daytime dramas. The first ad is for Days of Our
Lives, with Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn in "The Wedding Event Of The Summer." The second ad is for the premiere of Passions (secret desires. 
forbidden magic. intriguing mystery. limitless passion.) There are also two additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade, to 
the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, starting with a Monday, 7/5/99 ad for Sci-Fi Channel's 4th of July Weekend 
Twilight Zone Marathon (Rod Serling). There's also a Tuesday, 7/6/99 ad for A&E's Biography of Tim Conway. The other six ads are additions, from TV Guide
, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery. The first one is a full-page color ad for Petticoat Junction on TV Land, with Linda Kaye Henning, Lori Saunders, and Meredith MacRae (Times change. Great TV doesn't.), followed by another color ad, for
Emeril Live (...now at ate pm.), on Food Network. Next is a Saturday, 7/3/99 ad, for "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Detour" on Turner Classic Movies (Summer of Darkness, a film noir
festival). There's also a Sunday, 7/4/99 ad for HGTV's Restore America with Bob 
Vila, followed by a 7/4/99 full-page ad for the premiere 
of Showtime's The Hoop Life, "The Hardwood" (Mykelti Williamson). Today's last ad is a 7/5/99 ad for AMC's Monday night lineup of Hollywood Fashion Machine, followed by "How to Steal a Million" with Audrey Hepburn. More ads, from the July 10-16, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...
November 2, 2016: Greatest Commercials of All-Time
There are eight more ads today, from the June 26 - July 2, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from June 27 and July 2, 1999 editions of The Blade, plus one Random Pages gallery addition from 
The Blade, a Monday, 6/28/99 Peach Section column by Chris Borrelli, "Farr Clinging to Toledoan's Hearts."
The column referred to Port Charles as a CBS show. It actually aired on ABC, Also included is another item on the emmy-winning Zoo Today. There's one addition, from TV Guide, to the NBC gallery, a full-page color ad for the upcoming premiere of the daytime soap, 
Passions. There's also one addition, from The Blade, to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Friday, 7/2/99 ad, in the Peach Section, for "Guys and Dolls" on AMC, with Marlon Brando
and Jean Simmons. There are four additions, all from TV Guide, to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery. The first one is a Saturday, 6/26/99 full-page ad for Showtime's Rude Awakening, "The Grateful Living" with Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave and Jonathan Pepper (Another year
of keeping the censors busy). Next is another 6/26/99 ad, for Beggars and Choosers, "Once More Unto the Breach," also on Showtime, with
Malcolm Laffley, Lori Valpone and Brad Advail. There's also a Monday, 6/28/99 ad and "close-up" 
description for A&E's Investigative Reports, "Guns in America," hosted by Bill Kurtis. It's followed by a Wednesday, 6/30/99 full-page ad for
Greatest Commercials of All Time, on TV Land. The three pictures in the ad were for Alka Seltzer (Spicy Meatball), Bartles and Jaymes, and the "Stop Pollution" PSA with the crying Indian (Iron Eyes Cody).
Today's last
two ads, from The Blade, are both Sunday, 6/27/99 full-page ads. The first one is a Sports Section ad for the upcoming Kroger-Pepsi Freedom Celebration in Toledo, co-sponsored by WIOT-FM. The second one is a "Jamie Farr Kroger Classic" section ad (Weekly Grounds Badges on Sale at Kroger!).
More ads, from the July3-9, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...