WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News Tonight - "Record Cold" (Complete Broadcast, 1/11/1982) 📺

Here's a complete broadcast of an edition of Eyewitness News Tonight on WLS Channel 7, anchored by Tim Weigel and Mary Ann Childers.

Includes:

End of ABC Monday Night Movie ending titles

Promo for King's Crossing (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Tim and Mary Ann preview coming newscast

Commercials for:
Lloyd J. Harris Fresh Apple Apple Pie
Wendy's "Holiday Spree" Game
Scribe.Ett (ending voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

Station ID / news open (opening voiceover by Al Parker), with items:

- Sub-zero temperatures about to subside, but snow on the way as Dave Eiser relates

- 32 Chicago families evacuated from West Side apartment building because of no heat and pipes that broke due to cold; Joe Oskvarek of Dept. of Inspectional Services speaks, and residents interviewed

- Jay Levine reports on how super-cold has become political challenge for Mayor Byrne; Fire Commissioner William Blair had left for California to teach a college course

- 2 feet of snow fall on Buffalo, NY, with 50 mph winds; below freezing temperatures threaten Florida's orange crops; Atlanta hit with -5° temperatures; temperatures in some UK areas lower than even Antarctica; and Poland also badly affected by cold

Commercials for:
Carson Pirie Scott - January Mattress Sale
Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage and Polska Kielbasa
Robitussin
Greyhound - Dollar Sale

- Jim Avila on new Morton Grove gun control law

- John Cardinal Cody's condition improving, moved from cardiac care unit at Northwestern Hospital

- UAW and auto makers hold talks in Detroit to straighten out auto industry

- Longtime Hollywood Squares regular Paul Lynde found dead in Beverly Hills home; he was 55

Commercials for:
Renault Le Car (voiceover by Adolph Caesar)
Alberto VO5 Hot Oil Treatment
Emery "A.M." service (voiceover by Karl Weber)
H&R Block - #6 of 17 reasons (with Henry Block)

Tim's old WSNS-era mentor, Al Lerner, with sports including tennis action at women's tennis tour in Washington, DC, and men's tour in Chicago; 16-year-old Steve D'Innocenzo scores fastest hat trick for his Holliston, MA hockey team; Loyola vs. Oklahoma City in college basketball (plus other scores and coaches' poll); NBA and NHL scores; Cubs' Bill Buckner wants a raise or be traded; Dallas' Mike Ditka about to see George Halas about Bears' head coaching job; and a mishap involving Ted Dawson of Los Angeles sister station KABC Channel 7 while trying to file a report on 49ers-Cowboys match

Dow Jones average shown before break

Commercials for:
Alberto VO5 Gold hair spray
Milk-Bone dog biscuits

Dave Eiser weather forecast

Commercials for:
Colorex men's hair coloring (voiceover by Joel Crager)
N'Ice medicated sugarless cough lozenges
Unity Savings (with Ed McMahon)
Midway Airlines - "$59 Price"

- Kim Peterson at O'Hare, on travelers coming back from warm California and Hawaii temperatures to bitter cold Chicago (and car batteries that have to be jump-started); interviews with travelers Randy Turner and Don Shindler

Preview of next day's news:

- PATCO plans discrimination suit over air traffic controller hiring

- Roosevelt High School to host hearing on desegregation

- A look at Isiah Thomas as he moves from Indiana to Detroit

- Future weather

Ending credits

Promo for AM Chicago with Robb Weller

Newscast ending title and copyright

Commercials for:
Newsweek
Sealy Posturepedic (at John M. Smyth Homemakers) (ending voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Jones Minute Breakfast Links

Station ID / promo for "Roustabout" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Opening of Nightline (first half posted here: https://youtu.be/M-9Hk_QCw4c )

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, January 11th 1982 during the 9:58pm to 10:31pm timeframe.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!

Видео WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News Tonight - "Record Cold" (Complete Broadcast, 1/11/1982) 📺 канала The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)