WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News (Complete Broadcast, 3/9/1980) 📺

Here's a complete edition of the late Sunday Eyewitness News on WLS Channel 7, anchored by Jay Levine, with weatherman Tom Hale and sportscaster Al Lerner.

Includes:

Ending titles for The ABC Sunday Night Movie (full broadcast posted separately here:    • The ABC Sunday Night Movie - "Amber W...  )

World News Tonight promo with look at coming Southern primaries (posted separately here:    • ABC Network - ABC World News Tonight ...  )

Jay promotes upcoming newscast

Commercials for:
Wickes Furniture Storewide Celebration Sale
Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (with Florence Ledgister, Tom Heffernan, Barbara M. Lyszczasz, J. Michael Peterson, Juliette Fritz and Stephanie Heckler)
RC Cola (voiceover by Hal Riney)

Station ID / 3:30 Movie "Playmates" promo (voiceover by Gary Gears)

Newscast open (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson), followed by items:

- Carol Bogart report on Sen. Edward Kennedy campaigning at Conrad Hilton in preparation for Illinois primary

- Sun-Times endorses President Carter for second term

- Sun-Times and Tribune endorse John Anderson on Republican side; John Connally quits race after losing South Carolina primary

- ABC News/Harris poll showing Gerald Ford having a second shot at Presidency; while a Draft Ford committee is established in state - Robert Blair speaks

- Anderson vows to continue his drive in spite of Ford talk

Commercials for:
United Airlines (with Tom Poston)
La Salle National Bank
Daisy 2 home pregnancy test

- 4-year-old twins Lucy and Lisette Odiveros (sp?) treated in South Chicago hospital for burns on hands sustained after being punished for damaging mother's watch by her boyfriend, Joe Zarek (sp?)

- Intensive manhunt on North Side for 9-year-old third-grader Victoria Jones, as reported by Fred Villanueva; her mother (Beverly Jones) pleads for Vicki to come back home

- Tom Hale weather forecast

Commercials for:
Soave Bolla wine
Cash back on Mercury sedans and wagons (with Gary Collins)
Saks Fifth Avenue

Al Lerner sports:

- Ray Meyers DePaul Blue Demons loses to UCLA in college basketball rematch, 77-71; plus other West division scores

- Bobby Knight's Indiana Hoosiers handily defeat Virginia Tech Gobblers; plus other Midwest division scores

- Johnny Miller wins Jackie Gleason Inverrary Golf Classic

- In exhibition baseball at Mesa, AZ, Cubs tie 7-7 with Taiyo Whales

- Soccer fans of rival teams attack each other on streets of Amsterdam, unhappy game ended in tie

- Hustle beats Milwaukee 135-114 in women's basketball; coach Doug Bruno suspended and fined after attacking referees

- Video of DePaul team returning shown

Commercial: Berol pens - "The Write Source"

- More than 200 12-year-old girls trying out for one of eight scholarships to study with ballet master George Balanchine; tryouts run at 410 South Michigan by star ballerina Suzanne Farrell; winners will have tuition free education at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York

With that, Jay closes newscast

(C) 1980 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

(The ABC News Weekend Report follows, as posted separately here:    • ABC News Weekend Report - WLS Channel...  )

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 9th 1980 during the 9:57pm to 10:20pm timeframe.

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