WFLD Channel 32 - Nite-Owl (Complete & Remastered, 8/25/1982) 🦉

Here's a remastered, more complete version of the first hour from one night of the overnight Keyfax Nite-Owl Service on WFLD Channel 32.

Includes:

Animated 'Field Communications' ID (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)

Station ID / Wonder Woman promo (voiceover by Jim Barton)

'Nite-Owl' slide

Nite-Owl logo, intro (voiceover by Jim Barton) and 'blast-off' (music is "Burning Bar" by Tangerine Dream)

Behind the Scenes Tonight - Producers: Bill Mahlock - Jim Sulski - Heywood Hoffman. Editors: Jeff Weinstein, - Joe Shaughnessy - Sue Christy - Roger Weiss - Suzanne Riordan (now Suzanne Cosgrove). Production - Cora Moir.

Bulls Eye Club - 405 Busse Road in Elk Grove Village

On to Orbit 1:

Sports segment, with scores and reports including Cubs and White Sox scores, Bears cutting five players (Larry Delviche, Dupre Marshall, Glenn Inverso, Mike Scharnus and Guy Boliaux) to meet NFL roster deadline, doctors unable to remove a brain tumor in former New York Giants running back Doug Kotar (who would die from the disease on December 16th 1983), and former New Orleans Saints running back Mike Strachan (NOT Michael Strahan) about to be arraigned on charges of cocaine possession and dealing.

News items include U.S. Marines landing in Beirut; Archbishop Joseph Bernardin taking over as head of the Chicago Archdiocese; Federal agents' seizing a militarily important computer that had been illegally exported to the Soviet Union; a Federal court upholding the Reagan administration's punishment of companies that defied a pipeline embargo against Moscow; rebels killed in El Salvador; and an Iranian revolutionary court considering a closed-door verdict against former foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh for treason.

Local items include: Mayor Byrne trying to head off a teachers' strike; 60,000 hit by electrical outages due to Tuesday night storms; and major crime had declines in first eight reporting periods of 1982.

Next is the weather forecast for Chicago and other areas

Then market numbers

Orbit 2 - Nite-Owl Leisure, with astrology readings by Fran Smith; jokes from Lisa Moroniak of Schiller Park (23:27) ; What's On in Chicago (classical concerts, festivals including Summerfest '82, concerts including Rick Springfield and Joni Mitchell, and dance including Summerdance '82); Mail Bag with comments from viewers (including S.C. Kostrevski of Chicago, Flo Naurot of Chicago, Joseph Kimball of Waukegan, Robert Rogers of Markham, Laurie Williams of Chicago, Laura Demchucls of Chicago, Dorothy Jones of Kankakee, and Paul and John Stack of Brookfield); Noticeboard (with items of community interest); Trivia Quiz; Nite-Owl Recipe for hot olive cheese puffs; plus items about Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Prince Edward of England, fans gathering in a Hollywood park to remember Rudolph Valentino, and B.B. King cancelling an appearance in Mexico; another trivia quiz from the Trickster; This Day in History; Lottery numbers; news on network ratings race and top programs; Dolly Parton canceling public appearances for health reasons; and Margaret Thatcher's feelings during the Falklands war.

Orbit 3, starting with more sports scores and news; national, world and state news (Israeli Defense Minister Sharon to visit the U.S., Reagan assuring UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar that Marines will not engage in combat in Beirut, a man who phoned in a threat to Reagan arrested by police and Secret Service, Alabama's insanity plea abolished, 750 special-education teachers walking off the job in Pittsburgh, FAA handing out air rights to increase number of commercial flights, judge to decide whether to allow an abortion for a comatose woman; Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky says world fears "insanity" of Israeli leaders, Philippines President Marcos recovering from pneumonia; Credit-Pak owner denies not following up on loan guarantee promises to farmers), off-beat news, weather, and business news (ending with news that Field Communications will sell WFLD to Metromedia for $140 million).

Songs played during this hour include:

- "Love Is In The Air" by John Paul Young
- "Who Am I" by Petula Clark
- "Biggest Part Of Me" by Ambrosia
- "Carpet Of The Sun" by Renaissance
- "Laugh, Laugh" by The Beau Brummels
- "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
- "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind
- "Somebody's Knockin' " by Terri Gibbs
- "I Believe In You" by Don Williams
- "I Say A Little Prayer" by Aretha Franklin
- "Babe" by Styx
- "Time" by The Alan Parsons Project
- "Ferry Cross The Mersey" by Gerry & The Pacemakers
- "I'm Into Something Good" by Herman's Hermits
- "A Summer Song" (U.K. Version) by Chad & Jeremy [MUTED TO PREVENT YOUTUBE BLOCKING]
- "Seven Year Ache" by Rosanne Cash
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "The Look Of Love" by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
- First minute of "With Your Love" by Jefferson Starship

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, August 25th 1982 at about the 12:00am to 12:58am timeframe.