INN - Independent Network News - WGN Channel 9 (Complete Broadcast, 9/14/1983) 📺

Here's a complete (re) broadcast of INN - Independent Network News as aired on WGN Channel 9 (and produced by its then-New York sister station WPIX Channel 11), anchored by Steve Bosh and Christy Ferer. A little bonus will follow.

Includes:

Commercials for:
Tru-Link
Starbeat Presents What's Happening! (voiceover by Steve Cronin)
Creative Mirror Designs (with Pam)

Station ID (sung by Lou Rawls)

INN opening, with news items:

- U.S. Marines given green light to use greater firepower to defend U.S. personnel in Beirut; reports by John Aubuchon (with comments from White House spokesman Larry Speakes) and Jeff Kamen [featuring State Dept. legal adviser Davis Robinson, Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) and Marine commandant Gen. Paul Kelly]

- News of more fighting in and around Beirut; Syria's Minister of State Farouk Al-Sharee warns against greater American involvement

Sponsor billboard for Levi's Menswear, MONY and Kellogg's Product 19 (voiceover by Ralph Lowenstein)

Commercials for:
Levi's Action Slacks (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
MONY - "We Help People Manage Their Money"
Lincoln Carpeting
TV Guide (with cover of September 17-23 issue)

- Donna Hanover reports on $7 million heist of Wells Fargo armored car in West Hartford, CT by guard Victor Gerina (sp?), 25, who tied up two other guards; Conrad Fongemie of West Hartford Police gives details; people at local service station and neighbors speak of suspect

- 8 Japanese fighter planes scramble to repel Soviet bomber jets near area where Korean Airlines Flight 007 went down

- Meanwhile, Soviets not really hurt by 60-day ban by 8 Western nations on travel to USSR

- Pope John Paul II speaks out against attack on 007 while at Mariazell, Austria holding a mass for 5,000 priests and nuns

- Temporary ban on paraquat spraying of marijuana fields in 40 states imposed by Federal judge

- Reagan Administration urges extension of supplemental unemployment benefits

- Sen. John Glenn finishes ahead in New Jersey straw poll for Presidential race; Walter Mondale finishes 2nd, Jesse Jackson 4th

- Drew Scott on George McGovern entering Presidential race; consultant Robert Squier speaks

Commercials for:
Kellogg's Product 19
Prestone II Winter Summer coolant (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Skydive Sandwich Parachute Center
PSA for The Alcoholism Center (with Ron Palillo)

- Study finds sterilization to be most popular form of birth control

Business news:
- Unemployment in 35 states drops, with North Dakota having the lowest rate and West Virginia the highest
- Chrysler workers approve new 2-year contract
- New York Comex prices for gold and silver
- Retail sales fall 1.4% in August, driving stock market down

Jerry Girard sports report on NFL game between San Diego and Kansas City

Commercials for:
W.R. Grace & Co.
National Enquirer (September 20th? issue)

- Military subsidizing Congressional junkets at $1 million per year

- Dutch Jesuit priest Peter Hans Kolvenbach named Superior General of largest Catholic order, thus becoming Jesuit leader for life

Bob Harris with the weather

Promo for The Love Boat (premiering September 19th)

Commercial: Bay Furniture - Great Savings News

Sponsor billboard for Prestone II and W.R. Grace (voiceover by Ralph Lowenstein)

- Universal Studios hosting auction of 100 cars once owned by Hollywood celebrities (including Liberace's first Cadillac with candelabra, Zsa Zsa Gabor's Rolls Royce, the Munster Model T, and the Batmobile)

- Tony Russomano on mind control efforts within video gaming industry; made by Scotts Valley, CA computer company, Behavioral Engineering Co., whose head Robert Dilts speaks about it

Newscast end (station cuts abruptly midway through closing credits)

Commercials for:
Fleetwood Construction Company (with president Alan Dennison)
Nelson Brothers 65th Anniversary - discount on 7 piece dinette set (voiceover by Al Parker)

Station ID (instrumental)

Bonus: Dennis the Menace opening with setup and opening titles (1959 copyright)

Commercials for:
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (at Rosemont Horizon Oct. 13-30 and Chicago Stadium Nov. 1-6)
Wix Auto Sales (voiceover by Merri Dee)
Bantron Smoking Deterrent Tablets
Pursettes Premenstrual Tablets (posted separately here:    • Pursettes Premenstrual Tablets - "Can...  )

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, September 14th 1983 during the 2:00am to 2:34am timeframe.

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