Jack Taylor and NewsNine - WGN Channel 9 (Complete Broadcast, 2/2/1979) 📺

Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of Jack Taylor and NewsNine from WGN Channel 9.

A little bonus will follow.

Includes:

WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Carl Greyson)

Preview of coming newscast

Opening (with a version of "Wichita Lineman" as the theme, and voiceover by Carl Greyson)

- Larry Roderick on contracts awarded for former Deputy Mayor Kenneth Sain's consulting business; excerpt of news conference from Police Superintendent James O'Grady

- Full service restored to all CTA subway and 'L' stations after suit filed against agency by Chester Blair

- Len O'Connor commentary on whether Mayor Bilandic is really in charge of the city

- Illinois to get over $10 million in Federal disaster money in wake of '79 blizzard

- In Iran, Prime Minister Bakhtiar and Army primed to have anyone named to Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council arrested; Simon Braim (sp?) reports on tens of thousands converging outside Ayatollah's home

- Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. seeks 4.1% natural gas rate hike

Stock closing figures

Commercials for:
"The Old West" from Time Life Books (book set offer)
Harris Bank

- Merrillville, IN police searching for Willard Melcher, 22, in connection with murders of two women, Paula Otterman and Toni Penner, both 20, in townhouse

- Ex-Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious found dead in his New York apartment

- Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping continuing his tour of U.S., visiting Houston, TX, as reported by Rita Flynn of WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; a Ku Klux Klansman who tried to lunge at Deng is stopped by Secret Servicemen

- Labor Department says unemployment in Illinois fell 1.5% in January (from 6.5% to 5%), nationally down 0.1% to 5.8%

- Steve Bosh of WPIX Channel 11 in New York reports on memorial service for Nelson Rockefeller at Riverside Church, attended by such figures as New York Governor Hugh Carey, Gerald Ford, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Walter Mondale; select snippets of Henry A. Kissinger's eulogy is played

Commercials for:
Sony Betamax video recorder (the very format this broadcast was recorded on!)
Northwest Orient Super Saver Fares
White Cloud bathroom tissue (with Mrs. Kathy Young)

- Don Harris on whether Lincoln Park Zoo's groundhog, Toby, saw his shadow; but he had no doubt as to a chimp's prognostications

- which segues into Roger Triemstra's weather forecast

- Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Kiro found guilty of stealing $380,000 from estate of South Side upholsterer

- Two CTA buses collide at 66th and State, more 52 taken to St. Bernard and Billings hospitals

Commercials for:
Sports Illustrated 1979 swimsuit issue
Robitussin - 4 different cough medicines
Air Canada

Jack Brickhouse sports, including:

- Tracy Austin beats Sue Barker at Women's Professional Tournament held at Amphitheatre

- Bulls defeat New Orleans Jazz in NBA action

- 3 named to College Basketball Hall of fame; Jack speaks with one of the inductees, Jim Enright (the others are Tennessee State Coach John McLendon and DePaul's Ray Meyer, a clip of the latter speaking is shown)

Commercials for:
- Pint-size Dannon Natural Yogurt
- Family Circle Magazine
- Dominick's Finer Foods - sale on crisp firm head lettuce

- United Airlines faces midnight shutdown over threatened strike

- O'Hare Exposition Center faces criticism for hosting two weapons conventions later in month; "Arms Bazaar" opponent Mrs. Marge Benton speaks

- In New York City, parking attendant Giuseppe Terranova, 51, indicted on charges of stealing 21 cars from a car rental firm

Newscast ending (with end credits voiceover by Carl Greyson)

WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Carl Greyson)

Bonus: WGN Television Presents open with "spotlight" motif and various actors inside (theme, as always, is "The Oracle Speaks" by Louie Bellson)

Preview for tonight's movie, "Bonnie and Clyde" (voiceover by Carl Greyson) (10 seconds or so of the preview scenes had to be removed to avoid Copyright issues)

"This Feature Is Intended for Adult Viewing Only" bumper and voiceover (by Carl Greyson)

First 40 seconds of film opening

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 2nd 1979 during the 10:00pm to 10:32pm timeframe.

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.

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