Here's a mostly complete broadcast of NewsCenter5 as anchored by Mike Jackson and Carol Marin.
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Mary Tyler Moore (voiceover by ??)
NewsCenter5 open (voiceover by Ed Grennan) with Amoco sponsor billboard (voiceover by ??)
News items:
- Mayoral candidate Jane Byrne calls for resignation of CTA Chairman James McDonough over questionable city and consulting contracts; Dick Kay had gone to office of city purchasing agent James Arnold for records of same
- Lynne Scott report on how Monday's commute will be affected by recent snowfalls, with comments by CTA spokesman Tom Buck; only one RTA train, going to Rock Island, has been cancelled
- Aldermanic candidate Chester Blair vowing suit against CTA over Lake Street-Dan Ryan line rush-hour service cuts, citing minorities who lost their jobs over such reduced service
- Preview of Jerry Taft weather and Mike Leiderman/Greg Gumbel sports
Commercials for:
Amoco
The Mizer heater by Johnson Controls (with Norman Mark!)
Yellow Pages (featuring a young Joe Mantegna with a giant 'stache)
Hertz (with O.J. Simpson)
More news:
- 20-year-old John Savo (?) of Romeoville and unidentified 16-year-old charged with murders of brothers Christopher and John Rajcas (18 and 16, respectively) of Maitland(?) township; the brothers were drug buyers and sellers
- Off-duty Skokie policeman shoots, kills 38-year-old Ronald Hind of Lincolnwood who threatened to shoot officer
- Livingston County grand jury to hand indictments in murder of three guards in Pontiac Prison riot last July
- Inmate Willie Roberts, 27, doing 2-6 years for burglary, escapes from Stateville Prison in Joliet; another inmate who escaped, Richard Johnson, surrenders
- Iran prime minister Shahpour Bakhtiar vows to "fight Molotov cocktails with Molotov cocktails" in fight with Ayatollah Khomeini; excerpt of comments from CIA Director Stansfield Turner shown
- Les Aspin finds military standards intelligence standards of GI's to be too high
- In Seattle, Chinese vice premier Deng Xiaoping vows to change immigration policies in his country, with report by Steve Delaney of him touring Boeing plant
Commercials for:
H&R Block
A&P (on its standards for meat)
Bob Evans Pork Sausage
Magnavox Instant Factory Rebate
- Protest planned over Army Corps of Engineers declaration of Lake Marian's earthen dam to be unsafe, as reported by Gene Randall; with Jeff Johnson of Home Owners Association at meeting
1st part of Jerry Taft weather report
At 19:14, a commercial snippet for Sears One-Day Price Cuts, before recording cuts back to Jerry's forecast (I'll never understand some people's recording habits - like what were you recording this for, and why cut out this one commercial break, but then go back to recording and not cut out any more - why were none of the earlier commercials cut out either? And then how was this recording held on to for 43 years and not thrown out or recorded over, just waiting for me to find the tape at an estate sale a couple weeks ago and take them home....")
- Part 1 of 6 of Barry Bernson report on Hollywood, spotlighting MGM studio gate Sgt. Ken Hollywood who served at the main gate for 33 years at the point of this report
Commercials for:
United States Steel
Roman Meal bread
Esoterica medicated cream
Arby's - Arby-Q
SportSunday with Mike Leiderman and Greg Gumbel, including:
- Martina Navratilova beats Tracy Austin at Avon Tennis Championship final
- Chicago Blackhawks beat New York Islanders, 5-4 at Chicago Stadium (report on that match, with pertinent video clips, is almost concluded when recording ends)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 4th 1979 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe.
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