There are 22 more ads today,
the oldest two are from 1948 and the newest is from 1971. The two oldest ads, in the Radio Station Ads gallery are from Wednesday, 11/3/48. One is a a WSPD-AM ad for Duffy's Tavern and the other is a WTOL-AM ad for Meredith Willson and his Talking People. Although channel 13 was operating at this time along with three Detroit T
V stations, most people still got their entertainment from the radio. There are ten ads in the Channel 11 gallery. The first one is Wednesday, 10/4/61 ad for the Alvin Show series premiere episode "Good Neighbor" on CBS (shown on a one hour delay because WTOL aired NBC show Wagon Train at 7:30) and Perry Como's Music Hall on NBC. NBC had The Joey Bishop Show at 8:30 and CBS had Checkmate at 8:30. The next ad is a Thursday 10/5/61 ad for two series premieres, the New Bob Cummings Show episode 
"Executive Sweet" and the Investigators episode "Murder on Order." There's a Tuesday, 10/10/61 ad for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Ruptured Duck" (Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver) and Wednesday, 10/11/61 ad for "Legend of Murder: The Untold Story of Lizzie Borden" on Armstrong Circle Theatre. There's a Tuesday, 9/24/63 ad for The Red Skelton Hour 
with guest star Shirley Temple and the Petticoat Junction episode "Kate Grounds Selma Plout"(Bea Benederet) and a Thursday, 9/26/63 ad for four shows, Password (Allen Ludden), the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Red Wind" (Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood), the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew" (Raymond Burr), all three on CBS and Checkmate (syndicated). There's a Friday, 9/27/63 ad for three CBS shows, The Great Adventure series premiere episode "The Hunley," the Route 66 episode "Two Strangers and an Old Enemy" (Glenn Corbett, Martin Milner) and the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "A Home Away From Home." There's a Saturday, 9/28/63 ad for The Jackie Gleason Show, the New Phil Silvers Show episode "Man, It's Like Progress," the Defenders episode "The Weeping Baboon" and the Gunsmoke episode "Kate Heller" and there's a Monday, 9/30/63 ad for the Lucy Show episode "Lucy Plays Cle
opatra" (Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball), the Danny Thomas Show episode "The Country Squires" and the Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie, the Birdman" (all CBS season premieres). There's a Monday, 5/2/66 ad for the Toledo Eleven premiere of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (on NBC). There are two more channel 11 ads in the the Channel 11 News gallery, a Friday, 10/1/66 ad for The 11th Hour News Final and a Monday, 1/18/71 ad for the premiere of Eyewitness News (Don Edwards, John Saunders, Orris Tabner, Clem Gendron). There are six ads in the the Channel 13 gallery, a Wednesday, 10/4/61 ad for the Hawaiian Eye episode "The Kapua of Coconut B
ay" (Anthony Eisley), a Thursday, 10/5/61 ad for the My Three Sons episode "Instant Hate" (Fred MacMurray), a Saturday 10/6/61 ad for The Lawrence Welk Show, The Fight of the Week (Cassius Clay vs. Alex Miteff) and Make That Spare!, a Tuesday, 10/10/61 ad for the Alcoa Premiere episode "People Need People" (Fred Astaire), a Wednesday 10/11/61 ad for the Naked City episode "The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street" (Paul Burke, Horace Mann) and s
ince it's never too early to start thinking about Spring, a Saturday 4/16/66 ad for Tigers Baseball (Washington Senators vs Detroit). This was back when the NBC Game of the Week was competing against local and regional telecasts of other games. The Tigers network at that time originated at channel 2 in Detroit and was also carried by channel 6 in Lansing. There are two channel 24 ads, one from Monday, 4/25/66 and one from Tuesday, 5/3/66, the day channel 24 first went on-the-air. These are some of the net
work shows they had on then: Hullabaloo (NBC), John Forsythe (NBC), Dr. Kildare (NBC), Daktari (CBS), Tuesday Night at the Movies (NBC), The Virginian (NBC), Bob Hope Theater (NBC). Danny Kaye (CBS), Daniel Boone (NBC), Laredo (NBC), Mickie Finn's (NBC), Dean Martin (NBC), Camp Runamuck (NBC), Hank (NBC), Mr. Roberts (NBC), I Dream of Jeannie (NBC). More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...