February 8, 2011: A Bird of Great Value

I added 22 more ads today, all from April, May and June 1969. There are three WTOL-TV ads in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Wednesday, 4/23/69 ad for a CBS News Special "The Japanese," a Thursday, 4/24/69 ad for Man in Blue & Man in Gray, a documentary produced and directed by Joe Gillis and a Tuesday, 5/20/69 ad for CBS Reports "Generations Apart: A Question of Values." There's also a Friday, 5/31/69 WSPD-TV ad in that gallery for Inner City: Crime. There are eight more in the Channel 13 gallery including a Friday, 5/2/69 ad for a Tigers vs. Red Sox game and a Saturday, 5/3/69 ad for "Man of 1,000 Faces" (James Cagney). There's a Friday, 5/16/69 ad for "Come September" (Gina Lollobrigida) and Monday, 5/31/69 ad for a Mike Douglas special, Mike and the Young People. There are four more ads with Arte Johnson, previewing their change to full-time NBC affiliate on 6/15/69, a 6/3/69 ad (A bird of great value), a 6/4/69 ad (We'll bring you all the big ones), a 6/5/69 ad (for the Huntley-Brinkley Report) and a 6/6/69 ad (Always a bridesmaid). There are three more WSPD-TV ads in the Channel 13 News gallery, all for the syndcated Rona Barrett segment on Deadline, one from Monday, 5/19/69, one from Tuesday, 5/20/69 and one from Wednesday, 5/21/69. There's one ad in the Channel 24 gallery, a Saturday, 5/3/69 ad for The Greater New Orleans Open (golf) on the Hughes Sports Network. There are two ads in the NET gallery including the first ad on this site for WBGU-TV when they were on channel 70. It's a Thursday, 5/8/69 ad for Bowling Green: A City in Transition and there's a Monday, 5/19/69 ad for the first WGTE-TV auction, The Great Channel 30 Buy-In. There's also a 5/8/69 Blade story about the increase of power for channel 30, increasing its range to 60 miles. It's in the Random Pages gallery. There are three more in the Radio Station Ads gallery. There are two Friday, 4/25/69 ads for WTTO Boss Radio 1520 (24 hours a day) and one Saturday, 5/3/69 ad for The Mad Hatter on WCWA-AM 1230. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...