October 18, 2012: 'Bid' the Buy-In Duck

 

I added seventeen more ads today, all from May, 1979 plus five more Random Pages gallery additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade. The first two are by Norman Dresser, a Thursday, 5/3/79 story, “Ch. 30 Buy-In To Open Friday For 90 Day Run” and a Friday, 5/4/79 story, “CableSytem To Televise Unique Series Of Shows,” about “The English Channel.” Next is another 5/4/79 story, “WGTE-TV Problem With Transmission Line Delays Buy-In.” The last two are also by Norman Dresser, a Wednesday, 5/9/79 story, “Delay In Ch. 30 Buy-In Spurs Viewer Interest” and a Friday, 5/11/79 item, “WGTE-FM To Broadcast Special On Museum Show.” There are two additions to the Channel 11 gallery, both for Scared Straight. There's a Wednesday, 5/2/79 ad and a Friday, 5/4/79 full-page ad. Another channel eleven ad is one of two additions to the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Monday, 5/7/79 ad for a Bob Lawrence series of reports on cancer in Lucas County. A similar TV Guide ad can be found here. The second ad is a Wednesday, 5/2/79 ad, another one for the Mike O'Mara series of reports on 13 Nightly News, “The Dumping Pools.” There are also five additions to the Channel 13 News gallery, including a Thursday, 5/3/79 ad for their two Ohio Associated Press Awards. The other four are for “The Best 13” on 13 Nightly News, with Randy Price, a Friday, 5/4/79 ad (Best Pizza?), a Monday, 5/7/79 ad (Best Disco?), a Wednesday, 5/9/79 ad (Best Historical Monument?) and a Friday, 5/11/79 ad (Best Cheesburger?). There are also two additions to the Channel 13 gallery, both for The 13 Sunday Night Movie, (following 13 Nightly News with Mike O'Mara and Jim Rudes), a Saturday, 5/5/79 ad for “Play It Again, Sam” (Woody Allen) and a Saturday, 5/12/79 ad for “Little Fauss & Big Halsey” (Robert Redford). There are four additions to PBS gallery, all for The 11th Annual Channel 30 Buy-In, There's a Thursday, 5/3/79 ad, a Monday, 5/7/79 ad, a Tuesday, 5/8/79 ad, and a Thursday, 5/10/79 ad ('Bid' the Buy-In Duck). There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Friday, 5/4/79 ad (Is your antenna a fair weather friend?). And today's last ad is an addition to the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 5/4/79 ad for WMHE-FM 92.5 (Take mhe To Work!). More May, 1979 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...