November 25, 2012: Festival '80

 

I added nineteen more ads today, all from March 1980, plus seven more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Wednesday, 3/5/80 story, “Ch. 13 Carries Toledo Game,” about area stations' efforts to carry NCAA basketball playoff games and NIT basketball games. There's also a Thursday, 3/13/80 story, “Fund-Raising Campaigns Defended By Ch. 30 Head” and two Friday, 3/14/80 stories by Norman Dresser, “Pay Television To Expand Greatly, Analyst Predicts” and “About People, Events In Broadcasting World.” There's a Saturday, 3/15/80 story by Seymour Rothman, “Public Demand Gets Results,” also about area stations' efforts to show NCAA basketball playoff games, and a Thursday, 3/20/80 story, “WGTE 'Festival '80' Sets Pledge Record.” There's also a Friday, 3/24/80 story, “Easter Seal Telethon Set” and two Wednesday, 3/26/80 stories by Norman Dresser, “Ch. 50 To Present Movies During Political Conventions” and again, “About People, Events In Broadcasting World.” There are no ads today for channels 11 and 13, but there is one addition to the Channel 24 gallery, a Friday, 3/28/80 ad for the premiere of AM Magazine (Paul W. Smith). There's also one addition to the Channel 24 News gallery, a Tuesday, 3/18/80 ad for Ed Knowles' Money Talk, Thursdays on 24 Eyewitness News. There are twelve additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30 and most of them for Festival 80 programming. There's a Wednesday, 3/5/80 ad for Speaking of Love (Dr. Leo Buscaglia) and Great Performances, “The Most Happy Fella.” Next is a Thursday, 3/6/80 ad for TV: The Fabulous '50s and Hollywood: The Selznick Years (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh), followed by a Saturday, 3/8/80 ad for the movies, “Can-Can,” “Mother Wore Tights” and “Three Little Words” and Songs of a Lusty Land (Tennessee Ernie Ford). There's also a Monday, 3/10/80 ad for Bogart and the movies, “Pueblo” and “Mrs. Miniver” and a Thursday, 3/13/80 ad for The Joy of Bach, Pavarotti: King of the High C's and the movie, “The Student Prince.” Next is a Friday, 3/14/80 ad for Washington Week in Review, Wall $treet Week, Free to Choose "How to Stay Free" and the movie, “They Were Expendable” and a Saturday, 3/15/80 ad for the movies, “Hurricane Express,” “30 Seconds Over Tokyo,” “This is the Army,” “Stage Door Canteen” and G.I. Jive. The last one for Festival 80 is a Sunday, 3/16/80 ad for the Fred Astaire movies, “Three Little Words,” “Puttin' on His Top Hat,” “The Barkleys of Broadway,” “Change Partners and Dance” and “Easter Parade” and Gala of Stars (Beverly Sills) and A Special Celebration with Steve Allen. There are two more for The Shakespeare Plays, a Tuesday, 3/18/80 ad for “Richard II” and a Wednesday, 3/26/80 ad for part one of “Henry IV.” And there are two more, a Thursday, 3/27/80 ad for The Money Maze and a Friday, 3/28/80 ad for The National Nuclear Debate with Jim Lehrer. There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Thursday, 3/13/80 ad for “National Lampoon's Animal House” on Showtime and The Movie Channel. There are four additional ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, two for Bob Kelly's new morning show at WTOD, a Monday, 3/10/80 ad and a Monday, 3/24/80 ad, and two Friday, 3/28/80 ads for WCWA (in one image) for Charles Merlin Umpenhour's weather forecasts and McGuire in the Morning (Kelly's replacement). Today's last addition is in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Sunday, 3/16/80 TV Tab announcement, explaining the “closed-captioned” symbol. April 1980 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...