March 16, 2012: Ninety Different Minutes

I added 20 more ads today, from January and February, 1973, plus one Random Pages gallery addition, a Friday, 1/19/73 Blade Peach Section story, "Simulcast Set For Tonight On Ch. 24, WIOT," about that nights ABC broadcast of In Concert. There are nine ads in the Channel 11 gallery, including two for college basketball games, a Wednesday, 1/31/73 ad for a BGSU vs Toledo game on "Toledo's Number One Sports Station," and a Saturday, 2/3/73 ad for a Miami vs. BG game. There's also a Wednesday, 2/7/73 ad for Police Surgeon, "Death in the Last Row." There are five more for movies on The Big Show, a Wednesday, 1/31/73 ad for "Gigot" (Jackie Gleason), a Thursday, 2/1/73 ad for "The Young Doctors" (Fredric March, Ben Gazzara), a Tuesday, 2/6/73 ad for "The Pink Panther" (Peter Sellers, David Niven), a Thursday, 2/8/73 ad for "Never on Sunday" (Melina Mercouri) and a Monday, 2/12/73 ad for "A Hard Day's Night" (The Beatles). There's also a Saturday, 2/10/73 ad for "Anna and the King of Siam" on The Saturday Late Show (Rex Harrison, Irene Dunne). There's one more in the Channel 11 News gallery, a Friday, 2/9/73 ad for Toledo Eleven News at Noon, Six & Eleven. There are three ads in the Channel 13 gallery. The first one is a Monday, 2/5/73 ad for The Merv Griffin Show, The Venner-Ward Report, NBC Nightly News, What's My Line?, Truth or Consequences, NBC prime-time shows, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and "Funeral in Berlin" on NBC Monday Night at the Movies, and also NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Next is a Tuesday, 2/6/73 ad for What's My Line? (Larry Blyden) and Truth or Consequences (Bob Barker). There's also a Wednesday, 2/7/73 ad for The Phil Donahue Show, the same early evening and late night shows as the Monday ad above, and NBC prime-time shows, Adam-12 "Killing Ground," Banacek "The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack" and Search "Countdown to Panic." There are two ads in the Channel 24 gallery, a Friday, 1/26/73 ad for The Partridge Family, "I Left My Heart in Cincinnati" and a Friday, 2/2/73 ad for In Concert (Edgar Winter Group). It was simulcast in stereo on WIOT-FM 104.7. There's one ad in the Buckeye Cablevision gallery, a Saturday, 2/3/73 ad for a high school basketball game between Central and Rogers. There are three in the Radio Station Ads gallery. There's a Tuesday, 1/16/73 ad for The Noon Report with Craig Edwards, on WOHO, and there are two WMHE-FM ads for The Concert Hall, narrated by Boris Nelson and featuring the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. There's a Monday, 1/22/73 ad and a Tuesday, 1/30/73 ad. There's one more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Sunday, 1/21/73 ad for Bob and Ray's Masonic Auditorium show, "The Two and Only," presented by H.L. VanTassel (Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding). More 1973 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...