April 23, 2012: When You Need To Know

 

I added 23 more ads today, all from May, 1974, plus one Random Pages gallery addition, four Wednesday, 5/15/74 stories by Norman Dresser, in the Peach Section of The Blade, "Ann Stranahan Elected To PBS Board," "WTUU To Broadcast NASCAR Stock Races," "'60 Minutes' Shifting To Prime-Time Slot" and "WGBU Head Named Again To ETV Post" (about Duane E. Tucker), with WBGU once again misspelled in the headline. There are five ads in the Channel 11 gallery, including a Friday, 5/3/74 ad for To Tell the Truth (Garry Moore). There are four more for movies on The Big Show, a Monday, 5/13/74 ad for "Splendor in the Grass" (Warren Beatty), a Tuesday, 5/14/74 ad for "Sabrina" (Humphrey Bogart), a Wednesday, 5/15/74 ad for "But Not For Me" (Clark Gable), and a Thursday, 5/16/74 ad for "A Night at the Opera" (Grouch Marx). There are five more WTOL ads in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, including a Wednesday, 5/8/74 ad for a Linda Brown series of reports, "Rape: A Special Report." There are three more for "Public Opinion Investigation" reports, a Monday, 5/13/74 ad for "Should Nixon Be Impeached?," a Thursday, 5/14/74 ad for "Gilligan or Rhodes? Who Will be Governor?" and a Wednesday, 5/15/74 ad for "Abortion on Demand...Yes or No?" There's also a Monday, 5/20/74 ad for the series of reports, "It's Your Money Going Down the Drain." You can find a similar TV Guide ad here. There are three more Channel 13 "When You Need to Know" ads in that gallery too, a Wednesday, 5/8/74 ad (Flooding), a Tuesday, 5/14/74 ad (Tornado) and a Thursday, 5/16/74 ad (Severe Winds). There's one more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Saturday, 5/11/74 ad for The TV-13 Saturday Night News (Nanci Riley, Jim Mengel). There's one Channel 30 ad in the PBS gallery, a Thursday, 5/9/74 ad for their coverage of a Public Meeting of Toledo Regional Area Plan For Action. There are six ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, five of them for WMHE-FM 92.5. There's a Friday, 5/3/74 ad, a Saturday, 5/4/74 ad, a Thursday, 5/9/74 ad, a Friday, 5/10/74 ad (with the frequency reading 9.25, and a Saturday, 5/11/74 ad. There's also a Friday, 5/18/74 ad for "Fun-Country" WTUU-AM 1520, for the Mason-Dixon 500 NASCAR Race. There are two more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, the first one a Wednesday, 5/8/74 ad for another Sports Arena concert, with Mountain, The James Gang and The Sharks, a Bob Bageris production. The second one is a Sunday, 5/12/74 full-page ad for Sohio, "The Gasoline Situation and Your Vacation." More 1974 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...