May 14, 2012: Straight from the Newsroom

 

I added 16 more ads today, from January and February, 1975, plus eight more Random Pages gallery additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade.There's a Wednesday, 1/8/75 story by Norman Dresser, “June Miller Quits Ch. 13 News Show” and a Friday, 1/17/75 story, “Storer, Benny To Be Honored,” about George B, Storer and Jack Benny. Next are three more Norman Dresser stories, a Monday, 1/20/75 story, “Blake Shines as 'Baretta' Star,” about Robert Blake, a Tuesday, 1/21/75 story, “Ch. 11 Inaugurates 'Newsroom' Format” and a Thursday, 1/23/75 story, “Ch. 13 Newsman Gets Post In San Diego,” about Bill Peterson. There's also a Thursday, 1/23/75 story, “Ch. 24 Refuses to Carry Show, 'Hot l Baltimore'” and five Tuesday, 2/4/75 stories, again by Norman Dresser, “Toledo Outlets Reject Lottery Telecasts,” “'Monitor' Leaves Air To End Era in Radio,” “'The Doctor Speaks' Gets New Air Time,” “Channel 30 Names Production Manager” and “Dean Miller Resigns As Ch. 4 Newsman.” The last one is a Wednesday, 2/5/75 story, “Kahle Quits Channel 24,” about Brian Kahle going to Los Angeles. There are two additional ads in the Channel 11 gallery, a Saturday, 1/25/75 ad for a Toledo vs. Miami basketball game and a Friday, 2/7/75 ad for the premiere of the short lived Khan!, “A Mask of Deceit” (Khigh Dhiegh). There are four more “Straight From the Newroom” ads in the Channel 11 News gallery, a Monday, 1/20/75 ad (Orris Tabner, Jeff Heitz, Joe Ashton), a Tuesday, 1/21/75 ad, a Wednesday, 1/22/75 ad, and a Thursday, 1/23/75 ad, asking viewers to tell them why they like the new format. There's one ad in the Channel 13 gallery, a Tuesday, 2/4/75 ad for The Merv Griffin Show. There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Thursday, 1/16/75 ad and a Tuesday, 1/21/75 ad, in response to channel 11's “Straight from the Newsroom” format. There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Monday, 2/3/75 ad for the Jim Rudes series of reports, “The Con Man Cometh,” on The Venner-Ward Report. There are three channel 30 ads in the PBS gallery, two Thursday, 1/9/75 ads, the first one for Consumer Survival Kit and the second one for their coverage if the 81st. Meeting of the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce, and a Wednesday, 1/15/75 ad for The Quarterly Report: State of the Union/'75. There's one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Wednesday, 1/29/75 ad for WIOT Presents Midnight Movies at the Maumee Indoor Theatre and other area theatres, showing The Beatles' “Magical Mystery Tour.” There are two in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Friday, 1/31/75 ad for stereo service at the House of Tapes, and a Thursday, 2/8/75 ad for The Anderson's, thanking those who helped following the 1/29/75 grain elevator fire in Maumee. More 1975 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...