September 9, 2012: Tonight's Buy-In Will Be A SM*A*S*H

 

I added 24 more ads today, all from April, 1978 plus four more Random Pages gallery additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a 4/7/78 AP story, “Anniversary Shows Give CBS 1st Place” which includes a list of the top twenty shows, and a Tuesday, 4/11/78 story from The Blade's Washington Bureau, “Chs. 30, 57 Get Grants From U.S.” There's also a Thursday, 4/20/78 story by Norman Dresser, “Tenth Ch. 30 Buy-In Auction Gets Under Way On Friday” and two more, in one image, a Thursday, 4/27/78 story, “Diggers To Be Seen On Ch. 11” and a Friday, 4/28/78 story, “Ch. 11 Cancels Hockey Telecast.” There are three additions to the Channel 11 gallery, a Friday, 4/21/78 ad for the syndicated special, The Lundstroms: Singin' Down in Dixie, which pre-empted Wonder Woman, and a Friday, 4/28/78 ad for a Toledo Goaldiggers vs. Ft. Wayne Komets hockey game. There's also a Sunday, 4/30/78 ad for a Sylvania Savings Bank sponsored special, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a production of the Choral Department of Sylvania Northview High School. There are four additions to the Channel 13 News gallery, all ads for new 13 Nightly News anchor Randy Price. There's a Saturday, 4/1/78 ad (also with Frank Venner), a Monday, 4/3/78 ad (also with Frank Venner, Jennifer Blome and Jim Mengel), a Wednesday, 4/5/78 ad and a Monday, 4/24/78 ad. There are two additions to the Channel 24 gallery, a Saturday, 4/8/78 ad for U.S. Farm Report and a Saturday, 4/15/78 ad for America 2 Night. There's also one in the Channel 24 News gallery, a Thursday, 4/27/78 ad (There For You). There's a similar TV Guide ad here. There are eight additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30. There's a Friday, 4/7/78 ad for Channel 30 shows, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The Ohio Journal, Washington Week in Review, Wall Street Week, World at War ”The Search For Sandra Laing” and The Dick Cavett Show and for FM 91.3 shows, The Jazz Artist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Nachtmusik. WGTE indicated that these ads cost them almost $50 a day. There are seven more for the 1978 Channel 30 Buy-In, a Friday, 4/21/78 ad, a Saturday, 4/22/78 ad, a Monday, 4/24/78 ad (Jamie Farr), a Tuesday, 4/25/78 ad, a Wednesday, 4/26/78 ad, a Friday, 4/28/78 ad, and a Saturday, 4/29/78 ad. There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Wednesday, 4/26/78 ad for their “Spend a Month Free With The CableSystem” promotion. There are four additions to the Radio Station Ads gallery, two for WCWA, a Monday, 4/17/78 ad for a promotion on “Breakfast Flake” Bob Kelly's show and a Friday, 4/28/78 ad (listener Kathy Parker). And there are two WGTE-FM ads for NPR's live coverage of the Senate vote on the second Panama Canal Treaty, a Monday, 4/17/78 ad and a Tuesday, 4/18/78 ad. Today's last ad is an addition to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Monday, 4/24/78 ad for Sylvania Savings Bank's Quiet Teller Self Service Banking. Part one of May 1978 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...