March 19, 2013: Foul Weather Friends

 

I added eighteen more ads today, all from June 1982 plus four more Random Pages gallery additions, from Peach Sections of The Blade. The first two are Electronic Press Box stories by Seymour Rothman, a Saturday, 6/5/82 story, “TV Sports Fans Will Need Very Loving Wives This Week” and a Saturday, 6/9/82 story, “New Way To Make TV Pay: The Tossaway Unscrambler.” Next is a Tuesday, 6/15/82 story by Tom Gearhart, “Ch. 24 Series Awarded Ohio Emmy” and also includes other items, about Merle Kachenmeister, Entertainment Tonight, WCWA-AM, WGTE/WGLE-FM observing National Orchestra Week, and a WTOL-TV special on the auto industry. There's also a Friday, 6/18/82 story, “Four Country-Music Interviews Are Slated” (on WKLR-FM). There's one addition to the Channel 13 gallery, two Tuesday, 6/15/82 ads for a special on the World's Fair in Knoxville, hosted by Jera Jackson and sponsored by Liberty Airlines. There are also two additions to the Channel 13 News gallery, a Tuesday, 6/8/82 ad for their election coverage (Jerry Anderson, Brenda Hines, Frank Venner) and a Saturday, 6/12/82 ad for “Foul Weather Friends,” Stan Stachak and Merle Kachenmeister. There's one addition to the Channel 24 gallery, a Thursday, 6/17/82 ad for AM Magazine (Paul W. Smith) and there are two additions to the Channel 24 News gallery, a Tuesday, 6/9/82 ad for their election coverage (Rick Benjamin, Rosemary Collins, Heather Mackenzie, Shelley Czeizler) and a Thursday, 6/24/82 ad, telling about their Emmy Award for the 24 News Tonight series of reports on dogfighting. There are two additions to the PBS gallery, both for movies on channel 30, a Friday, 6/4/82 ad for “The King and I” (Yul Brynner), and a Saturday, 6/6/82 ad for “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” and “Three Coins in the Fountain.” There are four additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, including a Friday, 6/11/82 ad for the CNN shows, News World, Moneyline, Prime News/120 and People Tonight. There's also a Friday, 6/11/82 ad for University of Toledo Community Cablevision (UTen), a Sunday, 6/20/82 ad for the Blade Cable Contest on Cable News Channel 11, and a Sunday, 6/20/82 full-page TV Tab ad for a special offer from The CableSystem. There's also one addition to the Buckeye Channel 5 gallery, a Monday, 6/7/82 ad for the movie, “Secret Agent” on Hitchcock Thriller Week on Cable Theatre. There are three additions to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, a Friday, 6/11/82 ad for The College Baseball World Series and World Cup Soccer on ESPN and two for CBS Cable, a Thursday, 6/24/82 ad and a Sunday, 6/27/82 ad. Today's last two ads are additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 6/3/82 ad for Blade carriers (“Mom, I need more allowance”) and a Friday, 6/11/82 ad for the Recycling Station. July 1982 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...