March 3. 2013: Look to Eleven

 

I added twenty more ads today, all from January 1982, plus four more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Friday, 1/1/82 story by Norman Dresser, “Ch. 11 Broadens Its Lead Over Ch. 13 In Newscasts.” Next is a Tuesday, 1/12/82 story, “UT Cage Games On Delayed Basis For CableSystem.” The other two are also by Mr. Dresser, two Friday, 1/15/82 items, about WJR's Kaleidoscope and Agri-Country on WTOL-TV, and a Thursday, 1/28/82 story, “'M*A*S*H' All Over Dial As Most Popular TV Rerun” and also includes other items about CNN, ESPN and channel 11 canceling a broadcast of an Ohio State-Michigan basketball game. There are two additions to the the Channel 11 gallery, a Tuesday, 1/5/82 a d for a syndicated special, Bush Doctor, and a Wednesday, 1/27/82 ad (“Look to Eleven”). There's one addition to the Channel 13 gallery, a Friday, 1/15/82 ad for The Waltons, which replaced The Rockford Files at 4:00. Ther are two additions to the Channel 24 gallery, a Monday, 1/4/82 ad for a one hour-syndicated special, Teenage Suicide: Don't Try It which was followed by a half-hour local segment, and a Wednesday, 1/20/82 ad for a Bowling Green vs. Toledo basketball game, with Jim Tichy and Terry Shaw. There are five additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30 shows. First is a Wednesday, 1/13/82 ad for a Mark Russell Comedy Special followed by a Monday, 1/18/82 ad for Brideshead Revisited, “Et in Arcadia Ego.” There's also a Tuesday, 1/19/82 ad for The MacNeil-Lehrer Report and a Tuesday, 1/26/82 ad, asking for donations to The Great Channel 30 Buy-In. The last one is a Tuesday, 1/26/82 ad for American Playhouse, “Seguin” with A Martinez.

There are three additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, including a Thursday, 1/7/82 ad for The Realty Channel. There's also a Tuesday, 1/12/82 ad, seeking advertisers for The Blade Cablenews channel 11, and a Wednesday, 1/20/82 ad for a Toledo vs. Eastern Michigan basketball game, shown on tape, on UT Cablevision channel 10-B. There are also three additions to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, all for ESPN, a Friday, 1/15/82 ad (Bowls...& Baskets), a Tuesday, 1/19/82 ad (Hoops!) and a Saturday, 1/23/82 ad (Jumps...& Dunks!). The last four ads today are all additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, including a Friday, 1/1/82 ad for IRAs at United Savings. I think just about every bank, S&L and credit union were running IRA ads then. There's also a Tuesday, 1/19/82 full-page ad for bird feed at Food Town, a Wednesday, 1/20/82 ad for Brondes Ford (“bring your sledge hammer”), and a Sunday, 1/24/82 ad for the Ohio Turnpike. February 1982 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...