April 14, 2013: S-P-E-C-I-A-L R-E-P-O-R-T

 

I added twenty more ads today from April and May 1983, plus four more Random Pages gallery additions, three of them from Peach Sections of The Blade, including a Thursday, 4/28/83 story by Tom Gearhart, “Channel 30 Buy-In Falls Short; New Effort Slated” and also includes other items, concerning channels 30, 11, 57 and WTOD-AM. Next is a Tuesday, 5/10/83 item about ON-TV and it-TV. There's also a Thursday, 5/26/83 item, “Public TV Stations Alter Broadcast Hours.” And there are other 5/26/83 stories, by Jack Lessenberry, from the front page of The Blade's second news section, “Public TV Stations Reach Agreement” and “WGTE-TV Chairman Believes Two Stations Should Merge.” There are six additions to the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, five for Toledo Eleven News “S-P-E-C-I-A-L R-E-P-O-R-T” stories, including a Monday, 4/25/82 ad for a Terry Thill report, “Danger in the Breadbasket?” and a Tuesday, 5/3/83 ad for a Jill Olmsted report, “Jackpot Fever.” There's also a Monday, 3/9/83 ad for a Brad Fish report, “Who's Spoiling the Game?,” a Monday, 5/16/83 ad for a Deborah Baker report, “Broken Dreams,” and a Monday, 5/23/83 ad for a Dan Cummins report, “Sports Bucks.” There's also a Wednesday, 5/4/83 ad for 13 Strong News reports on Toledo's Jefferson Award winners. There's one addition to the Channel 13 gallery as well, a Saturday, 5/21/83 ad for M*A*S*H and Weekend Magazine, with Jeannine Lauber at Cedar Point. There are four additions to the Channel 24 gallery including a Wednesday, 4/27/83 ad for 24 News Tonight, The BJ-Lobo Show, The People's Court and an ABC special, Life's Most Embarrassing Monents, with John Ritter. Next is a Wednesday, 5/4/83 ad for 24 News Tonight, The BJ-Lobo Show, The People's Court and another ABC special, Battle of the Network Stars (Howard Cosell, Mr. T and Morgan Fairchild). There's also a Thursday, 5/12/83 ad for Little House on the Prairie, 24 News Tonight, The BJ-Lobo Show, “Through the Past, Darkly” (a BJ and the Bear episode) and another ABC special, John Denver and the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday. And there's a Saturday, 5/14/83 ad for two Cinema 24 movies, “Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore” and “Smile Jenny, You're Dead,” and Solid Gold with Barry Manilow. There are three additions to the PBS gallery, all for shows on channel 30. First is a Thursday, 4/28/83 ad for Issues: Ohio (Call the Governor Tonight), followed by a Saturday, 5/7/83 ad for Here's to Your Health and Under Sail. There's also a Monday, 5/9/83 ad for Great Performances, “The Innocents Abroad” (Craig Wasson, Brooke Adams, David Ogden Stiers). There are two additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Thursday, 4/28/82 ad for The Caitlins on SuperStation WTBS, and a Monday, 5/23/83 half-page ad, another one for The Blade Cablenews channels. There's also one addition to the CableSystem Ch 5 gallery, a Monday, 5/9/83 ad for The Jerry Reed Special, taped at the Lucas County Recreation Center for the launch of The Nashville Network on The CableSystem. There's one addition to the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Monday, 5/16/83 ad for The History of Classical Music on WGTE/WGLE-FM 91 (Do You Take Classical Music for Granite?). There's also one addition to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Wednesday, 4/27/83 full-page ad for the Commodore 64 home-computer. June1983 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...