October 12, 2014: Attention Bird Watchers: Keep Your Eye on America's Favorites

 

You'll find fourteen more ads today, all from October 1995, plus two more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Saturday, 10/28/95 item, reminding viewers that it was the first day NBC shows would be seen on channel 24 and ABC shows would be seen on channel 13. There's also a Monday, 10/30/95 story by Chris Borelli, "Visit to a Television Station Turns Into a Tale of Telephone Terror." There's also another item related to the nework switch, and one more item, about channel 11's new website. It's been a long time, but most of today's ads are for Toledo broadcast stations. There are two additions to the Channel 11 gallery, starting with a Thursday, 10/26/95 ad for CBS evening shows, Murder, She Wrote (Angela Lansbury), "Crimson Harvest," The Young & The Restless primetime special, 48 Hours, and Late Night with David Letterman, plus Toledo Eleven News Nightwatch. There's also a Tuesday, 10/31/95 ad for Toledo 11 News First at Five, Toledo 11 News at 6, CBS Evening News, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, CBS primetime shows, The Client, "Dear Harris" and the movie "Edward Scissorhands," plus Toledo 11 News Nightwatch. There are four additions to the Channel 13 gallery, starting with two full-page ads, a Thursday, 10/26/95 ad (In Just 2 Days, America's Favorites Will Be On TV-13) and a Saturday, 10/28/95 ad (This Is Big. Today TV-13 Made the Change to ABC). There's also a Monday, 10/30/95 ad with that day's schedule, including ABC primetime shows, The Marshall, "Bounty Hunter" and Monday Night Football with Chicago at Minnesota, followed by a Tuesday, 10/31/95 ad with that day's schedule, including ABC primetime shows, Roseanne, "Halloween--The Final Chapter," Hudson Street, "The Hit Parade," Home Improvement, "Let Them Eat Cake," and NYPD Blue, "Torah! Torah! Torah!" There are four additions to the Channel 24 gallery, starting with three Monday, 10/30/95 ads, a Pages of Opinion ad (Attention Bird Watchers" The Hits Are Flying to the New NBC24), a Sports Section ad for Frasier with David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer (Crane flown the coop?), and a Peach Secton ad for Hope & Gloria with Jessica Lundy and Cynthia Stevenson (Lost Hope?). There's also a Tuesday, 10/31/95 ad for Friends with David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, and Jennifer Aniston. (Missing Your Friends?). There are three additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Thursday, 10/26/95 ad for BET's Jazz Central, followed by two Family Channel ads, a Saturday, 10/28/95 ad for "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga," and a Tuesday, 10/31/95 ad for Newhart (Bob Newhart, Mary Frann). And there's one addition to the ToledoVision 5 gallery, a Saturday, 10/28/95 ad for a Reality Check sweepstakes, where you could win a computer. By the way, there are over 19,000 ads on this site now! More October 1995 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

Also, don't forget, I'll be making additions to the Halloween Ads gallery, all from the 1990s, on Sunday, October 19, 2014