November 16, 2014: The Big 50

You'll find sixteen more ads today, all from April 1996, plus three more Random Pages gallery additions from pages of The Blade. There are four Monday, 4/1/96 radio items by Chris Borrelli. Next is a Saturday, 4/6/96 Business Section story by Jon Chavez, "Cleveland Chain Plans to Acquire Channel 24," followed by two Monday, 4/8/96 radio items, again by Chris Borrelli. There are eleven additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Monday, 4/1/96 ad for the Disney Channel's Robert Redford Film Festival, featuring "Out of Africa" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Next is a Tuesday, 4/2/96 full-page ad (Jump into Spring with the Big 50), followed by another 4/2/96 ad, for Patrick Swayze movies on TBS including "Road House," "Point Break," "Red Dawn" and "Grandview, U.S.A." There's also a Wednesday, 4/3/96 ad for "Bloodhounds" (Corbin Bernsen, Nia Peeples) on USA, followed by a Tuesday, 4/8/95 ad for Monsters on Sci-Fi Channel, a Wednesday, 4/10/96 ad for The Popular Mechanics Show on the Discovery Channel, and a Thursday, 4/11/96 ad for Ancient Mysteries, "The Queen Pharaoh" on A&E. There's another 4/11/96 ad, for USA's coverage of The Masters golf tournament, followed by a Friday 4/12/96 ad for The Dick Van Dyke Show on Nick-at-Nite, a Thursday, 4/18/96 ad for Politically Incorrect (Bill Maher) on Comedy Central, and a Friday, 4/19/96 ad for "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" on Showtime. There are three additions to the ToledoVision 5 gallery, starting with a Wednesday, 4/3/96 half-page ad for Buckeye Baseball with a "clip & save" list of upcoming Reds, Indians and Mud Hens games on TV5. The Major League games were from SportsChannel. Next is a Thursday, 4/4/96 ad for the Toledo Mud Hens season opener at Norfolk, followed by a Saturday, 4/13/96 ad for what appears to have been a local "infomercial" called Golden Vision, for the Kahn & Diehl Centers for Progressive Eye Care. Today's last two ads are additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 4/4/96 ad for an upcoming Toledo Storm Riley Cup playoff game, and a Wednesday, 4/10/96 ad for The Blade's Kids' Cartoon Contest (Celebrate Cartoon Appreciation Week). More April 1996 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...