October 17, 2018: Toledo's First Simulcast

There are eight more February and March) 1954 ads today, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade.

There are four additions to the WSPD-TV 13 Ads Gallery 2:

Friday, 2/5/54 ad, for Karo Kiddie Karnival, with Uncle Jules Blair, simulcast on WSPD-TV and WSPD-AM, sponsored by Karo Syrup.

Saturday, 2/8/54 ad, for Captain Braddock (Racket Squad reruns), starring Reed Hadley, sponsored by Pure Oil Dealers.

Friday, 2/10/54 ad, for We Saw It Happen, a television salute to aviation, produced by United Aircraft Corporation.

Monday, 3/2/54 ad, for Old Dutch Revue, with Alan Dale, Elise Rhodes, Tom O'Morgan, and host Jack Clifton, sponsored by Old Dutch Beer, distributed locally by Krantz Brewing Corporation.

There's one addition to the WTOL-AM Gallery:

Saturday, 3/13/54 ad, for a political program with Adlai Stevenson.

There are three more "other ads...

One addition to the Food-Drinks-Tobacco-Misc Products Gallery 1:

Friday, 2/19/54 ad, for Buckeye Beer (In France They Say "Votre Sante").

One addition to the Food-Drinks-Tobacco-Misc Products Gallery 2:

Sunday, 3/21/54 full-page ad, for Pepsi-Cola (Portrait of a Darling!...refreshes without filling).

One addition to the Retailers # 1 Gallery:

Monday, 3/29/54 ad, for Cliff Clark's Home Appliance, "Home of Honest TV Service" (Over 9000 Toledoans have signed petitions for a new TV station. Have You?...)

It would be almost five years (December 1958) when Toledo's second TV station, WTOL-TV, Channel 11 went on the air).

More 1954 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...