Summer 1964:Ernie Anderson and the weather?

TV 5 had a lomg-running association with Northfield Park Harness Track..This show aired Thursday nights at 10:30PM

Early Ad for WYTV-33 News-Notice there is only one "newsreader" alternating weeknights..The 11:10 news follows ABC weeknight news at 11 with Bob Young


TV Guide ad for "Kitchen Corner", long running afternoon show on WFMJ-21..The show ran from 1953-till 1966-67 with hostess Marjorie Mariner..

KYW-TV 3/Westinghouse's answer to "Johnny Carson" on WEWS-TV 5..Weeknights at 11:15PM


TV Guide ad for "Masterpiece Theater"..Ghoulardi's (Ernie Anderson) secondary program Saturday nights at 6 on TV 8 June/July 1964, when Ghoulardi was hitting his peak of popularity.





Competing News ads for WKBN-27 and WAKR-49

Today we'll look at late June-early July 1964 through TV Guide magazine June 27-July 3-Random Highlights:

The PGA's Cleveland Open was contested at Highland Hills Golf Course..While every other ABC affiliate aired it live, WEWS aired it on delay Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28 at 7:30 PM..Tony Lema was the winner.

"Loretta Young Show" reruns return to the NBC/TV 3 weekday lineup at 2PM Monday, June 29

Ernie Anderson, in addition to his "Ghoulardi" duties and WJW announcing chores, also did weeknight weather at 6:20 PM on channel 8.

Chubby Checker is Co-host on the Mike Douglas Show this week on KYW-3 12:30-2PM Mon-Fri.

On WJW-8, Jim Doney's Adventure Road is shown 6 times a week weekdays at 5 PM and Sunday nights at 9PM-In color..

Over at TV 5, between January and June 1964, the "One-O-Clock Club" had been canceled..In January'64, the show was moved to 1:30, shortened to an hour from 90 minutes, and renamed the Bill and Dorothy Show..In June 1964, channel 5 aired Virginia Graham's Girl Talk at 1PM, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show on tape delay at 1:30 and Bill Cullen's Price Is Right on delay at 2PM...

Cleveland
3 KYW-NBC
5 WEWS-ABC
8 WJW-CBS

Akron
49 WAKR-ABC

Youngstown
21 WFMJ-NBC
27 WKBN-CBS
33 WYTV-ABC



Sunday June 28, 1964

7:20
8 Meditation

7:25
8 News

7:30
8 This Is the Life

7:50
3 News

8AM
3 Ask a Priest
5 Gospel Singing Caravan
8 Mass For Shut-Ins

8:30
3 TV Sunday School
8 Faith For Today

9AM
3 Frontiers of Faith
5 Vital Faith
8 Rex Humbard
27 Sacred Heart

9:15
27 Americans At Work

9:30
3 International Zone
5 Gospel Singing
27 Summer Semester

10AM
3 Woodrow
5 Casper
8-27 Lamp Unto My Feet
21 Cartoon Time

10:30
5 Sunday Show-Cartoons
8 Moral View
27 look Up And Live

10:55
49 News

11AM
5 Movie-On The Old Spanish Trail-1947
8 Cleveland Caucus-Sidney Andorn
21 Adventure Strip
27 Camera Three
49 Faith For Today

11:30
3 Sea Hunt
8 Movie-China Gate-1957
27-49 This Is the Life

Noon
3 Wyatt Earp
5 Gene Carroll
21 That We May See
27 Word Of Life
33 Fisher Family
49 Top Star Bowling

12:30
3 Religions In America
21 Faith For Today
27 Oral Roberts
33 Footnote

1PM
3 Movie-The Iron Major-1943
5 Polka Varities-Tom Fletcher
21 Holiday Time
27 Catoon Carnival
33 Discovery '64

1:15
8 Dugout Interview-Bob Neal
27 Baseball-Detroit at New York Yankees-Dizzy Dean/Pee Wee Reese

1:30
8-33 Baseball-Cleveland At Boston Bob Neal/Herb Score
(Cleveland lost 8-5 and 4-3 in a doubleheader)
21 Frontiers of Faith
49 Operation Success

2PM
5 Championship Bowling-Fred Wolff
21 Your Neighbor, The World
49 Directions 64

2:26
3 News (The previous movie was listed at 86 minutes-Odd scheduling)

2:30
3 One Step Beyond
21 Baseball-Chicago White Sox at Minnesota-Bob Wolff and Joe Garagiola
49 Championship Bridge

3PM
3 Movie-The Egg and I-1947-First of the Ma and Pa Kettle Movies..
5 Manhunt
49 Discovery 64

3:30
5-49 Issues and Answers-Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

4PM
5 Riverboat
49 Chapel on Fir Hill

4:05
8 Baseball Scoreboard

4:15
8 Movie-Slattery's Hurricane-1949
27 Cartoon Carnival

4:30
3 Open Circuit-Murray Seeger
27 American Adventure
33 Gale Storm Show
49 Movie-Adventures of Tom Sawyer-1938

5PM
3 Fair Adventure-Dr. Frank Baxter
5 Empire
21 Sunday-Frank Blair
27 Sports Spectacular-Outdoor Diving Championships-Chris Schenkel, Eddie Cole
33 Cleveland Open-Live-Chris Schenkel is among those reporting the action-Interesting oddity-Schenkel is on 2 networks competing against himself..

5:30
3 Jazz Scene USA
27 Amateur Hour-Ted Mack

6PM
3-21 Meet the Press
5 Ripcord
8-27 Twentieth Century-Cronkite
33 Movie-Mad Doctor of Market Street-1942
49 Hootennanny 49-Dave Davis

6:30
3 Death Valley Days
5 Cheyenne
8 Littlest Hobo
21 Biography
27 Mr. Ed-Introduction of the Post's New Neighbors. The Kirkwoods, after the death of Larry Keating, who played Roger Addison..
49 Roller Derby

7PM
3 Biography
8-27 Lassie
21 Bill Dana Show

7:30
3-21 Disney's World-COLOR
5 Cleveland Open-Tape Delay
8-27 My Favorite Martian
33-49 Empire

8PM
8-27 Ed Sullivan-Frank Sinstra, Bobby Vinton, Ferante and Teicher are among the guests.

8:30
3-21 Grindl
5-33-49 Arrest and Trial

9PM
3-21 Bonanza-COLOR
8 Adventure Road-COLOR
27 Celebrity Game-Carl Reiner

9:30
27 Brenner

10PM
3 Movie-Tea For Two-1950
5 Movie-Moonfleet-1955
(Both stations interrupt the movie for news at 11)
8-27 Candid Camera
21 DuPont Show-COLOR
33 Probe
49 NFL Highlights-Bears at 49ers 10-20-63

10:30
8-27 What's My Line?
33 ABC News Reports

11PM
3 News-Jack Bennett
5 News-Charles Day
8 News-Roger Goodrich
21-27 News
33-49 CBS News-Harry Reasoner (neither 8 or 27 cleared this newscast apparently)

11:05
5 Weather-Court Stanton

11:10
3 Weather-Ken Goodman
5 Sports-Paul Wilcox
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:15
3-5 Movies Continue (from 10PM)
8 Weather-Howard Hoffman
21 Movie-Highway 301-1950
27 Movie-The Unholy Wife-1957
33 News-Fred Koeberle
49 Movie-Above Us The Waves-1955

11:20
8 Movie-The Lost Weekend-1945

11:25
33 Movie-Crash of Silence-English-1953

12:05
5 Roller Derby
49 Living Word

12:20
3 Movie-I walked with a Zombie-1943

1:05
5 News

1:20
8 Movie-Slim-1937

Friday, July 3, 1964

5:50
3 News

5:55
3 Farm Fare

6AM
3 Fair Adventure

6:30
3 Operation Alphabet

7AM
3-21 Today-Hugh Downs

7:05
8 Meditation

7:10
8 News

7:15
8 Summer Semester

7:25
27 Summer Semester

7:45
8 Rex Humbard

7:55
27 News

8AM
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

8:55
5 News

9AM
3 Woodrow-Clay Conroy
5-21-33 Cartoons
8 Franz The Toymaker-COLOR
27 Movie-Fury at Gunsight Pass-1956

9:15
21 World Of Books

9:30
3 Ann Sothern
5 Romper Room-Miss Barbara
8 People's Choice
21 Robin Hood

10AM
3-21 Make Room For Daddy-Guest Tennessee Ernie Ford
5 Paige Palmer
8 As The World Turns
27 CBS News-Mike Wallace
33 Jack LaLanne

10:25
49 Newa

10:30
3-21 Word for Word-Merv Griffin-COLOR
5 Junior Clubhouse
8-27 I Love Lucy
33-49 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen

10:55
3-21 NBC News-Edwin Newman

11AM
3-21 Concentration-Hugh Downs
5-33-49 Get The Message-Robert Q. Lewis
8-27 Mc Coys

11:30
3-21 Jeopardy-Art Fleming-COLOR
5-33-49 Missing Links-Dick Clark
8-27 Pete and Gladys

Noon
3 News
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8-27 Love of Life
21 Say When-Art James-COLOR
33-49 Father Knows Best

12:15
5 News-Charles Day

12:25
8 News-Bob Irwin
27 CBS News-Robert Trout

12:30
3 Mike Douglas-Chubby Checker co-hosts
5 Noon Show-Captain Penny (Ron Penfound)
8 Search For Tomorrow
21 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker-COLOR
27 News-Jack Graham
33-49 Ernie Ford-Guest Mel Torme

12:35
27 Movie-Tarawa Beachead-1958

12:45
8 Guiding Light-To be canceled this year (2009) after over 70 years on radio and TV

12:55
21 NBC News-Ray Scherer

1PM
5 Girl Talk-Virginia Graham
8 Hawaiian Eye
21 News
33 Danger Man
49 Matinee 49

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:30
5 Ernie Ford
33 Jean Tornello Show
49 Kartoon Karnival

1:55
8 TV Editorial-Norman Wagy

2PM
3-21 Loretta Young
5 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
8-27 Password
33 Rescue 8
49 Ed Allen (wonder if ABC had a network program that was not shown locally)

2:30
3-21 The Doctors
5-33-49 Day In Court
8-27 House Party-Guest Carl Reiner

2:55
5-33-49 ABC News-Lisa Howard

3PM
3-21 Another World
5-33-49 General Hospital
8-27 To Tell The Truth

3:25
8 News-Bob Irwin
27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

3:30
3-21 You Don't Say!-Tom Kennedy-COLOR
5-33-49 Queen For A Day-Jack Bailey
8-27 Edge Of Night

4PM
3-21 Match Game-Gene Rayburn
5-33 Trailmaster-Wagon Train Reruns
8-27 Secret Storm
49 TV Hour Of Stars

4:25
3-21 NBC News-Sander Vanocur

4:30
3 Barnaby-Linn Sheldon
8-27 Leave It To Beaver (syndicated)
21 Movie-The She Creature-1956

5PM
5 Caotain Penny's Comedy Clubhouse
8 Adventure Road-Jim Doney-COLOR
27 Rifleman
33 Barney Bean
49 Trailmaster

5:05
3 Movie-Gun That Won Thw West-1955

5:30
5 Magilla Gorilla
27 San Francisco Beat (The Lineup)
33 Rocky and His Friends

5:45
33 News-Bob Spiegel

5:55
33 Weather

6PM
5 News-Tom Field, Dave Buckel
8 City Camera-Doug Adair
21-27 News
33 ABC News-Ron Cochran
49 Professor Jack

6:10
8 Editorial-Norman Wagy

6:15
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald
33 Suppertime-Humbards

6:20
8 Weather-Ernie Anderson

6:25
8 News-Joel Daly

6:30
3-21 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
5 ABC News-Ron Cochran
8 Rifleman
27 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
33 Maverick

6:45
5 Sports-Paul Wilcox

6:55
5 Weather-Ron Jaye
49 Sports-Bob Wylie

7PM
3 News
5 Huckleberry Hound
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
21 Have Gun-Will Travel
27 Love That Bob-Bob Cummings
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons

7:10
49 Weather-Dave Davis

7:15
49 ABC News-Ron Cochran

7:30
3-21 International Showtime
5-33-49 Olympic Trials-Pre-empts "Destry"
8-27 Great Adventure

8:30
3-21 Bob Hope (Chrysler Theater)-COLOR
5-33-49 Burke's Law
8-27 Route 66

9:30
3-21 That Was The Week That Was
5-33-49 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
8-27 Twilight Zone

10PM
3-21 Jack Paar-COLOR
5 Battle Line
8-27 Alfred Hitchcock
33-49 Boxing-NYC

10:30
5 Peter Gunn

10:45
33-49 Make That Spare

11PM
3 News-Bud Dancy
5 News-Tom Field
8 News-Joel Daly, Doug Adair
21-27 News
33-49 ABC News-Bob Young

11:10
3 Weather-Dick Goddard
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald
33 News-Paul Burke
49 News-Kenny Halterman

11:15
3 Steve Allen
5 Johnny Carson-COLOR-Johnny begins a 3 week vcation after tonight
8 Weather-Howard Hoffman
49 Race Results-Van Lane

11:20
8 Movie-Ghoulardi-The Cosmic Man-1959
27 Movie-The Sniper-1952
49 Championshp Bowling-Fred Wolf

11:25
33 Hawaiian Eye

11:30
21 Johnny Carson-COLOR

12:20
49 News

12:25
33 News

12:45
3 Movie-Kitty Foyle-1940

1AM
5-21 News
8 Movie-Larceny Inc-1942

More WJAN Photos:

More WJAN-TV photos from Ed Thomas..Thanks again Ed..I just decided it would be easier to make a separate post for other sets of pictures..

WJAN-TV Transmitter: building. I dont know much about electronics. I will admit, but even I can tell this is old..Was finally turned off Thursday night..

Taken at the 1972 Jerry Lewis Telethon.. The gentleman in the middle of the photo is probably "Milton The Milkman", who hosted a kids' cartoon show in the afternoons..Am not 100% sure, however..Also dont know who the man he is talking to is..Check out the young lady on the right..Little short on the skirt there.. WJAN carried the telethon till 1977..WOAC eventually took it over..With Scott Davis and Sherry Lee hosting..Ms Lee was also a long time WJAN personality..



Early 1970's camera..Perhaps Ed or Cleveland Classic Media reader wbhist can tell us the make of this camera..This was taken at the 1972 Jerry Lewis Telethon

WJAN-TV 17 Pictures...

Amateur Radio operator Ed Thomas, of North Canton, who shared with us some rare WAKR-TV-23 Photographs a few weeks back, has come up with a few pictures from WJAN-TV 17 in Canton, Ohio, Which, as WDLI-TV, shut off its analog channel 17 last evening..

WJAN-TV Test Pattern..probably from the early 1970's


A pair of 2-inch quad tape machines..Dave Little of Canton owns a few of these machines..(not sure about these particular ones) And has been copying various older Hoolihan and Big Chuck skits..To save them for posterity.And possible future DVD sets of skits..



Early view of the original WJAN studio and transmitter location..At the corner of Reno Drive and California Avenue in Louisville, Oh. near St. Thomas Aquinas High School-Just outside the Canton City limits.

This was the transmitter that was turned off last night..All of WDLI's digital facilities are in Akron..




This appears to be a logo slide of WJAN-Gives you a better idea of what the lettering on the logo looked like. When I first started watching WJAN on occasion in the 1970's..I did not like the "eye" dotting the J in the logo...looked somewhat creepy to me..

Big thanks to Ed for these pictures..If he has any more of WJAN, and he doesnt mind, I'll add them to this post..

Here is a 3-part summary of the History of WJAN/WDLI I did in 2007..

Part 1:

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/serving-city-of-cantonwjan-tv-17.html

Part 2:

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/1960s-programming-on-channel-17minimal.html

Part 3:

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2007/10/wjan-tv-1970-77growing-pains.html

Not as complete as I'd like but it's still hard to find much on WJAN-TV Canton on the net, even 2 years later..Just about nothing on YouTube..

Some Newsy notes to end the week..

Original (and only) WJAN-TV 17 logo from its days owned by Janson Industries of Canton 1967-77..(Canton Repository Archives-Stark County District Library)

WJAN-TV schedule Ad for Tuesday, May 7, 1968 (Courtesy Canton Repository archives-Stark County District Library)

Good afternoon:

Just thought we'd mention a few miscellaneous items to end the week..

First:

WDLI-TV 17, Licensed to Canton Ohio since January 3, 1967, (WJAN 1967-82) shut down it's analog transmitter in Louisville, Ohio last night at about 11:59 PM, as part of a TBN-Network-wide shutdown of all its full-power analog services, ahead of the FCC June 12 deadline..No fanfare..just a simple announcement, then into more TBN programming at midnight-If anyone puts it on YouTube, we'll gladly share it, but it wasnt much to be honest..

Also:

According to Ohio Media Watch through other sources, Multicultural Broadcasting has sold its roster of stations, including WOAC-67 Canton, t0 Radiant Life Ministries, an arm of TCT Network in Marion, Illinois..Operated by Garth Coonce, TCT operates Religious stations in several locations, Including Jamestown, NY (Buffalo) Muskegon, Michigan and Greensboro, NC. It is expected Radiant Life/TCT will turn WOAC into a religious station..

Personal thought:While both full power Canton TV stations will now be religious, I prefer that somewhat to a full time informercial station..

Link to the OMW report:

http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/woac-sold-to-religious-operator.html

Speaking of OMW, he has started a "Mini Blog" as it were for reports on the Digital TV transition as it affects TV stations all over Ohio..Should be a good place to watch as June 12 gets closer..

http://ohiodigitaltv.blogspot.com/

One other note:My wife and I will be busy/out of town Tuesday-Thursday next week (April 21-23)..If I dont put something up before Tuesday, It'll probably next weekend or later before I do another post..

Neil Zurcher:Northeast Ohio TV Memories

Retired TV 8 reporter Neil Zurcher-Courtesy Gray and Co.

Good Morning:

Former Radio/TV newsman Don Olson the other day made me aware of a new blog by Retired WJW-TV 8 reporter Neil Zurcher. Zurcher, famous for his "One Tank Trip" segments on Newscenter 8 and Fox 8 News from 1980-into the 2000's, has started a blog of his own.."Northeast Ohio TV Memories"

His goal is to provide pictures and stories of men and women who made Television in Cleveland from 1947 on..Though many of the first pictures came from Neil Zurcher's personal collection, he is inviting personnel from all Cleveland Stations to take part in the blog, as well as share their own personal memories of working in Cleveland Television..

It is good to see someone else, especially a Broadcast Veteran like Neil Zurcher realize that the Golden Age of Broadcasting in Cleveland needs to be preserved in some form, and we wish him the best of luck. I have already told Neil that he is welcome to any pictures here he can use.

Also, as of today, "Northeast Ohio TV Memories" will be part of our links..

http://neohiotvmemories.wordpress.com/

Our second anniversary..Vintage Indians specials on STO..

Hello:
This last week (About March 30) marked our second anniversary here at Cleveland Classic Media..Would like to thank everybody for making the blog a bigger success than I ever thought it could be..From broadcasters, past and present, to just people sharing their memories about the 3-channel universe that was Cleveland Television for many years as well as some radio memories.

Here is an email I received recently from former Northeast Ohioan Rick Goddard of Laurel Maryland..



"I found your site a few months ago. Unfortunately I've been going
through it backwards...sigh. This messes up the flow, but I get the idea
:-) You are presenting me with memories from my childhood. These are
great! Please keep finding more of these gems.

I was born in 1951 (so I antedate you by a few years) in Alliance, Ohio.
My parents told me that neighbors would congregate in our living room in
the early 1950's to watch TV. The 16 inch Magnavox TV was the cat's meow
(this was a really big screen at the time), and an antenna on your house
was a status symbol. Some people put up an antenna (with no TV) just to
impress the neighbors! We had to use a double bay "Lazy X" just to get a
signal. The Youngstown stations weren't even considered at this time. No
UHF tuner.

We were 60 miles away so this was the fringe area for Cleveland. The
Magnavox TV (with real hardwood, I wish I still had it) became "my" TV
when my parents upgraded to a 21 inch TV (really big) for the living
room in 1958. I reveled in fact that I had my "own" TV in my room in the
late 1950's. We weren't rich by any means, but I guess TV was important.

I have a claim to fame by appearing on Uncle Jake's House. I suspect
this was in 1956 or 1957, but it was definitely toward the end of July
(my birthday). I was in the bleachers with my then neighborhood "girl
friend" Anita.

As a harbinger of my later engineering degree I loudly proclaimed from
the bleachers that the "door" on the set was fake. Gene Carroll seized
on that and invited me down to check it out. I remember very bright
lights and a painted canvas. I got to the "door" and was encouraged to
try the door knob on the fake door. I did. I'm told that my reaction of
"Awww" when I actually tried to grasp the door knob on the canvas was a
big hit. I now assume I helped Gene kill 2 minutes on his unscripted
show :-) It's a shame they didn't record any of this (who knew?--and it
wasn't worth using film anyway), but I'd love to see my 6 year old self
doing these stupid things!

I still can't believe that I'd watch Roller Derby (Sunday's at 1:30 or
so) or boxing (prime time). I now read a lot of books because Comcast
Cable (120 channels) has nothing on :-)

Your site brings back forgotten memories. I remember watching Jim
Doney's Adventure Road when WJW switched the program to color on a
Sunday afternoon in 1964. Of course there was nothing to see on a B&W
TV, but we watched (at my teenage urging) anyway.

I moved away from Ohio in 1973 after graduating from CWRU in Cleveland.
I went to Laurel, MD to make my "fortune". After 29 years of fortune
making, I'm now retired, but where's the fortune?...sigh. I'm doing
well, but being rich would be better:-)"

Rick Goddard
Laurel, MD

PS: Yes, from the 1960's until I moved I was often asked if Dick Goddard
was a relative (no, he isn't as far as I know unless it's many, many
generations past).


People such as Rick are exactly why we're here. Sometimes when I dont get a response from some posts, I wonder if it is worth it..Letters like the above tell me it is..
Thanks for the kind words, Rick!

When I talk about vintage broadcasting, a lot of what I write about transcends other interests, particularly sports..A lot of my memories stem from watching and listening to Cleveland Sports Teams on local TV/Radio from about 1970 on..I mentioned being an NBA Cincinnati Royals Fan in 1968-69-70 earlier..I also watched a LOT of bad Indians Baseball and Cavaliers Basketball..Was hard to take sometimes, but they were OUR teams..

Sportstime Ohio has done a great job for a relatively new network, already with Exclusive Indians and Browns coverage, as well as High School State Championships..Id like to see them do more Indians Classics, especially 1970's games originally on WJW, if available..

Sportstime Ohio will be debuting 2 new Indians Specials over the next few days..Indians Alumni Roundtable 1960's, with Max Alvis, Joe Azcue, Gary Bell and Mudcat Grant. The One-hour show debuted at 2PM April 2 will repeat at 8PM, April 3 at 6:30 PM and probably many times after that..

Indians Alumni Roundtable 1980's Debuts at 2PM April 3,repeat at 8PM and at Noon April 6 and again, probably many times after that..(Am recording it-will update the guests on Twitter as I find out..)

Both specials will be hosted by Indians PR Director Bob DiBiasio..Here is a nice story of how he got hired by the Indians:

http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,2362,3,158

This is the kind of progrmming I like to see STO do..Should be fun and interesting..

30 years for "Television ei8ht" Cleveland-1979

"WJW Classic" Logo-Used from 1966-1977, then revived in 1996 for "ei8ht is News"

1959 Christmas Greeting-Notice "Casey Kassem" The one and the same Casey Kasem, who would be famous as host of American Top 40, "Shaggy" on Scooby Doo and many other music shows and voiceover assignments over the years.


From 1953-TV Guide ad promoting WXEL-TV 8's new broadcast tower..


On the blog site here, and on my YouTube page, I have used liberal amounts of several TV History specials from WKYC-3 and WEWS-5. I had often wondered if WJW-TV 8 ever produced such a special detailing its history..While Fox 8 did a series of 50th anniversary reports on the Morning News in 1999, to me it's not the same as devoting a prime time hour to such a special..

Well, thanks to Ray Glasser (Videoholic) and YouTube, we find that WJKW-TV 8 (at the time) produced an hour special honoring the station's 30th anniverasry on December 19, 1979..Hosted by Dick Goddard, the hour is an informal trip down memory lane with TV 8 personalities past and present, including Ernie Anderson, Warren Guthrie, Jim Doney, Howard Hoffman, Joel Daly, John Fitzgerald and Chuck Schodowski, among others..I thought with the last post mentioning the WXEL-WJW change in 1956, this would be a good follow-up..

Part 1:Ernie Anderson Introduces


Part 2:

Part 3:


Part 4:


Part 5:



Part 6:


Also Included:A couple of 30th anniversary commercials..And another commercial touting "Earth Station 8"..The first use of Satellite Technology in Cleveland Television..