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WLS Channel 7 - 30th Anniversary Special (Part 1, 1978)

Here's Part 1 of WLS Channel 7's 30th Anniversary Special, hosted by Eyewitness News anchors Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly. The broadcast originated from Chicago's Park West. The station first signed on as WENR-TV on September 17th 1948 - the second of five ABC-owned stations to take to the air (the first was New York's WJZ-TV, now WABC-TV, on August 10th 1948; these two charter stations were followed in sign-on date by Detroit's WXYZ-TV [now owned by Scripps-Howard], on October 9th 1948; San Francisco's KGO-TV [the only one of the charter ABC O&O's still owned by the network to retain their original call letters], on May 5th 1949; and Los Angeles' KECA-TV, now KABC-TV, on September 16th 1949 [one day short of a year after the Chicago station]). After ABC merged with United Paramount Theaters in 1953, the station's call letters became WBKB on February 12th (after the original WBKB, on Channel 4, was sold to CBS which changed the call letters to WBBM-TV, followed by a move to Channel 2 on July 5th); beginning in the fall of 1965, its calls were modified to WBKB-TV (never mind that there was no WBKB radio), and then adopted the current WLS-TV call letters on October 7th 1968. In addition, this was technically the 30th anniversary of the ABC television network, though they were counting it as the 25th dating to the aforementioned ABC-UPT merger (just as WLS's sign-ons and sign-offs, for many years, referred to Channel 7 as "Chicago's first television station"). Many of the clips that would appear all through this special also appeared in the retrospective of Channel 7 that aired in this year's 20th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php..., and some of the names whose faces appear in vintage film footage come from that segment. This part includes: Opening music and dance number, with a group called "Magic" performing the theme song "30 Years"; the overall feel of this number would anticipate, and be a forerunner, of, that of the opening dance number of the 1989 Chicago Emmy Awards - that is, when not focusing on vintage clip snippets Opening title segment (voiceover by Gary Gears), with shots of the various personalities entering: Fran Allison and Burr Tillstrom; Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly; Lorne Greene; Marty Faye; plus other names unseen (Sammy Raymond (?), Tim Conway, (?), and Studs Terkel) As the opening number continues, we see short shots of the various local and network shows and personalities, past and present. This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 9th 1978 during the 9pm to 10pm timeframe. About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,000+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at: http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php...