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Off The Grid In 1979

Uploaded To YouTube By TheMotiondevotion

“This 1979 WMAQ-TV (NBC Chicago) news segment was located on a dusty Betamax tape. It profiles a visionary family and their experience going ‘off the grid’ at a time when that phrase did not yet exist and the concept was almost unknown.”

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Posted on August 31, 2012

A Rough Week At Channel 7

By PicklePower234

“To be fair, it seems like there were issues with the script/teleprompter, and not the talent (for the most part),” PicklePower234 writes on this YouTube upload. “But I still think these people are very talented.”

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Posted on August 24, 2012

Evergreen Park Reality TV Star Is Dead

Funeral Service In Oak Lawn For Troubled, Combustible Bodybuilder

“Joey Kovar – a native of Evergreen Park who appeared in Real World: Hollywood and Celebrity Rehab 3 – was found dead Friday morning in south suburban Chicago Ridge, according to family and police,” the Tribune reports.
“An autopsy conducted on Saturday was inconclusive and the cause of death was pending toxicological test results, officials said today.”
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“His friends were shocked but they were also not surprised because he had been sending suicidal texts lately,” says Celebrity Video Forums.

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Posted on August 20, 2012

Political Ad Data Comes Online – But It’s Not Searchable

By Justin Elliott/ProPublica

After a bruising months-long fight between media corporations and the Federal Communications Commission, a government website came online today that will feature political ad data from television stations around the country.
This means that detailed files about political advertising – which show who is buying political ads, how much they are paying, and when the ads are running, among other information – will finally be available online. In the past, those interested in the files, which are by law public, had to travel to stations to get physical copies.

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Posted on August 2, 2012