By Bessie Cheeseboro
Awesome facilities offered for free.
Posted on October 7, 2013
Dear TV Newscasters: The Point Is To Stop Doing This
This Goes For The Locals Too
We know you think it’s funny too, but we’re begging you to cut it out.
1. Wrongnado.
Posted on September 24, 2013
The Original Svengoolie Has Died; Remembering Jerry G. Bishop
We All Lived In His Yellow Screaming Theater
“The loss of Jerry G. Bishop, the original Sven and my mentor, brings back all the memories of his great broadcasting career, his love of family and friends, and a great big heart,” Svengoolie Rich Koz writes on his Facebook page. “I would not be where I am without him.”
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From The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
“Here’s a truly priceless moment, the two Svengoolies, the original and the Son, singing a song together. Rest in Peace, Jerry.”
With Jerry G. Bishop and Rich Koz. This aired on local Chicago TV Saturday, November 24th 1984.
Posted on September 17, 2013
Local TV Notes: More Fries, Less McCarthy
Plus: Up In The Superfans’ Grills
1. The Superfans Are Back.
The grills are cool, but . . .
Posted on September 11, 2013
Watch Rahm Emanuel Try To Be Funny On Letterman
24 Hours With Al Jazeera America
By The Beachwood 24 Hours Affairs Desk
Returning news from exile.
Midnight: Return From Exile
1 a.m.: News
1:30 a.m.: Sex Slavery
2 a.m.: News
2:30 a.m.: Natural Selection in China
3 a.m.: Return From Exile
Posted on September 9, 2013
Local TV Notes: Oprah, Ponzi, Al Jazeera
The Qatarans Are Coming
1. WGN Hangs Up On Oprah.
The best part is when Robin Baumgarten says “This is so typical. How do we cut off the one guest we’ve had that people might be interested in watching? We are such a pack of morons.”
Posted on September 4, 2013
Making The Music You Want To Hear
By The Center For Social Media
A documentary that features Chicago’s CAN TV in its first part.
Posted on August 30, 2013
Local TV Notes: Mandy Patinkin’s Chicago Upbringing, Our Extreme Cougar Wife & Being Pregnant Behind The Bars Of Cook County Jail
From People’s Iron and Metal Company To Division 17
1. Mandy Patinkin’s Abominable Behavior.
This New York Times Magazine article about Chicago native and Chicago Hope star Mandy Patinkin is getting a lot of attention for how awful he’s behaved on the sets of his jobs, but the family background that seemed in part to have led to his “abominable” behavior is the really fascinating part.
[Patinkin’s father] Lester ran People’s Iron and Metal Company, a Chicago-based junk business, founded by his father, Max.
The defining event in his life was a diving accident he suffered at 20, breaking his neck in Lake Michigan.
Posted on August 22, 2013
Help Save Classic Chicago Television!
By 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 4,200+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at Fuzzy Memories TV.
Posted on August 21, 2013