By Fuzzy Memories TV

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For decades, television has brought us some of the most unforgettable moments in history, yet many of them were either never recorded, or erased and reused, never to be seen again.
The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television (fuzzymemories.tv) is working hard to preserve many of these great moments, much of which aired in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest media market, and a city with its own unique media heritage, both on radio and television.

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Posted on October 25, 2012

By Ward Ambrose

“Look at Afghanistan people and lifestyle. Also US service personnal perils serving in Afghanistan. No narraration. Audio not change. Just raw footage. This was edited for JCTV Joliet, IL.”

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Posted on October 24, 2012

By Amanda Zamora/ProPublica

In just two weeks, volunteers for our Free the Files project have liberated information on $294 million in ad buys made in swing states since Aug. 2.
The spending data comes from nearly 4,600 political ad contracts collected in a Federal Communications Commission database. The buys were made by candidates, super PACs, social welfare nonprofits and other groups at TV stations in 33 major markets
Though not comprehensive and based on ad purchases that are sometimes revised, the data provides a previously unattainable snapshot of political spending in the final weeks of the campaign.
Of the contracts reviewed so far, $64.3 million reflects buys by the Obama campaign, which spent more than any other group and about four times the amount spent by the Romney campaign.

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Posted on October 15, 2012

By Justin Elliott/ProPublica

We’ve been writing a lot about the newly available TV station ad files that offer never-before-available details on political spending.
And ProPublica readers around the country have been helping sort through the data in our Free the Files app.
We thought it would be useful to explain a few ways we and other media have used the files, and how other reporters might do the same.

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Posted on October 11, 2012

By Amanda Zamora/ProPublica

In the first seven days since we rebooted Free The Files, nearly 350 people have “freed” a political ad contract from the Federal Communications Commission database, unlocking more than $160 million in ad spending by 325 groups in more than 30 swing markets.
Our top contributor alone has freed an astounding 1,300 files. What is becoming of all this ad data?
A look at what we’ve learned in the last week:

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Posted on October 9, 2012

Beals, Wendt, Epstein, Geraci

“How many bad shows are they going to set in Chicago?” our very own Mike Luce wondered last week in reaction to Chicago Fire. “Wasn’t Chicago Code enough?”
No, the Beachwood has learned. The following ideas are in development at major networks near you.
* Jennifer Beals as Rahm Emanuel in Flashdance Chicago. Just a big city mayor on a Saturday night, lookin’ for the fight of his life.
* George Wendt in Sears. See what happens when Norm Peterson is hired to turn around a struggling American icon.
* CSI: CTU. The education of a mayor.
* Chicago Load. Cameras follow Jay Cutler through a full season.
* Chicago Disability. Chris Hansen uses illicit chat rooms to lure unsuspecting cops drawing disability to a park to throw the ball around, then confronts them.

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Posted on October 8, 2012

Why Isn’t This Woman Anchoring The Network News?

Ladies and gentlemen, Jennifer Livingston.

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Posted on October 5, 2012

By Steve Rhodes

First, the Fox Chicago report by Dane Placko.
Then, we’ll add value.

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Posted on October 2, 2012

By Amanda Zamora/ProPublica

Outside groups are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence the coming elections – money that has long been hard to track.
This summer, the Federal Communications Commission ordered TV stations to pull back the curtain a bit, requiring them to publish online detailed records of political ad buys.
Before, these records were only available by visiting stations in person, an issue ProPublica spotlighted in our Free The Files coverage.
So far the new rule only covers the top 50 markets, and it’s impossible to search these files by candidate or political group – meaning it’s impossible to get a full picture of the spending.
We want to change that.

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Posted on September 28, 2012

Major Contribution To Humanity

Spot the fake.
1. Freaky Fetishes.

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Posted on September 27, 2012