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Welcome to Central Illinois' On-Line Broadcast Museum. This website documents in detail the history of each of the viewable TV stations, past and present, across mid-Illinois in text, photos, and videos, as well as each station's current status. This site also includes local radio history and automated analog formats, again told in pictures, videos, and text. 

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Doug Quick in 2020 during a weathercast on WCCU
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Doug Quick at WCCU(TV)

in 2020

Doug Quick 
Radio/TV Broadcaster/Historian, Author, Webmaster
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Videos of the Week

This week at Central Illinois' On-Line Broadcast Museum, I'll show you something a bit different for the Videos of the Week. As you might know, I also have a YouTube channel featuring classic TV items, recent TV news artifacts, radio station air checks, and more. Over the last month and week, I've added quite a few videos from local TV newscasts from the past, some classic TV full episodes from my collection (when I can, as YouTube has blocked some I have posted), and several TV network promos.

 

Last week and this week, I included a little of everything mentioned above. Consider the collection below, a sample of what you'll find on my YouTube channel. If you should explore my channel, give me a "LIKE" for the videos you see and subscribe to the channel. Just click on the "YouTube" logo below to go directly to my Channel—and enjoy!

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Pillsbury Dough Boy

Click on the image to watch the Pillsbury Dough Boy's 25th Anniversary on YouTube.

Pillsbury Dough Boy 25th Anniversary 1990

This video was produced by Pillsbury and Sears Kenmore Appliances ad agencies in 1990. It was a promotional effort for the 25th Birthday of the Pillsbury Doughboy. I was hired to do the voice-over for the video, which was played in the Sears Appliance Departments at over 600 Sears stores.

Even though this wasn't broadcast, it is one of the most viewed videos on my YouTube Channel, with over 60,000 views. Go figure! My voiceover was recorded at Rick Bednar's studio in Champaign, IL, and supervised by people from the ad agency.

NBC 1966 "Snake" logo

Click on the image to watch the 1966 NBC Prime Time Promo on YouTube.

Mon-Wed-Fri Promos (1966) NBC

This is another of the most viewed videos on my channel. It's had over 12 thousand views, not a lot compared to some channels, but I'm not in competition for views, as my videos are not monetized.

Check out NBC promos from 1966, including that for Monday prime time with  "The Monkees," "I Dream of Jeannie," and "Roger Miller Show." Then for Wednesday, "The Virginian," "Bob Hope Theater," and "I Spy. "   Friday's lineup included "Tarzan" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. 
 

NBC Weekday Morning Promo

Click on the image to watch the NBC daytime promo from 1965 on YouTube.

Weekday AM Promo (1965) NBC  

This NBC promo was produced for the 1965 weekday morning network lineup shows. It aired as part of the new Fall Season during "NBC Week."

The networks and local stations' daytime schedules get little attention, so I include this one glimpse that goes back to 1965. I also include this one because, in 1995, I met and conversed with Don Morrow, the host of "Let's Play Post Office." (pictured above)

This promo and the shows it featured would have been seen on WICS, WCHU, WICD, WEEK-TV, WTWO-TV, and KSD-TV in mid-Illinois.

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Click on the image to watch the the Dick Clark Beech-Nut Show from 1958 on YouTube.

Dick Clark's Beech-Nut Show (1958) ABC

This video is another popular one on my YouTube channel. "Dick Clark's Beech-Nut Show." 

44th and Broadway in New York was the theater that hosted "Dick Cark's Beech-Nut Show" in 1958. Plus, with this episode, a new sponsor kept the series on ABC for its run on Saturday at 6:30 pm (CT) from February 16, 1958, through September 10, 1960. Originally called "The Dick Clark Show," the name of a once popular chewing gum, "Beech-Nut," was added as a named sponsor. 

​This variety show mainly featured popular artists among the young or semi-young and was the lead-off musical program for Saturday nights. Other programs included "Jubilee USA," "Lawrence Welk's Dodge Dancing Party," and "Sammy Kaye's Music from Manhattan."

​The following season (1959-60), "Jubilee USA" was moved to fill the 9 pm (CT) spot following "The Lawrence Welk Show."  The 7 pm-8 pm slot was filled by the now-forgotten "High Road" and the much better-remembered "Leave it to Beaver."

​This series more than likely aired over Mid-Illinois on WTVP, WTVH, KTVI, and WDAN-TV.

ABC's Movie of the Week Title graphic

Click on the image to watch the opening title for "ABC's Movie of the Week" on YouTube.

ABC Movie of the Week (1971) Intro

This is another popular video on my YouTube channel. If you frequent this site often, you might remember a few weeks ago when the Videos of the Week included several selections from this weekly "made for TV movie" series.

The theme music, "Nikki," was an orchestral version of a song written by Burt Bacharach and named for his and Angie Dickenson's daughter. This theme and the TV movies were seen on ABC stations across mid-Illinois on WAND, WIRL-TV(WRAU-TV), WJJY-TV, and KTVI. 

WICD Promo with Barb Leach 1987

Click on the image to watch all of the local commercials during a 1987 broadcast of SNL on WICD

WICD Local Commercials from December 1987

These local commercials were broadcast during an installment of NBC's Saturday Night Live from December 1987 on WICD, Channel 15, Champaign, IL.

The commercials include: "The Woodshed" with voiceover by Ken Johnson, "The News-Gazette" with an unknown voiceover, "Market Place Shopping Center" with voiceover by Keith Page, PSA with Barb Leach, WICD weather promo voiced by station manager Joe Norris, "JBJ Gifts" with an unknown voice over, "August Systems" produced at WCIA with voice over by Rick Bednar, WICD promo with Barb Leach and Station ID with station engineer Jim Wnek.

CBS Logo Themes 1981-1990

Click on the image to see CBS Promo Themes from 1981-1990 on YouTube.

CBS Promo Themes 1981-1990

This video is a montage of the CBS Fall Season Premiere themes from 1981 to 1990. 

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Click on the image to watch the WICS 10 pm news from Feb 22, 2019.

ABC 1983-84 Season Preview

Here's a slightly modified version of the 1983-84 Season Preview. I edited to recreate the opening few minutes of the special, which experienced technical problems on the original recording. 

"The Love Boat" was the host series in this season's preview. ABC aired this special in September of 1983.  

The Bob Cummings Show brought to you by Winston

Click on the image to watch an episode of "The Bob Cummnings Show" from 1955.

Bob Cummings Show (1955) NBC

Here's an "oldie" that seemed to get much attention when I posted it within the last couple of weeks. "The Bob Cummings Show" featured longtime film star Robert Cummings as a photographer and swinging bachelor, Bob Collins. This series, produced during a much more innocent time, had Bob spending time in his studio taking pictures of beautiful models. His secretary, in the role of "Shultzy," was Ann B. Davis, who would become the housekeeper of the Brady family on "The Brady Bunch." 

Bob Collins lived with his widowed sister Margaret McDonald, played by Rosemary DeCamp, and nephew Chuck, played by Dwayne Hickman. 

You might notice by the credits at the end of the show that many names like Paul Henning, Al Simon, and others were also a part of the production of  "The Beverly Hillbillies" in the early 1960s. Others in the cast of "The Bob Cummings Show" included a few who would later show up in "The Beverly Hillbillies." Look for Nancy Kulp as Pamela Livingston, Lyle Talbot as Paul Fonda, Joi Lansing as Shirley Swanson, and Carol Henning as Olive Sturgess.

"The Bob Cummings Show," or "Love That Bob," as it is known in syndication, aired on all three networks. It began on NBC on January 2, 1955, and continued through September 1955. After that, it moved to CBS from July 1957 through September 1957. By the end of September 1957, it would move back to NBC to finish its first run broadcast through September 1959. After that, reruns were shown under the name "Love That Bob" as part of the expanded weekday schedule of ABC from October 1959 through December 1961. 

This episode aired on NBC on June 19, 1955, and aired on WICS, WEEK-TV, WGEM-TV, and KSD-TV.

Classic Radio

Doug Quick Audio with Drake-Chenault format "Hit Parade"

Click on the image to listen to  a short sample of Drake-Chenault's Hit Parade automated radio format.

Drake Chenault 1974 Hit Parade

Drake-Chenault produced automated formats for automated radio stations from the 1960s to the 1980s. This video spotlighted one of the formats available to radio stations in 1974. The audio has been edited to eliminate most songs to avoid copyright challenges.

Drake-Chenault Radio Formats

Drake-Chenault pitched this as "Bright contemporary easy listening/MOR for today's 18-49 year old. Hit Parade is now proving itself on over 50 AM and FM stations in markets ranging from one million to ten thousand."

No local radio stations subscribed to "Hit Parade," although several were airing the companion format "Solid Gold."

WNDU Indianapolis ad for "Hit Parade"

This is an ad for Hit Parade as heard on WNDU in Indianapolis.

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Previously on Videos

of the Week...

 

If you've missed any of the "Videos of the Week" or "Classic Radio" recordings, you'll find them here. Unfortunately, there's no narrative to go along with each. You have to visit each week for that.

 

Longstreet (1971) ABC Pilot James Franciscus

McMillan and Wife (1971) NBC Pilot Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James

Hollywood Squares (1972) NBC Daytime/Primetime/Syndicated
 

Police Story (1973) NBC

Match Game '74 (1974) CBS Daytime

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977) ABC Pilot

Vintage Commercials (1970s) Various sources

Classic Radio

WLS, 890-AM Chicago (1976) Larry Lujack

Sugarfoot (1957) ABC Pilot

Dragnet (1957) NBC Jack Webb

The Texan (1958) CBS Pilot

The Untouchables (1960) ABC Robert Stack

The Fugitive (1963) ABC Pilot

The Fugitive Finale (1967) ABC

 

Classic Radio

AFRTS Saigon Gary Owens (1967) August The Music Guy Show

ABC Movie of the Week title sequence (1969) ABC

Seven in Darkness (1969) ABC

The Immortal (1969) ABC

Wake Me When it's Over (1969) ABC

But I Don't Want to Get Married (1970) ABC

Honeymoon With a Stranger (1969) ABC

Gidget Grows Up (1969) ABC

Classic Radio 

WLRW, 94.5FM Champaign, IL (1969)

In Name Only (1969) ABC Movie of the Week

Night Slaves (1970) ABC Movie of the Week

Assault on the Wayne (1971) ABC Movie of the Week

The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971) ABC Movie of the Week
 

Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones (1971) ABC Movie of the Week

Killdozer (1974) ABC Movie of the Week

Classic :Radio

WLS 890AM Chicago (1972) John Landecker

 

M-Squad (1958) NBC Lee Marvin

M Squad/Police Squad Comparison

McHale's Navy (1962) ABC Pilot Ernest Borgnine

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1963) ABC The Nelsons

Temperatures Rising (1972) ABC Cleavon Little
 

WILL-TV Pioneer Stories (2010)

Classic Radio

WIL Radio, 1430AM, St. Louis (1962) Ron Lundy Show

Space Patrol (1951) ABC

Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1952) DuMont

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1967) ABC

The Invaders (1968) ABC Roy Thinnes

Space 1999 (1975) Syndicated

Ark II (1976) CBS Saturday Morning

Otherword (1985) CBS Sam Groom, Gretchen Corbett

Classic Radio

Best Old Time Radio Sci-fi shows

Fall Promo Collection (1961) ABC

Fall Premiere Special (1963) ABC

Fall Premiere Special (1970) ABC

Fall Premiere Special (2021) ABC

Fall Premiere Special (1961) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (1966) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (1968) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (2001) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (1969) NBC

Fall Premiere Special (1984) NBC

Fall Premiere Special (1998) NBC

Fall Premiere Special (2019) NBC

Fall Premiere Special (1964) ABC

Fall Premiere Special (1974) ABC

Fall Premiere Special-Part 1 (1979) ABC

Fall Premiere Special-Part 2 (1970) ABC

Fall Premiere Theme-Part 1 (1985) ABC

Fall Premiere Theme-Part 2 (1985) ABC

Fall Premiere Special (1970) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (1974) CBS

Fall Pre;miere Special (1976) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (1981) CBS

Fall Premiere Special (1965) NBC

Fall Premiere Special (1975) NBC

Fall Premiere Special (1978) NBC

NBC 60th Annioversary Special (1986)

WICD Summertime Memories from 2001

Two Marriages (1983) ABC

WICD 6pm news Jan 4, 2012

Jack Benny Program (CBS) Feb 22, 1959

Temperatures Rising (ABC) 1972

WCIA News at 5pm Aug 2, 2019

WAND 6pm News Aug 2, 2019

WICS 10pm News Feb 22, 2019

Classic Radio

WDNL Danville-Sept 13, 1991

Pillsbury Dough Boy 1990

Mon Wed Fri Promos (1966) NBC

Weekday AM Promo (1965) NBC 

Dick Clark's Beech-Nut Show (1958) ABC
 

ABC Movie of the Week (1971) Intro

​WICD Local Commercials from December 1987

​CBS Promo Themes 1981-1990

ABC 1983-84 Season Preview

​Bob Cummings Show (1955) NBC

Classic Radio

Drake Chenault 1974 Hit Parade

Next Week on 
Videos of the Week

 

Next week, I'll show you some CBS "hits and misses" from the late 1950s through the late 1960s. That group includes a former CBS series episode that drew its story from the present day!  You'll be shocked at that one!  Be sure to click into the Museum next week! ​​

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