August 19, 1981 Commercial Breaks - WOR (Ind., New York)

[@brentmann2988]

14:08 Hal Douglas on the voice-over for Mount Airy Lodge. He was one of the all-time great movie trailer voices. Hal Douglas was also a promo voice for A&E back in the day.

[@Michellecooper-x1n]

Beautiful 😊

[@David-dz3ig]

8:22- 9:04 ahhhhh this brings be back to my early childhood in the late 1970's!

[@gingergia4169]

2:26- That production music was used years later in a commercial for a local pet store: /watch?v=InShWA-BFDQ&t=10m11s

[@3hooks781]

Straight from my childhood in Brooklyn, NY!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@davemiller7633]

Same! I loves through it. And I remember.

[@PlasticPellets]

9:25 little known factoid...Chucky is currently serving a life sentence in Michigan for murdering his entire family in 1998

[@wmbrown6]

With Phil Tonken manning the announcing booth.

[@MitchellHang]

Back when WOR was situated in The Big Apple rather than Secaucus...

[@retroguyretail1976]

and didnt suck like it does today

[@75aces97]

Thanks! I noticed a lot more NYC and LI themed ads here than I remembered 9 having. I was about to ask about that.

[@teresapflaumer5717]

Carvel ice cream....YUMMMMMMMMMMM!

[@garyofnyc]

Pizza Magic...glad I missed that lol.

[@Mhel2023]

I've done that with regular spaghetti sauce as a kid. It's not too bad. This was back before they had bagel bites, etc so we had to come up with something quick lol

[@OofusTwillip]

There was also Ragu Pizza Quick Sauce.

[@dianeadkins-diorio1783]

Sounds familiar... was WOR back then similar to Chicago's WGN?

[@75aces97]

It was an independent station like WGN, and the official station for Mets baseball. Unlike WGN, though, it was probably third place indy station out of 3, behind Metromedia 5 WNEW (now a Fox affiliate) and WPIX 11 (a WB-> CW station now), which in fact was a Tribune station like WGN.

[@minervamclitchie3667]

WOR like WGN and TBS was a superstition, they would have broadcast repeater signals all over the country, so if you had a good antenna or satellite dish you could get them for free. We had a roof antenna that looked like a small Eiffel Tower and we got TBS and WGN in the Bronx in the 70's.

[@paulpalinkas]

This particular video has some terrific local/regional ads. The South Shore Inn ad is something else! Are there any other commercial comps someone can point me towards that also contain a decent amount of local/regional/low budget ads?

[@prycerobertson4695]

I know you don't take requests but I hope you have the ad to pianist Irving Fields' TV album 50 Song You'll Always Love.