WBBM Channel 2 - The Ten O'Clock News (First 20 Min., 9/25/1987)

Here's the first 20 minutes of an edition of The Ten O'Clock News with Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson on WBBM Channel 2.
Includes:
Commercials for:
Venture Super Sale
Nissan Year-End Closeout
Station ID / The Ten O'Clock News open
Newscast leads off with:
- Susan Wallace report on sudden closure of offices of Carefree Vacations amidst many complaints (and pending investigation by Cook County State's Attorney); interviews with travel agent Kathleen Fulle and clip of owner Leo Sharp
- News of deathbed confession from ex-CIA Director William Casey regarding Iran-Contra affair
- U.S. Navy blows up Iranian ship which was laying mines in Persian Gulf; clip of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger speaking
- Marshfield, MO police puzzled over 14-year-old Kirk Butler's shooting spree that left his entire family dead; he himself is killed after scuffle with uncle
- Three young men - Michael Jeske (sp?), Shawn Osland, and John Vlakancic, all 17 - killed in alcohol-related car crash in Batavia; Shawn's mother Judy and John's sister Claire speak about tragedy
- Day 14 of Chicago teachers' strike, with over 100 parents telling both Board of Ed and teachers' union to get kids back in school
- Rev. Jerry Falwell, in Chicago speech, blames Jim Bakker for Jessica Hahn's Playboy poses, predicts PTL head (who plans to step down from organization in January) will be indicted by government
Commercials for:
Alcott & Andrews
Ford dealer - 1.9% financing
Bob Evans Restaurant
Jewel Food Stores
More news:
- Ad from Gregory Peck attacking Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; Reagan says Peck has no business telling Americans what to think
- Pope John Paul II's recent trip will sock it to cities like San Francisco; Columbia, SC; San Antonio, TX; Monterey, CA, and Detroit; quote from Bishop Timothy Lyne of Holy Name Cathedral on how Pope's trip would be "worth it"
Commercials for:
AT&T - "The Right Choice
WCLR 102 FM - "Chicago's Lite Rock"
Promo for First Edition with Linda MacLennan and Lester Holt for 4:30pm
Exchange National Bank
Marshall Field's Housewares Fair Sale
Back to news:
- Hurricane Emily wreaks huge damage to Bermuda
- Weather forecast with Harry Volkman
- Governor Thompson, his wife and entourage of 21 leave for Europe, paid for by Aspen Institute which promotes ties between U.S. and West Germany; his trip is basis for "Perspective" commentary by Walter
Commercials for:
Olson Rug Co.
Eagle Food Centers
Main Street - Greatest Fleece Sale
1988 Mazda MX-6 GT (voiceover by James Garner)
(Recording ends after last commercial's end)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, September 25th 1987 within the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe.
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[@muttonchopsgayever]

Bill Kurtis could read a cookbook and I’d still be glued to every word.

[@terrellmurrell1732]

NEWS ONE CALL ME

[@ken_danerdiest1]

I think that school strike lasted until the early part of October of '87. It's great watching newscasts from way back when.

[@kennethoats2322]

I was 14 when this aired... and Harold Washington would be dead within weeks.

[@darnells5900]

So was I. Seems like yesterday.

[@laurabeane8862]

Yay! Bill Kurtis!

[@thetraveler2561]

Wow..... I used to work at Venture in 1977.

[@stephenchase2537]

I remember WBBM-TV CBS 2 in Chicago, Illinois!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GBL2001]

I was in Kindergarten when this originally aired, so at 10 PM I was asleep, lol.

[@thomasbrown3356]

Man, Jerry Falwell predicting the imminent arrest of Jim Baker. Was there some kind of rivalry between them? Usually you don't air a Peer's dirty laundry. Lol

[@RolloSmokes]

Look up the PTL scandal...basically, Falwell wanted PTL's cable TV network for himself and used that very un-Christian move to achieve that goal...only to bail about a year later.

[@retronewfoundland]

I have a Dallas recording from this very date, but not Beauty and the Beast, which would then be followed by the late local news. In my case, this would be WJBK off 🇨🇦 cable.

[@salaamthompson]

Yup season premiere of Dallas!

[@darrylh1971]

Lester Holt was young in 1987, years before he did NBC Nightly News!

[@SagittariusQueen1980]

I was 6½ years old when this aired.

[@Mr2bad1]

I was one month away from my 18th B-day. I wish I could go back and see my parents.

[@salaamthompson]

So this aired after the two hour season premiere of Dallas: After the Fall: Ewing Rise; and After the Fall: Digger Redux.

[@rrmond]

That VCR would cost $525 in 2024 😂

[@ThinCrustPizzzza]

I found it on eBay for $80 brand new. What is wrong with you?

[@thomasbrown3356]

The original channel 2 news, theme music from the 70s had been modified by 1987, sadly. ,😢

[@AQuestionofCharacter]

Damn. Walter Jacobson was brutal.

[@misstee101]

Susan Wallace? Any relation to Bob Wallace? Chris Wallace?

[@davanmani556]

No.

[@grantofat6438]

Never heard of them.

[@claudesledge5545]

I now know what the elders meant, during my youthful years, when they said, "those were the days". This was an"AIR" by WBBM Channel 2 CBS Local News. With the exception to Anchor person Mrs.Wallace,I remember Bill Curtis, The late Walter Jacobson and the Weatherperson Harry Volkmam. If memory serves me, these personnel were about the same time as Carol Marin,Marianne (sp?) Childers and Jay Levine. Lester Holt started later. Now, the commentary of the Late Walter Jacobson was as powerful as the Late Rush Limbaugh. Like E.F. HUTTON,when Mr.Jacobson spoke,you listened.

[@wmbrown6]

Er . . . as of this point Mr. Jacobson's still around . . .

[@horbagger19]

Anybody catch the crazy tire screech around 2:38?

[@MrYoumatic]

Yes I did. It sounds better through my headphones than through the speakers. Hoping an accident wasn't going to happen, but if it did it would give Ms. Wallace two big stories to cover. Classic indeed.

[@carlydelvecchio2287]

I never knew Bill Curtis did the news

[@laurabeane8862]

@13:55-Lester Holt!?

[@davanmani556]

Yes

[@Somethingwicked1x]

Bill Kurtis must have been on some real good coke. He looks happier than a flea on a dog about Carefree Vacations shutting down.

[@wmbrown6]

Er . . . there was a famous news anchor on a CBS O&O station who truly WAS on coke - and booze, and Valium - during this period: Jim Jensen, on WCBS Channel 2 in New York City. His on-air demeanor by this time was raising eyebrows and whispers about whether he was on something. Went really downhill after longtime co-anchor Rolland Smith left the station in late 1986 to prepare for the ill-fated "Morning Program" with Mariette Hartley.

[@Somethingwicked1x]

@@wmbrown6 I am not surprised .News anchors have a Rep for being addicts.

[@Jean0987654321]

1:01 actual open

[@terrellmurrell1732]

a WBBM CHANNEL 2 THE TEN O'CLOCK NEWS THE FIRST 20 MINUTES 9/25/1987) REMEMBER KZbin WORLD 🌎 IN 1987

[@vickieharris3850]

There was no youtube in 1987.