WGN Channel 9 - Independent Network News (Complete Broadcast, 10/9/1982) 📺

Here's the Independent Network News as aired over WGN Channel 9 (and produced at its then-sister station in New York, WPIX Channel 11), anchored by Jeff Kamen and Gail Heitz.
This aired after the locally-oriented Nine O'Clock News with Robert Jordan and Marty McNeeley (posted separated here: • WGN Channel 9 - The Ni... ); we start here with Robert segueing to INN, followed by:
INN open, with sponsor billboard for Sanka, Anacin and Fixodent (voiceover by Ralph Lowenstein), and news items:
- Jews attacked outside Rome synagogue by terrorists; a 2-year-old killed, 34 more wounded, as reported by Richard Vaughan; ADL head reminds of governments including Rome harboring Yassir Arafat
- Pipe bomb explodes at NYC headquarters of Jewish Defense League; an anonymous woman phoned UPI to claim responsibility
- Arafat meets with King Hussein
Commercials for:
Sanka coffee (with sculptor Guy Dill)
Anacin (with Patricia Neal)
Lincoln Carpeting (with a magician conjuring up carpet savings)
American Express travelers cheques
- Reagan administration tightens sanctions on Poland after martial law leader Jaruzelski abolishes Solidarity movement; two reports, from John Aubuchon and Drew Scott (with reactions from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, and Dimitri Simes of Johns Hopkins University)
- Newsweek poll shows drop in Reagan's popularity due to his economic policies
- David Schoenbrun provides analysis on latest unemployment figures and Reagan's approach to it
- Federal Reserve Chief Paul Volcker vows to keep to their tight money policy in light of lowering interest rates
- Continuing drama of hostages aboard Amtrak train in Raleigh, NC
- Eight schoolchildren and minister's wife killed in Lemoore, CA when truck collided with their van
- In Galveston, TX, bus with high school students slams into bridge railing; teenage girl killed, 41 others injured
Commercials for:
Fixodent denture adhesive cream (voiceover by Joel Crager)
Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats
Aquafilter cigarette holders
Hairline Creations (with president Paul Fenimore (sp?) )
- Lillian Dunlop reports on NOW convention in Indianapolis, where delegates vow to defeat any candidate that opposed ERA and women's issues; comments from Eleanor Smeal and delegate Theresa Bergen
- Bob Goldsholl sports report on Brewers vs. Angels in ALCS; Alabama vs. Penn State in college football; Jockey Club Gold Cup in horse racing (Marshall Cassidy calls race); and why the startups of hockey and basketball put the NFL strike on the back burner
- Now only four suspects in Chicago Tylenol cyanide investigation; Cook County medical examiner Dr. Robert Stein criticizes investigators for emphasizing a madman instead of a "rational evildoer"
Commercials for:
Shearson American Express (with financial consultant Alan Leavitt)
Bufferin analgesic tablets
- Swedish military concerned about Soviet spy plane crisscrossing Baltic Sea, trying to contact a Soviet submarine trapped underwater around Horfsjarden Bay near Stockholm
- Two Southern California brush fires leave over 37,000 acres charred and dozens of homes damaged
- Up to 22" of snow falls on Black Hills of South Dakota, leading to weather forecast
- Astronomers at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Australia claim to have found edge of the universe
- Look at preparations for December 10th awarding of Nobel Peace Prize; nominees are Pope John Paul II and Solidarity's Lech Walesa
Commercials for:
Lilt hair curlers
Subaru - offer of Added Security service contract
- Diann Burns reports on four-day Sexpo '82 in New York; 9 already arrested, and fracas between sex workers and Women Against Pornography (WAP - no, the other WAP), activists (Dorchen Leidholdt for one) spotlighted; quotes from Sexpo director Vivian Forlander and various people on the street
Sponsor billboard for Kellogg's and Shearson American Express (voiceover by Ralph Lowenstein)
End credits of The Nine O'Clock News announced (voiceover by Floyd Brown)
Commercials for:
True Value (voiceover by Pat Summerall)
Incomplete WGN 'Superman' ID (recording cuts out before end)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 9th 1982 during the 9:30pm to 10:00pm timeframe.
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[@williamstebbins7294]

That is when WGN news was starting to be an hour instead of a half hour. It was really a half hour of local news and half hour of this. Also, it made it start to be at 9 Pm in place of 10 PM. The Twilight Zone replaced the news at 10.

[@chicman77]

Awesome Thanx Again

[@StudioZ7]

4:49--It seems weird that Chicago was still using old fashioned telephone exchanges as late as 1982 (NAtional 2-9000). In Minneapolis where I live they were phased out by 1966.

[@123milw]

Lincoln Carpeting used that jingle forever. It sounded better than singing 622-9000.

[@norellpolk]

They started independant network news in the fall of 1980 and it ended in early 1990

[@mikehughes4969]

This was the day after my fifteenth birthday.

[@AQuestionofCharacter]

Wow. I wish Sexpo was all we had to worry about in Chicago now instead of... everything else.

[@tubesocksbrigade3031]

Two Chicago connections in this INN broadcast. Anchorman, Jeff Kamen once worked at the news department at WCFL Radio in the late 60s. And Diann Burns who filed that final report in that newscast went to Channel 7 and the got a huge contract to be on WBBM Channel 2 News...but that contact was a bust as their ratings were still low

[@wmbrown6]

From September of 1983 to August 1984, there were at least two Chicago connections over on WCBS Channel 2 in New York: - John Coleman, who was basically confined to weekend and fill-in work, and seemed rather subdued on-air compared to his WLS heyday and even after he returned to Chicago via WMAQ - Dick Marx' "Channel 2 News Theme," which WCBS first used in 1982 and continued through 1985.

[@frankv7774]

Wow 10/07/23 still dealing with the same issue

[@tdghffthgf4871]

dang

[@kascnef]

Channel 11 had this

[@wmbrown6]

New Yorker?

[@tubesocksbrigade3031]

WPIX Channel 11 New York is where Independent Network News originated

[@wmbrown6]

@@tubesocksbrigade3031 - Precisely.

[@andyrose5616]

4:53 James Harder is the voice of the American Express commercial. You can tell what a low-budget operation INN was. Their correspondent in Santa Barbara, California, had to file his report by telephone, and some of the visuals for their reports were black-and-white still photos.

[@albrokenomoney2127]

Amazing how people spoke before hip hop destroyed the American English language 🤣

[@user-od2co4ih8r]

😎

[@Jackson-di1fi]

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