WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News Tonight - "Record Cold" (Complete Broadcast, 1/11/1982) 📺

Here's a complete broadcast of an edition of Eyewitness News Tonight on WLS Channel 7, anchored by Tim Weigel and Mary Ann Childers.
Includes:
End of ABC Monday Night Movie ending titles
Promo for King's Crossing (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Tim and Mary Ann preview coming newscast
Commercials for:
Lloyd J. Harris Fresh Apple Apple Pie
Wendy's "Holiday Spree" Game
Scribe.Ett (ending voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Station ID / news open (opening voiceover by Al Parker), with items:
Sub-zero temperatures about to subside, but snow on the way as Dave Eiser relates
32 Chicago families evacuated from West Side apartment building because of no heat and pipes that broke due to cold; Joe Oskvarek of Dept. of Inspectional Services speaks, and residents interviewed
Jay Levine reports on how super-cold has become political challenge for Mayor Byrne; Fire Commissioner William Blair had left for California to teach a college course
2 feet of snow fall on Buffalo, NY, with 50 mph winds; below freezing temperatures threaten Florida's orange crops; Atlanta hit with -5° temperatures; temperatures in some UK areas lower than even Antarctica; and Poland also badly affected by cold
Commercials for:
Carson Pirie Scott - January Mattress Sale
Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage and Polska Kielbasa
Robitussin
Greyhound - Dollar Sale
Jim Avila on new Morton Grove gun control law
John Cardinal Cody's condition improving, moved from cardiac care unit at Northwestern Hospital
UAW and auto makers hold talks in Detroit to straighten out auto industry
Longtime Hollywood Squares regular Paul Lynde found dead in Beverly Hills home; he was 55
Commercials for:
Renault Le Car (voiceover by Adolph Caesar)
Alberto VO5 Hot Oil Treatment
Emery "A.M." service (voiceover by Karl Weber)
H&R Block - #6 of 17 reasons (with Henry Block)
Tim's old WSNS-era mentor, Al Lerner, with sports including tennis action at women's tennis tour in Washington, DC, and men's tour in Chicago; 16-year-old Steve D'Innocenzo scores fastest hat trick for his Holliston, MA hockey team; Loyola vs. Oklahoma City in college basketball (plus other scores and coaches' poll); NBA and NHL scores; Cubs' Bill Buckner wants a raise or be traded; Dallas' Mike Ditka about to see George Halas about Bears' head coaching job; and a mishap involving Ted Dawson of Los Angeles sister station KABC Channel 7 while trying to file a report on 49ers-Cowboys match
Dow Jones average shown before break
Commercials for:
Alberto VO5 Gold hair spray
Milk-Bone dog biscuits
Dave Eiser weather forecast
Commercials for:
Colorex men's hair coloring (voiceover by Joel Crager)
N'Ice medicated sugarless cough lozenges
Unity Savings (with Ed McMahon)
Midway Airlines - "$59 Price"
Kim Peterson at O'Hare, on travelers coming back from warm California and Hawaii temperatures to bitter cold Chicago (and car batteries that have to be jump-started); interviews with travelers Randy Turner and Don Shindler
Preview of next day's news:
PATCO plans discrimination suit over air traffic controller hiring
Roosevelt High School to host hearing on desegregation
A look at Isiah Thomas as he moves from Indiana to Detroit
Future weather
Ending credits
Promo for AM Chicago with Robb Weller
Newscast ending title and copyright
Commercials for:
Newsweek
Sealy Posturepedic (at John M. Smyth Homemakers) (ending voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Jones Minute Breakfast Links
Station ID / promo for "Roustabout" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Opening of Nightline (first half posted here: • ABC News Nightline - "... )
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, January 11th 1982 during the 9:58pm to 10:31pm timeframe.
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[@RikkiSpanish]

I absolutely love seeing these old newscasts from the 1980s, along with the ads too.

[@jaytolbert]

What a great find! Nice to see what was going on in Chicago during my first week on Earth (was born on the 6th). What a brutally cold month it must’ve been!

[@misstee101]

Tim Weigel news anchoring before sportscasting

[@RusstheTroubadour]

Tim Weigel actually went from doing sports to anchoring the news (1981-83) back to sports. He was fired in late1994 and replaced by Mark Giangreco He died in mid 2001 from a brain tumor.

[@wmbrown6]

Sounds similar to Storm Field at WABC Channel 7 in New York - besides handling the weather, in the first two years of the 5pm edition of "Eyewitness News" he was co-anchor with Rose Ann Scamardella. And Spencer Christian, while with WABC, at differing times, was weatherman (at 11 P.M.) and sportscaster.

[@darwinblinks]

Other way around.

[@wmbrown6]

@@darwinblinks - I was about to say.

[@jeffreyd399]

23:40. The way the weather man had to literally drag the other map in by hand hits different in 2023. Long before map switcher click remotes.

[@MetroShadow1]

RIP Tim Weigel

[@fratzogmopars]

Old White Shoes Weigel.

[@erinmeggik391]

Good 👍 post. Nostalgic 📺

[@boristheamerican2938]

This was back during college and my Shell gas station attendant days.

[@KT72273]

Timmy Wiggle! He was the best!

[@TimEric4d3d3d3]

This was a great day to turn 3 years old

[@tvtimetravel]

I turned 11 that day, born in Oak Park.

[@raydemos1181]

Mary ann childers looks so good without makeup when she first showed up in the early 1980s, she should have continued without wearing the clown paint but who knows what her bosses were telling her, she has such natural beauty she never needed any makeup even in her later time at the station

[@scottthomas7870]

A Few Thoughts: Hard for me to admit anything from 1982 is Old School. Weathercaster Dave Eiser reading from a paper printout was and still is cool to see. Also listening to new vocals by WLS-TV staff announcer icons Wayne Atkinson and Al Parker are gold. Parker especially since I regard him as a WBKB-TV voice. Also fantastic to see Big Al Lerner on sports. Was a fan of his at WSNS-TV for Sox and pro wrestling, and later, on WGN-Radio with the "Al-and-or-Ed (Curren) Show."

[@SagittariusQueen1980]

I just turned a year old a month before when this aired. RIP Tim Weigel.

[@j.r.g.3849]

I am thinking that news set and that version of the "On Your Side" theme debuted not long before this newscast.

[@raydemos1181]

I was driving my Suburban taxicab in the loop when suddenly a man got into my taxi and when i was driving him around he made a call to order a corned beef sandwich and gave his name Jay Levine, of all the people to pick up in that city, I was Honored and he did leave me a nice tip,

[@raydemos1181]

by the way the year was 1991

[@janetoconnor3636]

I recall this blizzard and it was a bad one where I lived in Ohio the water pipes froze and my dad was trying to thaw them out with a blow torch. It was not that cold inside but it was bad we had I stray cat that I thought was out in it and froze to death but he made it through. To me the 77 78 82 and 85 winter storms were all bad but 77 was the worst to me the 78 was hard on my mom who broke an ankle walking on ice and this one for my dad.

[@thomasbrown3356]

I was in my third year of high school. It was too cold to go to school. Yay!!!!!

[@darwinblinks]

me too. I don't remember Mather being closed but I guess it was

[@michaelfields3364]

Air Florida Flight 90 crashed in Washington, DC, a couple days later.

[@alfonsogreen2722]

Me personally I wouldn't go 2 chicago in the winter. I thought nyc had the worst weather in the winter

[@meetjohndoe1078]

The Dow Jones 850.46!!!!! LOL!

[@ChatGPT1111]

Dow Jones is at 850! I gotta sell!

[@darwinblinks]

Money was much harder to come by back then.

[@landit]

11% - 16% interest rates.

[@darrylh1971]

Was Scribe-Ett made by the same people who manufactured the Chia Pets?

[@jeffmatthews6443]

Yes, Joseph Enterprises manufactured the Scibe-Ett and continues to make the Chia Pet and the Clapper.

[@MrDuds1984]

Tim Weigel was never a good fit for lead newscaster he was always a sports guy

[@SpongeDan]

yo im early

[@Biden_Cult_Morons]

Yo here's a cookie

[@EricandDish]

Hard to believe 40 years have passed since Chicago went through the craziest winters in its history (the period between 1981-'85).🧣😲

[@zaheerahshareef8131]

Amazing I was a 5 year old in kindergarten