WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 at 10pm (Complete Broadcast, 9/18/1980) 📺

Here's the complete broadcast of a 10pm edition of NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5, (which immediately followed Part 4 of the premiere airing of the miniseries "Shogun.")
Anchors are Jim Ruddle and Chuck Henry.
Includes:
Promo for NBC Nightly News (voiceover by Howard Reig)
Preview of coming newscast
Commercials for:
"Middle Age Crazy" (theatrical trailer) (ending voiceover by Ed Grennan)
First National Bank of Chicago
McDonald's - "Get a Break" (ending voiceover by Ed Grennan)
Station ID / promo for NewsCenter5 at Noon (voiceover by Ed Grennan)
NewsCenter5 open, and stories:
- Indictments returned in 1977 Soldier Field "Super Bowl of Rock Concerts" case against promoters Bruce Kapp, Carl and Larry Rosenbaum, and box office treasurer Edward Cassin; assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Lassar lays out case
- Mayor Byrne now insists she supports Richard M. Daley for State's Attorney, but rubs in the case of late Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn that he'd handled
- Peter Nolan "Viewpoint" on Byrne/Daley feud
Commercials for:
United Airlines ($99 in Coach, $119 in First Class one-way to Houston through October 15th)
Chevy Monza (with Skip Hinnant)
Olympia Beer
Aldi Foods
- President Carter backtracks on claims he made of Ronald Reagan being racist, but Reagan camp isn't buying it
- More Federal workers indicted for stealing $135,000 in welfare money and food stamps from state; clips of food pantry at the Marillac House at 2822 W. Jackson are shown
- Outside supermarket at 35th and Giles that was hit by fire, people take thrown-away cereal boxes from dumpsters
- Roger Ebert reviews "Those Lips, Those Eyes," and continues his interview with Richard Chamberlain about his career and his role in "Shogun"
Commercials for:
Water Tower Place - "Where Fantasy Becomes Reality"
Quaker 100% Natural Cereal (with runner Jim Fixx)
FM 100 - "A Beautiful Place to Be"
Qyx - "The Intelligent Typewriter" - by Exxon
- Mike Jackson with final part of Special Report, "The Sky's the Limit," on growth of cable TV; Warner Cable Corp. chairman Gustave Hauser speaks about interactive Qube system, and columnist Marilyn Preston and former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow also give their views
Commercials for:
American Airlines - "The #1 Choice for Domestic Travel"
Jewel Food Stores - sales on pork and Thompson seedless grapes (through September 24th)
St. Paul Federal Savings - "We Give You More for Your Money Than Money"
Saxon Prismatone Flat latex paint (sale ends October 6th)
Jim Tilmon with the weather
Greg Gumbel sports:
- Latest on quarterback Dave Wilson's case against Big 10, his Champaign-based attorney Robert Auler speaks of the aftermath of Judge Harry Klem's ruling against him, and University of Illinois students give their reaction; case appealed to three-judge panel
- Highlights of Astros-Reds and Yankees-Blue Jays games, followed by American and National League scores
- In high school football, Maine East and New Trier East face off in Park Ridge, highlights shown
Back to news:
- 8-year-old Traci Pagel who'd gotten liver transplant is running slight fever in Denver hospital, but is otherwise okay
With that, newscast ends
Commercials for:
Gloria Vanderbilt hawking the new "Vander-Belt"
First 10 seconds of WCLR FM 102 ad (recording ends midway)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, September 18th 1980 during the 9:58pm to 10:27pm timeframe.
This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.
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