WGN Channel 9 - The 9 O'Clock News (Complete Broadcast, 11/12/1980) 📺

Here's another complete broadcast of The 9 O'Clock News with John Drury and Marty McNeeley on WGN Channel 9, incorporating Independent Network News with Pat Harper, Steve Bosh and Bill Jorgensen.

Includes:

Opening titles (voiceover by Len Johnson), with John, Tom Skilling and Bill Frink previewing local items, followed by:

INN open with sponsor billboard for Mobil (voiceover by Bill Biery)

Ford Rowan with latest developments in Iran hostage crisis

Hostage Bruce Laingen, on phone with Seattle talk show host, can't wait for his ordeal to end

Ayatollah Khomeini personally intervenes to gain release of foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

Iran and Iraq agree to UN peacekeeper in Gulf war

Commercials for:
Mobil Information Center (with Dick Kalanan (?)
BMW 528I
Harris Bank - "Harris Savings Portfolio"

Reagan's transition team hard at work while he's in California, reported by Drew Scott

Congress holds lame-duck session, as Charles Quinn reports

Day 3 of ABSCAM trial of Reps. John Murphy (NY) and Frank Thompson (NJ)

Commercials for:
Maxwell House Coffee
Bufferin analgesic

John previews local stories

Commercials for:
Levolor Blinds
Giumarra wines

Liz Aitken report on Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik's death in car crash near Guadalajara

Over 100 Haitian refugees to be repatriated back to their home country

Businessman killed by two men from Red Brigades on train in Milan

Jerry Girard sports analysis on Philadelphia 76ers

200-pound lion cub found wandering around Queens, NY

Commercials for:
Imperial Margarine (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Hairline Creations (with president Paul Finamore)

Boeing receives $3 billion order to build 60 757 jets

Reports on precious metal prices and stock market closes

Commercials for:
Aim toothpaste
United Airlines to Arizona

U.S. troops on training mission in Cairo

Bob Harris on trajectory of Hurricane Jeanne

Photos from Voyager I's journey through Saturn

Sponsor billboard for Maxwell House and Mobil (voiceover by Bill Biery)

Gov. Thompson announces 60-day hiring freeze for all state agencies

Chicagoans' water bills to go up by 53%

Rapist arrested after assaulting blind couple, committed four other rapes

Police Supt. Richard Brzecek and Fraternal Order of Police head John Dineen meet for future labor negotiations; Don Harris reports

Contract negotiations continue with Chicago firefighters' union

Commercials for:
GoodYear Blue Light Tire Sale
Continental Bank

Larry Roderick reports on credit card holders' spending in this economy

Chicago Park District approves $3.1M real estate tax abatement

Illinois House returns for fall veto session

Follow-up on story of missing 6-year-old Felicia Murray - she was found, stray dog who did so to be adopted

Commercials for:
Bell System (with Archie McGill, vice president, business marketing)
Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

Tom Skilling weather forecast

O'Hare parking rates may be increased 10 cents an hour if City Council has its way

Chicago metro arson-for-profit incidences have gone down dramatically, as reported by Frank Rios

Commercials for:
Illinois State Lottery Daily Game (with Bill Saluga as Raymond J. Johnson, Jr.)
Aramis cologne
Kraft Casino Swiss Cheese (voiceover by Ed Herlihy?)

Sponsor billboard for Olympia beer (voiceover by Floyd Brown)

Bill Frink sports report

Illinois Lottery Daily Game number

Commercials for:
Olympia Beer
The Wall Street Journal (with Gordon Peterson?)
Illinois State Lottery - "Illinois Double"

Robert Jordan report on pictures of planet Saturn

With that, John closes newscast - music during ending credits starting at 58:27 had to be muted ("Morning Dance" by Spyro Gyra - heard here:    • Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance (Official Audio)  ) (voiceover by Floyd Brown)

Commercials for:
The Northern Trust NOW account
Canon P10-D printing calculator

WGN "Globe" logo with "Last Farewell" music (voiceover by Floyd Brown)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 12th 1980 during the 9pm to 10pm timeframe.

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the John Drury Family collection.

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