In the months following the demise of Nite-Owl, WFLD aired in it's place CNN Headline News, starting at 12 midnight every night until about 5 or 6am. Here is the opening segment for one showing. (For awhile, on weekdays at 11:30am they would also show a half-hour version - this followed their Newstalk program at 11am)
Featuring CNN anchors Sasha Foo and Bud Elliott. Stories Include:
- 5-alarm fire in downtown Minneapolis causes damages estimated at 30 million dollars. (Featuring Halston Jacobson, bank customer)
- Cleanup continues after hurricanes hit Hawaii.
- Reagan administration said taxing unemployment benefits won't be done.
- Unemployment and consumer fears hit retailers; hoping to rebound with Christmas season.
- Stock Market: Volume - 38,810,000. Dow closes at 1007.36.
- Sports: Larry Holmes successfully defends boxing title.
- The pope promises to cooperate with authorities investigating improper dealings between the Vatican bank and another Italian bank.
- Polish dissident Jacek Kuroń attends funeral for wife; faces charges of attempting to overthrow communist government.
- Young man in Ecuador attempts to bomb Israeli embassy.
- Events similar to those that have happened before take place in the Middle East peace process.
- Apartment building bombed in Beirut.
This aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, November 27th 1982 at 12am.
Edit: The Holmes-Cobb match aired on channel 7 a day earlier which it was the last boxing telecast for Howard Cosell, because he said that the fight was terrible. As a result of this when Holmes retained the belt, Cosell declined to interview neither Holmes or Cobb. Comment posted by ChitownTVFan on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 12:06am.
Not sure of the exact date of the last Nite-Owl broadcast - but it was probably September 1982. Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 12:43am.
I'm gonna go over my collections and see when did it end and when did CNN Headline News took over for the next year until Metromedia takes over. Comment posted by ChitownTVFan on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 12:51am.
At least one other Field station - WKBS (Ch. 48) in Philadelphia - ran Headline News as well within its last year of existence. I'm curious to know if the three other Field outlets (WKBD Detroit, WLVI Boston and KBHK San Francisco) did likewise. Comment posted by W.B. on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 6:08am.
The last date TV Guide has Nite Owl airing is late Friday September 10, 1982. Headline News first appears in the listings on Monday October 4 at 11:30 AM, 9 PM for a hour and 12 Midnight. Comment posted by Phantom on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 8:42am.
Cool. What aired at 12 midnight for the weeks between Nite Owl's end and the start of Headline News? Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 9:23am.
How can someone like Bill O'reilly go from a credible journalist to pollitical puppet head? Money talks, I guess.
(If that is the same Bill O'reilly.) Comment posted by armitagenlowell on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 12:50pm.
I stand corrected. It was Monday October 4. TV Guide has an ad from Channel 32 announcing the premiere. I remember Channel 11 also carried Headline News at one time. Comment posted by Phantom on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 4:17pm.
TV Guide does not list any programming on Channel 32 between midnight and 6 AM from September 11 to October 3, 1982. I Looked it up. Channel 11 began airing Headline News in May 1985. Comment posted by Phantom on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 4:31pm.
I don't think they mentioned Bill O'Reilly during the broadcast, it sounded more like Bill Reilly (or Bill Riley). Besides, the voice was different. Comment posted by W.B. on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 4:32pm.
I have some CNN Headline News broadcasts from Ch. 11 from around 1988-89, they were found at the end of some Dr. Who tapes (this was when they had just one anchor delivering the news). Comment posted by pacey988 on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 11:16pm.
Yeah, I remember when WTTW showed Headline News. Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 11:25pm.
The reporter's name is Bill Reilly, not Bill O'Reilly. ;-) Comment posted by ChitownTVFan on Sunday, May 24th 2009 at 11:41pm.
To 'ChitownTVFan': That's what I'd said . . . and thanks for the spelling verification. Comment posted by W.B. on Monday, May 25th 2009 at 6:56am.
ChitownTVFan - O'Really? ;-) Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Monday, May 25th 2009 at 6:56am.
@ Rick: O'yeah! Comment posted by ChitownTVFan on Monday, May 25th 2009 at 10:06am.
Here's the real Bill O'Reilly as a serious journalist - anchoring an ABC News Brief in 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5ilzFtoKg Comment posted by kba on Tuesday, May 26th 2009 at 12:08pm.
The "vacant 10-story department store" destroyed in the fire was the old flagship Donaldson's department store, the same one seen in the background in the Mary Tyler Moore Show opening sequence when Mary does her famous cap toss. The Donaldson's was being demolished, as it had moved across the street to City Center earlier that year.
The fire indeed turned out to be arson, set by two juvies using an acetylene torch found at the partially demolished Donaldson's.
As for Mary, there is now a statue of her throwing the cap near the spot where it is thought the toss occurred. Comment posted by IAmNomad on Tuesday, October 16th 2012 at 8:15pm.
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