WMAQ Channel 5 - 'The Best Place to Look at Chicago' (Promo, 1979)

Here's a neat promo for WMAQ-TV, with a guy relating the "best place to look at Chicago" is on Channel 5, which has Rockford, Quincy, and Little House on the Prairie. And you also never know who is going to fill in for Johnny Carson.

Featuring Ed McMahon, Chuck Henry, Greg Gumbel, Dillon Smith, Norman Mark, Jim Tilmon, Jorie Lueloff, Jim Ruddle, Linda Yu, (?), Mike Jackson, Carol Marin. and Steve Smith.

Also features at the end a Station ID / promo for Toulouse-Lautrec paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago (voiceover by Ed Grennan).

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 26th 1979 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm timeframe.

This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The George Jen Collection.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

[cbell]

This was my fathers work. He was a television producer in Chicago and did many promos for the networks. Was privileged, as a child, to have well known Chicago figures in our home. My father was good friends with Bill Kurtis, Bob Collins, Walter Payton and Irv Kupcinet.

[ScoopNemeth]

The Best Place to Look at Chicago is Right Here...On Channel 5, Proud as a Peacock!

[VBaskin]

And don't forget kids shows and cartoons too!

[ReedBrunson]

Very rare promo that features a local-oriented version of “Proud as A Peacock” theme.

[roxyabrooks]

Oh! I remember when WMAQ looked like this ❤ Thank you for the wonderful memories 🩵

[carsonclarkwhnt]

Everyone at that party looks miserable.

[jackiebrown]

Would anyone happen to know where I could find the Channel 5 promo from around this same time, with a song containing the lyrics "the best place to look at America is Chicago, and the best place to look at Chicago is right here". I know there were two versions of the song - first, a very mellow one and then one that was more upbeat. Does anyone remember these promos?

[videonut]

Got the “Proud As A Peacock” mnemonic at the end