WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 (Preview, Break & 1st 4 Minutes, 2/23/1981)

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Here's a preview, commercial break, and first four minutes of an edition of NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5, anchored by Jim Ruddle and Chuck Henry. (This followed the made-for-TV movie "Evita Peron," with Faye Dunaway in the title role of the Argentinian First Lady - apparently warming up for her turn as screen legend Joan Crawford in the film "Mommie Dearest.")

Includes:

Jim and Chuck previewing stories to be featured

[note: end credits for "Evita Peron" removed to prevent YouTube blocking]

Commercials for:

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson promo (voiceover by Casey Kasem)

Olympia Beer - "It's their water."

Harris Bank (with famed DePaul Blue Demons coach Ray Meyer) (who's that guy doing the lion voice at the beginning? - sounds like the real deal)

Illinois Bell - "Pizza Place" ("Reach out and touch someone.")

Station ID / promo for NewsCenter5 Special Report "Up in Arms" for Wednesday at 10pm

Newscast open, with following items:

- Dick Kay reports on plan by Governor Thompson to bail out RTA in order to forestall an April fare increase, but wants tighter controls on their operations; Thompson and other governors in Washington to lobby for more federal funding for mass transit; reaction from RTA finance chairman Patrick O'Malley

- John Merlo wins in 44th Ward race, defeating Michael Harrington

- Jean Harris convicted for murder of "Scarsdale Diet" Dr. Herman Tarnower

- President Reagan wants summit with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, but insists that Soviets stop interfering in El Salvador first; and awards Congressional Medal of Honor to Sgt. Roy Benavidez

- Report about Pope John Paul II visit to Japan (where he shakes hands with Emperor Hirohito and warns of pending nuclear disaster) underway when recording ends

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, February 23rd 1981 during the 9:58pm to 10:04pm timeframe.

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