Not from Chicago, but with at least two Chicago connections (and one name shared with another), is the Channel 2 News Update at 11pm on KNXT (now KCBS) Channel 2, anchored by Jess Marlow and Marcia Brandwynne (the latter substituting for Connie Chung).
(This aired right after a repeat of the 1979 TV-movie "Dummy": • CBS Movie Special - "D... )
Includes:
CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell)
Jess and Marcia preview coming update edition
Commercials for:
Mervyn's - Men's Week of Values
Mexicana Airlines
Kotex Maxi-Pads with tie-in to latest Redbook issue
Station ID touting Channel 2 News' Emmy wins
Newscast opening (with Dick Marx' "Channel 2 News Theme" which use started in Chicago), followed by items:
- L.A. government agencies face massive budget cuts after shortfalls resulting from Proposition 13, as reported by Phil Barnow on cuts in D.A.'s office; with comments from L.A. District Attorney John Van de Kamp, Jim Bascue of Hardcore Gang Program, and L.A. County Supervisor Deane Dana
- Detroit voters approve 1% tax increase to offset budget shortfalls in that city
- WLS alum Terry Murphy (another Chicago connection) on the case of the disappearance of elderly couple Lewis and Betty Balas from Wilshire district on December 13th 1980; Larry Eugene Boyce is a main suspect (during report, tape damage causes picture issues); Joe De LaDurantey of L.A.P.D. is interviewed
- Shift in winds making fighting Napa Valley fires easier
Promo for 2 on the Town
Commercials for:
Pontiac T 1000
Robinson's Spring Air Mattress Sale
Ralph's and McDonald's - $4 Million Los Angeles Bicentennial Fiesta
- Investigation of hospital deaths in Riverside and San Bernardino spreads to L.A. County; assistant coroner Richard Wilson speaks of latest case
- Dave Lopez on Orange County Judge William Murray who proves why he isn't paid to be nice to prisoners - namely in case of Jackie Peak (sp?) serving time for drugs, forgery, welfare fraud and other charges
- Orange County jury hears evidence in freeway killing cases
- Wayne Williams to remain in jail in relation to recent Atlanta child murders
- Reagan administration claims end of double-digit inflation, but House Speaker Tip O'Neill isn't buying
- French President Mitterand names four Communist Party members to government posts
- In Russia, Brezhnev calls for new arms limitation talks with U.S.
Commercials for:
Bolla Trebbiano wine (with Franco Bolla)
Builders Emporium Summer Sizzler Sale (voiceover by Danny Dark)
Allstate - about Homeowner's Insurance
Xerox - comparisons to henhouses
- Jim Hill (not the longtime WMAQ Channel 5 announcer) on Wimbledon tennis, baseball negotiations (strike in its 12th day), and a baseball game in Pawtucket, RI, that finally ended after 33 innings
Commercials for:
Schweppes (Buckingham Palace guard answers "call of Schweppervescence")
Dreamspun sheet by Fieldcrest
Mountain Grown Folger's (with Virginia Christine as Mrs. Olsen)
Minolta Weathermatic-A camera
- Search for 11 climbers who fell to their deaths on Mount Rainier, WA, has been called off; Bill Briggle of National Park Service speaks
Jess next handles weather forecast in place of vacationing Maclovio Perez, then:
- Music arranger Louis Halmy celebrates 50th anniversary in music business, honored by Mayor Bradley, Governor Brown and President Reagan - and, thanks to son Richard, South Gate Youth Marching Band of California (station cuts off report before item could be finished)
Commercials for:
Home Savings of America (with George Fenneman)
Federal Express (voiceover by Simon Oakland?)
Jess and Marcia close newscast
Commercials for:
1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (with Nancy Harrington)
San Diego (spotlighting Sea World and San Diego Zoo)
Moët champagne (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Station ID / PSA for First Amendment
First minute of The CBS Late Movie presentation of Columbo episode "Étude in Black" (originally broadcast under the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie umbrella on September 17th 1972) (voiceover by Norm Stevens) (opening with the Mystery Movie music theme had to be "echoed" to avoid RU-vid blocking)
This aired on local Los Angeles TV on Tuesday, June 23rd 1981 during the 10:58pm to 11:31pm (Pacific) timeframe.
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