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READ ABOUT ELYNNE CHAPLIK-ALESKOW, THE 1st FEMALE GENERAL MANAGER OF A CHICAGO TV STATION AND THE FOUNDER OF WYCC - CHANNEL 20 |
CLICK ON PICTURES AT RIGHT TO LINK TO CHAPTERS |
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| CHANGING CHANNELS | Looking back to the beginning of Chicago television |
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| PHONEVISION | Chicago's first experiment with pay television |
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| u h f subscription television | Chicago's answer to cable television |
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| TELEFIRST | A bold experiment that went head-to-head with videotape sales |
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| THE MEN OF U H F | The Video Veteran salutes the pioneers who made Chicago UHF television a success |
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| CHICAGO CHILDREN'S TELEVISION | Remembering the friends who made us feel good |
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| CHICAGO'S TV HORROR HOSTS | Shock Theatre, Creature Features, Screaming Yellow Theater, Svengoolie, and more! |
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| CHICAGO
TELEVISION ALUMNI CLUB |
Remembering some old friends |
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| WBKB Chicago 1st Commercial television station | A Video Veteran Spotlite feature |
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| MPATI | The Flying Classroom of Educational Television | |||||
| MINUTEMEN | How advertising shaped early Chicago television | |||||
| WHAT'S ON? | How the TV schedule changed between 1943 and 2001; plus a sign-on to sign-off guide to Chicago TV in 1950 and 1960. | |||||
| CHICAGO TALKS! | Recalling a very different kind of daytime television | |||||
| THE MORRIS B. SACHS AMATEUR HOUR | 10 acts were chosen each week from thousands of auditions. | |||||
| THE CHICAGO TV GALLERIES | Station logos, promos, and print ads from The Video Veteran collection | |||||
| THE SWITCH TO DIGITAL TV | It's here now. A whole new way of watching TV has the Chicago television changing channels again! | |||||
| THE DuMONT TELEVISION NETWORK | A short history of America's first TV network and its brief affiliation with WGN-TV | |||||
| TIMELINE | Chicago television history- at a glace | |||||
| STATION OWNERSHIP GUIDE | Who owns who- then and now | |||||
| CALL LETTER ORIGINS | At last! The mystery solved | |||||
| CHICAGO NEWSMEN | Familiar faces that kept us informed | |||||
| THE TV OF 1983 | A Video Veteran Cartoon | |||||
| THE CHANNEL SELECTOR | Links to sites recommended by The Video Veteran | |||||
| DIRECT
LINKS TO THE VIDEO VETERAN INTERVIEWS
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DIRECT
LINKS TO THE VIDEO VETERAN SPOTLITE FEATURES
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