READ ABOUT ELYNNE CHAPLIK-ALESKOW, THE 1st FEMALE GENERAL MANAGER OF A CHICAGO TV STATION AND THE FOUNDER OF WYCC - CHANNEL 20

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CHANGING CHANNELS Looking back to the beginning of Chicago television

PHONEVISION Chicago's first experiment with pay television

u h f subscription television Chicago's answer to cable television

TELEFIRST A bold experiment that went head-to-head with videotape sales

THE MEN OF U H F The Video Veteran salutes the pioneers who made Chicago UHF television a success

CHICAGO CHILDREN'S TELEVISION Remembering the friends who made us feel good

CHICAGO'S TV HORROR HOSTS Shock Theatre, Creature Features, Screaming Yellow Theater, Svengoolie, and more!

CHICAGO

TELEVISION ALUMNI CLUB

Remembering some old friends

WBKB Chicago 1st Commercial television station A Video Veteran Spotlite feature 

   

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

BOB LEWANDOWSKI

EDWARD L. MORRIS

DON SANDBURG

JERRY ROSE

JOHN WEIGEL

JERRY G. BISHOP

STERLING "RED" QUINLAN

ELYNNE CHAPLIK-ALESKOW

 

DIRECT LINKS TO THE VIDEO VETERAN SPOTLITE FEATURES

FRED EYCHANER

RAY RAYNER

BOB MURPHY & KAY WESTFALL

 

 

TERRY BENNETT

JOHNNY COONS

BILL JACKSON

LINN BURTON

RICH KOZ

BRUCE NEWTON

    FRAZIER THOMAS