The Chicago Channel Financial Plan
Financial Plan for the Chicago Channel.
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![[Old Town party] – [It’s a Living raw]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653909339_640-228x160.jpg)
[Old Town party] – [It’s a Living raw]
This tape features footage from a party at videomaker Tom Weinberg’s home in Chicago. Party goers are seen celebrating with one another in the small apartment. The last quarter of the tape includes raw footage inside the Erie Cafe for the documentary “It’s a Living.”
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Blues for Mr. Weinberg
This tape contains footage of videomaker Tom Weinberg conducting on the street interviews with Chicago residents in the mid-seventies. The audio is fairly poor throughout the video.
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L.A. “Trash” tape
This tape features footage that had been taped off of Los Angeles and Chicago TV stations during the production of TVTV’s “Adland.”
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Hiring Line
The video contains a 1972 pilot for “Hiring Line,” a show dedicated to making job listings available to the public. The show offers viewers the opportunity to call and inquire about the jobs, as well as presenting general consumer information. This is a black and white copy of the program.
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Proposal for “Bread Line” television project
A 1972 letter and proposal from Tom Weinberg to William McCarter of WTTW Channel 11, for a new show called Bread Line, which would provide resources to unemployed people around Chicagoland. The show would air live nightly, and would encourage viewers to call in to on camera telephone lines to talk about job and money issues. Different days of the week would focus in different issues, including jobs and income, buying and spending wisely, and community involvement and consumer rights. The program was eventually made into a pilot for WTTW under the name Hiring Line with a format that also included having hosts read job listings over the air.
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A Proposal for A New Television Network
A proposal for a new television network submitted by The Ad Hoc Commitee For A New Network. Tom Weinberg and Dee Davis are the contacts for the proposal. Citing the new phenomenon of widepsread access to cable television and satellite TV, the proposal aims to make non-commercial, socially relevant TV available to American homes by setting aside a network reserved for independent work. The writers note that despite the wide array of channels now available, there is no diversity in programming as envisioned at the dawn of cable TV. They also note that the independent community has been producing thoughtful, innovative, and provocative video for over twenty years, but has never had adequate space to air their work. The issue is one of social change and of reclaming America’s airwaves for material produced by and for the people.
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![[Wired In raw #79: Mr. Computer #3]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653861503_640-228x160.jpg)
[Wired In raw #79: Mr. Computer #3]
Raw footage for “Wired In,” a never completed series on the technological trends and innovations of the 1980s. In this video, we watch as computer enthusiast Jon, a.k.a. Mr. Computer, speaks with the Wired In crew about the computer industry and also demos a number of video games. Mr. Computer #3.