WBBM Channel 2 features Beaver Island, 1989

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Event

Date: 1989-02
Kind: Publication
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communicationpublicationtourismheritagehistorycommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

WBBM Channel 2 in Chicago produced two segments about Beaver Island after a January visit by reporter Giselle Fernandez and a camera crew. The report described island residents, winter recreation, history, Irish heritage, and local places and businesses.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper account of a broadcast, not a surviving broadcast log, transcript, or complete production record.

Sources

“Beaver Island Featured on WBBM/Channel 2,” Beaver Beacon, March 1989.
Reports January interviews and photography and says the segments aired in February. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, March 1989, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held sixteen-page March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR.
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Beaver Island Archive, “WBBM Channel 2 features Beaver Island, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wbbm-channel-2-feature-1989/, accessed [date], citing “Beaver Island Featured on WBBM/Channel 2,” Beaver Beacon, March 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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