WXYZ-TV/Channel 7 Salutes Woodward Dream Cruise 2001, August 18 With a Live Two-Hour Special and Primetime Movie

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Aug. 10 WXYZ-TV/Channel 7 celebrates
the days when cruisin' was king and hot rods ruled the road on Saturday,
August 18 with an evening of live programming, a primetime movie saluting
classic television, and blanket news coverage devoted to Woodward Dream Cruise
2001.  The station is the event's exclusive television sponsor.
    To jump start the evening's festivities, Channel 7 Action News anchors Guy
Gordon, Diana Lewis join Oldies 104.3 WOMC personality Dick Purtan and
daughter, Action news anchor JoAnne Purtan, at Duggan's in Royal Oak to host
"The Woodward Dream Cruise," 7-9 p.m.
    WXYZ-TV/Channel 7's broadcast of the Woodward Dream Cruise will include a
series of remotes and reports from up and down a 16-mile stretch of Woodward
Ave., spanning from Ferndale to Pontiac.  Action News staffers Mary Conway,
Don Shane, Christy McDonald, Frank Turner, Kim Adams and Ray Sayah will join
News Chopper 7 Captain Dennis Neubacher in offering viewers a front-row seat
for the world's largest one day car show.
    Following WXYZ-TV/Channel 7's presentation of the Woodward Dream Cruise,
the celebration continues with a special broadcast of the primetime movie that
salutes a classic television show, "Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family
Story," from 9-11 p.m.  Live cut-ins from the Woodward Dream Cruise corridor
will also air throughout the movie.  Coverage of the evening's events
continues on "11 p.m. Action News."
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