Wow...have not seen one of these in probably over 3o years.Though I was less than 10 years old,I always enjoyed these In The News clips......100 times more entertaining than the Baseball Bunch.
Actually, I paid very close attention to them as a child and really looked forward to them coming on! They really gave me a lot of interesting things to talk about to my friends and family members!
Holy crap…I totally forgot about this…this is why maybe I got into watching the news as a seven year old and watching the vietnam news clips etc….thanks for the post, bought back many memories….
In some way, it was like a sudden halt in our animated antics during "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" by giving us this few minutes of a reality check just so we understood what was going on out there in the world.
@antonzap If only we still had order the way TV used to be (mainly back when you didn't have one in your bedroom, and it was always who got their turn to watch the TV that day).
We didn't get much smarter in the '80's, but I wonder how much stupider we would have been without In The News. I learned much from these shorts in my formative years.
Dig this--when I was a kid, I actually drew a picture of the "In the News" globe spinning around, complete with a TV drawn around it. When cleaning out my Dad's old house 25 years later, I found the drawing and thought "This looks familiar..." At last. I saw this clip tonight and the memories came flooding back. Thanks for posting it!
Baby Boomers wanted to raise little adults to stay out of the way. This was one of the few things they did right. I wish Nickelodeon and Disney did this sort of thing these days.
@TheRebel2007 That shit's nasty, it causes all kinds of health problems. My dad was exposed to it in Vietnam, and died from cirrhosis (basically your liver shuts down and stops removing toxins from your body) 34 years later.
Man, this brings back good Saturday morning memories! These intros were so much a part of our lives at one time...who would ever think at that time how much things like this would be missed? Thanks for posting!
I loved these segments, between shows near the top of the hour on CBS. Christopher Glenn never talked down to his audience, and even adults could learn a thing or two by watching "In the News."
There's nothing like that anymore, but you can find a lot of commercials for sugary cereals.
I remember this SO well from my early childhood in the early 1970's. In The News with the wonderful Christopher Glenn was a Saturday Morning CBS staple. It would come on between episodes of Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids and CBS Playhouse or Kukla, Fran & Ollie wayyyyy back in the day (around 1970-72). I still remeber Glenn doing a segment on Nixon's visit to China to meet with Brehznev and Mao. That seemed an eternity ago... thanks for posting the jangling, jarring theme music. I appreciate it!
I lived in New York City as a kid and remember these amid the Saturday morning cartoons and the Schoolhouse Rock --- "i'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill..." and I learned the Preamble to the Constitution from those too
I liked Schoolhouse Rock, but I always enjoyed In the News more. It was great to hear Christopher Glenn do CBS radio news for decades; his voice never failed to remind me of my kid Saturday mornings in the '70s. It was a shame he died soon after he retired just a couple of years ago.
This was when I use to love Saturday mornings now you get 2 spongebobs 2 fairly odd parents and 2 back to the barnyard and so on and 100 stupid iCarlys on top I hate Nick.
Thanks for posting this! Not only does it remind me of being young, it highlights that the news had been dumbed down. These segments were aimed at children and they beat most of what is on these days!
Ahh, back when Saturday mornings used to MEAN something in this country. Back when parents could actually sleep in late and not have to worry about calling 911 or going to the ER because kids actually had something worth watching on TV that they'd want to see. Imagine that.
As I stated time and time again, I almost want to shed a tear thinking about the garbage kids are subjected to on TV nowadays. I'll take watching these 20-second clips over an episode of That's So Raven or Spongebob.
"In The News" was a great way for me to learn more about serious news in the 1970s when I was a kid. Try getting Baby Boomer execs to do anything like this today and see what you'll get - nothing but crap.
The background sounds were made using a rare Buchla synthesizer recorded by a computer science professor at the University of New Hampshire back in the 60's.
Boy - that background "music" (if you can call it that) really brings back memories of saturday mornings of my childhood. Thanks for posting this cultural relic!
Damn, have very faint memories of this. And then at the end the 'bongy-boo-bom' played, and I was like "ohhhhh, man! that's that thing that reminded of the pac-man sound when he'd die!"
That sound...amazing how much stuff I forgot from when I was a kid. Kids will never know what Saturday mornings meant to our generation. OR know what a test pattern in the morning looked like ;)
I never, ever forgot this! It was because of these "In The News" shorts that I learned about the late, great Christopher Glenn. Hearing him again on CBS radio some 15 years later came as a pleasant surprise to me. I loved the quality of his voice, hearkens back to the glory days of network news. And even though "In The News" was geared towards kids, he didn't patronize us by trying to dumb down the news stories.
Think of how it felt for me - someone who grew up with "In the News" - to actually work with Chris Glenn as a backup producer on the evening news roundup (then called "The World Tonight") at the CBS Radio Network. He was a first-class newsman and a gentleman.
When I hear this music come on the first thing that strikes my senses are the smell of Cheerios & Pop Tarts, Christopher's voice always had a relaxing, reashuring quality that helped me relax before I went to school.
@frodovader I seem to remember whenever this came on some character from the Saturday Morning Shows would say " Next another very interesting story that's in the news" do you remember that as well?
Wow...have not seen one of these in probably over 3o years.Though I was less than 10 years old,I always enjoyed these In The News clips......100 times more entertaining than the Baseball Bunch.
woodykinskileone 5 days ago
Gosh, I haven't seen this in years...thanks for posting!
zasco1957 1 week ago
Wow I remember this, it used to come on every commercial on Saturday during the cartoons.
pacmanfever100 4 months ago
Why did they even bother with this...kids didn't watch the news.
TheTallMan35 5 months ago
@TheTallMan35
Actually, I paid very close attention to them as a child and really looked forward to them coming on! They really gave me a lot of interesting things to talk about to my friends and family members!
Smartboy8877 3 months ago
this was great in the day
Metaldog67 6 months ago
I remember this very well on Saturday mornings :)
kd4adv 7 months ago
@kd4adv
I remember they too! I liked them a lot and really learned a great deal!
Smartboy8877 3 months ago
Wow, hearing that sound brought back so many memories. I use to see these while watching "The Monkees" on Saturday mornings.
leighgate 8 months ago
Thank you Frodovader
nuwavevidspud 8 months ago
Damn, has it been that long.... In The News, 1977 just called
RacerXGTO 8 months ago
Holy crap…I totally forgot about this…this is why maybe I got into watching the news as a seven year old and watching the vietnam news clips etc….thanks for the post, bought back many memories….
t2t3456 8 months ago
In some way, it was like a sudden halt in our animated antics during "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" by giving us this few minutes of a reality check just so we understood what was going on out there in the world.
RetroToledo 8 months ago
I always wondered how "In The News" would have explained the Monica Lewinski scandal.
airdriver 10 months ago
Man, I remember these interruptions to my Saturday morning cartoons! It sure takes me back. Thanks for posting this.
kfarley1130 11 months ago
Wow, this takes me back. Loved these and also "Schoolhouse Rock" on ABC. They really need something like this now, because kids today are dumbshits.
antonzap 11 months ago 2
@antonzap If only we still had order the way TV used to be (mainly back when you didn't have one in your bedroom, and it was always who got their turn to watch the TV that day).
RetroToledo 8 months ago
We didn't get much smarter in the '80's, but I wonder how much stupider we would have been without In The News. I learned much from these shorts in my formative years.
dowhatthouwilt911 1 year ago 2
I searched for this knowing I hadn't heard that theme in over 30 years : )
tachikaze222 1 year ago
Oh Wow!! I haven't seen this in years! Thank you for posting!!
soulgirl66 1 year ago
That voice... THAT VOICE!
Christopher Glenn is one of the reasons why I wanted to be an announcer of some sort when I grew up.
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago
Dig this--when I was a kid, I actually drew a picture of the "In the News" globe spinning around, complete with a TV drawn around it. When cleaning out my Dad's old house 25 years later, I found the drawing and thought "This looks familiar..." At last. I saw this clip tonight and the memories came flooding back. Thanks for posting it!
RooseveltFranklinFan 1 year ago
@RooseveltFranklinFan You outta post that picture for posterity!
RetroToledo 8 months ago
one of the highlights of Saturday mornings as a kid.
retrofann1 1 year ago
Baby Boomers wanted to raise little adults to stay out of the way. This was one of the few things they did right. I wish Nickelodeon and Disney did this sort of thing these days.
bobdefalco 1 year ago
Wow. I completely forgot about In the News. This was a serious blast from the past with that clip.
ldonhawk 1 year ago
I REMEMBER THIS!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Ninsegalover 1 year ago
From 1971 through 1986.
CraigFoye80 1 year ago
@CraigFoye80 It at least was part of my childhood.
RetroToledo 8 months ago
Man. This was great , kids getting the news , while watching Saturday morning cartoons , man kids in the 70s had it made !!!!
nowatout 1 year ago
@nowatout yeah we did
retrofann1 1 year ago
@nowatout
Yes we did! Being a kid in the 70s rocked!
yerkeskid 1 year ago 5
I sure remember these. the things you find on youtube is amazing.
gentjt38 1 year ago
@gentjt38 no doubt!
retrofann1 1 year ago
"In The News" was THE BEST news show of the '70's! It was on this show that I first learned about something called "agent orange" in 1975!
TheRebel2007 1 year ago
@TheRebel2007 That shit's nasty, it causes all kinds of health problems. My dad was exposed to it in Vietnam, and died from cirrhosis (basically your liver shuts down and stops removing toxins from your body) 34 years later.
bruteinazootsuit 1 year ago
Wow, I had completely forgotten about these. Fantasic!
jobie123 1 year ago
Man, this brings back good Saturday morning memories! These intros were so much a part of our lives at one time...who would ever think at that time how much things like this would be missed? Thanks for posting!
reving19 1 year ago
I remember this;god i'm old.....
HUSKY57887 1 year ago
Wow... I'm in the 5th grade again. Thank you.
danawadd 1 year ago 2
LOVE the vintage analog synth backing. Man...there's so many things I've forgotten about watching TV back in the late 70's and 80's.
Kohntarkosz 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Christopher Glenn. No one could have done better narration for "In The News" than you.
yaggazoozy 1 year ago
Thank you for uploading this memorable In the News intro
nuwavevidspud 1 year ago
Wow! This brings back a ton of memories! Everytime I hear this jingle, it feels like Saturday mornings during the 1970's. Good times!
Stevedup 1 year ago
goofy.
benquicks 1 year ago
come on! this is bad.
benquicks 1 year ago
I loved these segments, between shows near the top of the hour on CBS. Christopher Glenn never talked down to his audience, and even adults could learn a thing or two by watching "In the News."
There's nothing like that anymore, but you can find a lot of commercials for sugary cereals.
RecordWarped 1 year ago
I remember this SO well from my early childhood in the early 1970's. In The News with the wonderful Christopher Glenn was a Saturday Morning CBS staple. It would come on between episodes of Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids and CBS Playhouse or Kukla, Fran & Ollie wayyyyy back in the day (around 1970-72). I still remeber Glenn doing a segment on Nixon's visit to China to meet with Brehznev and Mao. That seemed an eternity ago... thanks for posting the jangling, jarring theme music. I appreciate it!
MusiciansRule07 1 year ago
Holy cow! Been looking for these forever!
humbleradio 2 years ago
I lived in New York City as a kid and remember these amid the Saturday morning cartoons and the Schoolhouse Rock --- "i'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill..." and I learned the Preamble to the Constitution from those too
danlrusso 2 years ago
That weird synth and vector globe takes me back. I sort of miss when television was like this.
Aestros909 2 years ago 3
Boy does this bring back memories! I remember watching these on Saturday mornings. I think they stopped showing these around 1987?
dgwaters 2 years ago 2
And the great Moog synth theme music. Far out for the times!
andrzej66 2 years ago
This was a brilliant way to get news to kids, and I agree that they never talked down to their audience.
Oh, that we should have such a thing today.
andrzej66 2 years ago 3
I remember these ( don't recall then being during cartoons). That spinng globe was stuck somewhere in my head
Zoomer30 2 years ago
I liked Schoolhouse Rock, but I always enjoyed In the News more. It was great to hear Christopher Glenn do CBS radio news for decades; his voice never failed to remind me of my kid Saturday mornings in the '70s. It was a shame he died soon after he retired just a couple of years ago.
DesiluTrek 2 years ago 3
This was when I use to love Saturday mornings now you get 2 spongebobs 2 fairly odd parents and 2 back to the barnyard and so on and 100 stupid iCarlys on top I hate Nick.
clinch44 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this! Not only does it remind me of being young, it highlights that the news had been dumbed down. These segments were aimed at children and they beat most of what is on these days!
TheThinkingManCan 2 years ago 2
Ahh, back when Saturday mornings used to MEAN something in this country. Back when parents could actually sleep in late and not have to worry about calling 911 or going to the ER because kids actually had something worth watching on TV that they'd want to see. Imagine that.
As I stated time and time again, I almost want to shed a tear thinking about the garbage kids are subjected to on TV nowadays. I'll take watching these 20-second clips over an episode of That's So Raven or Spongebob.
ratesforless 2 years ago 4
That globe used to freak me out for some reason when I was a kid! I think it was the creepy sounding music that accompanied it.
rickyfan3956 2 years ago 2
I remember these during Saturday morning CBS cartoons.
silverrhawk 2 years ago
I forgot all about seeing these every Saturday! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Del655 2 years ago
"In The News" was a great way for me to learn more about serious news in the 1970s when I was a kid. Try getting Baby Boomer execs to do anything like this today and see what you'll get - nothing but crap.
astro10 2 years ago
I used to watch old ITN clips when they showed 'em on TV Land over 10 years ago! I LOVE 'em!
JeffATL 2 years ago
In the news made me love the news! Great program...Made the news interesting for Kids.
citysims 2 years ago
The background sounds were made using a rare Buchla synthesizer recorded by a computer science professor at the University of New Hampshire back in the 60's.
dwtime 2 years ago 3
cool never knew that...bad ass sounds
vaportrails44 2 years ago
I miss watching ' In the News ' on Saturday mornings with Christopher Glenn.
He has an awesome voice.!!
diapertom2001 2 years ago 9
He did you mean, he died in 2006. Great voice, RIP.
tklogan11809 2 years ago
@diapertom2001 HAD, sadly I believe Chris is no longer with us, I think he died soon after his retirement
PREGO1966 6 months ago
Wow. I had completely forgotten about that until watching it. Thanks!
leandar 2 years ago 2
I remember eating my froot loops and watching the Superfriends!
horus1971 2 years ago 3
Me too. I feel sorry for our kids.
InsertName125 2 years ago 3
Wrong channel horus1971. Unless you were generalizing network saturday mornings. This was on CBS. Superfriends was an ABC thang.
And it's all about the cocoa pebbles. It makes the milk all CHOCOLATY.
oakland2949 2 years ago
Boy - that background "music" (if you can call it that) really brings back memories of saturday mornings of my childhood. Thanks for posting this cultural relic!
kareneliot 2 years ago 3
I remember seeing this commercial on "TV LAND RETROMERCIALS" Now, the stations is not as popular as it was anymore.
FilmNMusicBuff77 2 years ago 2
Funny thing is that kids didn;t learn a damn thing about the news from this. It was just cool to see that spinning globe and here that jingle sound.
groffo12345 3 years ago
hahahahahahahahaha
vaportrails44 2 years ago
Damn, have very faint memories of this. And then at the end the 'bongy-boo-bom' played, and I was like "ohhhhh, man! that's that thing that reminded of the pac-man sound when he'd die!"
RetroBoyisBack 3 years ago
God Bless Announcer Christopher Glenn from CBS In The News- May he always rest in peace in heaven.
fl1992 3 years ago 2
Time Warp.
Zchshooom!
dunskie 3 years ago
add to that eating Capt'n Crunch out of the box and sitting in my beanbag.
roxme2 3 years ago
Haaa! Yup.
Remember "Freakies" cereal?
And "Fruit Brute"?
dunskie 3 years ago
SUGAR Smacks, SUGAR Pops and Super SUGAR Chrisp.....I dug 'em!
roxme2 3 years ago 3
this is great. Takes me back to my Saturday morning cartoons. I miss those days. Wonderful times being a kid.
poetx64 3 years ago
flashback
seka1986 3 years ago
Damn, Awesome!
fallguyman 3 years ago
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. In the News was always a favorite of mine Saturday mornings.
MSgtSlaughter 3 years ago
Love that this was somethign they'd put on between the Smurfs and Snorkels. B1 bomber footage...
trick521 3 years ago
memories light the corner of my mind, misty water colored memories of the way we were
opossumland5 3 years ago
These really take you back in time to Sat.
mornings in the early '70s.
DRbiohazard 3 years ago 2
That sound...amazing how much stuff I forgot from when I was a kid. Kids will never know what Saturday mornings meant to our generation. OR know what a test pattern in the morning looked like ;)
cranie4 3 years ago 4
I never, ever forgot this! It was because of these "In The News" shorts that I learned about the late, great Christopher Glenn. Hearing him again on CBS radio some 15 years later came as a pleasant surprise to me. I loved the quality of his voice, hearkens back to the glory days of network news. And even though "In The News" was geared towards kids, he didn't patronize us by trying to dumb down the news stories.
Akira625 3 years ago 4
Think of how it felt for me - someone who grew up with "In the News" - to actually work with Chris Glenn as a backup producer on the evening news roundup (then called "The World Tonight") at the CBS Radio Network. He was a first-class newsman and a gentleman.
davemock 3 years ago 3
You're a lucky guy for having worked with such a legend.
Akira625 3 years ago
When I hear this music come on the first thing that strikes my senses are the smell of Cheerios & Pop Tarts, Christopher's voice always had a relaxing, reashuring quality that helped me relax before I went to school.
CreativeCritisizm 3 years ago
I love this! Youtube has EVERYTHING! Decades since ive heard this jingle and Glenn's voice. thank you, Frodovader!!
imanacer 3 years ago 19
Thanks! Brings back memories. I love that jingle at the end.
alternity28 4 years ago
Wow, my parents didn't make me get a job until I was 8...
frodovader 4 years ago 3
@frodovader I seem to remember whenever this came on some character from the Saturday Morning Shows would say " Next another very interesting story that's in the news" do you remember that as well?
BruhTV 1 year ago