The screen graphics were so simple. None of the current pie-in-your-face neurotic screen graphics that clutter the screen and annoy the viewer and that are used by the TV stations like an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
WOW! You get MAJOR props for this one. a broadcast with Bill Jacocks AND Ms. Wilma in her EARLY days as an anchor. Now if you find one with Marge Banks...that would REALLY make my day. She was the first woman of color that I can remember seeing on the news. I know there were more on ch. 8 though. :)
A cable channel devoted to recreating or patching together a classic 1970s broadcast day would be something else! As for an entire broadcast day existing from this era, The Paley Center in NYC has a complete broadcast day (or big chunks of it) from KCST Ch. 39 San Diego (1978) and WLS Ch. 7 Chicago (1979)
@MattTheSaiyan I know it would be practically impossible, but I'd love a cable channel that would recreate an entire broadcast day from a given year, with authentic ads, slides, newscasts, etc.
@tkaye2 I once read that a CBS(?) affiliate once recorded an entire programming day at some point during the 1970s. (there is also a very unusual radio "broadcast day recording" made by a radio station during 1939. This can be found online...)
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dexx600 5 hours ago
Love that hair Wilma ! Yum Yumm
SMITHFRANK 1 week ago
Was this the first cleveland station to solicit viewers with good looking people? I remember Wilma Smith from the 80's but not this Young!!
trinasmi 1 month ago
Wilma's voice was higher pitch back then. Also, she sounds like she has a bit of a New York accent.
3bhui 1 month ago
That looks like the Hessler Street Fair at the very end of the clip.
3bhui 1 month ago
The screen graphics were so simple. None of the current pie-in-your-face neurotic screen graphics that clutter the screen and annoy the viewer and that are used by the TV stations like an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
3bhui 1 month ago
I'd like to see Marge Banks too. Jacocks was a cool dude.
3bhui 1 month ago
WOW! You get MAJOR props for this one. a broadcast with Bill Jacocks AND Ms. Wilma in her EARLY days as an anchor. Now if you find one with Marge Banks...that would REALLY make my day. She was the first woman of color that I can remember seeing on the news. I know there were more on ch. 8 though. :)
MsTexas73 2 months ago
A cable channel devoted to recreating or patching together a classic 1970s broadcast day would be something else! As for an entire broadcast day existing from this era, The Paley Center in NYC has a complete broadcast day (or big chunks of it) from KCST Ch. 39 San Diego (1978) and WLS Ch. 7 Chicago (1979)
panedit 5 months ago
@sygo7g Me too! :-)
jodisweetie 5 months ago
I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person in the world who wishes there was a cable channel dedicated to showing old newscasts.
MattTheSaiyan 5 months ago
@MattTheSaiyan I know it would be practically impossible, but I'd love a cable channel that would recreate an entire broadcast day from a given year, with authentic ads, slides, newscasts, etc.
tkaye2 5 months ago 2
@tkaye2 I once read that a CBS(?) affiliate once recorded an entire programming day at some point during the 1970s. (there is also a very unusual radio "broadcast day recording" made by a radio station during 1939. This can be found online...)
MattTheSaiyan 5 months ago
"The Undefeated" movie promo was v/o by Dave Pelunis and the TV-5 Eyewitness News opening was v/o by Bill Ward.
usa02 5 months ago