KPIX Eyewitness News Nightcast - 2/19/85 - Part 1 of 3

[rgaviere]

That announcer heard here in the KPIX open also did WOR TV in NYC around this time he is Phil Tonkin.

[MeInTX]

A few 26-year-later updates (thanks to Google and Wikipedia)--

The China Air incident was determined to be caused by pilot error, caused in part by the pilots' jet lag.

Kevin Cooper was sentenced to death, and is still on death row, proclaiming his innocence. In 2001, he was able to get DNA testing on the blood at the scene. Too bad for him that the evidence proved he was, indeed, guilty.

Chief Murphy would retire at the end of 1985. I wonder why can't more reporters have eyepatches?

[sflnewstv2]

RIP Dave McElhatton 1928-2010

[dinfg6]

@sflnewstv2 RIP Dave one of the best anchors in SF

[efrem1]

RIP Dave

[59phonebone]

R.I.P. Dave McElhatton. :( ...

[acetrain81]

RIP Dave Mc Elhatton

[livemannsf]

RIP Dave

[Darren50001]

That was a great news theme back then. Today, it's all junk. McElhatten was a great anchor, too bad he died. Wendy Tokuda left KPIX for KRON for a long time. Joel Bartlett went to KGO TV and his son went to Tam High and played football long time ago. Oh, and DOug Murphy also died in a freak house fire couple of years back.

[dinfg6]

@Darren50001 I remember back from 1992 to 1996 Tokuda went to KNBC in LA to team up with Paul Moyer and another ex KPIX reporter and fill in NBC News Correspondent Colleen Williams. Tokuda never fit in on an LA although she is a great anchor but she fits in San Fran. Also I wish I seen some Dave McElhatton clips from KCBS radio. I never knew Dave was a radio guy because I was born in the Reagan Era

[dinfg6]

Joel Bartlett is forgotten as a KPIX Weather person but well remembered as a KGO weather person.

[dinfg6]

When Did Brian Sussman took Joel Bartletts KPIX spot.

[Tre404]

I haven't seen this newscast in nearly 25 years, and was able to quote right along with the opening! LOL.... "Now: Dave McElatton... Wendy Tokuda... Wayne Walker on Sports... and Joel Bartlett with Weather..."

I completely amazed myself as the words fell from my mouth from some remote area of my brain! :) Amazing what the brain can recall after being forgotten for so many years!

So great to see these familiar faces again after so long! Thank you so much for posting!

[alramone1]

asian reporter wendy tokuda

[80sCommercialVault]

Tricia Takanawa has nothing on her.

[pandaKrusher]

Dave McElhatton is a class act. A newsman's newsman. That guy had more professionalism in his left elbow (seen here at 4:44 while on a coffee break) than half the chumps on cable news today.

R.I.P. Doug Murphy.

[manhizzy]

This was during Dave McElhatton's skinny period. People at the other stations in town thought he was sick, because they were so used to him being chubby.

[ptb267ii]

RIP Doug Murphy

?-2005

Doug was just coming out of KTRK-TV in Houston a few years back around this time as he started a 23 year run before he died in a fire in Layfayette in December 2005.

[troodon311]

I'm pretty sure the Pacific ocean is a little bit bigger than that graphic would lead you to believe.

I love how the news guy doesn't know how to pronounce "Iberia".

[dogcafe]

Um, iberia the way he says it is probably closer to the way it actually is. It is those English-speakers who don't know how to pronounce it properly.

[troodon311]

I'm well aware of how it's pronounced in Spanish. The magical thing about languages is that they take foreign words and make them their own. If the English language didn't, Spain would be España and Germany would be Deutschland.

And to English speakers Iberia, while retaining its native spelling, is pronounced [eye-beer-ee-uh]. Feel free to find some dictionary site with audio pronunciations to confirm this.

Anything else you want me to explain to you?

[dogcafe]

The other magical thing about a language is that it's fluid, varied and unbound by the dictates of often wrong or outdated dictionaries. Some say erbs, some say herbs. Which is correct? Is it the American version because it, indeed, reflects the French pronunciation? Is it Nee-sahn as Americans say it (again mirroring the Japanese pronunciation) or Nisn as the Brits say it? And in the case of Iberia, it's wrong because his version reflected the native word?

[troodon311]

Regional differences in pronunciation are not the same thing as not knowing how to pronounce a word. One is the result of your culture and education, the other is the result of your ignorance. I assume already you know that and just want to be difficult.

He wasnt using the Spanish pronunciation for that word (his r was an English one, not a Spanish one), he was using the I dont know how to pronounce this, no one told me how to pronounce it, so Im going to wing it pronunciation.