WNEW "COLOR PRESENTATION" GRAPHIC (FROM 1969!!)

[whammy850]

SO KEWL

[rgasp11]

I remember this logo. Thanks for posting!

[themostrandomchick24]

Wow......they were doing A LOT of LSD when they came up with this sketch, weren't they? :-D

[JaxAunt]

Do you have any graphics from WTTG Metromedia (now Fox) 5 in Washington, DC?

[tapthatt2012]

@JaxAunt just this.

[eastest566]

How long was WNEW owned by Metromedia?

[DanZero77]

@eastest566 From 1958, when the DuMont networked divested and dissolved, to 1986, when Fox bought the Metromedia stations.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Very nice jingle.

[dalekusa]

@MattTheSaiyan Agreed.

[wmbrown6]

According to The New York Times, the edition of "The Skitch Henderson Show" (the second title of this series, renamed from the original "Skitch Henderson's New York") on which Peter Lupus guested was Thursday, April 3, 1969.

[TheIronSheikSociety]

That Channel 5 logo was awesome!!! WNEW's "5" before 1977 really stands out as the true classic Metromedia 5 logo. The music and ideas are just priceless here.

[wmbrown6]

@TheIronSheikSociety - The '5' font of 1967-77 was from a proprietary typeface called "Metromedia Television Alphabet," which was to Metromedia what the typeface used by "Group W" stations was to that conglomerate. That same '5' was also used in that same period by Washington, DC station WTTG.

[drgitlow]

Been looking for this one for decades. I have an audio tape of it as a lead in to Daphnes Castle in 1969 or so, but haven't seen the video since then (or in color, ever).

[SuperSpaceGirlTV]

That's it!!!! That's the one, my mother was posessed with that music, when she was a kid.  She'd crush GrandPa on his lap imitating it. before the "O Song".

[SesameSquirrel]

Does anyone remember the season promotion theme from the fall of 1970, in which they had a shrill voice sing the alphabet, while each (animated) letter zoomed in onscreen? Sometimes she'd recite several letters, then stop, repeat the letter in a question tone, say the name of a show, then display a clip from that show.

[wmbrown6]

Are you possibly referring to this type of ad:

watch?v=TsOhGEICwh0 (designated "WNEW-TV Spots")

1970 sounds about right, as they have a cartoon version of a font called Grizzly which was used in WNEW print ads at the time.

[heine71]

What show was this from?

[tapthatt2012]

the skitch henderson show

[heine71]

Must be a rare U-matic recording, nearly everyone heard of recorders at the time.

[wmbrown6]

If this were from "The Skitch Henderson Show," then it would appear this was from within the week of March 31-April 4, 1969. Who were the guests on this edition that's on tape? I have the March 29-April 4, 1969 TV Guide, and the guests may be the clue as to the date.

[tapthatt2012]

i will check, but peter lupus was one of the guests

[wmbrown6]

Also . . . I seem to remember Henderson's show on Channel 5 being called "Skitch Henderson's New York." It replaced "The New Yorkers" in 1968, and was itself apparently a predecessor to the eventual "Midday Live."

[StooGP]

Pretty incredible and rare find...thanks much for posting this!

[agrel25952]

WOW!!, I remember this watching on a 1967 Admiral 25" color console in '69

Wasnt there a 20 second B&W version like 67 or 68? Excellent quality, thank you for posting this!!!!

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I did use the bumper for my own logo for "Musicradio77 Productions" using the same music from the WNEW-TV "Color Presentation" bumper from 1969. This logo can also be use for my collection videos and my video game reviews for my own series "The 4:00 Game". You should watch it in my video response.

[noahf67]

I think the ID that proceeded this movement was the animated serif one

that used the "WNEW 1130" theme.

[kylebook]

The theme music sounds like a cross between Eric Siday & Dick Hyman

[thruthealcove]

Even though I wasn't born when this was made, I remember when TV stations did thise little intros & makes me wish TV could go back to doing these things!!! In '68, there was a music special with James Brown called "Man To Man" shown on channel 5 in NY, I wonder if this was shown at the beginning, as it was a color program.

[wmbrown6]

Bet on it, since this filmed animated bumper was created in 1967 when this '5' logo first debuted.

[tkaye2]

I've been trying to figure out what the very first word (as in "--uh television") that's cut off is... Metromedia, perhaps?

Did they ID as "Channel 5 Metromedia Television" as part of this new company-wide branding wmbrown mentioned?

[wmbrown6]

Fred Scott may've said "Channel 5 television" for all I know. But it was during 1967 that Metromedia reorganized its broadcasting units as "Metromedia Television" and "Metromedia Radio," respectively. (I saw some 1966-67 ads in TV Guide and some of the New York papers where, below the ad, was printed "A Metromedia Station.") Prior to this company-wide branding, the only stations to have the same type for their logo were WNEW and Washington's WTTG - both on Channel 5. (A very fancy serif type.)

[danawadd]

This is mesmerizing to watch... and watch... and watch...

I was about 2 years in 1969 so this is definitely not part of deeply recessed memories...

[jb20092009]

Wow!!!! Thanks!! Where did you find this? This was actually from the 1967-68 season and as anybody can possibly tell was based on Psychedelia.

I first used to get scared watching this.

[tapthatt2012]

the king family website lists the easter special

ran in 68 and rerun in 69. my source said 69.

glad you liked it

[wmbrown6]

Well, that color bumper was certainly produced in 1967 - the year that sans-serif '5' logo replaced the ornate serif logo used since the 1960-61 season. This may have actually been used for about 2-3 years. I can verify the year of production because there was an article in Broadcasting magazine in 1968 about how Metromedia stations had standardized their look. It also mentioned a filmed I.D., made along these lines, going from "WNEW-TV" to the "Mm5" logo in the same "swirled" graphics.

[tapthatt2012]

thanks for the info. this particular clip is from 69. one of the breaks mentions the joe namath and the superbowl win. will post that this weekend.

[wmbrown6]

So there's the answer, then. ;)

[jb20092009]

I remember during a trip to LA in '72 that KTTV Channel 11 used the same graphics, albeit with creepy sounding music that sounded like Hey, Casper, whatcha doing on the moon.

Ironically, this came out a season before the networks started to do away with their 'In Color' idents.

[timmymylad]

Thank You for posting this video Tap!

I don't remember seeing this back in 1969

but I was only 2years old at the time!

[classicphile]

"I don't remember seeing this back in 1969 but I was only 2years old at the time! "

I too dont remember this one because I was born in the year 1969 :-)

[NewYorkRetroKing]

That's a rare find, Tap. :)

[Saturday8pm]

So old, I don't even remember this, and that's saying something!

[EarlSnohomish]

I hear you, Saturday. I'm about the same age as you, yet I have no memory of this. I do recall all of the King Family specials that WNEW aired during the '70s, however.

Great post, Tap!

[panedit]

WOW! Thanks!

[RolloSmokes]

You rock...on!

[wmbrown6]

A few notes:

1) The voice before this film sounded a bit like Fred Scott, didn't it?

2) The '5' was set in a proprietary font called "Metromedia Television Alphabet," created in 1967; it was as much associated with Metromedia and its stations as the font used by Group W and its TV and radio stations.

[EarlSnohomish]

Of the announcers that I am aware of that worked at WNEW, Fred Scott does appear to be the #1 suspect.

[MSTS1]

Nice. Given the obstacles you mentioned to me, this one turned out very good, I like it

[danawadd]

amazing... great find TAP!  My family had a floor model black & white around this time...and I was just a wee little toddler ;)

[dyinglikeflies]

nice- there were no VCRs so where does this come from? (If it's a secret, so be it).

[tapthatt2012]

somebody must've got this one dubbed before it went into the archives.