WABC 1977

[lianlaspinas]

"This is an RPN News and Public Affairs Presentation"

Copyright 1979 Radio Philippines Network, Inc.

[lianlaspinas]

The new logo and new set of RPN NewsWatch with Ramon Imperial, Cielo Villaluna and Coco Quisumbing from 1976 to 1979

[n0gar]

Damn I do remember this logo back in the day - although I was far from watching news for myself. Hell, I do not even think that I was in school yet...

[sjk72]

@n0gar You weren't.

[East180thStreetYard]

Copyright 1979 ?!

[KodyBoy555]

@East180thStreetYard Change the year from "1977" to "1979".

[PBNYC1271]

Anna Bond......pure bondage!!!!!

[crossbronx63]

Man this brings back memories, it's freaky

[hillhill68]

Sal Marciano on Eyewitness News. Wow.

[man975dog]

yes isn't it something because Sal Marchiano is now on the PIX 11 news or channel 11 news in nyc.

[albear972]

A 747 from LA to NY with only 119 people? damn! today they pack yer' ass like sardines, 150 people in an Airbus A320 the same route. You don't see 747's used on domestic routes anymore.

[worm082]

Christ, who's operating the camera at the very end? Stevie Wonder?? LOL

[Steven197981]

John Johnson...what an awkward name.

[East180thStreetYard]

@Steven197981 Yeah,kinda redundant;I also think there was a "Jack Jones" at Philadelphia's KYW,where "Eyewitness News" began in 1965.

[giles422]

Anna Bond was hot

[DTD110865]

@giles422

I had a thing for Tracy Egan for a while myself.

[East180thStreetYard]

@DTD110865 Tracy Egan has been all over the New York State map:WRGB & WTEN in the Capital District & WKBW,Buffalo.To be quite honest,I haven't got a clue as to her whereabouts now.

[vinnyhoags]

Buckwheat went far.  JJ was Dynamite.

[corv989]

funky hair-do days lol

[NJTank]

This newscast is from January 27, 1979

[lianlaspinas]

it was used the set for ABS-CBN's TV Patrol and the World Tonight in 1979.

[shannonholmesmedia]

hey how did you get this footage if u don't mind me asking?

[anonymouscrank]

After the news: "Hi! I'm Ellie Dylan." Didn't she have a local NYC show in the mid-70s called "What's Hot/What's Not"?

[wmbrown6]

I wouldn't know - but she was one of the "new" DJ's of the "new" 66 WNBC in 1977 after Imus was exiled to Cleveland for a two-year interregnum, not to mention the likes of Norm N. Nite and "Cousin Brucie" Morrow being cut loose.

[fromthesidelines]

Storm Field wasn't "recently retired", 'socom'; his contract with WWOR-TV wasn't renewed in January 2008, and they just pushed him off the air, without any prior notice (apparently, he was just "too expensive" to continue his forecasts on Channel 9).

[socomoddjob]

sal and storm just recently retired, pretty crazy.

[Deannacall]

that was the best news set ever! i remember at the top of those 'steps' behind the anchor desk , was another news desk, that was high tech stuff back then!

[payless1981]

WoW, Sal hasn't changed much

[Maserati7200]

haha, John Johnson

[ukendcx2000]

rofl

[fastboats03]

Does anybody remember the name of the weatherman on ch. 7 that was fired over a rape story?? He was a really strange guy. BTW....channnel 7 in NY.

[wmbrown6]

Oh yeah . . . Tex Antoine. In 1976.

[ApricotRse]

His comment was something along the lines of "...if rape is inevitable, why not relax and enjoy it?" Off-the-hook insane! They couldn't can him fast enough.

[likeitsgolden26]

Tex Antoine. My Grandma dang near blew up the TV set when he made that remark. Bill Beutel almost strangled him on camera

[SHRINA17]

I remember that like it was yesterday. That was big news in the New York area...my grandma, who lived in Brooklyn, felt the same way as your grandma....strange comment....sick comment actually!

[EuroAlien]

Interesting to see the temperature shown in degrees Celsius as well as Fahrenheit - pretty rare to see the USA using that!!

[wmbrown6]

On the opening, would that have been Melinda Nix at far left?

[noahf67]

OK, what was that closing theme? Off some album, or from some commercial library...?

[wmbrown6]

That was "Tambourine" by John Tropea, originally released in 1976 on the Marlin label. WABC first used it around late 1977, replacing the prior Friday-evening closing theme, Mantovani's recording of the Leroy Anderson composition "Forgotten Dreams."

[noahf67]

Unbelieveable....I asked one question and you answered my next five! Thanks!

[payless1981]

Sal still looks the same.

[Myrolex]

How great was John Johnson!?!

[idaltuguy]

This clip was originally posted by eyeontv and it is indeed from Jan 27th, 1979. This is when the hijacking took place.

[StukInBuf]

By any chance, what happened to the plane?

[idaltuguy]

The plane landed safely in-I believe-Los Angeles. There were a large group of celebrities on the plane too. Theodore Bickel was on board and played "Time in a bottle," to calm the passengers. When the media interviewed him (asking him if he was afraid) he said something like "I would be a fool not to be."

[StukInBuf]

Thank God!

[idaltuguy]

You can actually see the evening news clip for this on Vanderbilt University's tv news archive. (youtube isn't leeting me post the stupid web address, but you can google it.) A guy on here told me about it. It's great resource w/ lots of footage! Whats bizzare about the hijacking was that a middle aged woman did it! Around that time, a 17 yr old girl hijacked a plane, trying to stage a prison break 4 her stepfather(apparently imprisoned 4 robbing banks & hijacking planes himself).

[idaltuguy]

(continued) The girls mom had been killed a few months before, while trying to steal a helicopter (trying to break the same creep out of jail). What was up w/ people back then? I guess hijackings were common place back then, but a family affair?

[DTD110865]

@idaltuguy

No, most hijackings were politically motivated back then too. Most were done by Arab extremists and communists, but the occasional Nationalist group would pull them once in a while.

[wendythev]

These clips mean a lot to me--thanks for posting. Storm Field was about 27 when he joined the news team. I used to write to him...great guy.

[vln1972]

damn i didnt know sal marchiano was on ABC

[BobbyFz]

This reminds me of a time when the major TV networks actually went off at 3 or 4 in the morning and they played the Star Spangled Banner to "end the broadcast day"!

[akear]

I find the dated look fascinating. This is what the newsworld looked like before computers. The newsroom looks like some post modern disco set. The world was a different place 30 years ago.

[50marioD]

Storm Field was the son of Dr.Frank Field who also a t.v. meteorologist.

[scatman44]

How come I never knew about Ozzy Ocasio. Were there other Puerto Rican Heavyweights besides him and John Ruiz?

[Myrolex]

Storm Field... a youngster! John Johnson is the man!

[wmbrown6]

No, Wally Parker worked for WABC from at least the 1960's to the '80's. WNBC in the late '70's had an array of announcers, drawn from the NBC New York announcing staff, some of whose names I can't place to their voices. (I'm not referring to Don Pardo, Howard Reig, Jerry Damon, Mel Brandt, Wayne Howell, Fred Facey, Arthur Gary et al. - these voices I do know.)

[Davidingilbert]

WM - problem is the NBC ID card that had this person's voice was taken down, so we will never know.

[wmbrown6]

Even so, I have the voices of many of these announcers to memory, and I can assure you the V/O of the NBC I.D. card was not Mr. Parker. In two cases - 1978 and 1979 prior to each "NewsCenter4" opening with Chuck Scarborough - the I.D. there was handled by the recently-retired Howard Reig. Unless you're referring to a weekend edition with Pia Lindstrom . . .

[wmbrown6]

Then there was another name I pegged a voice to . . . Bill Hanrahan (the voice of "NBC Nightly News" prior to Mr. Reig), who I believe did a WNBC I.D. in 1978.

[tvnetdude]

So Howard retired huh? Don Pardo must be the only one left.

[wmbrown6]

True . . . although Pardo retired as an NBC staff announcer in 2004, he still (to my knowledge) works on "SNL."

[wmbrown6]

. . . that 1978 Father's Day edition with Pia Lindstrom, unless I'm mistaken, was V/O'd by another veteran NBC staffer, Jack Costello.

[Davidingilbert]

I think the person who did the voiceover the WABC logo was the same person who did the WNBC voiceover / logo.

[wmbrown6]

This was actually around spring 1979 - and the V/O was Wally Parker.

[wmbrown6]

Actually, to be more specific, I've been apprised that this clip originated from Jan. 27, 1979.