WTOP-TV Newsnight 6 pm Report - 7/31/1968 (Last Segment)

[lsmftymf]

Bob Waller was later Harry Caray's partner on Chicago White Sox telecasts on WSNS-Ch. 44 in 1973 & 1974. His hair grew substantially longer by then. During this two-year stint, he probably got to know Johnny Morris who joined WMAQ-TV immediately after his retirement from the Bears. Morris would eventually be the sports director at WBBM-TV from the mid-1970s into the early-1990s. He was also a broadcaster for Bears games on CBS during that same span.

[MrMatt8204]

Curt Flood was a very well-spoken guy. You really can't say the same thing about many athletes these days.

[pbrick6301]

Picture was of Ernie Banks? Not Earl Wilson?

[EyeLikeTooWatch]

@pbrick6301 Photo is actually the Cubs' Ernie Banks.

[hersheybarblues]

This takes me back. I was living in suburban Maryland and was a fan of the Washington Senators. In fact, my mom and I had the game on the radio when Ron Hanson turned the unassisted triple play against the Indians mentioned in the sportscast. Washington finished in the celler, with Detroit capturing the American League pennant. St. Louis won the NL flag. The Tigers clipped the Cardinals in seven games in the series. Interestingly, the interviewed Curt Flood finished his career with the Senators.

[phillipsralph]

Good to see a clip of Curt Flood, currently reading book 'A Well-Paid Slave' very good sport history read.

[dcat918]

Thanks for uploading.

[mca1218]

Another wonderful local video gem unveiled- and this 47-year-old Washingtonian appreciates it.

[Badgerinmaine]

That was interesting! The weather screen flipping over was different--reminds me of the way some billboards worked when I was little. Ironic to see Curt Flood on a Washington station--a few years later, he went to Washington after refusing a deal to Philadelphia and eventually jumped the club and went (I think) to Spain.

[jpod3000]

"A T.V. sportscaster of all things!"

Oh how very dry! Enjoyed this, thanks for posting.

[tyrese3745]

Gordon Peterson wasn't there in '68, huh? Not even Gordon Barnes?

[EyeLikeTooWatch]

F. Gordon Barnes came to DC in 1976 to replace Louis Allen who died in May of that year. Gordon Peterson started as a reporter for WTOP Radio and TV in the autumn of 1969, but didn't take the co-anchor chair (alongside Max Robinson) until 1971.

[tyrese3745]

When did J.C. Hayward and Maureen Bunyan join WTOP-TV?

[EyeLikeTooWatch]

J.C. Hayward = 1972 to present at Channel-9.

Maureen Bunyan = 1973 to 1995 at Channel-9.

[wmbrown6]

@tyrese3745 - To add to 'EyeLikeTooWatch's' points, in the late 1960's and early '70's Barnes was weatherman at WCBS-TV in New York, and just before coming to then-WTOP-TV and its then AM sister, he had been weatherman at WCBS Newsradio 88.

[worm082]

love the opening logo

[ntbsam]

Love the report about the Cardinals... they were the best til they faced Detroit.

[dcbandnerd]

Unassisted triple play and a 30th home run and they STILL managed to lose by 9 runs.

Washington Baseball....you gotta love it.

[mdumas43073]

I believe that's actually a photo of the Cubs' Ernie Banks @ 0:16.