A complete newscast from Russ Dunbar (the voice heard on the last slides-only newscast of this clip) from 1967 on WOR Radio (almost a year before the split of the announcing pool that followed WOR-TV's move to 1481 Broadway) can be found here:
Wow. The VW Rabbit Diesel got 45 miles per gallon... back in 1981. Imagine that. A pickup truck which gets more than double the mileage of today's pickup trucks.
By having an announcer read wire copy while viewers saw a slide, WOR was able to save money by not having to run on studio cameras and lights nior hire a studio/control-room crew.
@Colortiniz - Actually, it was white; on this particular day, the film chain camera (RCA TK-27, from what I've been apprised) was apparently poorly calibrated and aligned. If you look closely, the green 'data' was right below that image.
All those slides used on their sign-on and -off news reports dated to at least 1970, the year that 'dotted/stylized 9' logo first took effect. In 1983, the 'news' slide was adjusted only slightly to account for WOR's city of license change to Secaucus, NJ.
20 years later...
thetwentyteens 5 months ago
You think those economic decisions can be used today?
reike 1 year ago
A complete newscast from Russ Dunbar (the voice heard on the last slides-only newscast of this clip) from 1967 on WOR Radio (almost a year before the split of the announcing pool that followed WOR-TV's move to 1481 Broadway) can be found here:
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And unlike on here, he identifies himself.
wmbrown6 1 year ago
what was the station airing in-between these news updates?
Matt324324 1 year ago
Wow. The VW Rabbit Diesel got 45 miles per gallon... back in 1981. Imagine that. A pickup truck which gets more than double the mileage of today's pickup trucks.
Channelhahaha 1 year ago
By having an announcer read wire copy while viewers saw a slide, WOR was able to save money by not having to run on studio cameras and lights nior hire a studio/control-room crew.
altfactor 1 year ago
@altfactor - This appears to have been true with the other NY stations in terms of their sign-on and -off newscasts, as well.
wmbrown6 1 year ago
wow! to think that this was taped 20 years before to the date of the worst tragedy we have ever experienced as a nation.
Tenor5274 1 year ago
This was like 5 AM...
TRKoneAD2 2 years ago
Notice at 2:51 Dunbar almost said "financial misleadings" but stopped short at "misl--" and said the correct "misdealings."
wmbrown6 2 years ago
One of my fav. NY clips from tap> almost all slides..
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Turns out also, it was 20 yrs preceding 9-11.
MSTS1 2 years ago 3
i'm so behind in re-posting old clips
tapthatt2012 2 years ago
Sweden!
HalfordJetset 2 years ago
People spoke so eloquently back then... don't you think?
danawadd 2 years ago
"People spoke so eloquently back then... don't you think?"
I always liked that type of announcing myself, since I grew up on it.
EarlSnohomish 2 years ago 3
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"People spoke so eloquently back then... don't you think?"
I agree entirely. Class all the way. News and announcing BY adults, FOR adults. You can't find this anywhere today on 100+ channels.
60sThru80s 2 years ago
In sports, what's the pink thing in the upper left corner? A badminton shuttlecock?
"Have a nice day if you can". Very pragmatic.
Colortiniz 2 years ago
I... think that'd be a golf tee.
JFD62780 2 years ago
I thought that too, but its sideways. And pink.
Colortiniz 2 years ago
@Colortiniz - Actually, it was white; on this particular day, the film chain camera (RCA TK-27, from what I've been apprised) was apparently poorly calibrated and aligned. If you look closely, the green 'data' was right below that image.
All those slides used on their sign-on and -off news reports dated to at least 1970, the year that 'dotted/stylized 9' logo first took effect. In 1983, the 'news' slide was adjusted only slightly to account for WOR's city of license change to Secaucus, NJ.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
@wmbrown6 That does make sense, though the white balls seem OK.
Colortiniz 2 years ago
The V/O's heard here were (in order of appearance) Ray Marlin, Barbara Korsen and Russ Dunbar.
wmbrown6 2 years ago