HOW TRUE...HOW TRUE...NETWORK TV IS GARBAGE TODAY COMPARED WITH WHAT WAS ON BACK IN THE 1970S.....THESE GD REALITY SHOWS HAVE GOT TO GO!!!! THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ERA LIKE THE 70s.......THAT WAS MY TEENAGE YEARS AND I WILL NEVER FORGET THEM!!!!
The 1973-74 CBS lineup was incredible, as were some of the other shows that debuted the following year: Good Times, Rhoda, The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time. No doubt, this was a golden age in television!
CBS received the nickname during the Frank Stanton/William Paley administration because the Network was associated with high standards of quality and taste.
Television in da 1970s 1970-71 (1st TV season of da 70s) 1971-72 1972-73 1973-74 (this TV season usher'd da mid-70s) 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 (this TV season usher'd da late70s) 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 (last TV season of da 70s & it usher'd da 80s)
Before ABC got hot in the mid/late '70s with Happy Days, Love Boat, etc., CBS owned network TV. MASH, All in The Family, Maude, The Waltons, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyley Moore....geeze, it looks like a TV All-Star team. Network TV today is a joke compared to those days.
I already know! Retro Television Network (RTV) is on the .2 portion of our CBS station! This means Falconcrest, Airwolf, Magnum P.I. and several other old CBS shows including The Incredible Hulk, plus Dragnet, Emergency! and Adam-12 are on most of the day!
Len Maxwell was a professional voice-over narrator and actor who didn't directly work for CBS, 'wm'; he provided several voices for Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" (1966); backed up Frank Buxton in the 1966-'67 "BATFINK" cartoons [as the melodramatic narrator, "Karate", etc.] and did tons of radio and TV commercials, sometimes using his patented "Pete Smith" impresssion {from the MGM shorts of the '30s-'50s, i.e. "Uh-oh! Look who's in trouble again!"}. Very talented...
Jeezus, I remember watching so many of the shows shown here...now, I hardly watch CBS or the other networks at all as most of what they air is total crap. So sick of all reality shows!
Television's decline correlates to the deregulation of the broadcasting industry which was championed by President Reagan in the 1980s. Although the number of video channels has increased dramatically over the years, the quality of programming has generally decreased.
I would like to know who composed and performed this jingle. It sounds to me like the signature style of Edd Kalehoff. It features a Moog Synthesiser lead and is similar to his music for the game show "Tattletales" and the early '70's "CBS Sports Spectacular" vocal theme (not ELO's "Fire on High"). I would like to find out if it is his song.
I got to thinking about Edd when I last heard The Price Is Right themes. He is quit possibly the most prolific TV music artist ever. He even wrote at least one of the opening themes for "The Nightly Business Report" on PBS, for goodness sake!
Totally agree with the above points from everyone. Adding insult to injury on the translucent network logos are "nag screen" ads the networks now use to advertise upcoming shows. These sit on the lower corner of the TV screen temporarily or sometimes for the entire time, getting in the way of action you need to see on the TV screen.
I dislike the now-ubiquitous logos that are plastered on all TV channels now. But CBS was the last of the networks to do this, and I think their small translucent Eye is the most tasteful and least intrusive of the bunch.
When you consider the fact that "CALUCCI'S DEPARTMENT" was opposite NBC's "SANFORD AND SON" on Friday nights, now you'll understand WHY it went off after 13 weeks....and it was produced by Ed Sullivan's company in New York, to boot!
It's just amazing when you see this and look back at the range of talent and programs they had! It's a far different story today on CBS and the other networks.
There is not a single program on any of the 4 networks that I make time to watch or Tivo. Our PBS station is one of the best in the nation and some of the cable channels, like Discovery and History, get my time instead.
The font family used then was that of Serif Gothic. It was apparently from this season that WCBS-TV in New York first used Serif Gothic Bold for their "2" logo (with a very small eye on the left side below the hook), as would be utilized until about 1985.
Because it was often considered the TV equivalent of Tiffany & Co., a famous jewelry store in New York City. The point is that CBS was the classiest and highest-quality network, the TV equivalent of Tiffany's diamonds.
One of the two may be a "ripoff" font (sort of like how Bodoni is a copy of Didot, the actual font that Lou Dorfsman chose to be CBS' official typeface...)
HOW TRUE...HOW TRUE...NETWORK TV IS GARBAGE TODAY COMPARED WITH WHAT WAS ON BACK IN THE 1970S.....THESE GD REALITY SHOWS HAVE GOT TO GO!!!! THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ERA LIKE THE 70s.......THAT WAS MY TEENAGE YEARS AND I WILL NEVER FORGET THEM!!!!
tony46214 8 months ago
The 1973-74 CBS lineup was incredible, as were some of the other shows that debuted the following year: Good Times, Rhoda, The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time. No doubt, this was a golden age in television!
steveb802000 1 year ago
What - no "reality" shows? Oh yeah, that was the evening news
luridplanet 1 year ago
Is there a reason by CBS is known as the Tiffany Network?
obsgia 2 years ago
CBS received the nickname during the Frank Stanton/William Paley administration because the Network was associated with high standards of quality and taste.
VintageTelevision 2 years ago
SuperAV21 2 years ago
1973-1974 season
frankd1965 2 years ago
Today's TV sucks big time. I NEVER watch it anymore, I'm not kidding. Wish I could go back to the 70's. The 70's were GREAT.
pazzensutra 2 years ago 3
Before ABC got hot in the mid/late '70s with Happy Days, Love Boat, etc., CBS owned network TV. MASH, All in The Family, Maude, The Waltons, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyley Moore....geeze, it looks like a TV All-Star team. Network TV today is a joke compared to those days.
evad41 2 years ago 4
Even the flops look good!
steadfastcoward 2 years ago 5
"Calucci's Dept." intrigues me. Anything will Bill Hickey in it couldn't have been all bad!
mdumas43073 2 years ago
I would watch this lineup today if it was on. It would be interesting to see how today's CBS would fare against a retro CBS network.
paradiseshow1988 2 years ago
I already know! Retro Television Network (RTV) is on the .2 portion of our CBS station! This means Falconcrest, Airwolf, Magnum P.I. and several other old CBS shows including The Incredible Hulk, plus Dragnet, Emergency! and Adam-12 are on most of the day!
Guess what I watch???
steadfastcoward 2 years ago
See, directv needs to put this channel on. It's on At&t but I dont have access to that, shooot!
warlaker 2 years ago
This one takes me back to my teenage years
RetroWaves 3 years ago
KDKA in Pittsburgh had a local version of this promo:
The best is right here on TV-2/TV-2 is easy on the eyes!
AJ0880 3 years ago
This jingle ("The Best Is Right Here...On C.B.S.") was also heard on the 1973 Fall Preview. These promos are pristine! where did you find them?
vividwatch47 3 years ago
Len Maxwell was a professional voice-over narrator and actor who didn't directly work for CBS, 'wm'; he provided several voices for Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" (1966); backed up Frank Buxton in the 1966-'67 "BATFINK" cartoons [as the melodramatic narrator, "Karate", etc.] and did tons of radio and TV commercials, sometimes using his patented "Pete Smith" impresssion {from the MGM shorts of the '30s-'50s, i.e. "Uh-oh! Look who's in trouble again!"}. Very talented...
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
Jeezus, I remember watching so many of the shows shown here...now, I hardly watch CBS or the other networks at all as most of what they air is total crap. So sick of all reality shows!
tcbluecollarguy 3 years ago 3
Television's decline correlates to the deregulation of the broadcasting industry which was championed by President Reagan in the 1980s. Although the number of video channels has increased dramatically over the years, the quality of programming has generally decreased.
VintageTelevision 3 years ago 3
Perhaps it's more correct to note the same programs are on many channels or else SPINOFFS of not only programs but also SPINOFF CHANNELS!
WHEEEEEEE!
steadfastcoward 2 years ago
I would like to know who composed and performed this jingle. It sounds to me like the signature style of Edd Kalehoff. It features a Moog Synthesiser lead and is similar to his music for the game show "Tattletales" and the early '70's "CBS Sports Spectacular" vocal theme (not ELO's "Fire on High"). I would like to find out if it is his song.
chrisbox51 3 years ago
I got to thinking about Edd when I last heard The Price Is Right themes. He is quit possibly the most prolific TV music artist ever. He even wrote at least one of the opening themes for "The Nightly Business Report" on PBS, for goodness sake!
steadfastcoward 2 years ago
00:7 it looks like a butt in the "eye"
tater513 3 years ago
Believe me, in big-time advertising productions like this, nothing happens by coincidence! :-) That had to be meant as a subliminal message.
tkaye2 3 years ago
CBS was the spot back in the 70's. Well most of it anyway.
jroyal84 3 years ago
The announcer on the "CALUCCI'S DEPT." promo is Len Maxwell....
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
Pray tell, where did Len Maxwell work - was he a CBS West Coast announcer?
wmbrown6 3 years ago
My childhood........
tubelover12 3 years ago
I dig that typography.
skystarless 3 years ago
That looked like William Hickey from "Prizzi's Honor" and "Christmas Vacation" in "Calucci's Dept."
dandydonaldo 3 years ago
Totally agree with the above points from everyone. Adding insult to injury on the translucent network logos are "nag screen" ads the networks now use to advertise upcoming shows. These sit on the lower corner of the TV screen temporarily or sometimes for the entire time, getting in the way of action you need to see on the TV screen.
radamail 4 years ago
CBS isn't easy on the eyes anymore since they have their stupid logo on the screen all the time!
eyeh8cbs 4 years ago
I dislike the now-ubiquitous logos that are plastered on all TV channels now. But CBS was the last of the networks to do this, and I think their small translucent Eye is the most tasteful and least intrusive of the bunch.
VintageTelevision 4 years ago
ABC was the last, they started a couple weeks after CBS (around March 1998). The only tasteful and unintrusive logo is NO logo!
eyeh8cbs 4 years ago 3
Thank goodness TV stations have learned to move theirs so as not to be placed over/under it.
steadfastcoward 2 years ago
When you consider the fact that "CALUCCI'S DEPARTMENT" was opposite NBC's "SANFORD AND SON" on Friday nights, now you'll understand WHY it went off after 13 weeks....and it was produced by Ed Sullivan's company in New York, to boot!
fromthesidelines 4 years ago
"Calucci's Dept." also ran against "The Brady Bunch", but that got canceled too.
zymaymyn 2 years ago
It was that TIKI GOD Greg found!
steadfastcoward 2 years ago
It's just amazing when you see this and look back at the range of talent and programs they had! It's a far different story today on CBS and the other networks.
mplsmn 4 years ago
More to the point, it's as if the don't give a you-know-what. "The worst is right here... on C-B-Mess!"
AllRequired 4 years ago
There is not a single program on any of the 4 networks that I make time to watch or Tivo. Our PBS station is one of the best in the nation and some of the cable channels, like Discovery and History, get my time instead.
mplsmn 4 years ago
How could we forget "Calucci's Dept"?
Went on to become a true television classic...
Danno010 4 years ago
This was when CBS had good shows.
Today they don't have anything worth watching.
coolwafferman 4 years ago
At last I get to to see these. I have both of these on my old cassette tapes. And other ones.
vintagecbsfan 4 years ago
Did anyone notice the "subliminal ass" right in the center of the eye at the seventh second? hahahaha
lufemed 4 years ago
LMFAO!
norton2 4 years ago
LOL. You're right. It becomes Cannon's face.
kolst8406 4 years ago
The font family used then was that of Serif Gothic. It was apparently from this season that WCBS-TV in New York first used Serif Gothic Bold for their "2" logo (with a very small eye on the left side below the hook), as would be utilized until about 1985.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
I thought it was called Staid Gothic.
barber747 4 years ago
That might've come from another typesetting firm who changed the name for copyright reasons.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
I always wondered why CBS is thought of as "The Tiffany Network?"
huggyface 4 years ago
Because it was often considered the TV equivalent of Tiffany & Co., a famous jewelry store in New York City. The point is that CBS was the classiest and highest-quality network, the TV equivalent of Tiffany's diamonds.
TServo2049 4 years ago
Now it's the K-Mart network!
eyeh8cbs 4 years ago
One of the two may be a "ripoff" font (sort of like how Bodoni is a copy of Didot, the actual font that Lou Dorfsman chose to be CBS' official typeface...)
TServo2049 4 years ago
... and I was just getting used to the font they used prior to 1973, even though it looked rather scary at first!
zekepig 4 years ago