WNBC Radio sign-off on WNBC-TV

[Jilliiette]

OMG Jack Cafferty.



[tvlondon]

"How does it feel Don?"

"Those are some nappy-headed hos!"

[wogfun]

LOL 4:55 "what we've been doing", which is nothing

[wogfun]

No hate, but Roker looks terrible in this old clip. He looks much better nowadays.

[theshugchannel]

LOL @ Roker

[geekgirltv2011]

@rswilso10 that airs the next day. it's friday yet you know in this video.

[madden8021]

is al rooker from the weather channel

[spxmet]

double-u ENN-bee-cee.

[artiefun]

So Very Sad

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:02 To 0:39, It Was WNBC-TV's News 4 Live At 5 Video Open From 2 Video Bumpers From Friday Evening, October 7, 1988.

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:02, It Was WNBC-TV's Come Home To Channel 4 Video ID From Late 1986.

[zaius316]

When did Roger Grimsby work with WNBC-TV? And what's he doing as a reporter instead of behind the desk?

[tyrese3745]

@zaius316 Grimsby left his famous 6:00pm anchor desk of 18 years around mid-1986 because of a dispute with WABC and Eyewitness News.

[atvrider7]

wow sue simmons was there way back then? o..o and wow don imus too. wow roker!! aww and shea stadium too. I was 8 months old when this happened.

[atvrider7]

wow sue simmons was there way back then? o..o and wow don imus too

[ongchorcool]

wow u are preserving it for the next generation like me!

[7855waldo]

You could do a lot worse than to order a copy of H. Allen Smith's bestseller (1941) because Fred Allen wrote the hilarious preface, which ALONE is worth whatever price you pay for the book (which is also equally as funny).

Good to see Al Roker doing "hard" news earlier in his career.

Seriously, has anyone anywhere EVER had an easier ride and been paid more money (wasted) than this pie-throwing clown?

[newscaster13]

It's still America's call letters, just on the television side.

Some former WNBC television personalities are joining the likes of Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams (NBC national news).

[Vlyger]

W-'ennnnnnnnnnnnnnnn'-B-C!!!!!­!

[godgundam10]

This just in, WNBC-TV is singing off tonight at 6PM! WNBC-TV goes off the air forever tonight at will be replaced by WFAN-TV! New York's 24-hour sports TV station!

[jason24568]

@godgundam10 Singing off in analog?

[godgundam10]

@jason24568 It was an April Fools Joke, albeit not a very good one. Yet the way things are going at WNBC-TV, it probably won't be long before that station goes off the air, too.

[jason24568]

@godgundam10 LOL

[TheRebel2007]

1988!!!!!!

[musicom67]

Roger got his facts wrong .... WNBC was WEAF first....

[hdwell]

What a sad day in broadcasting

[SailorCallie]

Al Roker with Don "Big Mouth" Imus.

[MrHoskins1942]

NBC Radio Peacock Are Very Sad..

[godgundam10]

So is the NBC TV Peacock. WNBC-TV is probably headed for the same fate the way things are going.

[Fartingbellybutton]

I don't Think Sue Simmons wore Glasses.

[kiotr2009]

She doesn't, but that's not Sue Simmons. Carol Jenkins was substituting for her. They used the regular show open, a standard practice, even though Sue was off that Friday.

[DrSurprise]

this Jack Capity guy sounds like Jack Cafferty from CNN. anyway, the intro to this sounds nice! if anything, i bet WNBC was beter than WNBC radio! one reason is because you can see whats going on. and at 1:14 , its almost hard to hear the news correspondant.

[AaronApolloCamp]

It is Jack Cafferty.

[DrSurprise]

oh, lol, i thought something was peculiar about this! it sounded like the narrator said "Jack Capity". and i never knew how different Sue Simmons looked back then. is she wearing contacts now cause i don't see her with glasses now.

[AaronApolloCamp]

She may have had laser eye surgery several years ago.

[kiotr2009]

Although Sue Simmons was the regular co-anchor of LIVE AT FIVE, on this day, Carol Jenkins was subbing for her. So that's NOT Sue Simmons.

[wiedep]

after spending 10+ years in the 'net tv biz, i can say for sure that the broadcast networks are dying and cable/internet are rising.

[Jerseysson27]

Bring back WNBC-AM 660, we must start a campaign to bring it back!

[johnnyafairbanks]

I wonder if WNBC-TV will do that very same sign-off when they shut off their analog transmitter permanently on June 12.

[godgundam10]

The way NBC is going right now, WNBC will sign off for good both analog and digital. NBC TV will follow NBC Radio and cease to exist.

[wiedep]

it's closer that you'd think...

[godgundam10]

Do you have proof that NBC is going to close down?

[wiedep]

meant it metaphorically. i worked on the 'net side there for 10 years and saw the erosion that made being there less attractive as time went on. ge won't shut the place down, they'd sell it first...

[godgundam10]

Well, I don't think GE will sell NBC. As a network, NBC may be struggling, but as a company, NBC is doing okay. All networks have their ups and downs. NBC will bounce back. They've done it before and they'll do it again.

[radamail]

I agree with your comments. I just wonder how long terrestrial AM/FM radio has left though, having to wage war with iPod/iPhone web radios, satellite radios and mp3s?

Or maybe all the new tech stuff is actually helping generate revenue for the WFANs, WCBS & other stations. What do you guys think?

[altfactor]

The voice-over at the start of this newscast was of course, Don Pardo, best known as he off-camera announcer of "Saturday Night Live", but a 65-year veteran of NBC.

Pardo was actually the first to report the shooting of President Kennedy on NBC-TV in 1963, and anchored several bulletins until Chet Huntley, Frank McGee, and Bill Ryan were ready to take over in the news studio.

A very versatile person.

[Deannacall]

Roger was the best!

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

An Airplane flies over LOL at 5:02.

[MarcZERO1980]

wEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENB­C

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

Who said that?

[Fartingbellybutton]

Al Roker.

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

Why is Al Roker doing the interview? He should be doing the Weather.

[Fartingbellybutton]

So He Does it on The Today Show.

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

Is that the station where Imus made the racial comment?

[patrickguice]

No it is the same frequency but different station. In 1988 WNBC went off the air for good and WFAN moved on to that frequency. Imus was on WFAN when he made those comments and got fired.

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

What ever happened to Grimsby?

[johnissoevil]

He died in the summer of 1995 of lung cancer.

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

RIP

[Fartingbellybutton]

@johnissoevil He Died the same time Jerry Garcia died.

[atvrider7]

@johnissoevil who?

[johnissoevil]

@atvrider7 Roger Grimsby

[89990000]

@johnissoevil

who died? I don't know.

[johnissoevil]

@89990000 Roger Grimsby.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I was 10 years old when WNBC pulled the plug after 66 years on 660. It was sold to GE and then Emmis at the time took over 660 and becomes WFAN when it moved from 1050 to 660. WQHT did the same thing when it swapped two frequencies. First 103.1 moved from "Hot 103" to 97.1 and it becomes "Hot 97" and WYNY moved from 97.1 when it was "Country 97" to 103.5 when it was "Country 103.5" until 1996 when the station flipped from Country to dance, it becomes WKTU.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

To get back to the NBC thing. This station was long before NBC was purchased by Universal Studios and becomes NBC/Universal in 2004.

[Iwasateenagemaltshop]

BABA BOOEY!

[beh196]

Wow, this is so cool seeing Roger Grimsby from his post-WABC years.

[thedecider1984]

that's carol jenkins

[tomgalicia]

LOL Imus making a racist comment...with Al Roker right in front of him! Classic!

[aardmark85]

... proving that they're all just goofing around.

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

That was when Al Roker had a Little Weight.

[Dibrini]

Yeah, and Artie Lange had a little drug problem.

[chyrongeek]

When did CBS Radio/Infinity buy the FAN?

[johnissoevil]

I believe it was around the same time Viacom merged with CBS in 2000.

[GarfieldVsSnoopy]

Look how young Al Roker is.

[Dibrini]

I think he was on his 1st wife back then.

[Market42Fan]

First time I can remember seeing anything from Grimsby at WNBC.

[NEPatriot]

I remember watching channel 4 that day. It all connected, WNBC radio and WNBC-TV. Those words still stick in my head from Roger Grimsby.

[thedecider1984]

yea he got kicked out of wabc