From Manila's Number One News Theme, this is RPN NewsWatch at 6:30 with Harry Gasser and Cielo Villaluna, Frank Abao with Sports, Amado Pineda with the Weather and the NewsWatch Team.
Good Evening, i'm Harry Gasser, here now the News.
notice how Beutel's body language he "leans in" toward you as though he's reciting the day's news to you over a couple'a drinks at a bar. Grimsby is straight-on and stone faced, with just the slightest hint of cynicism. A news pair like this cannot be found on the dial today. :(
Whatever . . . Mr. Grimsby did have a lot of freckles on his forehead, as you wondered; he never wore any makeup on the air. If he cut himself shaving, that would show up on the air too.
From HulkieG: "I put this(set of clips) up in the vain hope that some news director somewhere will see this and understand how news is supposed to look and sound like."
I got your back on this. "Infotainment" at best, and largely bullsh-- at worst, would be the best description of how much of today's "news" programs stack up with news broadcasts of former times.
Amen - today's pseudo-"newscasts" also "report" on the doings of TV shows such as "American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars" as if they were legitimate news events. The kind of thing that would have outraged the late George Carlin (as he once opined about treating Mickey Mouse's birthday as something newsworthy on one of his many HBO specials).
Someone may have alluded to this in another clip... one such "report" was toward the end of THIS clip: The guy performing a stunt for "That's Incredible!"
He's still around; this failed stunt was his only accident. He suffered a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower leg (injuries of a magnitude that would have claimed the lives of people of lesser constitution), but completely recovered.
Still, compared to what's on today's "newscasts," this was not as upfront in the promotional department, the show wasn't even mentioned until the last few seconds.
Look at most TV markets they tend to be tabloidal today. I noticed KGO and KTVU in San Francisco tend to be less tabloidal than LA and NY because The Audience in the Bay Area tend to criticize it.
How come when I see WABC and KABC on the web today they seem to be more tabloidal than KGO-TV here in SF. I noticed that WABC in 1980 is taking cues from KGO since Grimsby was once the SF anchor in the 1960's before VanAmburg and Jerry Jensen took Grimsby's KGO spot. I noticed that KGO is still less tabloidal than the rest of the ABC O&O's
The funny thing was, as of 1980 KGO was highly "tabloidal" - so much so, in fact, that the story was that the KGO calls stood for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms." Not in the sense we associate tabloidism today, but still . . .
But unfortunately, this tabloidism is prevalent among most TV news broadcasts today. Treating the goings-on at "American Idol" as if they were bona fide news events, for example - read my prior remarks about George Carlin's take . . .
wmbrown6 when we Americans of my generation think of tabloid tv we think of CNN, Fox News and HLN. Never did KGO crossed our minds or the other Bay Area Stations today. Look at WABC and KABC in the 1980's and the 1988 of any Fox O&O news they were formatted to be more like KGO before WSVN, KTTV and WNYW brought the tabloid format that you see on Fox News Nationwide today. and Grimsby said that the KGO calls stood for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms." It must be based that grimsby was pissed at KGO
and Grimsby said that the KGO calls stood for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms." It must be based that Grimsby was pissed at KGO Management over the fact that Ray Tannehill, Jerry Jensen, and VanAmburg were taking Bob Young, Grimsby, and Bob Dunn's seat.
Posting this was NOT in vain. Some of us in "the biz" are still "old school" and appreciate seeing these clips as a reminder... Thank You. -Matt
MattLockerTV 2 weeks ago
Is 1:52 another WABC logo?
jhshifris1 3 months ago
From Manila's Number One News Theme, this is RPN NewsWatch at 6:30 with Harry Gasser and Cielo Villaluna, Frank Abao with Sports, Amado Pineda with the Weather and the NewsWatch Team.
Good Evening, i'm Harry Gasser, here now the News.
lianlaspinas 6 months ago
@tine214 That RPN NewsWatch 9 set from 1980 to 1983 with the Manila Skyline
lianlaspinas 9 months ago
That was used for RPN NewsWatch in 1980 with Harry Gasser
lianlaspinas 9 months ago
In This Clip, From 0:03 To 0:31, It Was WABC-TV's Channel 7 Eyewitness News At 6 Video Open From Tuesday Evening, September 16, 1980.
radiodj1520 10 months ago
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In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:03, It Was WABC-TV's Match Game PM Video ID For Tuesday Evening, September 16, 1980.
radiodj1520 10 months ago
In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:03, It Was WABC-TV's Match Game PM Video ID For Tuesday Evening, September 16, 1980.
radiodj1520 10 months ago
GReat POst!!! Love Grimsby.
kennygumbo 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this video. I certainly appreciate it!
sommerTN 1 year ago
notice how Beutel's body language he "leans in" toward you as though he's reciting the day's news to you over a couple'a drinks at a bar. Grimsby is straight-on and stone faced, with just the slightest hint of cynicism. A news pair like this cannot be found on the dial today. :(
Zickcermacity 1 year ago 2
Wow! I grew up watching these men in nyc...memories....
landobnice 1 year ago
love how the reporter is reporting on top a car! big 80's!
SuperNicobellic4 1 year ago
@SuperNicobellic4 lol yea good stuff lol
retroguy1976 1 year ago
Wow this Top- Story seems to resemble the KGO-TV Top Story in 2010 Budget Cuts in CA and Cuts to education in the Bay Area.
dinfg6 2 years ago
I meant does.
tmisch64 2 years ago
It is just me, or is Roger have a LOT of freckles on his forehead?
tmisch64 2 years ago
Whatever . . . Mr. Grimsby did have a lot of freckles on his forehead, as you wondered; he never wore any makeup on the air. If he cut himself shaving, that would show up on the air too.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
@tmisch64 He refused to wear makeup.
49RonGuidry 4 months ago
RIP Bill and both Rogers (Grimsby and Sharp)
johnissoevil 2 years ago
great news check the daredevil at 7:09 thank u for uploding this do u have ewn 1989 verison
stevengomez247 2 years ago
I googled up Sydenham Hospital. It eventually did close down, to become housing for the aged some six or so years after this.
StukInBuf 2 years ago
I miss Roger Grimsby when he was a San Francisco Anchor
Dook6 2 years ago
I just googled up Milton Lewis. Just last May, he died at age 96.
One of EWN's originals.
StukInBuf 2 years ago
Brings me back to when I was a kid growing up on Long Island. Real newscasting at its best.
lesterawilson3 2 years ago
Storm Field, if that isn't a name for a weatherman, I don't know what is.
RayNDeere 2 years ago 5
Hear hear!
BTW, Dr. Frank Field(Storm's father) is still very much alive.
StukInBuf 2 years ago
From HulkieG: "I put this(set of clips) up in the vain hope that some news director somewhere will see this and understand how news is supposed to look and sound like."
I got your back on this. "Infotainment" at best, and largely bullsh-- at worst, would be the best description of how much of today's "news" programs stack up with news broadcasts of former times.
StukInBuf 2 years ago 10
Amen - today's pseudo-"newscasts" also "report" on the doings of TV shows such as "American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars" as if they were legitimate news events. The kind of thing that would have outraged the late George Carlin (as he once opined about treating Mickey Mouse's birthday as something newsworthy on one of his many HBO specials).
wmbrown6 2 years ago 4
Someone may have alluded to this in another clip... one such "report" was toward the end of THIS clip: The guy performing a stunt for "That's Incredible!"
Whatever became of him, by chance?
StukInBuf 2 years ago
He's still around; this failed stunt was his only accident. He suffered a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower leg (injuries of a magnitude that would have claimed the lives of people of lesser constitution), but completely recovered.
Still, compared to what's on today's "newscasts," this was not as upfront in the promotional department, the show wasn't even mentioned until the last few seconds.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
For his sake, thank goodness it was his only such acccident.
StukInBuf 2 years ago
Look at most TV markets they tend to be tabloidal today. I noticed KGO and KTVU in San Francisco tend to be less tabloidal than LA and NY because The Audience in the Bay Area tend to criticize it.
recto89 2 years ago
Contrast with the opening minutes of a 1980 edition of the West Coast counterpart in El Lay:
watch?v=2VWak6e6Byk
wmbrown6 2 years ago
How come when I see WABC and KABC on the web today they seem to be more tabloidal than KGO-TV here in SF. I noticed that WABC in 1980 is taking cues from KGO since Grimsby was once the SF anchor in the 1960's before VanAmburg and Jerry Jensen took Grimsby's KGO spot. I noticed that KGO is still less tabloidal than the rest of the ABC O&O's
Dook6 2 years ago
The funny thing was, as of 1980 KGO was highly "tabloidal" - so much so, in fact, that the story was that the KGO calls stood for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms." Not in the sense we associate tabloidism today, but still . . .
But unfortunately, this tabloidism is prevalent among most TV news broadcasts today. Treating the goings-on at "American Idol" as if they were bona fide news events, for example - read my prior remarks about George Carlin's take . . .
wmbrown6 2 years ago 9
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Dook6 2 years ago
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Dook6 2 years ago
wmbrown6 when we Americans of my generation think of tabloid tv we think of CNN, Fox News and HLN. Never did KGO crossed our minds or the other Bay Area Stations today. Look at WABC and KABC in the 1980's and the 1988 of any Fox O&O news they were formatted to be more like KGO before WSVN, KTTV and WNYW brought the tabloid format that you see on Fox News Nationwide today. and Grimsby said that the KGO calls stood for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms." It must be based that grimsby was pissed at KGO
Dook6 2 years ago
and Grimsby said that the KGO calls stood for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms." It must be based that Grimsby was pissed at KGO Management over the fact that Ray Tannehill, Jerry Jensen, and VanAmburg were taking Bob Young, Grimsby, and Bob Dunn's seat.
Dook6 2 years ago
The V/O on the "4:30 Movie" promo was Fred Foy.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
If my math is correct, this newscast originally aired on September 16, 1980 (using the Iran hostage crisis as a basis).
Tubewings 2 years ago
It was indeed Sept. 16. "Medical Story" was shown on "The 4:30 Movie" Sept. 17. That's another yardstick to date an "EWN" 'cast.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
When news was content heavy. I actually like the graphics they used in 1980, too.
ASKconard 2 years ago 3
No need for "eye candy."
Ooooohhhh... days of GOLD!
StukInBuf 2 years ago 2
The glory days of "Eyewitness News".
NewsActive3 2 years ago 4