WCBS-TV - Channel 2 News 6PM Open (1984)

[chalklounge]

"Is Bed Stuy making a comeback?" - In 1984? I'm gonna go with "no" on that one.

[StukInBuf]

The opening part of the newscast is about Geraldine Ferraro and her run for the VP post.

Today, it has been announced that Ms. Ferraro passed into eternity at age 75.

[DrSurprise]

wow, Jim Jensen looks so young! hard to believe that a few years after this, he started aging

[Dodgerfn5]

Jim Jensen reminds me of Dick Sargent.

[wmbrown6]

That's funny - I thought Jensen looked more like Jackie Cooper . . .

[JKing3340]

Wonderful closing music on this... Love this version of the theme. I still think the classic/retro version would serve a station well today.

[skymunro]

Warner wolf!! "Lets go to the video tape!!!

[JeffATL]

What is the name of the opening theme music? :-/

[stevieboy247]

Answer: The WBBM I Love Chicago News Package by Dick Marx.

[Superbatfan]

@stevieboy247

I remember that KCBS in L.A. used the same music (they were known as KNXT at that time).

[keiichiudagawa]

anpanman!

[julianpulido1]

what's that suppose mean?

[keiichiudagawa]

i wrote about after 100 million years of New York City.

[StukInBuf]

My HS math teacher kinda looked like Jim Jensen.

[baconhead2008]

my english teacher looks like him.

[burbank]

I enjoy the WBBM Music theme. It is funny to see Dr. Frank Field who previously worked at WNBC in NYC. Rolland Smith would later move to work for WWOR TV Channel 9.

[slowdream101]

Jim Jensen was a hell of a softball pitcher. I remember seeing him pitching for the Channel 2 team in Central Park. I was so young and naive that I was shocked to hear Jensen saying the word "fuck" during a conversation he was having with another player on the bench.

[smoothpants]

I adored Carol Martin's cross-eyed ass.

[WhiteCamry]

???

[rell531]

I remember her as a kid.... Her and Michele Marsh like just dissapeared off the face of the earth...I miss them!

[E180STYARD]

Jim Jensen rocked !! I miss him very much.

[JD19283746]

he was a nasty drunk, unprepared and arrogant.

[wmbrown6]

I met Jim once, as a young'un, at the WCBS-TV studios, and he was the ultimate gentleman. (As were a then-mustachioed Rolland Smith and the others in the Channel 2 News team as consituted in 1976.) What you describe must've been post-'79, from what I've been reading about his life and times.

[shelton962]

Shame on you!! Jim Jensen was a good man - spoke at my HS graduation - used to see him every day in person doing his daily jog in the park - may he rest in peace!!

[rocketcab]

DAMN, I MISS THESE GUYS !!!

[WVECSpirit]

Jim doesn't just look drunk, he looks like he downed a bottle during a commercial break.

[wmbrown6]

Actually, I thought the bags under Mr. Jensen's eyes may've been an indication of cocaine use. He had, after all, by his own admission in a 1989 New York Newsday article, "abused substance." I seem to recall reading that cocaine was one of them - but if I'm mistaken, feel free to advise.

[WVECSpirit]

Maybe that too.

[shelton962]

I miss Jim Jensen - he was the best - he spoke at my high school graduation

[emmisonjs17]

Was this around the time when WCBS was in ther Glory Days?

[wmbrown6]

Near the tail end of same. It could be argued that the "golden era" of WCBS (which had begun around 1968) ended after Rolland Smith left Ch. 2 in the summer of '86 - or was it that his departure symbolized said end?

[ta1064]

Theme sounds like the one used at WBBM Ch. 2/CBS O&O in Chicago.

[wmbrown6]

It is. That's where WCBS got that theme (by Dick Marx) from.

[ta1064]

These stations are all alike.

[DerrickLee2006]

The V/O for the open is Gaylord Avery.

[wmbrown6]

As he did for many years. Now, as to what day this could've been, given that Ms. Martin "welcomed back" Rolland Smith, looks like this may've been from Aug. 13, 1984.

[armyjoeiraq]

bring back carol martin and fire dana tyler.

[calumet27]

WCBS/CBS daytime lineup that summer of 1984:

10am The $25,000 Pyramid

10:30am Press Your Luck

11am The Price is Right

Channel 2 News at Noon or Body Language

12:30pm The Young and The Restless

1:30pm As the World Turns

2:30pm Capitol

3pm Guiding Light

[cbsfm101]

Body Language aired at noon back then.

[Hardxedge79]

Where did Tvnewsman go? I hate him not being around.

Hopefully he will be back again.

Thanks for posting this vid.

[wmbrown6]

Given the direction YouTube may well go starting next month, it seems to me that pigs will learn to fly first, sad to say.

[stevieboy247]

It aired in the summer. Right around the middle of August.

[wmbrown6]

From what it seems, probably a day or two before Tom Snyder's final "Eyewitness News" for WABC - which, in turn, came prior to the Republican Convention in Dallas.

[wmbrown6]

P.S. Which I now know came from Aug. 17, 1984 - when was this WCBS 'cast aired? The 15th? The 16th? Close?

[calumet27]

Did this clip from WCBS that you posted air in the spring or summer of 1984?

[wmbrown6]

One of the last hurrahs for this set which, in one form or another, dated back to 1979, I see.

[dgendvil]

They got a new news set & theme by 1985.