WTOP Anchor Promos 1976

[elton1111]

This was the best local news team I've ever seen. They were as professional as any national team.

[GFI888]

Don' know why but these strike me as kind of poignant, esp. the Max Robinson one.

[rell531]

Max Robinson was sexyyy

[dcbandnerd]

I like the way Maureen described Washington. Washington isn't a flashy city because we simply don't have the time for glitz. We've got a country to run :-)

[herloverherman]

Mo Bunyan is fab.

[RealHandy2]

The best local news team in history. And since local news is dying, they'll stay that way.

[WVECSpirit]

J.C. made a what?

[BadGurl404]

A heart. What's the matter? You got wax in your ears?

[DCMemories]

In 1976, Max Robinson asserts that "(the 11 o'clock news) is the last chance the viewer gets to find out what happened during the day." Boy, oh boy... the debut of 24-hour-a-day cable news networks in 1980 has sure changed that once true observation!

[chuffedtobits]

R.I.P. Max Robinson (5/1/39--12/20/88) First African American network anchor in US as Chicago based co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" 1978-1983. Born in Richmond, VA, his TV career began in 1959 at WTOV-TV, Portsmouth, VA, reading the news off-camera behind a station logo slide. One night, he removed the slide, and was fired. At DC's WRC-TV4, he won 6 journalism awards in 3 years. In 1969, Robinson joined WTOP-TV9 Eyewitness News, teaming with Gordon Peterson for 9 years. (See: Wikipedia.)

[BadGurl404]

As to J.C. Hayward, she's still there as a noon news anchor and also does the J.C. and Friends segment. Maureen Bunyan was bounced off of TV 9 in 1995, took a 3 year sabbitical from TV, only to come back on Channel 7 in '99, only to be joined by Gordon Peterson 5 years later.

[docbonzo]

he was as good as it gets