1972 Election Night Coverage ABC News Part 1 7:00-7:30

This is the first part of ABC's Election Night Coverage from 1972. The quality is not the best but it is not my fault, it happens to be 39 years old! This is the first twenty min of the coverage, I cut out the 7:22-7:29 footage I will upload it separately, Sam Donaldson is in charge of that

The anchormen are Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner, who were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, so you can feel the awkwardness. Also shown is Frank Reynolds and Tom Jarell who were the two main network correspondents for the candidates. This also includes commercials, but ABC only had two sponsors Ford Motors and JC Penny.

I also have CBS's Coverage from EN 1972 as well, and I will upload both parts at the same time, it is only 2 hrs and has local segments. This is 4 hrs and 45 min and has no local breaks.

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News & Politics

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• 1972
• Election
• Night
• Coverage
• ABC
• News
• 7:00
• 7:30
• Nixon
• Mcgovern
• Howard
• K.
• Smith
• Harry
• Reasoner
• Bias
• Third
• Place
• Ford
• JC
• Penny

[wmbrown6]

I wonder who the announcer here was - Les Griffith, perhaps? Certainly this was before Bill Rice became, for all practical purposes, "The Voice" of ABC News.

[efan2011]

@wmbrown6

I believe it was, because I have the 1976 ABC Election Coverage as well and Rice was not the announcer. I need to watch it again to see in the credits

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:59, It Was ABC News' Elections '72: Election Night Video Open From Tuesday Night, November 7, 1972.

[efan2011]

@radiodj1520

Oh look it's the fucktard who does not know when to shut the fuck up. Really, do you have nothing better to do that sit on your ass and do this bullcrap? Do you think people care? NO they don't. So buy a clue you idiot ,and don't ever respond on another one of my videos again. I just wish you were not scared enough to block your channel off from everyone, but apparently you are. So GTFO and leave everyone of my fellow YTers alone, because they can't stand you as well

[saskwatcher]

You can't pay for a gem like this. Absolutely a time capsule for now and for future generations. Just to see what tv news coverage was like this is in itself, a priceless gift for us. Good work. Sorry about the outcome of the election! lol

[efan2011]

@saskwatcher

Why thank you! And yes, network news is lacking these days. I just bought this to see what old school news was like and I was hooked.

I will try to get the rest uploaded, life's just been weird, lol

[NewYorkRetroKing]

@radiodj1520 In This Comment From 2 Hours Ago, It Is Radiodj1520 Being An Insensitive Fucktard Who Masturbates To TV Newscast Opens Like A Fucking Retard!

I'm capitalizing to make fun of your writing!

[Mcnzlea]

"JCPenney sold appliances in those days? Wow! I thought they were jut clothes", says today's generation. But it's true - up until the early 1980s JCPenney was very much like Sears in terms of merchandise selection and services. Principal difference: smaller Penney stores had just clothes; smaller Sears stores just had primarily hardware and appliances.

JCPenney also sold TVs, and I'm sure some of us watched ABC election night coverage on a Penney-purchased set.

[NewYorkRetroKing]

@efan2011 That sure as hell is telling it like it is, efan!

[observer9670]

Compare this to election coverage from 1960 and 68 (available on You Tube). By '72 the networks were posting vote percentages, which they didn't previously. What was different? Calculators. They made figuring percentages fast and easy. BTW, the "blue" and "red" state designations didn't start until 1976. But in that year the Republicans were "blue" and the Democrats were "red". It switched in 1980 and has been that way since.