1978 WFAA News Open

Opening theme for News 8 - The Weekend Update. Talen was anchorman John Criswell (now a Dallas media consultant), sportscaster George Riba, now WFAA's senior sports reporter and Steve Newman (currently raising horses and cattle in Pilot Point, TX).

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[v19d]

@tvpirate05 I went in the old Texas Stadium

[StukInBuf]

@wmichael1 For some reason, I've always looked at "Tuesday C" as a Southern thing. That a station in Scranton used it blows me away!

[wmichael1]

same theme as wdau tv 22 in scranton, pa. i loved trying to time all the downbeats in it as a kid. news open isn't group w to my knowledge. kyw in philadelphia was either using telesound or direct connection and wbz in boston was using its standard pictures in globe. very different themes from this one.

[tvpirate05]

Nice video of the old Arlington and Texas Stadiums...of course, their replacements now sit side-by-side in Arlington...

[bigroy38]

wish they had the intro from the early '70's w/Neil Diamond's African Trilogy theme.

[kikoun86]

That yo-yo pro is super funky

[TServo2049]

The music at the beginning is a bed which TM Productions (also out of Dallas) syndicated to stations to promote PM Magazine. (I have no idea if this was in direct connection w/ Group W or not.)

[StukInBuf]

As did WVUE in New orleans.

[zetina2010]

Yo-Yo pro???

[mr3865]

"the yo-yo-pro"....lol