WCSH NewsCenter6 Open, 1977

From November 17th, 1977, here is the opening of WCSH's "NewsCenter6" broadcast with John Dougherty. The newscast followed a Neil Diamond television special.

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Entertainment

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• WCSH
• NewsCenter
• NewsCenter6
• 1977
• TV
• television
• Portland
• Maine

[allen80602]

I helped produce that WCSH NewsCenter open when I was an engineer there, between 1974-1977. Jim Ross was the director, and we had just installed our new Vital master control switcher (yes, we did the live news show, all production, and master control from the same switcher!) that allowed us to do the effects for the open! We also had a new Chyron 2 for the graphics. The sound track came from the afternoon closed circuit news feed from NBC that went to all the affiliates .

[MaineTVClips]

@allen80602 Very neat! Thanks for sharing!

[ajaugenti]

Awesome vintage video!  Could you possibly upload the whole entire 1977 Newcenter6 vintage news cast? Thank You! Anita

[MaineTVClips]

Unfortunately, I don't have the entire newscast- I think it cuts out during this first story. I'll have to check the original tape.

[ajaugenti]

Hi!

Do you have the WCSH channel 6 television promo ads from the 1970's all the way to the 1980's? If you do, could you please post them all up on youtube? Thanks, Anita

[MaineTVClips]

Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to go through tapes recently. I don't know how much stuff I have of Channel 6 - my family owned a satellite dish starting in the mid 80s and taped programs off that rather than the local channels. I'll post anything interesting if I come across them though!

[mrceleb2006]

@bostonmediaguy Not to be confused with WLBZ Bangor.

[mrceleb2006]

Maine's NewsCenter has always been well-respected for decades, and they're still very popular today.

[ajaugenti]

Hey MaineTVClips this is ajaugenti e-mailing you!

I've got some vintage WCSH and WMTW video clips from 1986-87 for you to check out!

The first one is the part one video from WCSH and WMTW from 1986. The second video is also from the same two in the part two video (also from my computer as well!)

So please check out these great videos today, and let me know! BTW, you rock my friend!

[bostonmediaguy]

John Dougherty with news; Barry Burbank with weather; Scott Wahle with sports. All three would eventually land at WBZ Boston.

[Badgerinmaine]

John Dougherty was on WMTW (Channel 8) as the 6 pm anchor until they let him go about two years ago. It was fun to see this old shot of him--I'd never seen anything of him from that long ago.

[bg416]

John Dougherty is now like a legend at channel 8 news which is the abc affiliate in maine.

[ajaugenti]

Goodevening Maine TV Clips,

Got your e-mail message this morning. I can understand you're running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. (Sorry) I didn't mean that really, just wanted to make you laugh! :-)

Anyway, thank you so much for sending me your message this morning. Hope you have a wonderful evening my friend! Anita