WEWS Eyewitness News 1978 opening

Opening minutes from a WEWS TV 5 Eyewitness News broadcast, anchored by Bill Jacocks and Wilma Smith.

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Entertainment

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• TV
• 1970s
• Cleveland
• news
• Ohio
• eyewitness
• WEWS
• Bill
• Jacocks
• Wilma
• Smith
• 1978
• television

[SMITHFRANK]

Love that hair Wilma ! Yum Yumm

[trinasmi]

Was this the first cleveland station to solicit viewers with good looking people? I remember Wilma Smith from the 80's but not this Young!!



[3bhui]

Wilma's voice was higher pitch back then. Also, she sounds like she has a bit of a New York accent.

[3bhui]

That looks like the Hessler Street Fair at the very end of the clip.

[3bhui]

The screen graphics were so simple. None of the current pie-in-your-face neurotic screen graphics that clutter the screen and annoy the viewer and that are used by the TV stations like an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

[3bhui]

I'd like to see Marge Banks too. Jacocks was a cool dude.

[MsTexas73]

WOW! You get MAJOR props for this one. a broadcast with Bill Jacocks AND Ms. Wilma in her EARLY days as an anchor. Now if you find one with Marge Banks...that would REALLY make my day. She was the first woman of color that I can remember seeing on the news. I know there were more on ch. 8 though. :)

[panedit]

A cable channel devoted to recreating or patching together a classic 1970s broadcast day would be something else! As for an entire broadcast day existing from this era, The Paley Center in NYC has a complete broadcast day (or big chunks of it) from KCST Ch. 39 San Diego (1978) and WLS Ch. 7 Chicago (1979)

[jodisweetie]

@sygo7g Me too! :-)

[MattTheSaiyan]

@tkaye2 I once read that a CBS(?) affiliate once recorded an entire programming day at some point during the 1970s. (there is also a very unusual radio "broadcast day recording" made by a radio station during 1939. This can be found online...)