ABC News Brief 1978

Sylvia Chase anchors this 1978 ABC News Brief, which includes a commercial for the Ford Futura.

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Entertainment

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• TV
• news
• brief
• television
• update
• network
• 1970s
• 1978
• Sylvia
• Chase
• Ford
• Futura
• car
• auto
• commercial
• President
• Jimmy
• Carter
• mining
• union
• coal
• strike

[wmbrown6]

I seem to think this was actually early 1978, not only based on the coal strike which led this brief, but also the opening. Oh, and Bill Owen was the opening announcer.

[robatsea2009]

right you are!

[baconhead2008]

Those graphics are sure cutting-edge, lol.

[mobilene]

I am always amazed by how low-tech the graphics were, even for that time, compared to what NBC and CBS were doing then.

[marshhen]

I wish 70 percent of news crap being produced now would just go away and they would just cut it back to this kind of simple information bulletin style show. News shows now are just empty caricaturish wastes of time. I cannot stand them and prefer to just get information from reading it off a website. They are mostly broadcasting to old people and right-wing ppl who live with tvs on to drown out the voices in their heads anyway.

[swarze]

@xxashyy

Well now, don't forget that other one term president. George H.W. Bush

[wtf66611]

@xxashyy  Let's hope so !

[MegaObserver1]

@mobilene You must realize, this was just a stop-gap. ABC was to re-launch its news in the Fall of 1978 with World News Tonight and splashy graphics and music was a big part of it. In the months before the launch, there wasn't even a regular ABC Evening News anchor, Reasoner had already bolted back to CBS and Barbara Walters was through anchoring. Tom Jarriel did it most nights, with other ABC reporters also filling in until WNT with Reynolds/Robinson/Jennings debuted.

[cottodabodykill]

@ThelizardKing1967 where you from? PA here have coal mines walking distance from my house that were flooded when they closed them down millions worth of coal in there ..just too greedy to hire workers to bring it out

[xxashyy]

Carter + Obama = OTP One Term President

[reymatt76]

What the hell was the chick in front of the White House wearing as a jacket? It looked like a dead camel or something LOL.

[7855waldo]

What a piece of junk that Ford car was. Even at $4K in 1978m it was a ripoff.

[MrJacMac1986]

@tomloft2000 4200 dollars back then is like 19000 dollars today.

[recto89]

Sylvia Chase Later went to San Francisco do to KROn 4 News in the 1980's