The National CBC 1978

This is the opening logo for The National, the
main news broadcast from the CBC, from 1978.
The announcer is Allan McFee. This is similar to
a clip posted by zzbigdog, but has more complete
audio and video.

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[SONICSATAMJAMER77]

The SFX sounded like Moog Snythinizers doing a Congo line

[JonLeibow]

We have the technology.  We can rebuild him.

[MLKahnt1]

The radio version of The Royal Canadian Air Farce did a sketch that intermingled with the rest of an entire show where this theme would not stop playing. If it did, it would restart before the announcer could say "The National, with ..."

Always was and will be a very distinct sound, like the 60 Minutes stopwatch or the TARDIS.

[MLKahnt1]

Anyone that also watches BBC News will realise that this is, in its own way, the forerunner of the BBC's "drums and beeps" themes counting down to the top of the hour and leading their newscasts for years now.

It also brings things back to the day when this was THE Authoritative newscast of the day, with unique resources and access that nobody else could offer, such that it didn't need the full name anymore of "CBC National News" and just was "The National" with "who's doing it tonight?"

[doctalee]

@SONICSATAMJAMER77...  Absolutely!

[popesnose]

Allan McFee, was an old style CBC announcer who was famous for pricking the balloons of the self important and pompous. He carried a special pen to scribble `Poop’ across memos from CBC managers. He once set fire to a memo on a bulletin board, and for almost a year gave the weather forecast for Dribble Lake, Ontario, a place that doesn’t exist.

[popesnose]

That was Allan Mcfee announcing it. I really loved his late night program: Eclectic Circus circa1965-1985 and then as a weekly program until 1989. In the show, McFee would converse with an imaginary mouse, a "small grey presence" which lived in his pocket, and play an eclectic array of obscure musical selections. Referring to himself as "the old musicologist," he would address his audience as "all those out there in vacuumland".

[Railrodder]

I remeber this very well! The National has always been my favorite new show even as a kid.

[RipARipeBanana]

fuckin' cool.

[somewhatlongdong]

@OlegKostoglatov i know the one you mean, but i haven't ever seen it on here.

[OlegKostoglatov]

@somewhatlongdong I believe it did have the file folders, and a sort of mechanical jingle.

[somewhatlongdong]

@OlegKostoglatov Is that the version with the file folders?