WCBS Spots, Promos, Opens - 1978

Great collection of stuff recorded during several commercial breaks late one night in 1978.

Spots for A&P and Tab, followed by PSA for the Citizens Committee (with Alan King), then a station I.D. and open for The Late Show. Next are spots for Frankart Furniture and Crazy Eddie, a station I.D., two news promos, a Mike Douglas promo, and a bridge for "Enchanted Island." Finally, we have a promo for The Jim Nabors Show, WCBS-TV Celebrates New York, The Late Late Show open, and the station sign-off.

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• 1978

[wmbrown6]

Bravo, bravo. B.T.W., the first ad (for A&P) may've been from WABC-TV, as the announcer heard at the end was ABC staffer Tedd Lawrence. Now if someone had test patterns from the New York stations of the time, I'll be a happy clam! . . . ;) The station I.D. at 2:45 was V/O'd by Wally King, and the I.D. afterwards by Norm Stevens, who also did the sign-off.

[KLXT77]

Excellent knowledge, as always, wmbrown6. You may be right about that A&P spot. My brother actually recorded this stuff, and recorded some spots from WABC, as well.

[FBCDJ1620am]

@KLXT77 do you have more 1978 WCBS?

[KLXT77]

@FBCDJ1620am I'm afraid not. This block of spots is all I've got.

[LBrilliante]

@mrgiosb123 LOL... Stossel likes to tell how when he was reporting about companies malfeasance he was a 'good guy' with his colleagues.. now as he reports on GOVERNMENT(said with Stosselesque emphasis) malfeasance his colleagues aren't so happy. I caught the glimpse of IMAN and the current Fox 5 NY consumer reporter Joel Diaz? in there too!

[LBrilliante]

UNBELIEVABLE... whenever you'd hear the Late Late Show music you KNEW you were up too late and you hoped your parents weren't going to come out and discover you. But it didn't matter... that music was the signal..turn off the tv and put the glass in the sink and go to bed! That strange yellowish light from the animations would light up the dark room and that music was so bracing.. making you think of what the world was like .. the commercials.. the CBS stills... distant memories now..

[garrisonskunk]

So....what exactly WAS the Citizens committee for NYC?

Just curious...what was the Late Show feature these came from?

[PhantomDrums917]

Great memories. this was when NY was NY.

[Mcnzlea]

Jeanne's show was only 30 minutes; then it was "As The World Turns" at 1:30 pm, "Guiding Light" at 2:30, reruns of "All In The Family" at 3:30 and "Match Game '78" at 4:00. "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" aired on WCBS at 7:00 instead of the customary 6:30 on most other stations (in the fall of 1988 WCBS trimmed their local news by a half-hour and brought CBS' newscasts, then anchored by Dan Rather, to 6:30 and filled the 7:00 slot with the syndicated "Win, Lose Or Draw".)

[OreckBoy1]

@bhayes06 No, but very close, it was Somalian supermodel Iman or like I like to call her, Mrs. David Bowie.

[mrgiosb123]

John Stossel Is Now With FOX News And FOX Business.

[Jean0987654321]

John Stossel?? WTF

[bhayes06]

At 0:39, was that supermodel Beverly Johnson in the Tab spot?

[Juliaflo]

@wmbrown6 That's it--The one and only Chris Noth.