WCBS Channel 2 News intro/close, 1965

Clips of Robert Trout's last newscast, which ends w/Trout reminding viewers that some guy named Jim Jensen will take his place starting Mon...will he last? :-)

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• 1965

[x60hz]

Terrific clip, however, I do not see the reasoning behind editing out Trout's reference to God as he says God bless you and good night. A historical clip is a historical clip regardless of its content. Is this such a politically correct world that a simple comment like that has to be tarnished?

[WhatsAYak]

@x60hz - I didn't edit it...this clip was originally posted by "tvnewsman" about 2 years ago, and I'm merely re-posting it.

[x60hz]

@WhatsAYak Something told me I should have said this in my original post. Sorry, I didn't say or meant to imply you edited it. Thank you again for the post. It's great.

[WhatsAYak]

@x60hz - No prob, and yeah, just wanted to clear that up.

[JHollowayNetwork]

also WBBM used it for it's bumpers in the late 60's.

[JHollowayNetwork]

The teletype sound was also used for WBBM-TV2 Chicago from the early 70s. I've also seen the 1978 WBBM Newscast with Included The Same Teletype Sound.

[altfactor]

@tkaye2 Trout briefly came back to the 'States on several occasions to anchor CBS Radio's coverage of political conventions and election nights through the 1970's.

[Juliaflo]

@wmbrown6 Who is Jeanne Parr's law-enforcing son?

Good luck.

[fromthesidelines]

In those days, WCBS-TV's first newscast of the evening appeared at 6:30pm [right after their old movie showcase, "THE EARLY SHOW", at 5, although that would soon be moved back to 4:30 that August, so that Channel 2 could expand its newscast to a full hour to compete with WNBC-TV's "THE SIXTH HOUR" with Bill Ryan], followed by "THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE" at 7pm.

[tkaye2]

@tkaye2 On June 7, WCBS aired a retrospective, "This is Robert Trout," narrated by John Daly and featuring interviews with other long-time colleagues. "Despite the fact that he hates to fly and will travel to Europe by ship, 'This is Robert Trout' will be sponsored by Eastern Air Lines," the paper noted. If someone saved this newscast, they had to save the special, right? ;-)