WRAL-TV: "Action News 5" Open - 1979

Headlines and the open to "Action News 5" from 1979. All copyrights acknowledged. (Old tape, so it's fair-quality video)

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• battista

[AuburnTowers]

I'll do that.  Thanks!

[dougydurham]

Gosh I miss the pre-Bush days so much.

[badge47]

Stay classy Raleigh...I'm Ron Burgundy??

[JesseL85719]

WEAK SIGNAL.

[tbbyolumbatobby]

@corvettez0910 Burgandy's ass is grass!!

[rjflesher]

Is that Ricky Steamboat in the wrestling promo?

[jajvick]

Bobbie Batista's favorite band in the 1970's was Rufus.......

[corvettez0910]

@Zriggo dude....you make absolutely no sense...

[Zriggo]

So, in NC, U.S. Hwy. 158 runs along the Virginia border from east to west in order, through Halifax, WARren & Vance Counties. Will Ferrell in 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" is unrelated to time rollback schemes or BURGUNDY Pontiac Grand Prix. Still, U.S. Hwy. 158's parent route, U.S. Hwy. 58, runs across southern Virginia roughly parallel to the North Carolina spur about 50 miles south. Among VA counties U.S. 58 runs through: Mecklenburg, which is home to Chase City & SKIPwith

[Zriggo]

@corvettez0910 Picking up on your implication that this clip has a Ron Burgundy vibe, I thought I'd point out that Charlie and Bobbie Battista's story rundown includes the possible closing of the only hospital in VANCE County, located in county seat HENDERson. In watch?v=kShJAEODWMc Will Ferrell mentions "the new Kinkos on STRATFORD", fitting nicely with a KINKOS at 232 S. STRATFORD Rd, Winston-Salem, NC; it was new in the early 1990s. STRATFORD dubs as US Hwy. 158, which runs through HENDERson