more WMAQ News 1967

The concluding segments of a 1967 WMAQ News broadcast anchored by Floyd Kalber, with an editorial by Len O'Connor and Harry Volkman on weather.

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• weather
• Floyd
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• Harry
• Volkman
• Len
• O'Connor

[Lockbar]

This old news cast is amazing. I am from Chi and didn't remember that the regular newscasters also did the sports. Whats Buddy DiFranco doing today?

[donwert]

Wow...Hank Aaron made $100K for '67 and '68! Probably like $1 million today---third-string shortstops make that much now!

[donwert]

I was a student at Northwestern in '67...I might have seen this very newscast!

[ebf1957]

Does anyone remember the Roman Numerals that opened up the WMAQ News?

[Godzie1]

Thanks for posting. Did you notice it that there was only one or two commercials sponsering the news? Then those days tv was free. Now we have to pay for cable tv & sit through 10 commercials to get back to our program? I miss those old cigarette comercials though! lol

[mediawest]

amazing that len oconnor got 3 minutes. today a 45 second package is too long.... we used to watch len at the wgn 2am news cast back in the day.....

[Nnuku72]

Anyone remember Don Clark from WCGO, WTAS?

[tbkulavik]

...And I am Len O'Connor...

[Tmetrvlr]

Yes indeed............

[wmbrown6]

As per the ending credits of this newscast, in those days NBC News directly controlled the local newscasts of their stations. This was also the case at WNBC-TV in New York, most notably.