Channel 7 Eyewitness News NYC 1970

The closing to WABC-TV's Eyewitness News in New York.

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[prausch65]

Is that Tex (rape is inevitable) Antoine on the left?

[nycretroguy]

Yup, that's Tex. His rape "joke" pretty much ended his career. He was only 59 when he died in '83. He seemed a lot older back then!

[StukInBuf]

NYCRetroGuy... I haven't heard the name Tom Dunn in years. I recall he reported on Channel 9 in the mid-80s, before Roland Smith came along in 1988 or so. Somewhere else in YouTube, Mr. Smith is shown reporting on Channel 2 with Jim Jensen. Whatever became of these guys?

[nycretroguy]

CBS legend Jim Jensen passed away in 1999 from a heart attack. Tom Dunn died from esophageal cancer in 2006. As far as Rolland Smith; he retired from TV news in 2006, and is a published poet, and a popular public speaker and independent producer.

[lianlaspinas]

@nick41009 Wow, you actually got the footage still! The theme to KBS/RPN's NewsWatch was not original but was revised several times. It later was used on WABC-TV (ABC-7 New York) Eyewitness news from 1968 to 1983 and it reappeared again in 1986 to 1989.

[nick41009]

@wmbrown8- I did not know that KGO pioneered "Circle 7." I recently thumbed through a 1960 Los Angeles-edition TV Guide, showing KABC's logo as a localized version of the "Circle A" logo, with a "7" substituted for the flattened lower-case "abc."

[wmbrown6]

@nick41009 - First, Ms. Harper co-anchored the nationally syndicated "Independent Network News" with Bill Jorgensen and Steve Bosh (both of whom were her co-anchors on WPIX) starting in 1980. Secondly, KGO was the FIRST to use G. Dean Smith's "Circle 7" logo, starting Aug. 27, 1962; it wasn't until December that its use spread to the other ABC O&O's. (The "Circle 7" preceded by nearly two months the first uses of Paul Rand's "abc in a circle" logo.)

[darrylhaynes]

@nycretroguy did jim jensen play football 4 miami

[nick41009]

Didn't Pat Harper anchor a syndicated newcast in the 80s (Independent somethihg-or-other? with a co-anchor named Jorgensen?...I am old enough to remember Roger Grimsby in the mid 1960s when he anchored at KGO in SF before heading for NY. (The stations,including KABC and I guess WLS) all had the "Circle Seven" logo in the early 60s.

[psu68born]

i never knew that



[pictureisup1]

@tonyblak33 she was a very famous actress back in the day

[RedfireBlueice]

WOW! Sure brings back some memories and yes I remember those 4:30 movies.

[jhshifris1]

@nycretroguy Pat died back in May 1994.

[nyredbull2010]

I used to love that theme music... They stopped using it somewhere in the late 1980's or early 1990's I think?