WABC Eyewitness News promo, 1982

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Uploaded by on Apr 28, 2010

First at 5, Kaity Tong reports on a nationwide epidemic, then at 6, two local housewives predate ABC's "Wife Swap" by about 20+ years! :-)

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  • Wife Swapping on WABC before the ABC version of Wife Swap in the 2000s.

  • In addition, Maxine Black was an "EWN" reporter at the time (probably so was Wendy Kurtz). This "special report," plus the typesetting used for "EWN," seems to suggest this was during November sweeps period.

  • The announcers were Johnny Donovan (for the 5 P.M. promo) and Barbara Korsen (for the 6 P.M.). Mr. Donovan was famous as one of the Musicradio 77 WABC DJ's, then stayed after they went all-talk to become one of their announcers; this was probably from the point when Ms. Korsen began gravitating exclusively towards Channel 7 (and ABC), after years of sub-announcing for WNEW-TV, then WOR-TV and finally WABC-TV (after Channel 9 pruned most of their V/O's except for Phil Tonken and Ted Mallie).

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