WPIX Editorial

New York City's Former WPIX Vice President and General Manager, Richard N. Hughes' editorial from 1989 on a faux pas in a prior editorial.

Hughes was famous for his tag "What's your opinion? We'd like to know."

If anybody has any older ones, please post them!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• WPIX
• TV
• NY
• Richard
• Hughes
• 1989
• Editorial
• classic

[Tenor5274]

do you have the Christmas editorial about keeping Christ in Christmas???? That Christmas editorial really tugged at my heart! Thanks :)

[moonbatty]

Sorry no.

[EarlSnohomish]

I remember Hughes from 1969 as a little kid all the way to 1992 when I left NY. He had one of the most soothing deliveries as a speaker and I can remember watching his editorials with rapt attention as a child (not that I had any idea what he was talking about :-).

[illphilwolny]

There is definitely something classic, old-school, nostalgia-inducing about these old WPIX editorials. RIP Richard N. Hughes.

Next time some dweeb claims they're "from Brooklyn," I'm gonna quiz/grill them with that classic question, see if they're bona-fide

[juvserr]

Richard Hughes was truly one in a million, and had the guts to take on subjects the news wouldn't touch - the problem today is network news depends on the big corporations that now own them, so editorializing on air is mostly disdained - one can only hope one day network news will regain the guts TV men like Hughes once had - 'what's your opinion? we'd like to know." boy do we need more TV producers like him today, RIP.

[jlovebirch]

Many thanks for this posting. I remember the earliest ones back in 1969. He did this till 1995. The only person I know of who put a human face on a TV network. And it made people feel WPIX was part of the community and listened to its viewers. That is rare and doesn't happen anymore. For more info, he has a bio page on Wikipedia.

[tapthatt2012]

@RolloSmokes I AGREE!

[tommyrock69]

Whatever happened to TV editorials? I grew up in the NY Metro area and have lived for some time in NC, Atlanta, and now Louisville. I haven't seen one since NY.

I guess EVERY minute has to sell something these days.

I'm going to go off to a corner and be grumpy.

[EarlSnohomish]

That sounds about right, wmbrown6. Thanks!

[wmbrown6]

I think it was around 1983-84 when he began doing his editorials (and feedbacks) on location.

[wmbrown6]

I can vouch for that; I saw something that indicated that Mr. Hughes passed away in 2004 at age 77. He had retired from station management around 1982 and settled in North Carolina, but traveled to New York every so often to do editorials for Ch. 11 through 1995.