KAKE News 1974 Weather Forecast

KAKE-TV Meteorologist Jim O'Donnell delivers the late weather in this newscast. (A commercial in the middle of the forecast has been removed.)

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[peykan]

Impressive Graphics for 1974, was it done using Chromakey?!! I thought that chromakey came later in the 80"s?

[amnewsboy]

Nope chromakey was used VERY heavily in the 70s... less so as the 80s wore on. A lot of stations just stuck a desk in front of a chroma wall... key in a city scape, and boom, instant set.

[bogner2]

This is CLASSIC Jim O'Donnel. I was 7 when this was filmed and growing up in Kansas. Jim, Mike Smith and Merril Teller are the reasons I became a meteorologist and am the morning weather guy on KSNW today...thanks for posting this!

[Teflon65]

@ytrewq1994 This weatherman seems to be not yet used to the Chromakey weather background, as he is still using an old pointer stick, which he seems to not be using very well. I know that shortly before this was aired, or around the same time, some stations didn't have the Chromakey weather background, and the weathermen pointed at real maps. Sometimes, they would have to manually move these, as they were sliding doors, one over the other, in some cases.

[Teflon65]

@audawak I think they still have the translator stations, because the NBC afffiliates in Kansas still call themselves KSN (Kansas State Network) . The Kansas CBS affiliates used to call themselves KBS (Kansas Broadcasting System), but I'm not sure they still do. The ABC affiliates never had such a name for their state network, if they had one. Each affiliate had and still has its own individual call letters.

[Teflon65]

You don't see weathermen using the old stick or pointer on their weathercasts anymore.

[tvfan103]

@mojay11 Yeah. I got family in Scott City and I'm pretty schooled at what happens in Kansas

[mojay11]

@tvfan103 That's correct, the station is KUPK Ch. 13 in Garden City, the satellite station of KAKE-TV in Wichita.

[tvfan103]

@RGSJenkins Channel 13 is like the transmitter or translator for southwestern Kansas around Garden City and Dodge City

[UrsulaKay03]

Jim O Donnell was the man that really got me excited about weather. I so wanted his job as a child. Even today when the storms come around I think about him coming on the tv warning us about it and my g-ma putting all us kids in the bathtub with the couch cushions to put over our heads.

RIP Mr. O'Donnell and may you always lead the St. Patricks Day parades.

[wyattcox]

Jim O'Donnell helped foster my ongoing curiosity about weather. I spent some time with him when I attended college at WSU and he encouraged me to study more about weather. While I did a little reading, I didn't take up meteorology full bore. Back when KAKE Radio was the hub of the Kansas Information Network (Radio) Jim's forecasts were a part of the network and we ran them all day. A couple of times he came on live when things looked bad in our area. (this was 1979-80) (more)

[wxtulsa]

RIP Jim O'Donnell...