WEWS TV Cleveland Million Dollar Movie Open

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[wmbrown6]

Sounds (and looks) like late 1960's/early '70's - would I be close?

[MLoudin]

This was run with movies in the 70's through the mid 80's. This clip was from a movie in 1985.

[kresblain]

@ebf1957 Thanks for the clues. This is indeed the theme song from the 1969 movie "Winning" composed by Dave Grusin.

[ebf1957]

I remember that music from "Winning" and TVS's College Basketball.

[mrsgarrettrocks]

@jazzfan19605

Are you kidding me? Network TV had all the power in the world. There were only 3 main networks controlling the media and viewership was way higher than it is today. That is what people did when they came home, sat around the TV all night. TV was far more powerful than it is today, they had a completely captive audience.

[The096757]

in 1979 they had theme music l ike this before the movie "the swimmer" with burt lancaster. this is not the same music. the one i heard packed a punch.

[jazzfan19605]

Man, looking back at this shit reminds me how television broadcasting was so irrelevant back then and is especially now.

[Get908]

What year was this logo from ?

[myronfalwell]

This reminds me of WEWS' original 1972 "Catch 5" promo more than WABC's 4:30 Movie open. It had to have been produced at the exact same time, if not earlier (my second guess is sometime between 1968 and 1969).

Also, when did WEWS retire the "M$M" name and aligned all their movie airings under the "Movie 5" umbrella? I'd like to say it was sometime in 1986...

[mwhite36]

That music was funky!

[wmbrown6]

I may have heard this music myself, on WOR-TV, as the theme for their nightly "Late Movie."

[wmbrown6]

Another story about the "M$M" title origins was a reference to the amount paid by General Teleradio (predecessor to RKO General) head Thomas F. O'Neil in 1954 for a package of 30 films from the Bank of America that made up the original basis for the series - $1.3 million.