WCVB-TV news opens 1978

Here are a few news opens that were in use by WCVB-TV in Boston between 1978 and the early '80s. The music ("And You") was created by the now-defunct Telesound. All rights are acknowledged.

Today, Channel 5 is Boston's closest example of a full-service local station and the current market leader.

P.S. -- If you are watching this video from a web browser, sorry about the poor image quality. The material looks great in its native H.264 codec. YouTube's old Sorenson Spark codec is the weak link.

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[sky1beam]

Telesound is based in San Francisco

[VintageTelevision]

Telesound *was* located in San Francisco. The company is now defunct.

[VaultMasterDBT]

Yes, his name was Derm (probably short for Dermott) Keohane, and he did sign language on Eye in the early '90s, if not earlier. While WCVB's noon and evening newscasts were closed captioning compliant by the mid-'80s (with Bull being their closed captioning benefactor from 1987 until about 1995), the EyeOpener was excluded, mainly since stations didn't want to spend money, or have their sponsors spend money, on getting broadcasts equipped at a time of day when the audiences were smaller.

[robkb1fjr]

I think WCVB was one of the first to use one and the last. A man with the last name Keohane did the sign language for the eye opener up until 1993 or when CC decoders started to become more common on TVs. Also back then it seems the newspapers were still a viable form of media that could actually compete some what with tv. They had evening newspapers back then too

[jaybee1973jaybee]

It's good to see the sign language interpreter Ann McIntyre receive billing in the newscast introduction at 0:30.  Onscreen sign language interpreters were occasionally seen in the corners of the screen of some local newscasts across the country in the 1970s and 1980s, before "closed captioning" was prevalent.

[wtglb]

@johnnyclink Wow, seeing this clip brings back memories of my late teens- early 20's, I used to get up that early to get ready for work and I always put on the Eyeopener News. Your Dad did a great job, I wish we had his type doing the news today!

[johnnyclink]

Bob Clinkscale is my dad, and I totally remember the day that they filmed the clip with the coffee cup. I was I think in Junior high... yikes.! I had Bob Copeland come talk to my science meteorology class. I think I got an A that year! Natalie was a very nice lady too!

[seventhexile]

Bob Clinkscale is my grandpa .... he some how looks the same now as he did in the video!

[loonmaniac]

Bob Copeland had the best 70s hair.

[thewaitingape]

Why did they think that deaf people were only watching the news at the crack of dawn??

[lajmh]

It's good to post these. A hundred years from now, our descendants will remember the storm, but who will forget the anchors and the people they interviewed?

[Bobbymobil]

I'm from Boston, i just know Natalie Jacobson, Dick Albert, Chet Curtis. They were very young back of those days. WOW