WABC-TV 6pm News Excerpts, April 1970
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- From an ABC World News Now segment that was aired in regards to the passing of long-time news anchor Roger Grimsby in 1995.
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Blessed to have grown up watching Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel on WABC. ❤
Roger was simply the best, ever! I loved his sense of humor, he is one news anchor that I will always remember!
I only WISH that the news still looked like it did in 1970. Roger Grimsby understood his role as news anchor - just the news. No political slant.
A far better Roger than that Ailes joker!
Knew him as a kid in the Bay Area from local news in San Francisco before he went to New York. Always stayed up to watch him. Best delivery ever.
I was knee high living in Sunnyside Queens. Those were good days to be a kid. I wish I could go back. I used to watch him in the late 70's-early 80's WABC News. I now live in Brooklyn. This true New Yorker has never left this amazing city even with all the sad happenings in the city since 9/11.
I was a Rosedale kid and fondly remember Mr. Grimsby from watching the news with my Dad.
RIP to both.
This is amazing!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!
This is the oldest clip of WABC-TV i've seen yet. I've been looking for the intros from 1968-75 for ages!
If I recall, local WABC-TV newscasts or news stories before the late 70s (1978?) weren't regularly archived. 3/4 inch Umatic tape didn't really replace film at WABC-TV until then. There are, however, a handful pre-1978 broadcasts here and there, many seen on UA-cam. The Scott Vincent Archive has some of that material, including a 1970 close: ua-cam.com/video/HBBOHX44RAs/v-deo.html and a 1975 11pm open ua-cam.com/video/BwzPOE6WPc0/v-deo.html
NewsActive3 Thanks, the furthest back i've seen was 1975. In October of 1979 they used clips of New York City in the intro-- like this one: watch?v=IR8tDsHsxFg&t=214s
I could have sworn i've seen on for the 11pm newscast with Ernie Anastos and Rose Ann Scamerdella, but i can seem to find it now.
Thanks! This 1970 clip is really cool!
Looks like in 1970 they had not yet worked out all the kinks in Chroma Key. BTW thx 4 posting this. It was a real throwback.
They were apparently using Vizmo or some equivalent (rear projection) behind the screen in front of which Bill Aylward sat.
What great memories! What great people!!!
The 1970's were a very interesting time to have spent "your" formative years growing up in New York City that's for sure. I remember those years well.
Wow, even Walter Cronkite didn't receive such an testimonial upon his death!
Good memories back in the day
Love this stuff. Local news was much more important back in the day. Grimsby was authentic, but had a humerous side. This is how you do it. Future broadcasters should take a lesson from this pro
Amazing to think that 10 Million shares traded on the NYSE was a full trading day back then (and that remained the average trading day well into the '70s) as noted in the business segment of this. Now, 10 Million shares is often done in the opening minutes of trading and ONE company can trade more than that.
Yes . . . I worked there until April 1970 when i went into the US Army Reserves . . . Cosell was an egomaniac.
He might have been, be he also continued long after becoming known for Monday Night Football and his work at ABC Sports in general to do local reports for WABC-TV and Radio, including daily sports reports on the radio side. He also on WABC Radio continued to a long-running Sunday night public affairs show called "Speaking of Everything" that had both a local show on WABC and a national show on the full ABC Radio network.
@@WaltGekko - It was, I.I.N.M., 1971 that Cosell left "EWN" - when Frank Gifford switched to ABC to co-host "MNF," he spent the football offseasons handling the 6 P.M. "EWN" newscasts.
Yep. I worked at CBS from 1995-2010 and with some old timers who had made their way thru WABC and WNBC (many left ABC when CapCities purchased the network and O&O's). There were many stories about Howard being difficult to work with and Grimsby had his demons. But they're still legends.
Roger Grimsby at WABC TV in 1970 before Bill Beutel joined him that September of that year
Apparently, the "EWN" set was radically altered in its layout at the point Beutel first joined Grimsby near the end of September.
Never seen Howard Cosell do local sports. I had thought he was always on Wide World of Sports.
Jim Bouton also did sports reporting on Eyewitness News for a while.
Howard Cosell did a considerable amount of local programming for years in New York. Even after he began doing Monday Night Football, Cosell continued to do a long-running Sunday night radio show on WABC (770 AM) called "Speaking of Everything" that he actually did two versions of: One that aired locally on WABC, the other that aired nationally on the full ABC Radio Network. Howard also continued to do daily sports reports for WABC Radio long after he gained fame for MNF.
@@WaltGekko Yes, he began it with "This is Howard Cosell, speaking of sports!"
@@warrenhoffman2006 - So, from 1971 to 1974, did Frank Gifford.
Roger Grimsby got fired from Channel 7 WABC-TV in 1986 one year later he joined WNBC-TV until 1989
Amazing.Smooth,complete pros.
Real life Anchorman.
This is a rare find from the early EWN days
I wish that today’s “reporter’s” knew what JOURNALISM WAS!
Aired on Thursday, April 2, 1970.
Do you know if a full-length newscast from this period exists? If this particular newscast exists in its entirety?
Weather later became AccuWeather on WABC-TV Eyewitness News
Rodger was a staple 👍🇺🇸 RIP
What I want to know is why was the manager of the Baltimore Colts on live on a New York City newscast?
Don Klosterman just happened to have been in the neighborhood and was probably invited by Howard Cosell. The new head coach that Baltimore eventually hired was Don McCafferty who led them to the Super Bowl V Championship.
Tom Dunn was ostensibly Grimsby's co-anchor - but notice, here with 'Rog' that evening in '70 was Bill Aylward. (And that August 1970 close had Doug Johnson co-anchoring with Dunn, while Grimsby was off.) Note how the lower-third captions for the "EWN" reporters were more formal than Grimsby's intros of them.
Tex Antoine seems like a nice guy...
I think he was fired because on air he said when rape is inevitable sit back an enjoy it... or words to that effect
Should be noted that Roger Grimsby was featured in the Woody Allen comedy film Bananas.
John Cameron Swayze for H&R Block. Henry Block himself would succeed him a few years later.
Hey that's Milton Lewis!!!!
Roger Grimsby played himself in Ghost Busters(1984).
Who anchored on WNBC at that time in April 1970 (I know Jim Jensen was WCBS’ lead anchor)?
The answer for WNBC at 6pm in 1970: Lew Wood. Jim Hartz anchored the 11pm. Both would later be associated with the Today Show: Hartz as a co-anchor with Barbara Walters, Wood as the news reader.
@@dw438 - Actually, by then, since about the end of 1969, the "Sixth Hour News" on WNBC was anchored by Frank McGee. (He was listed in the March 28-April 3 New York Metro TV Guide as such.) And McGee also had a "Today" association, hosting from 1971 until near his death in 1974. At that point, Channel 4 was heading downhill in the 6 P.M. news ratings race, behind both WCBS and up-and-coming WABC.
Bill Beautel?
1970 WABC T.V. NEW YORK MEMORIES
Roger was a fine news anchor with a dry sense of humor and a deadpan delivery. He woupod interject little "Grimsbyisms" that would have everyone in the studio and CR, including Bill Beutell, in stitches. Two examples: He thought the term "pimp" was a little harsh, so he began referring to them as "Hooker-Bookers." He thought "house of ill repute" was cumbersome, so he coined "place of horizontal refreshment." ¶ I was fortunate to sit in the CR for the early newscast many times. Indeed, there was only one Roger Grimsby.
Grimsby was one of the models for Chevy Chase as 'Weekend Update' news anchor on what started out in 1975 as "NBC's Saturday Night." But Chase's anchor was also an amalgam of several other well-known NYC and national news anchors, including Beutel, WCBS's Jim Jensen, and WNEW's Bill Jorgensen.
Bob Lape the food critic.....Melba Tolliver...Bill Beutel
Early 1970 before Bill joined Roger that September
He was the NY local news answer to Walter Cronkite.
Funny, I thought that was WCBS-TV's Jim Jensen - who led in to Cronkite every weeknight.
No slight on Grimsby, though, who was every bit as much a newsman through and through.
Roger Grimsby before Bill beutel
April 2, 1970
1970 i was 14 years old looking for girls, today iam 66 looking at tombstones.
Doug Johnson still alive now retired from WABC
They had no mouth filters back then
Hey it’s my birth month 😁
Peter Max!!!