Huntley-Brinkley Report (January 6, 1959) NBC
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- Huntley-Brinkley Report 1/4 Hour B/W Kinescope As broadcast on NBC on January 6, 1959. Note that this print has the original commercials, however the print is incomplete. There is one story missing (where there is a slug in the print), and the last story cuts off before it finishes.
We went from 15 minutes a night of news to 24/7. I swear these 15 minutes by these guys is much better than constant crap.
Anybody know what the stations did with the remaining 15 minutes? Local news perhaps?
You are so right
@@tomripsin730 Yes, most local stations' newscasts also ran 15 minutes at the time (usually 5 minutes each for local news/sports/weather). Also note at 2:22, local stations had the option to air their own commercials in that slot. As 'The Huntley-Brinkley Report' was the most viewed nightly network newscast at the time, it must have been very profitable for those stations to run local spots in that time.
@@LandondeeL Thanks for the info.
Yeah, in this hyper-competitive world, sadly, news organizations have to both fill up the airtime with more news than there is, and sensationalize it to keep viewers interested.
Thank you for uploading a kinescope tape of the Huntley-Brinkley Report from early 1959. If this isn't historical, I don't know what is. What a gem.
Good sound and nice lack of geometric distortion in the picture. David Brinkley is a pleasure.
In the mid-to-late 1950's, a microwave link was built between Key West and a mountaintop in Northern Cuba, allowing for live TV programs to be fed between the two countries.
This is when news was without biased opinions
On the contrary, it has all the marks of something from the Cold War era, with a pro-U.S., anti-Soviet Communist tone.
You see it as unbiased because you agree with it.
Tim Russert was one of the very last ones who did it straight.
"Goodnight Chet"...
"Goodnight David, and goodnight for NBC News"
This is a VERY good kinescope. I can almost imagine it being tape.
Congress up to dirty tricks even then.
I am forced to realize that Fidel Castro was pretty fluent in English, and probably better at English than the reporter was at Spanish.
Didn't mention that it missed the goal. Just that it passed close to the Moon. I wonder if something that small and from sooo long ago can be found.
"This was by no means a liberal vs. conservative contest."
Nowadays, the lamestream media will tell you that everything is liberal vs. conservative. Even when it isn't.
Thank you for helping save & share history
As far as the republican house leader was concerned this helped paved the way for a young Gerald Ford to take over leader in few short years . Joe Martin was too chummy with Mr. democrat Sam Rayburn , his long time political foe .
David did a great job 'holding the fort' in Chet's absence.
Thanks for the upload, @jeffsabu!!! In watching that piece on Castro's takeover of Cuba, it made me think of another well-known Cuban in the person of the late entertainer Desi Arnaz who was still married at the time of this program to Lucy (Lucille Ball) who both had been riding high on the success of I LOVE LUCY and THE LUCY DESI COMEDY HOUR. I can only wonder what Desi must have thought of Fidel Castro when he had continued the totalitarianism of his predecessor Bautista--but under the brand of communism. #Autism
The audio quality suffers from overly-aggressive noise reduction, particularly starting during coverage of Cuba. As a result of excess noise reduction, voices are muffled and words are difficult to comprehend. Thanks for posting this great historic footage!
Sounds like Jack Costello V/O'd the promos during the first commercial break.
David Brinkley was the age I am now on this broadcast.
At the time I thought he was a teenager or in his 20's.
Great upload! Thanks! Subscribed and hope you have more like this one!
I want to see the Huntley Brinkley report intro.
Would be nice if Republicans in Congress today would "kick and gouge" like in 1959
I miss Bufferin!
Doesn't it exist anymore?
Genuine free elections in Cuba?
Forgettaboutit!
Oh boy George Gobel on the Eddie Fisher show, I'll make sure and watch that.
Polio booster vaccines! Oh no!
0:04 Sam and Friends
The day I was born
I was 8 months old. Living in Garden Grove, CA. My dad was a Navy Chief Petty Officer. He enlisted in 1939 and retired with 20 years service later in 1959.
Did the Huntley-Brinkley Report do several feeds for the east coast and taped for the west coast (with updates)?
The Castro puff piece makes me wonder if mass media, at the time, knew Castro's "democracy" was Communism?
They didn't care, leftist sympathies were on display here that are still clouding what they 'report' on.
Noozies were responsible for the 60+ years of brutal repression by Cuban dictators-for-life that still
have an iron grip on the island. Don't trust the big-time nooz media, they are more interested in pleasing
and impressing their colleagues than clear journalism.
I worked in that exclusive world and saw their bias up-close and and glad I don't anymore.
@@PatchworkUSA Agreed! I wasn't alive when this was broadcast on TV but there is so much value in watching the older clips and comparing them to today's. It's disgusting how sensationalized everything has become. Kids should be taught about the Overton Window in grade school.
Badgerrr Lattin what is your point? The takeover was news. It was important.
Then; as now, the Communism was/is important.
Very interesting to watch that segment, with its assumption that dictatorship in Cuba had ended. NBC was liberal not leftist in those days and I think everyone was taken aback when Castro's Communism was revealed over the next year, though if they had not been liberal (and therefore in the category of "useful idiots"), they would have been more suspicious at that point. Today the useful idiots of yesterday are no more, and the tolerant but confused liberals of yesterday have been swallowed and absorbed by the agenda of the far left. There are no more liberals.
Either Chet Huntley was taking a long weekend, or was on an out of town assignment.
Or according to the date, had a 5 day hangover from New Years Eve 1958/59.
The good old days. When the Republicans were marginalized, and rightfully so.
Hopefully the democrats will suffer the same fate this November.
This was just after the Cuban Revolution won the nation for Castro.
Imagine how beautiful Cuba would be today if a free, republican government had taken the country.
The CIA would have overthrown a free democracy in Cuba, just as it did in Guatemala, and Iran, and just as the U.S. did in Haiti in the early 1900s. If Castro abided by democracy as the Guatemalan government did, Cuba would be fascist like Guatemala became after 1954.
He's drunk.