CBS RADIO NEWS, 6 P.M., AUG. 16, 1978
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- CBS Radio News’ “The World Tonight” with Douglas Edwards (1917-1990) reporting, recorded from WCBS-AM, New York, anchored by Pat Parson and Ben Farnsworth. This is an extensive broadcast complete with commercials. Among the news reported in the CBS network news: President Carter concerned about the falling U.S. dollar; dramatic report on the House Assassinations Committee looking into the death of Martin Luther King-star witness James Earl Ray (1928-1998) is heard testifying; HEW Secretary Joseph Califano may face contempt of Congress charges; one year anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley; a power blackout in Memphis blamed on a security guard who got drunk on the job; three Americans have become the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon.
Pat Parsons and Ben Farnsworth were a great news duo. They played off each other very well yet maintained a serious presentation:
When you heard the words "Douglas Edwards , CBS News" you knew you were getting a high quality news broadcast.
Yes, and thought the following were primarily TV newsmen-Walter Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, and NBC's Huntley and Brinkley. About the last two, one was based in NYC, the other in DC. The newscasts would end with Chet Huntley saying "Good night, Dave" and Brinkley saying "Good night, Chet."
Yes, and more in-depth on the happenings of the moment than any FOX "News" Radio newscast of today (FOX glosses it over and is more political [as I believe most radio "news" of today is as well]).
Ive always liked that news sounder at the beginning. Thanks for all the CBS news uploads!
I was on vacation in Virginia with my parents on this date. I would be starting my senior year in high school in September. Both parents are gone now and I'm a grandparent now. Boy do I miss those days.
In later years, Barry Serafin (5:05) went to ABC.
Douglas Edward's what a great voice
What a treat - thank you for posting this!
I discovered WCBS radio by accident on the evening of July 14, 1977 . . . the night of the blackout. A real coincidence! I also enjoyed the racing results from Yonkers Raceway, and I think it was Bob Myer who provided the results. Great memories!
That was the golden age of radio. When CBS, NBC, ABC (4 networks for ABC), and Mutual were the only networks and they ran five minutes (as opposed to two) of news each hour.
Also, years ago, CBS-TV would have a 5-minute news capsule at 11:55 am ET. Mr. Edwards anchored that.
Which would be at the bottom of each broadcast of a short-lived 1979-80 game show called Whew! w/the late, great Tom Kennedy (that and commercials, IINM, filled the interim between Whew! and TPIR).
@@bmasters1981 OK, thanks. The 11:55 am ET newscast ran for decades, if I'm not mistaken.
Right after The Price Is Right! Bob Barker, Johnny Olson and Douglas Edwards.
The story about the drunk security guard causing a power outage was really something! Ended up actually had a very positive effect!
Thanks so much for this aircheck!
How well I remember "The World Tonight". It seems it used to air at 8PM Eastern. It did on my local CBS station, WMMN, in Fairmont, West Virginia.
That makes me think someone was perhaps rolling tape on the 6pm ET World Tonight and airing it at 8pm on their station. Hope nothing big happens between 6 and 8... I can imagine a small station trying to pull something like that.
@@robertwelchny Could've been. I was very young then. This was like 50 years ago, and I'm not quite sixty, but I do remember it.
Thanks for posting! A little eerie to hear that item in the WCBS headlines about a new hotel by the World Trade Center, which would be the Vista, later renamed the Marriott which was totally destroyed on 9/11.
At 2:26, I didn't know Amana Radaranges had temperature hold. I remember the Radarange, but not that particular feature.
I have a few WCBS things on my channel
Sounds like Lloyd Bridges doing the Contact radio ad🤔
Doesn't it, though? I've commented on that myself.
At 5:09, Barry Serafin would go to ABC in later years.
The talking the first few seconds cut off the network jingle. That jingle is what really identifies it, not that guy talking the first few seconds.
Who narrated the Contac spot a 6:30? He sounded a lot like Lloyd Bridges, but I'm sure it wasn't he.
It is Lloyd Bridges.
@@swami1 OK, thanks so much. If it wasn't he, he sure enough had an identical twin in voice.
President Carter doing SOMETHING to the DOLLAR BILL, Yeah, like making it about. $0.43.
At around 8:30, school started early in Memphis, didn't it?
@Matt Pizzano OK, thanks.
@Matt Pizzano I've lived "up north" in West Virginia all my life (will be 58 in about 5 months) and during the years of my 1st day of school (1969-80), we started the day after Labor Day, except for 1971 (3rd grade), when we started the last Monday of August (for what reason, I never knew).
@@TheBrooklynbodine Where I am in Minnesota it’s actually state law that schools can’t start before the day after Labor Day unless you have permission for the State, which does happen (Especially if you’re renovating a school).
@@andysorensen1737 I was in public school from 1969-81, and I started each year the day after Labor Day, with the exception of 1971 (3rd grade), which for some reason started the Monday before Labor Day that year.
A was about to turn 9 on August 31. I’m sure I was in bed by 8pm, but I’m quite confident I slept with my Star Wars action figures that night.