WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News at 10pm (Complete Broadcast, 4/15/1977) 📺
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- Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of Eyewitness News at 10pm on WLS Channel 7, anchored by John Drury and Nancy Becker (both Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly were on vacation this night).
(NOTE: A time stamp appears throughout this recording at the top left corner - this was often done at the station when recording an aircheck.)
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Saturday Night Movie (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Mike Nolan at Chicago Stadium previews Bulls playoff game
Newscast open (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson - apparently Al Parker was on vacation too), and items:
- Tax filing deadline fast approaching; Maralee Beck outside main post office
- Sam Donaldson reports on President Carter's press conference in which he called for anti-inflation initiatives to be made by Americans
- Alleged Howard Hughes Mormon will deemed a hoax by FBI
- Two suspects - Curtis Davis, 29, and Edward Robinson, 28 - arrested in connection with double murder of two employees of South Side plumbing house
- David Schnell talks with Gerald Preiser, president of New York's Federation of Rifle and Pistol Clubs, who offered $200 to store owners to defend themselves against robbers
Commercials for:
Singer sewing machines
Mazda GLC
WMAQ 670 - "WMAQ Is Gonna Make Me Rich" promo
Mitchum anti-perspirant pump spray
- Bob Petty reports on federal judge's dismissal of $47.7 million lawsuit against Edward Hanrahan and 20 other law enforcement officials in connection with 1969 Black Panther raid
- Federal Judge Joel Flaum rejects plea bargain deal for two construction company officials, Thomas Bowler and George Krug, accused of bid rigging in 1975
- Criminal charges lodged against captain of Soviet trawler seized for illegally fishing within America's 200-mile fishing limit
- State Department to begin high-level talks with Vietnam to discuss normalizing of relations
- Emmy Awards cancelled by NBC due to non-participation by West Coast members
- National Parent-Teachers Association pressuring three networks to reduce violence in their programs by next January or else, as reported by Fred Villanueva; excerpt of Dr. William Young speaking at press conference
Commercials for:
The Working Artist Art Sale (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Lennox Air Conditioning & Heating
JC Penney 20% off sale on spring fresh fabrics
Spanish National Tourist Office
- Hugh Hill profile of Democratic mayoral candidate Ellis Reid (who campaigns with a bear named "Bilandic")
- John Coleman's weather forecast (Part 1)
Commercials for:
Revlon Flex Balsam & Protein Conditioner
SAS - Scandinavian Airlines (voiceover by Richard Kiley?)
WFYR 103½ FM (with Fred Winston)
Chicagoland Solid Men of Olds
- Part 2 of John's forecast
Mike Nolan, at Chicago Stadium, with sports:
- Chicago Bears beat Portland in Game 2 of NBA playoffs
- Jim Bouton attempts comeback with White Sox' Knoxville AAA farm club
Rest of sports handled by John:
- Baseball scores, with both Cubs and Sox winning; other NBA playoff finals; NHL Stanley Cup quarterfinal scores
Back to news:
- Robbery suspect trying to escape from police at 6400 South King Drive slips and falls eight stories to his death; another suspect is unable to escape
Stock market closing averages
Commercials for:
BankAmericard - changing name to Visa (with Harpo Marx lookalike demonstrating; in connection with First National Bank of Chicago)
Chicagoland Job Mart in Sunday Sun-Times and Monday Daily News (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
- John Culea at opening of King Tut exhibit at Field Museum
Newscast closes, with promo for next day's edition, followed by footage of Tut exhibit as end credits roll (some of ending music had to be reversed - it was ID'ed as Papyri Of Cleopatra by Leslie Bridgewater from PRS Production Music - links.universalproductionmusic...)
Promo for Friday Night with Steve Edwards for 11:38pm (with the man himself)
First 9 seconds of political ad for Michael Bilandic for Mayor (with Senator Adlai Stevenson) (recording cuts out midway)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 15th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 10:28pm timeframe.
This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the John Drury Family collection.
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My big brother was born on the exact same day this newscast aired, he'll be 47 on Monday. I gotta show him this video.
Happy Birthday!
Refreshing to watch news reporting, that just seem to be interested in reporting on the stories as people experienced it. Rather than the form of 'news' reporting we have experienced over recent years. @1:16 It was interesting to see two people randomly appear, who must have been there already, holding the 'Don't Tread on Me' banner nearly 50 years ago. Rest of the news stories also seemed very familiar to those of today. Peace all
2:22 The one and only soundbyte included from President Carter:16 seconds. Sam Donaldson's closing monologue: 43 seconds.
Great memories. Portland won the NBA championship that year.
This broadcast turns 47 years old on Monday April 15th.
Weather guy is a Sunny Elliott wannabe.
@@michaelcap9550 - Funny, that's the first time I've heard Coleman described that way. I have, however, heard no comparisons of him to Tex Antoine of New York's WABC Channel 7.
The rare gem here is the report on Jim Bouton’s comeback - wearing a cast-off red-pinstriped White Sox uniform. Bill Veeck was taking a leap of faith with him. He’d make it back to the big leagues the following season, with the Braves.
By 1979, Mr. Bouton was back at WCBS Channel 2 in New York (where he initially joined in 1973 after his stint with WABC Channel 7 was over), in time to give his thoughts on the death of Yankees catcher Thurman Munson. He would be gone again by the time WCBS poached Warner Wolf from WABC.
4:28 Bounties on dead robbers? That might not be popular in New York, but any state south of Ohio will turn that into the next game show.
It's April 15th, 1977. I just got my taxes mailed, not expecting much of any refund. I hear that if I defend my own life, not only do I get to live, but I get rewarded with money for my bravery. And I think to myself "Why doesn't Chicago have this?"
And what a fun game show it would be...shame they're not playing it in those crime-riddled democrat cities that don't enforce laws, huh?
😆 The Big Sports Monster ! Mike Nolan 🎤
Wayne Atkinson with the station ID preceding the newscast.
As mentioned in the description. Let's just say Flynn and Daly weren't the only ones off that night.
Dude had to bring his own stool
Back in my day, we didn't have fancy stools. We had to carve a place to sit out of solid rock. And we loved it!
Mike Nolan was also a sportscaster in Buffalo.NY on WGR-TV in the 1980s
Wasn't Nolan's time there within the period their calls changed to WGRZ-TV?
@@wmbrown6 you're probably right but he was also there at the time that Barry lillis was doing weather
I miss Fahey!
I had a crush on Nancy Becker when i was a kid growing up in the area, she's a Doll.
She (filling in for Fahey Flynn alongside Joel Daly) and Mike Nolan (as here, subbing for Bill Frink) were on the 6 P.M. edition of "Eyewitness News" on the evening of April 7, 1976 - a newscast which was sliced and diced by Ron Powers in his book "The Newscasters: The News Business as Show Business." Let's put it that Mr. Powers took issue with the way the newscast was presented, and WLS hardly even touched on any Chicago Tribune articles of more substance from the next day's issue. This, from the height of their "Happy Talk" days.
There was some other bloke, from California way, who also considered her "a doll": Dick Woodka. Who would marry her.
Got her start on Wsns TV 44.
@@ronsimko7137 - So did Al Lerner and Tim Weigel, no?
@@wmbrown6 Al leaner had his own sports talk show on 44.Not sure about Tim Weigel.
@@ronsimko7137 - Weigel was his assistant and sidekick.
I miss John Coleman
i met John Drury in college in 1989. Like other media folks seen on this channel, Drury was a presence throughout my childhood thru early 20s
Awesome weather guy
. .
One of the founders of the Weather Channel
@@timdailey2690 - And was at WCBS Channel 2 in New York for 11 months (Sep 1983-Aug 1984) before returning to Chicago and WMAQ - this, while that station's onetime "Big Tuna," Floyd Kalber, resumed his local anchoring career at WLS.
WLS
Open the cars of their windows?
John Coleman tosses his stool into chroma-key oblivion at 14:44.
And flies away on a chroma-key magic carpet at 19:52.
The tech of the 70s 😂
This was over a year before the Tut exhibit landed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which I seem to remember having seen "at the time."
I waited all day only to make it on the porch in front of the doors to be turned away😞
@@leslie594 - There's the thing. I was there (at MMoA) as part of a school field (NOT Field as in the Field Museum) trip.
According to the description somehow the Bears beat Portland in game 2 of the NBA playoffs.
😜😉
Basketball gets easier when you can tackle guys.
Celtics won the mini-series 2-0 over the Spurs.
Thanks for ruining it. I taped it. I was just gonna watch it 🤣🤣🤣
Next time warn us with a spoiler alert.
😂
@@RusstheTroubadour - You can see in the description that no mention of actual scores is there.
I miss home so much !! I ended up dating da chick whose parents owned WGN.