WSNS Channel 44 - News with Nancy Becker (Complete Broadcast, 3/14/1971) 📺
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- Here, transferred from a 2" Quad tape, is a very rare early example of WSNS Channel 44 in action, a complete broadcast (more or less) of a sort of televised version of "rip and read" all-news radio, featuring a young Nancy Becker (years before she became a reporter and weekend anchor at WLS Channel 7).
Includes:
Slate indicating Take 1-∞, director as "Dickinson," (John Dickinson, who also appeared on camera as the "host" of TV-44's Monster Rally Movie) cameraman as "Flawn" (Flawn Williams) and producer as "D. Harris" (not sure why an aircheck would get a slate...)
Early 44 logo slide with the bow-tie wearing mascot ("Mr. Essaness"?) atop first '4'
Another 44 logo slide (with voiceover promo for time change for The Divorce Dilemma with Mary Jane O'Dell, by Mal Wyman)
Nancy gives an intro and time check, then the news:
- Three more aircraft shot down in Laotian operation in Indochina; A-7 fighter bomber pilot reported as missing in Laos
- American fighter bomber pilot mistakenly attacks South Vietnamese ground troops in Laos, with 10 killed and 12 wounded
- South Vietnamese sentries in Saigon fire on jeep carrying two American newsmen, one of whom, former AP reporter William Barton, is in serious condition
- Jane Fonda and other anti-war entertainers perform before packed house in Fayetteville, NC coffeehouse near Fort Bragg; not one of the audience was in uniform
- Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-CT) introduces legislation to protect wild mustangs and burros
- West Berliners casting ballots for new city government, with Social Democrats poised for huge win
- Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) says State Department not providing full support to Jews emigrating from Soviet Union
- Sammy Lee Fleming of Miami, FL, to serve 60-day jail sentence for buying four stolen tires, is free because officials were too busy to process him, and judge lets him go based on his honesty in his intent to serve his sentence
Commercials for:
Jimmy Wong's Chinese Restaurant (voiceover by ?? - that's not Linda Frost)
Announcement encouraging us to "Save a dime - get the time all day on 44 - " (voiceover by ??)
- Round 4 of SALT talks to open in Vienna, with Soviet and U.S. delegations arriving
- Sen. Charles Percy (R-IL) to go to Congress Monday to urge halt to U.S. and Soviet missile development
- According to al-Ahram, UN peace envoy Gunnar Jarring asks Israel's Yosef Tekoah for positive response to UN peace agreement proposals, while asking Egypt for restraint
- Memphis Commercial Appeal reports friends of Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-AR) to enter his name in 1972 New Hampshire Presidential primary
- Secretary of State William Rogers waiting to rule on when ban on travel to China will be lifted
- Pilot program to start for unemployed aerospace workers in Massachusetts to work on urban problems
- Sardinian police sergeant Mikhail Chessa dies at 102, which the 104-year-old dean of Sardinian bandits, Pietro Assini, deeply regrets
- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and ruling Congress party win 2/3 majority in Indian Parliament
- According to Washington Post, Nixon administration drafting new list of convictions to keep certain union people (such as Jimmy Hoffa) from holding office
- Weather forecast, followed by Nancy closing her segment and inviting viewers to tune in to Joyce Alspach with more news and sports after a break
Brief start of commercial for Panasonic with what looks like an homage to "Midnight Cowboy", before recording cuts to ad for Rainbow Rug Cleaners and Dyers, Inc. already in progress (voiceover by Mal Wyman)
Incomplete commercial for Wing Hoe Cantonese Food (voiceover by Mal Wyman; three-quarters of the way through when recording ends)
[not sure what happened here exactly - the recording appears to have been briefly stopped after Nancy finishes her news - I edited out some extraneous black space - then going into the Panasonic commercial before that cuts off and the Rainbow Rug Cleaners ad comes on already underway. Could the last two ads have been from a different recording and not actually part of this broadcast? Who knows?]
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 14th 1971 during the 12:30pm to 12:43pm timeframe. (more confusion - the TV schedules show "Instant News" airing at this time - not News with Nancy Becker (that was at 9am and 11am) so, who knows?)
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If the clapboard at the top is to be believed, I was the cameraman for this newscast!
Hi Flawn! Any idea why a clapboard would have been used if this was just a basic aircheck recording?
@@flawnwilliams ...were you high? It was 1971, after all.
How were the EMI 2001's performance, from your experience at 44? I know they purchased two of that camera that was most ubiquitous in British TV studios . . .
@@wmbrown6 I didn't have much to compare it with, so I just ran with it! Sorry not any more detailed memories.
Whatever happened to Nancy?
Excellent quality for a 1971 tape!!
Tape is way better then what we have today
What a beauty - when I was a kid, I used to have a crush on a cashier at Chatham's grocery store - looked almost identical to this newscaster. ❤️
Yes, it’s nice to see a an attractive young woman from 1971 reading the news.
WSNS channel 44 did debut on April 5, 1970 so one month after this newscast, channel 44 turns a year old.
This is so cool! I didn’t think we’d get more early WSNS footage.
I love old news- so interesting. Thank you for posting.
I Miss The 70s
Please find more footage of WSNS and WCIU especially the Merrie Dee show and Soul Train
This videotape is in surprisingly good condition considering it’s over 50 years ago.
I was 12 when this aired and don’t remember watching Channel 44 at all until about a year later when John Lennon spent a week on the Channel 44 evening show UNDERGROUND, hosted by Chuck Collins. But Nancy sure looks familiar to me. Seeing her it’s no wonder why I grew up loving older women.
Wow, I was almost 15 months old when this was broadcast. She looks just like my mom did at the time. 🥺
Lovely, calm voice. She looks a bit like Shelley Fabares.
Omg... she was so beautiful....
I had just moved to Woodridge a month earlier. I was four…
I remember Nancy from channel 7
Excellent quality on this find! Do you have a vast collection of 2" quad tape? Love the early 70s content
Vast collection of Quad tape? Sadly, not nearly vast enough!
nice. thank you
The Panasonic commercial at 11:54 seems to be an homage to Midnight Cowboy. Which didn't exactly feature enjoyable bus rides.
She appears to want to laugh every time she pauses.
Me too! 🤭
Maybe the camera crew was making faces at her.
In 1971 I was in 1st grade living in Lagrange on 7th street. My Dad was working for the Jewel grocery store chain. They a had Fair for employees every summer that was incredibly.
This is the epidemy of local broadcasting
The green eyeshadow with the green shirt is cool
Rare!
I never knew she was on another station before WLS channel 7 in Chicago in 74to75.
Nancy Becker must have been 18 or 19 years old and less than a year after she graduated from high school!
It’s almost as if this film print recording from WSNS came on digital.
Cool!
I'm from the UK, watching this vintage footage is very different in comparison to UK news. In the 70's the BBC was very starchy and authoritarian.
If you search ITV, the UK's commercial channel LWT news 1980s, the bulletin is very similar to this newsreader.
They used the best quality camera 4 rube emi
Dang! Jimmy Wong's looks swanky!!! 😲🍽️👍
Wonder if Wilbur Mills would've had the "stripper" vote in 1972?
Is Nancy Becker still alive? I've searched for her but with no results at all so far.
Yes, she's now known as Nancy Woodka.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV She is still married to longtime KTTV technical director Dick Woodka.
@@stephenzamarin3193 - Who's listed on IMDb.
Any tapes of first year broadcasts?
Nope - none are known to exist - so far.
I want Mr. Wong to _spoil_ me!
she has pretty hair
WSNS abbreviates "Essaness".
Mmmmm Nancy Becker
I'm thinking that WSNS and it's all news format was apparently successful, WGN wants to do this sort of thing these days it seems like
Not really . . . in 1972, WSNS' emphasis was changed to a Chicago version of New York's WOR Channel 9 (only without RKO General ownership).
@@wmbrown6 oh I know that. I'm being sarcastic at WGN if anything. It's like WGN stopped airing sports, kid shows, sitcoms and movies all together and just show hours and hours of news all day with one or two hours of Maury Povich filling news gaps. It's very pitiful
@@tubesocksbrigade3031 - Shows the devolution of TV over the last 50 years, no?
@@wmbrown6 if anything that supports that statement, it's certainly WGN. A once beloved and great station that turned into what could be "NewsNation 2" at any given time. It's really pathetic
Seems almost AI like. Striking resemblance to Natali Morris of Redacted.
What state is this from
Illinois?…….
Chicago. They went to pay TV in the early 80’s then finally to Spanish.
@@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 The station was nearly taken away in the early to mid 90s because of a lawsuit involving pornography during their ONTV days. Luis Gutierrez defended the fact that channel 44 is so much needed for the Spanish community, so therefore, the case was dropped.
@@erickrosales2590 ONTV, good times.
California 🙄
Even in the 1970's Jane Fonda had a political agenda XD
It's kinda what she's known for....
Oh yeah, it's terrible she wanted to protest the most evil war in human history.
@@darwinblinks Damn straight. Respect. (Also, "XD?" Who actually uses that antiquated internet speak anymore? Don't take this idiot seriously. Andrew's lost. Let him go.)
@@rareblues78daddy It's just that I've associated her through her movies, TV shows, even her exercise videos -- I never knew about her political stance until _years later._
@@darwinblinks Is it really terrible?
Same old shit just another era
But with better CARS, CLOTHES, MUSIC , MOVIES and TV SHOWS. That's all. And oh, a Led Zeppelin concert ticket was $6.00 . And a large pizza was $3.00 . And a new car was $2400.00
That Cantonese restaurant on Clark must have closed soon after this commercial to make way for the MCC prison that was being built next door
If this was an "Instant News," then Ms. Becker would have been among the rotating anchors. But it did seem like a televised version of, say, WBBM Newsradio 78 at the time. I could see why it was titled as it was - to put her name up there for when people type in the search window searching for representations of her years in Chicago TV.