This is AMAZING.. thank you so much for putting this up. I've always really enjoyed ABC's newscasts the most out of the older coverages anyways (due to the fact they were so cheap they had to work harder, better coverage in a lot of spots to make up for the low budget,) and this is no exception. They were prepping for what was coming a few months later and you can tell as the newscast is miles better than what came before it. The overseas news focus was honestly really cool.. I learned quite a bit I never did. Never knew Carter had an Africa trip; that segment was awesome. The exorcism one meanwhile was quite creepy.. that poor girl :(. Always love when you put the old ABC newscasts up, if you ever find more let me know!
PBS did the Captioned ABC News just hours after the initial news broadcasts on the same night during this time (w/o commercials, of course) until 1982.
RIP Peter Jennings, Frank Reynolds, and Harry Reasoner. Frank Reynolds would have been 100 this November 29th. July 20th will be 40 years since Frank's passing.
Quite an amazing newscast, with a mix of filmed 🎥🎥🎥 and videotaped 📹📹📹 segments throughout. Especially in the Hillside Strangler segment, alternating the filmed and taped pieces together. After all, this was during the transitional period ABC News was preparing, pretty much using whatever equipment they had available to use to get their assignments on the air. And, of course, the teletype 🖨️ sound in the background.
This is really fascinating. I had read, in "The House That Roone Built" that Arledge had made the tactical decision to limit Reasoner's on screen time by using this "whip" technique, but had not seen it in action. And you're right about seeing some of the WNT elements, like the red banner in upper left.
Yep they were at that point trying to get to the end of Reasoner's contract in July. He grew to the point that he didn't enjoy it there and Arledge wanted him out anyways to move along to the new format. Harry's desire to stay started to drop when they added Walters into the newscast in fall 76. He was threatening to leave in 1975 because he wanted to be solo, it's why they knocked Smith down to commentaries. He never moved the ratings drastically so Arledge called his buff and let him go. Why he was used so little one this; Arledge was already testing Reasoner and Jennings out for their eventual spots.
The actual killers were Kenneth Alessio Bianchi & Angelo Buono Jr. Bianchi Is still in prison for life for the murders. Buono died in prison back in 2002.
wow so good to see Sam Donaldson and Peter Jennings again after seeing them for so many years as a kid in the late 70's and throughout the entire 80's and 90's i miss seeing them R.I.P. to two unforgettable news masters ever, legends to me anyways.
Did you know that for a time in 1971, Peter Jennings was a co-anchor with Bill Beutel on "Eyewitness News" at WABC Channel 7 in New York, and even anchored solo on some editions? Yep, even he for a short period wore the dark blue jackets with 'circle 7' embroidered on the jacket pockets. Would if at least a snippet of Jennings alongside "the Eyewitness News team" including the likes of Milton Lewis, Bob Lape, Bob Miller, Doug Johnson, Melba Tolliver, Frank Gifford, Jim Bouton and Tex Antoine . . . oh yes, and Geraldo Rivera, early in his career - were somehow to turn up.
@@rjpsuh06 i must be dreaming but that's very great news i remember seeing something back in 2009 that he passe3d away on ABC news KOMO 4 news they better not have been doing a fake news cast back then ill look into it myself
Cool .....the Friday Movie is Dirty Mary Crazy Larry . Saw that with my older brother at the drive in when it came out. Great movie and was never showed that much on Network TV. Im gonna have top set my VCR and record that!
This is very interesting as the Roone Arledge innovation and rebranding as "ABC World News Tonight" was just a few years later. This shows that certain format elements (Frank Reynolds in Washington and Peter Jennings in London) were already taking place prior to that launch.
Max Robinson from CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (now Tegna owned-and-operated W*USA) in Washington would be hired by Arledge to anchor the National reports in Chicago until just after Reynolds’ death in 1983.
Bill Stewart 3:15, was the correspondent who would be tragically killed in Nicaragua while on assignment the following year. The murder was captured on video by his crew which managed to get it past government censors and out of the country to be broadcast worldwide. That effectively ended US support for the Somoza regime, which fell shortly after. I was 17 at the time and remember being quite shocked and kind of traumatized by the video. It was probably a difficult decision for the network to air it in those days. But I'm sure they knew it was the right thing to do to show the brutality of the whole thing.
& the awesome recap @ the end- the whole broadcast framed like bookends - thorough, concise, & put away on the shelf because tomorrow will be tonight’s news. Film at 11… 🙂
By this point, Arledge had decided that Reasoner could no longer anchor and was going to go with the WNT format. He tried to get Reasoner to stay to host 20/20 but Reasoner was determined to go back to CBS. Arledge threatened to hold Reasoner to his contract and Reasoner then vowed not to show up for work. They finally reached a settlement where Reasoner would be free to go back to CBS once Arledge was ready to debut the WNT format in July so at this point Reasoner was just playing out the string while the rest of the newscast was slowly introducing some of the WNT elements.
Reasoner was with CBS News from the mid-fifties until 1970, the year he left for ABC News. After eight years with ABC, Reasoner returned to CBS News in 1978, and remained there until retirement, shortly before his death in 1991. He, Mike Wallace, and Don Hewitt launched "60 Minutes" in 1968; Reasoner rejoined "60 Minutes" when he went back to CBS.
This was before Roone Arledge, the then-Dean of ABC Sports, took over as the head of ABC News and overhauled its entire department, relaunching the nightly news program as what it is now "World News Tonight" some 4 1/2 months later on July 10, 1978. Reasoner eventually went back to CBS and to "60 Minutes" by the fall of '78, where he remained for his final 13 years.
The Spotmaker isn’t a demon. He’s just very misunderstood and doesn’t like to let his guard down. He would literally give anyone the shirt off of his back if need be.
I’m sure back then Jennings’ hair was hip & happening. But today I’m thinking, was it a perm? Is he going for the Andy Kaufman look?? Is he growing it out?? Was this the style?? Did they have hair & makeup people then? There’s just a lot going on here, people… 🤷🏼♀️ Regardless, he was always a nice looking man.
As a very young & not yet informed child, I remember hearing about these guerrillas & the awful things that were happening. I worried so much for these people which was understandable. However, it wasn’t until years later that I learned they were not actual “gorillas.” 🦍 😳 Stay in school 😉
This is AMAZING.. thank you so much for putting this up. I've always really enjoyed ABC's newscasts the most out of the older coverages anyways (due to the fact they were so cheap they had to work harder, better coverage in a lot of spots to make up for the low budget,) and this is no exception. They were prepping for what was coming a few months later and you can tell as the newscast is miles better than what came before it. The overseas news focus was honestly really cool.. I learned quite a bit I never did. Never knew Carter had an Africa trip; that segment was awesome. The exorcism one meanwhile was quite creepy.. that poor girl :(.
Always love when you put the old ABC newscasts up, if you ever find more let me know!
Roone Arledge began to take over the reins of ABC News in 1977. His fingerprints are all over this.
PBS did the Captioned ABC News just hours after the initial news broadcasts on the same night during this time (w/o commercials, of course) until 1982.
Frank Reynolds was such a bad ass. Authoritative. What a voice!
Way before his infamous "Let's Get It Nailed Down" rant of 1981.
If only he lived...what could have been.
RIP Peter Jennings, Frank Reynolds, and Harry Reasoner. Frank Reynolds would have been 100 this November 29th. July 20th will be 40 years since Frank's passing.
I am 55 and this is like Time Travel to Me .
Quite an amazing newscast, with a mix of filmed 🎥🎥🎥 and videotaped 📹📹📹 segments throughout. Especially in the Hillside Strangler segment, alternating the filmed and taped pieces together. After all, this was during the transitional period ABC News was preparing, pretty much using whatever equipment they had available to use to get their assignments on the air. And, of course, the teletype 🖨️ sound in the background.
This is really fascinating. I had read, in "The House That Roone Built" that Arledge had made the tactical decision to limit Reasoner's on screen time by using this "whip" technique, but had not seen it in action.
And you're right about seeing some of the WNT elements, like the red banner in upper left.
They used the red banner in the upper left until the mid 1990s.
This is cool.... I just turned 1 yr old 3 days before this aired..... interesting listening to how the news was at the time.
That had to have been just before they became World News Tonight. Hard to believe that old format stretched into '78.
Yep they were at that point trying to get to the end of Reasoner's contract in July. He grew to the point that he didn't enjoy it there and Arledge wanted him out anyways to move along to the new format. Harry's desire to stay started to drop when they added Walters into the newscast in fall 76. He was threatening to leave in 1975 because he wanted to be solo, it's why they knocked Smith down to commentaries. He never moved the ratings drastically so Arledge called his buff and let him go. Why he was used so little one this; Arledge was already testing Reasoner and Jennings out for their eventual spots.
@@efan2012 - And of course, where did Reasoner go afterwards? Back to CBS and "60 Minutes" - where he would stay till near his death in 1991.
I eas 14 at the time and NYC was so scary then.
World News Tonight debuted July 10, 1978.
The guys featured in the first story were not the Hillside Stranglers.
The actual killers were Kenneth Alessio Bianchi & Angelo Buono Jr.
Bianchi Is still in prison for life for the murders. Buono died in prison back in 2002.
Yup. Bungled by LA PD.
wow so good to see Sam Donaldson and Peter Jennings again after seeing them for so many years as a kid in the late 70's and throughout the entire 80's and 90's i miss seeing them R.I.P. to two unforgettable news masters ever, legends to me anyways.
Sam Donaldson is still alive at age 89.
Did you know that for a time in 1971, Peter Jennings was a co-anchor with Bill Beutel on "Eyewitness News" at WABC Channel 7 in New York, and even anchored solo on some editions? Yep, even he for a short period wore the dark blue jackets with 'circle 7' embroidered on the jacket pockets. Would if at least a snippet of Jennings alongside "the Eyewitness News team" including the likes of Milton Lewis, Bob Lape, Bob Miller, Doug Johnson, Melba Tolliver, Frank Gifford, Jim Bouton and Tex Antoine . . . oh yes, and Geraldo Rivera, early in his career - were somehow to turn up.
@@rjpsuh06 i must be dreaming but that's very great news i remember seeing something back in 2009 that he passe3d away on ABC news KOMO 4 news they better not have been doing a fake news cast back then ill look into it myself
@@rjpsuh06 Ted Koppel is still living.
Sam Donaldson is still alive, retired on his ranch in New Mexico.
Cool .....the Friday Movie is Dirty Mary Crazy Larry . Saw that with my older brother at the drive in when it came out. Great movie and was never showed that much on Network TV. Im gonna have top set my VCR and record that!
This is very interesting as the Roone Arledge innovation and rebranding as "ABC World News Tonight" was just a few years later. This shows that certain format elements (Frank Reynolds in Washington and Peter Jennings in London) were already taking place prior to that launch.
Max Robinson from CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (now Tegna owned-and-operated W*USA) in Washington would be hired by Arledge to anchor the National reports in Chicago until just after Reynolds’ death in 1983.
Yasser Arafat without headgear...That's a rare video.
YES!!!! That's the 1st time in my life .
I would see Yasser Arafat without his Arab headgear at a political rally in 1978!!!!
His Muslim headscarf is called a kaffiyeh.
Bill Stewart 3:15, was the correspondent who would be tragically killed in Nicaragua while on assignment the following year. The murder was captured on video by his crew which managed to get it past government censors and out of the country to be broadcast worldwide. That effectively ended US support for the Somoza regime, which fell shortly after.
I was 17 at the time and remember being quite shocked and kind of traumatized by the video. It was probably a difficult decision for the network to air it in those days. But I'm sure they knew it was the right thing to do to show the brutality of the whole thing.
What a different style. So calm.
And no commentary or bias.
Straight journalism.
RIP - journalism 🙏🏿❤️
I love how Jennings took the ringing phone off the hook. Smooth…
Peter Jennings...so young....
They all were. We all were. I was 10 years old and 1 day! My newborn baby sister was almost 6mos old and baby brother was a year and a half!
@Jami Nova ahhhhh, you're a year older than I. I used to be fascinated by the reporters and anchors those days.
nice... this is more how you would imagine a news corp. to be and much more informative than today.
We wish it was still like this.
& the awesome recap @ the end- the whole broadcast framed like bookends - thorough, concise, & put away on the shelf because tomorrow will be tonight’s news.
Film at 11… 🙂
I don't believe much in a god or satan, but that is seriously frightening
Nah. Hysteria and emotional incontinence has been a thing since ppl were ppl...and mental illness too.
By this point, Arledge had decided that Reasoner could no longer anchor and was going to go with the WNT format. He tried to get Reasoner to stay to host 20/20 but Reasoner was determined to go back to CBS. Arledge threatened to hold Reasoner to his contract and Reasoner then vowed not to show up for work. They finally reached a settlement where Reasoner would be free to go back to CBS once Arledge was ready to debut the WNT format in July so at this point Reasoner was just playing out the string while the rest of the newscast was slowly introducing some of the WNT elements.
The late Max Robinson already joined ABC News at the start of 1978, he came from WTOP (now WUSA) the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC.
During the "STILL THE ONE!" era.
Geraldo, you stud!
Barbara Walters on vacation, sure haha
She died last December.
@@spencerkarterlive7378on vacation?
@@TeddScheckler I'm not posting videos on CZcams anymore, I'm on Rumble.
Thank you for sharing this history.
Wow, Harry Reasoner is left in the dust after only a few minutes. I'd forgotten about him for several minutes.
Just turned seven on 03/31/1978.
Very cool!
Reasoner was with CBS Sixty Minutes? Didnt know he also did ABC News
Reasoner was with CBS News from the mid-fifties until 1970, the year he left for ABC News. After eight years with ABC, Reasoner returned to CBS News in 1978, and remained there until retirement, shortly before his death in 1991. He, Mike Wallace, and Don Hewitt launched "60 Minutes" in 1968;
Reasoner rejoined "60 Minutes" when he went back to CBS.
Nice to see what ABC's London and D.C. bureaus looked like before they were overhauled for WNT later in '78.
They spent a lot of time on that opening story, and the guy didn't do it
This is amazing, the story about the German Anna Lisa was made into the exorcism of Emily Rose.
1978 my brother was born that year
This was before Roone Arledge, the then-Dean of ABC Sports, took over as the head of ABC News and overhauled its entire department, relaunching the nightly news program as what it is now "World News Tonight" some 4 1/2 months later on July 10, 1978. Reasoner eventually went back to CBS and to "60 Minutes" by the fall of '78, where he remained for his final 13 years.
15:15 The Calgonite demon! I miss him!
The Spotmaker isn’t a demon. He’s just very misunderstood and doesn’t like to let his guard down. He would literally give anyone the shirt off of his back if need be.
When Rhodesia still existed.
If they'd known then what we know now...🧐
I’m sure back then Jennings’ hair was hip & happening. But today I’m thinking, was it a perm? Is he going for the Andy Kaufman look?? Is he growing it out?? Was this the style?? Did they have hair & makeup people then? There’s just a lot going on here, people…
🤷🏼♀️
Regardless, he was always a nice looking man.
President Carter getting into the Lincoln Town Car/Limo about a 70 to 74 Limo Wow back in the days when cars where cars!
What a pity people were buying Japanese & German jalopies at the time.
I say same like Arafat people are left with no other way just to go war…any country would act same under the same circumstances…
As a very young & not yet informed child, I remember hearing about these guerrillas & the awful things that were happening. I worried so much for these people which was understandable. However, it wasn’t until years later that I learned they were not actual “gorillas.” 🦍 😳 Stay in school 😉
Long before abc composed theme music 🎶 for world 🌎 news tonight
The Score Productions composed theme that debuted on July 10, 1978.
I actually feel somewhat more informed.
Have any WWWF shows from the 1970's?
This was before journalism turned into political activists circus central.