WCBS New York Early Morning Report and Late Show intro- 7/17/78
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- This appears to be a timer recording of the late movie that started 11 minutes too early, luckily it was kept afterwards.
The end of the Sergeant's flea collar commercial makes me kind of sad, since that cat is most likely no longer living (I've heard SOME cats can live to age 30 or so, but none that I've ever known.) Note that the audio is silent, then a bit loud then levels out in the first second- I've noticed this on a few Beta timer recordings from this era. Then we have the end credits of a movie-length "Name of the Game" episode on Channel 2 Showcase with their bumper- production music used on this is called "Race With The Devil" by Chris Gunning and someone else has the complete track uploaded here, it's pretty killer.
Then a priceless mail-order album commercial for a disco compilation album called Saturday Night Discomania-,note the disclaimer at the end that this was not affiliated with the movie Saturday Night Fever or Paramount Pictures!
Then we have the Channel 2 News Early Morning Report- since I wasn't allowed to watch TV this late at night, this was the first time I've seen something like this- a slide shown for several minutes while the announcer (Dave Campbell) does the whole report radio-style. Apparently this was common until the early 80s.
The report breaks for an early Sony Betamax commercial, though this was already pretty old when it aired. (Note the outboard mechanical clock!) Then a Crazy Eddie spot followed by the weather, again done with just a slide on the screen with voiceover, then the classic "The Late Show" movie intro.
The commercials during this airing were unusually good, so I'll be uploading all of them! - Zábava
No stupid background music , no over the top reporters , just plain and simple direct to the point .
My God! I think my dad actually purchased this disco album. The bonus dance instructions triggered that memory. LOL. So bittersweet and powerful memories.
This brings back a lot of memories from when I was in college. WCBS NY showed 1930's and 1940's MGM movies up until 1981.Can't believe it's been 35 years now...
This was before Turner Classic Movies launched in 1994.
9:46 This was before this guy started freaking out in his commercials!! 😂
Man I miss the old quality of television so magical
This clip is a GEM...a true NYC late night TV time capsule! No flashy graphics or blowhard news actors...just a great voice with a simple presentation of the day's news. At 8:10, update on Yankees/Red Sox standings was tough to take in July, '78...Boston with a 13 game lead, but we Yankee fans know how that eventually turned out!
WCAU TV also had the late late news as their sign off newscast following the late late show in the 60s and early 70s with the booth announcer on duty
The one person who didn't like this must be INNN-SAAAANE!!
I was only 5 in 1978, so this takes me way back to staying up far later than I should've been (and having my mom inevitably wake up and yell at me for it, lol).
It also takes me back to staying up late watching TV with my grandpa, an insomniac, whenever I'd stay at my grandparent's house, and not getting yelled at, lol.
Thanks for the memories!
The sergeant's commerical cat reminds me of my orange cat Tommy who was 10 in 1978 and went to kitty heaven in 1991 at 23. 😺😻
This was when Disco was at its peak, capitalizing on the success of "Saturday Night Fever ".
Exactly
You think?
The movement which started being "organic" beginning in the early '70s was corporatized and "packaged" in a digestible format for a mainstream audience. That is what killed what was packaged as "disco"😡
@wmbrown6-I definitely loved the simplicity of these broadcasts...I only mentioned scary from the standpoint of being 11 yrs old and the only one in my house awake, watching those news hits. The staff announcers from all of the stations--radio and TV--were the true heroes of broadcasting. It is a tragedy to realize how unsung they were. I always appreciate seeing when someone acknowledges their contributions. I also appreciate your vast knowledge of the NYC TV that we knew & loved.
I once saw an old Goldie Hawn movie on the "Channel 2 Showcase back in 1983.
@wmbrown6-No doubt about it. We now live in this age of being so video-driven, it's way out of control. Obviously, if technology existed then, we would've subjected to broadcast clutter much sooner. This "radio on TV" approach was no-nonsense, and it was a responsible recap of local & world matters. For a kid with bad insomnia, I watched these inserts with such curiosity and some fear too... those creepy slides and booming voices were enough to scare a kid late at night.
The Crazy Eddie guy seemed more mellow in this spot than I remember him.
Also, nice shout-out to Mr. G AKA irv Gerkovsky.
As the years went on. Crazy Eddie got more insane bouncing off walls.
I remember all this growing up as a young G in the 70s omg where has the time gone so much has changed in the world
Betamax in the '70s, definitely ahead of its time, precursor to VHS & DVD
'"CHANNEL 2 SHOWCASE" mostly consisted of 90 minute "NAME OF THE GAME" episodes ["Ordeal", featuring Robert Stack, originally aired on November 22, 1968], mixed with various 90 minute TV movies of the early '70s.
WCBS-TV and all the stations have come a long way sinc 1978!!!!!!!! Now I can getup early in the.morning and watch the news without looking as a screen!!!!!!
This was amazing to watch and brought back so MANY memories from beginning to end. Thank you for sharing this! This is ALSO proof of how the media has changed. Wow!
@DanZero77 - There were many knobs turned to adjust the slide brightness, contrast, gamma, color balance etc., in film chain/slide scanner controls.
This brings me back. I was only 11 at the time, but remember when the early report was read by a voice over announcer, and the sermonettes. The commercials were so different. There will never be another crazy Eddie, nor C.O.Ds on mailed packages. It's amazing how much has changed in 37 years. Thanks for posting, and bringing back a bit of my childhood.
Stephen Kern Sometimes you got to see a repeat of the 11 pm news.
I really miss my dad!
Irv Gifkosky was known also as Mr. G.
This takes me back.
Saturday Night Disco Mania...........now at a thrift store not even near you!
I always imagine the older people who were late-nighters watching this in the city.
Ah yes! Channel 2 News which would air each weekday morning at 6:10am. “Sunrise Semester” or “Summer Semester” would precede it.
My brothers and I used to wake up at dawn just so we could kick back in front of the tv and relax to the ethereal images which were shown with each broadcast. The one standout image- which I’ve been searching for years to find- showed a woman wearing a kerchief walking across one of the main streets in Manhattan. Off to the side was a green, vintage NYPD vehicle making a turn onto a side street. Then, there was the still of the man standing near the arch in Washington Square Park.
I would love to find every image CBS used for those news broadcasts. Once, I even contacted CBS, New York and the response I received was they had no clue what I was talking about.
Dig that funky intro music!
The CRAZY EDDIE ad... that same script was presented in Spanish on WNJU-TV some years later; the Spanish anouncer was speaking the spiel, while Crazy Eddie himself was listening to a walkman in the background, dancing the whole time.
CRAZY EDDIE... sus precios son UNA LOCURA.
According to New York Times (and Red Bank, NJ Sunday Register) listings, this "TNOTG" episode started July 16 at 11:45 P.M., and therefore the news update commenced at 1:20 A.M., with "A Night at the Opera" starting at 1:27 A.M. I have to presume the second commercial break was before 2 A.M., since after that Dave Campbell's shift ended and Norm Stevens took over at the announcer's booth. The "Newsmakers" repeat began at 3:17 A.M.
Time flies!
@DanZero77 - Indeed. Of old "The Name of the Game" episodes, every late Sunday night/early Monday morning. (This one, "The Ordeal," episode #1.10, originally aired on Nov. 22, 1968 - exactly five years to the day after the JFK assassination.)
Obviously. that Discomania commercial was a sendup of Saturday Night Fever, which came out in 1977.
Dave Campbell was just one of many announcers who handled such sign-on and -off newscasts. Others (as per my memory) included Gaylord Avery, Norm Stevens, Pat Connell, Don Robertson, Roger Forster, Lee Jordan and Bill Martin. (Probably Allan Berns, as well; these voices were also heard on hourly and half-hourly WCBS-FM newscasts to the late 1970's.) The slides seen here, in this form, dated to 1973, the year WCBS started using the Serif Gothic fonts.
There was also Warren Moran.
@@Juliaflo - How long did Moran last until at CBS?
Back for my regular fix
Same. Lol
''CHANNEL 2
NEW YORK''
Sure was. That was "The Name Of The Game", the old NBC series with Robert Stack, Gene Barry, and Tony Franciosa. That show had been in syndication for about a decade at the time of that recording, but it was just in a few places. Dallas had it on Channel 39 in the early '70s but would not reappear again until the mid-'80s when Channel 27 would air it. New York had to have been one of the few places to air that show in 1978.
As a New Yorker it is! Or was since it happened a long time ago. Come to think of it the 1970s began 51 years ago!
Oh thank you so much I was racking my brain tryna remember the show The Name Of The Game.... Lol. Thats crazy!
Bob Hite's son, also named Bob Hite, was news anchor for WFLA here in Tampa from 1977 till retirement in 2007.
@wmbrown6 Bob Hite's son, also named Bob Hite, was news anchor for WFLA here in Tampa from 1977 till retirement in 2007.
Disco Era!
@Bentom86 Nobody could imagine, at that time, that the Sox were about to collapse like a lame horse before the season ended. Though not a Yankee fan myself, kudos to Bucky Dent.
This info on Martin V/O'ing "The Star Wars Holiday Special" had come to me via an old-time radio collector who'd worked with him at CBS Radio where he (Martin) had announced on some live remotes of bandleaders such as Guy Lombardo in the late 1960's. So what was brought to my attention was what was transmitted to the site in question.
Fantastic clips.
Something similar that happened in real life in TV land one late night/early morning in 1977 when Ed Jordan of WABC-TV went on too long during the sign-off. He didn't have a nervous breakdown or anything, but he mentioned some staff names and ended up having to cut corners on the sign-off script as the "Moog SSB" was being started up, to the point where his "And now, ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem" came over the synthesized tympanis and before the first notes of the anthem.
@eyeh8nbc - "Newsmakers," I presume? By the late 1970's, to push sign-off time to as little as 2-3 minutes before the start of a broadcast day, reruns of public-affairs programs like "Newsmakers" and "...With Jeanne Parr" were put in-between late late movies. The 1978 clip of WCBS late at night from 'KLXT77' had a sign-off which may've skipped the Seal of Good Practice to save time for that reason.
It's like a time capsule into a bygone era.
Had to come back here for the short clip of "Racing With The Devil" used for the Channel 2 Showcase as well as all the other goodies before The Late Show began.
And also, a user by the name of “FuzzyMemories” has found the full opening to WCBS-TV’s “Channel 2 Showcase”. If you have not seen the opening before, here it is! czcams.com/video/sCz9YoD0l08/video.html
@@Musicradio77Network I JUST SAW IT! I'm subscribed to FuzzyMemories! After 10 years, the full opening to Channel 2 Showcase!!!
@@DanZero77nd also, the music for “The Late Show” was done by Barry Manilow. He composed this theme as well. This was when he became a dynamite singer of the 1970’s with so many hits.
Unfortunately, WCBS-TV did not showed the “All Electric Magik Lantern Moving Picture Show”, because WBBM-TV in Chicago ran that one as part of the overnight block, not in New York City, just “The Late Show” and “The Late Late Show”.
HOLY SH*T. Is this song in 7/4 time!?!! The first one is definately in 7/4 time. (If you don't know what I mean, you don't count this song like "1,2,3,4 repeat" You count it like "1,2,3 1,2,3,4 repeat") It's so rare to find songs like that....
I want to learn those disco steps so I can boogie all night.
According to a forum post on The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (fuzzymemories.tv), the announcer the night of the Star Wars Holiday Special was Bill Martin. The site even has the whole broadcast from Chicago's WBBM (I think except for the commercials). In NY, people saw the infamous clip of Rolland Smith teasing the 11pm news: "Fighting the frizzies, at 11," which can be seen here (though not with the entire show as aired from NY). It was parodied on a certain "South Park" Xmas episode.
At this time of 78, my folks, kid brother, and I had already moved out of New York(Brooklyn) and were living in Louisiana... New Iberia.
Where we lived, Channel 2(ABC's WBRZ-TV) from Baton Rouge would air "Sherlock Holmes" movies on the weekends after the 10:00 "Eyewitness News."
Based on the sports scores, this would appear to be from July 16/17, 1978. The newsreader (as identified himself at the end of this 'cast) was staff announcer Dave Campbell, who replaced Bob Hite as announcer for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" in 1979. I presume on this day Mr. Campbell handled the sign-off as well.
Morning early afternoon classics
Around this time, early-morning slide-only newscasts also existed on sister stations KNXT in LA (as the "Late News") and WBBM in Chicago (as "First Edition") (not sure about the other stations); however, those newscasts were an announcer over a slide intermixed with film reports. Audio of several KNXT broadcasts from 1975-76 can be heard here (posted by rainbowgulchprod); an excerpt of the WBBM broadcast from 1979 can be seen here (posted by FuzzyMemoriesTV).
@DanZero77 Yes- this was one of those movie-length (roughly 90 minute) TV shows.
The Channel 2 Showcase I remember well.
This brings me back
Also . . . "Saturday Night Discomania" was issued on ONE record, by Columbia Special Products on P 14601. (How any of those tracks could've been "uncut" with 10 tunes apiece on one side, don't ask.) Crane/Morris merely marketed it. (And ironically, "A Fifth of Beethoven" was the only track to have also been on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack LP.)
0:55 I miss that
@FrightNight7387 - Episodes of the 1968-71 series "The Name of the Game" (which was a 90-minute show, B.T.W.) were run on WCBS for years on Sunday nights/early Monday mornings, beginning in 1971 when the program was first syndicated; I can't say at what point they were run under the "Channel 2 Showcase" banner as was the case here. (By contrast, sister station WBBM-TV in Chicago ran old "TNOTG" episodes under the heading of "The Late Show.")
@SlimeTron5000 - This segment was taped between 1:17 and 1:28 A.M. in the early morning hours of July 17, 1978 (broadcast day of July 16).
Also, the Rifftrax (w/ the Season 8-10 MST3K crew) for the Star Wars Holiday Special was done using the WMAR-TV Baltimore recording.
It was Sunday, the Channel 2 Showcase was on Sunday if I remember.
I imagine this was on Sunday. Anyway, I remember all of this.
@wmbrown6 Yes, it was a little bright from the ID card to the News slide. Is it a gamma correction like one would do with a computer display nowadays?
Could anyone identify the theme music playing at 10:57 please? Thank you!
@Bentom86 - Also notice how such slides-only newscasts seemed to have a proliferation of more international and national news compared with the "regular" newscasts, even then. (I noticed this with such other announcer-read newscasts on other stations, in New York and elsewhere.)
Probably because the announcers, who were not journalists, just ripped and read whatever wire service digests were available.
At 10:54, the booth announcer identifies himself as Dave Campbell. I believe he also did newscasts on 101.1 WCBS-FM. I suppose the station did these newscasts as a public service and they also filled up the time so after the last movie of the night, the morning programs would begin at 6 AM.
Mr. Campbell was not the only CBS staff announcer to handle slides-only newscasts on Channel 2 as here, or news updates on 'CBS-FM. The list also included Don Robertson, Pat Connell, Gaylord Avery, Bill Gilliand, Lee Jordan, Hal Simms, Alan Berns, Wally King, Roger Forster, Bob Hite (the 1972-79 Voice of the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite"), Norm Stevens, Bill Martin, and John Schaeffer. Of all those names, Mr. Schaeffer's is the only one I can't pin a voice to. Pre-1972, you would likely have also heard Warren Moran or Stuart Metz from time to time. Even earlier (say, 1950's-'60's), the recently-deceased Peter Thomas, Warren Sweeney and Art Hannes, perhaps even Harry Kramer. Many of those announcers also rotated V/O duties for "The Late Show." I saw a 1956 New York Times piece on "Late Show" announcers that indicated Mr. Avery was the only one to actually watch the films as they were running, along with the millions of night-owl New Yorkers.
@DanZero77 - Prior to 1963, sign-off newscasts followed "The Late Late Show" - and was referred to as "The Late Late News." On sign-ons, the newscasts came after the "Give Us This Day" sermon.
Damn, this reminds me of waking up in the middle the night to go pee.
0:54 Thanks for the cardiac arrest, bub...💀
Can anyone find a copy of the original J.G.E. appliances TV spots? "That's the story"??? I've seen the ad for "Jerry's Disco" on youtube, but never the originals. Thanks in advance!!
@wmbrown6 A repeat of a daytime news show aired after the movie- the tape runs out after the first few minutes of that. I'll have that up later.
I want that record! Saturday Night
It's Wendell Craig, all right!
Also . . . does anyone notice how the engineers in charge of the film chain/slide scanners have problems adjusting the gamma levels of some slides? (As on that main Channel 2 News slide, at the start.)
I recall WHO-TV carrying a movie at 12M on Fridays after The Tonight Show. At 2AM, the movie was over and channel 13 signed off.
Wasn't there The Tomorrow Show after Carson?
@@johnking5174 The Mightnight Movie was dropped when NBC started the Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder.
@@alanstrong55 NBC didn't air movies in late night, that was CBS.
The Late Show movie at the very end is The Marx Brothers' A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Great observation Pete. I always wondered what it was!!
I like it, use it during the writer strike to host movies. What was good then is good now! 👍👍👍
Except for a period, between about 1964 and 1970-71, when about a third of the pre-1948 MGM's went to WNBC-TV and another third were at WNEW-TV.
This is great, very nice. :-)
And one of them - "A Fifth of Beethoven" - was actually in the "Saturday Night Fever" movie! Go figure.
I've no way to prove or disprove this, but the main voiceover on the "Saturday Night Discomania" record offer promo sounds like Wendell Craig - compare this V/O to Nick at Nite promos from 1988 (which Mr. Craig did V/O) on:
watch?v=sQ3vjawSq9I
Pre-'77 actually ("Dr. Love" by First Choice and "Float On" by The Floaters were from 1977) . . . but other than that . . .
Channel 2 Showcase was basically just series as opposed to full length feature films, correct?
@Bentom86 - I don't know about "scary," but it was from such "simple" newscasts that I was able to have the names of many of these TV station announcers (not only on 2, but also 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11) embedded in my head to this day, as they ID'd themselves either at the start, or the end, or both. (A few names still escape me, though; like the CBS announcer who was on duty the night of the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special.")
wmbrown6 I remember Russ Dunbar on ch 9
@wmbrown6 Cool, and they would be showed before The Late Show, as it was here. I thought they would do the news report before or after a sign off or a sign-on? Was this to fill time before The Late Show was to start?
Must have been a weird move. My family made one to New Hampshire a few years after this.(We were in Queens) and it was safe...but weird...Channel 2 for us was WGBH Boston PBS
I’m looking for the clip with the family enjoying a visit to the Cloisters. One station played it often.
That would be one of the WCBS Celebrates New York films. If you search for it you’ll probably find it right away.
If The Yankees only knew what the next week would bring..... and the rest of the season for that matter...
This video is featured in my playlist "Slides-Only Newscasts." Desktop users, click the link below to check it out!
The playing time for desktop users has been changed in the playlists to feature only the newscast.
The "Fighting the frizzies, at 11" clip was not seen in:
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
Another was Chicago, on sister station WBBM-TV.
Saturday Night Disco LOL.. What a rip-off....The strutting walk in the beginning of the commercial....and that dancing!
All the tunes were from pre-76
4:55 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau! And his oldest son is Prime Minister now!
On the Discomania commercial, was that the old voiceover guy for Nickelodeon back in the 80's-90's talking?
Yes, his name was Wendell Craig. In the 1990s, he became the intro voice for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. He was one of the New York-based freelance voice performers who popped up constantly for decades, along with guys like Les Marshak, Hal Douglas and Alan Kalter. Wendell even had a small on-camera cameo on the very first episode of SNL, in the role of a direct-order TV ad pitchman very similar to what he’s doing in this commercial.
Be cool, Hit the like button now............
How do you learn how to dance from reading a book?
Besides WCBS, the "Channel 2 Showcase" umbrella was used by WBBM-TV in Chicago (which aired actual films instead of old long-form TV series, and unfortunately had an announcer promo'ing the next show over Mr. Gunning's aforementioned library music track); can anyone say whether or not KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles also used this?
The music for “Channel 2 Showcase” was “Race With The Devil” by Chris Gunning. And the music for “The Late Show” was done by the legendary Barry Manilow. He became an amazing singer during his career filled with big hits during the early 1970’s. He composed the theme to three CBS O&O movie packages including “The Late Show”, “The Late Late Show” and “Pictures For A Sunday Afternoon”.
This practice of staff announcers delivering sermonettes at sign-on and -off at WABC-TV persisted right up to about 1982. Here's a clip of one of the last, from the "Right Rev." Tedd Lawrence ;-) :
watch?v=TD6YeQ4ukZQ
I like that the voice is not emotional like a teen girl.
Big change from today. The morning news just a voiceover from announcer. Morning news much more elaborate now.
The way tv looked way b4 i was born. Weird. Cool though.