Eric Savareid. He was an intellectual who provided commentary during the newscast. When I was a kid I was never interested, but now it’s definitely worth the effort. It’s like listening to certain kinds of music as you grow older.
I was an odd kid, I always dug the news, ESPECIALLY on radio then, It's the radio news I remember the most when talking about past news events ("Watergate"..ETC) More so than the TV broadcasts and I was the rare kid who had my own (12" B/W) TV in my room as far back as 1973 )When I was 11! Radio was just more of a "personal" feeling medium, and those radio news broadcasts that stick out in my memory. Then too, I was not only into "Pop" and Rock music, I was into Blues, Jazz and Ragtime. SO, Yeah. I was "weird". (raised in a family of musicians helped)
NBC and even more so, ABC were also still in the game then, Network RADIO news began it's long decline in the 1980s, Oddly that was timed with the rise of CABLE television. Network radio news still held an audience in the presence of network BROADCAST television news. I still get much of my LOCAL news from broadcast radio today, Not so much for national news though.
Sure was! I've always been interested in broadcasting, and back in 1977, I had a special place in my heart for any CBS Radio station. Tomorrow, their flagship, WCBS in New York, goes to that big transmitter in the sky. Here's wishing them the best in their new incarnation. Posting 8-25-24.
Brent Musburger doing CBS Radio's "Sportstime". He was doing "The NFL Today" on television at that time. I remember Reid Collins on CBS Radio, as well as Doug Poling and Dallas Towsend as reporters.
Eric Savareid. He was an intellectual who provided commentary during the newscast.
When I was a kid I was never interested, but now it’s definitely worth the effort.
It’s like listening to certain kinds of music as you grow older.
I was an odd kid, I always dug the news, ESPECIALLY on radio then, It's the radio news I remember the most when talking about past news events ("Watergate"..ETC) More so than the TV broadcasts and I was the rare kid who had my own (12" B/W) TV in my room as far back as 1973 )When I was 11! Radio was just more of a "personal" feeling medium, and those radio news broadcasts that stick out in my memory. Then too, I was not only into "Pop" and Rock music, I was into Blues, Jazz and Ragtime. SO, Yeah. I was "weird". (raised in a family of musicians helped)
CBS Radio was a damned powerhouse in the 1970’s. Remember listening to many regular CBS Radio programs on local Minneapolis affiliate, WCCO.
It seemed like every house here in the Twin Cities had CCO on in the 70's when I was growing up.
NBC and even more so, ABC were also still in the game then, Network RADIO news began it's long decline in the 1980s, Oddly that was timed with the rise of CABLE television. Network radio news still held an audience in the presence of network BROADCAST television news. I still get much of my LOCAL news from broadcast radio today, Not so much for national news though.
Sure was! I've always been interested in broadcasting, and back in 1977, I had a special place in my heart for any CBS Radio station. Tomorrow, their flagship, WCBS in New York, goes to that big transmitter in the sky. Here's wishing them the best in their new incarnation. Posting 8-25-24.
Interestingly, a full 11 years after this edition of _The World Tonight_ Doug Edwards would retire.
Brent Musburger doing CBS Radio's "Sportstime". He was doing "The NFL Today" on television at that time. I remember Reid Collins on CBS Radio,
as well as Doug Poling and Dallas Towsend as reporters.
The sports theme sounded like a lower toned slightly slower version of the CBS Radio News jingle. Sounds cool!
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
with some marching snare drums yet!
This was around the time that CBS switched its Pittsburgh radio affiliation from WWSW to KQV, which would affiliate with CBS until November 2004.
Wasn't the "World Tonight" a 15 minute broadcast in 1977?
You would happen to have any CBS Spectrum recordings, would you?
I wonder if Walter Cronkite ever sat in for Doug Edwards on THT?
0:48
The Damorenshield guy was insane at the point
2:54 the Dow at 927.