WXYZ Channel 7 [Detroit, MI] - 6 O'Clock Action News (First 22 Minutes, 11/3/1975) 🚗
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- Not from Chicago, but several miles up east, here's the partial preview, pre-show commercial break and the first 22 minutes of the 6pm Action News broadcast on WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit, MI, anchored by Jac LeGoff and John Kelly (once-and-future WXYZ anchor Bill Bonds was in New York City, co-anchoring then-sister station WABC Channel 7's 11pm Eyewitness News, at the time, and would be until fall 1976).
Includes:
Tail end of preview (recording comes in as Jac introduces himself)
Commercials for:
Shifrin Williams 50th Anniversary ($99 on diamond ring)
"The Hiding Place" theatrical trailer
Porsche Audi
Station ID ("7 in sections" animation) / promo for "Spencer's Mountain" on AM Prize Movie with Rita Bell
Newscast open, with following items:
- Vice President Rockefeller writes President Ford announcing his intention not to run with him in 1976; Ford announces his intention to replace Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and CIA Director William Colby; Michigan Republican chairman William McLaughlin predicts that Rockefeller's pullout may hurt Ford in next year's election
- State Bar Association chief George Bushnell calls for Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Swainson to resign after his conviction, but criticized strike force chief Robert Ozer; Ven Marshall report on trial outcome, speaking with Swainson's lawyer Konrad Kohl and Bushnell; followed by man-on-the-street interviews (taped in black-and-white)
- Jim Herrington on two cases at Recorders Court stemming from disturbances last summer, one before Judge Joseph Gillis involving the murder of Marion Pisco (?) by James Henderson, Ronald Jordan and Raymond Peoples, witnessed by Daniel Toomer, the other before Judge Clarence Laster Jr. in the case of Andrew Chinarian, accused of murdering Obie Wynn inside Livernois bar; Mayor Coleman Young, a witness in the latter case, speaks against moving the venue outside Detroit
- No witnesses yet to Saturday kidnapping at gunpoint of businessman Eugene Vesely (misidentified as Edward by John in his intro of the report), owner of company that makes Apache recreational vehicles, in Lapeer County; Ann Eskridge reports on how wife Ann was tied up at the home and how he was tied up, blindfolded, gagged and driven to abandoned barn several miles away; Lapeer County Prosecutor Edward Meth (who looks almost like Dick Gautier) speaks of possible motive (Eugene Vesely would ultimately free himself and escape)
Commercials for:
Morton Donut Shop old-fashioned donuts
Primatene Mist and Tablets
"Still to Come: Hot Doggers" bumper
Commercials for:
Chevy Cordoba (with Ricardo Montalban - and "soft Corinthian leather")
Sylvania GT-Matic II color TV set (with Perry Como) - "Como-Vision"
- Supreme Court forces Detroit school district to pay for new school buses to aid in desegregation
- New bill to force HUD to keep up thousands of empty Detroit homes, introduced by Rep. William Brodhead (D); reported by Kelly Burke
- Al Ackerman introduces report from Peter Heller with "hot dog" freestyle skier Bill O'Leary of Heavenly Valley, CA, at ExpoWinter '75 at Cobo Hall
Commercials for:
Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco) - "Our Job Is You"
Warner Vineyards Solera Cream Sherry (recording ends just before ad does)
This aired on local Detroit TV on Monday, November 3rd 1975 during the 5:58pm to 6:22pm (Eastern) timeframe.
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Please find more Detroit stuff if possible from the 70's and 80's. There's many treasures to be discovered as we at the time had probably one of the best variety of on air personalities anywhere in the country through this time. Brings back a lot of memories.
News from 1991 when this guy supposedly killed a cop!
Channel 7 6' O'Clock news was my dad's wake call for 3rd shift at the plant.
Whenever I hear Fur Elise in a commercial I think of Highland Appliance "Jonathan can't come out and play right now, he's practicing the piano"
I remember those Highland appliance commercials. 😅😅😅😅😆🤣🤣🤣Great times. I watched a few again. Brought back good memories seeing them as a kid.
The “Jonathon can’t come out..” was a commercial for Memorex cassette tapes.
Bill Bonds was a one of a kind, powerhouse anchor. Nobody could beat channel 7 in the news ratings during his reign.
Notice WXYZ in this period was apparently still at the top of the heap in spite of Bonds himself, as noted in the description, anchoring the news in New York on WABC. Looks like Jac LeGoff was keeping Bonds' seat warm; after Bonds came back, John Kelly went nowhere, staying right where he was on this.
Bonds was hired by WABC in mid-1975 to co-anchor the 11 P.M. newscast with Roger Grimsby (while once-and-future Boston anchor Tom Ellis was paired with Grimsby at 6) owing to Bill Beutel at the time occupied with the ill-fated "AM America." Once that show ended in November and was replaced with "Good Morning America," Beutel rejoined Grimsby at the anchor desk for the 6 P.M. news only, while Ellis was moved to 11 to co-anchor with Bonds. Then in fall 1976, when Bonds left WABC and returned to WXYZ, who joined Ellis as co-anchor of the 11 P.M. "EWN" on WABC? Yep . . . Bill Beutel.
@@wmbrown6 I'd forgotten Bonds did a stint in NYC. He was also in San Francisco for a short time -- and managed a cameo in "Planet of the Apes" while there.
@@MR_MRM_ - Not San Francisco - Los Angeles. He was at KABC when their "Eyewitness News" got launched in '69.
@@MR_MRM_ Bill Bonds was with KABC Los Angeles with Stu Nahan.
@@cabalenproductions6480 Thanks for correcting me. Is that how he ended up in the movie?
Six people at the news desk all at the same time. That was the big thing in those days -- the "news team".
Thank tou for sharing. Seeing and hearing Detroits best news team was wonderful. Jusr hearing Jac. John. Marilyn. Al. Bill. Such memories. And hearing the announcer say ' Watch Spencers Mountain ' tomorrow on Rita Bells Prize movie was the clincher. ❤️
I can’t stop looking at the hairstyles. So many sideburns, such extreme combovers.
The Suits and Ties are something else as well. Made of those mystery polymer fibers created by Dupont or something
@@laurabeane8862It was beautiful!
Prell shampoo. It made your thick hair look even thicker.
Whenever I see the movie Cool Hand Luke I think of Channel 7 Action News
Ironically, that film was in WXYZ's library, and they showed it occasionally.
In New York, however, it was a different story. In the later '70's the "CHL" film was part of a film package that aired on WNBC Channel 4 (I'm sure some people seeing the film when they got to Luke and the other prisoners working on a dirt road, wondering what was the "Eyewitness News" theme from WABC doing in that scene). By the late '80's it had migrated to WPIX Channel 11.
Got any Channel 50 "Bill Kennedy at the Movies?" I'll pay to preserve some of those gems.
And Rita Bell, "oh, I'm sorry that's the wrong anwer...but we'll send you $7.00!
Wild to see Troy Dungan here not doing the weather at all. He moved to WFAA in Dallas in 1976 and was chief meteorologist for over 30 years.
My granny's fav. I was 9 when this was aired...😁
15:39 -- oh, man! Those were great donuts! Another childhood memory unlocked by TH-cam 😎
"The Hiding Place" in Detroit was at the Eastland, Main (Royal Oak), Old Orchard, Penn (Plymouth), Riverland, Taylor Cinema and Terrace theaters.
WXYZ, at the time, was using RCA TK-45A cameras. Around 1973 they replaced the infamous TK-42's at the station with the newer model.
ABC O&O's were all over the map with color cameras in those days. Both WABC New York and KABC Los Angeles had Norelco PC-70's; KGO San Francisco, General Electric PE-350's; and Chicago's own WLS, G.E. PE-250's (which they'd first gotten in 1967 when the station was still WBKB).
ABC would buy all new equipment to televise the Olympics then after that they would give out the cameras and the like to the O&Os.
@@KarlB737 - Let me correct something: WXYZ, in their color, apparently originally had TK-43's. As did KGO before replacing them with the GE PE-350's.
Jim Harrington. Ven Marshall. Classic conmercials. Especially Shifrin Willis Jewelers. This is now making me determined to look for more. And YES Rita Bell and Bill Kennedy At the Movies.
Delicious Morton's Donuts, that takes me back to my childhood!😋
Bonds was a super nice man who I had the pleasure of meeting in late 1980s...
My grandmother was his biggest fan and admirer.
She turned in at 6 and 11 everyday and you better not think of talking or changing the channel ...
I met him at he Tigers Annual dinner
When I was writing for the Free Press.
All I did was tell him my grandma wanted to say hello to her favorite tv personality of all time.
That was going to be it, but Mr. Bonds told me to have a seat next to him and tell me more about my grandmother.
We chatted about 15 minutes just before dinner being served...
We talked about my grandma and her fondness of him.
I told him the #1 reason why she loved his reporting was when he offered his two cents with his tell it like it is attitude....
He wrote her a half page letter, which included his acknowledgement of her loyalty and admiration.
Needless to say, My grandma was so proud to get the letter and it brought her a ton of happiness.
Sidebar:
I remember watching Bill with her one day when he started his broadcast like this.
"Two young punks"
My grandmother got such a kick out of that...just another day of Bonds in Detroit.
Last thought....
My grandma never judged or allowed her opinion of him be affected by his drinking and sometimes crazy rants on TV....
She always prayed for him and defended him.
She did not condone his addiction but always felt that it was between him and God
Policians all sure paused to think before answering back then! Unlike now.
Detroit's Channel 7 news had the same theme tune we had in Chicago on WLS 7. Even the same logo.
Cool Hand Luke "Tar sequence" 1967.
Great movie if you haven't seen it.
Sometime in the next couple of years after this, Al Ackerman would move to channel 4.
@16:45- "Soft Corinthian Leather"😊
So 70's!
Ricardo Montalban.
The Cordoba was a Chrysler, not a Chevy. It competed with the Chevy Monte Carlo, Buick Regal, Olds Cutlass, Pontiac Grand Prix, Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar. Its Dodge twin was the Charger.
I hope thesw classics have been preserved.
WXYZ was the sister station to WABC-TV, WLS-TV, KABC-TV and KGO-TV at the time. Wondering if they have other ABC O&O stations...?
WXYZ and KGO are the only ones of the charter ABC O&O's to still have the same call letters as when they first took to the air in 1948-49. Only KGO is still owned by the network; WXYZ is now owned (as since 1986) by Scripps.
I remember these news casters well, though I haven't thought about them in fifty years. By this period I was no longer in the immediate Detroit area but nearby in Ann Arbor. Human life sure is brief.
Actually, Detroit was responsible for quite a few shows. Radio from the Maccabees bldg., "The Lone Ranger" 1932 (?) and "The Green Hornet" ~1937, both radio shows. Soupy Sales on 1950's TV from the same location.
Also, there was the Lou Gordon show, UHF television during the late 1960's to mid 1970's. I believe his studio (no audience, just one on one talks/interviews) was located in the Stott building. I'm not sure if his show was syndicated or only local. It had the appeal of a larger audience though. Many guests visited repeatedly over the years. Father Malachi Martin, atheist Madelaine Murray O'hare, transsexual(!) Rachel Harlow, Fran Lee, the "scoop the poop" lady from NYC ("curb your dog, already"), Marjo, the one time child evangelist from California (all grown up, of course). I even remember muscleman Franco Columbu blowing up a hot water bottle in front of Lou Gordon. Ring any bells?
Hey, anyone remember Sir Graves Ghastly? He was well made up Dracula, lay in his casket most of the time, and hosted Saturday afternoon horror movies. His show originated from some place behind the Fisher building.
I remember Sir Graves Ghastly. There are some You Tube Videos of him . He was classic. Better than Svengoolie. We need to get Detroit Classic TV shows preserved. And The Ghoul!! #Pharma!
How many "Channel 7"s used that same logo in the 70s?
For those wondering why a newscast named Action News would use the Cool Hand Luke Tar Baby music, usually linked to Eyewitness News. Well in Detroit at the time, then CBS affiliate, now Fox-owned WJBK Channel 2 had the name Eyewitness News for their newscasts. WXYZ is now a Scripps Howard station.
Same reason why, in San Francisco, ABC O&O KGO's newscast was called "News Scene": Because then-Westinghouse, now CBS O&O KPIX got to the "Eyewitness News" name first.
Its like San Francisco where KGO-TV had to be named 7 News Scene because Group W in the 1970's held the rights to the Eyewitness News Name for now CBS O&O KPIX. In San Francisco's case KGO was using the model that formed WABC and KABC Eyewitness News though.
In 1994 during the time of the great network affiliate switchover when FOX struck a deal with a dozen New World/Argyle Television stations that were carrying the 3 original TV networks to have them become FOX affiliates, CBS, about to lose stations to FOX, tried to strike a deal with the Scripps-Howard stations including WXYZ in Detroit to switch to CBS, but it backfield as Scripps-Howard decided to keep WXYZ as the Detroit ABC station.
WXYZ still used it to end their news broadcasts up until about 1994 or so.
17:14--It's surprising to see Perry Como in an ad for Sylvania because he recorded for competitor RCA at the time and for many years.
By the time Como did that ad, he was no longer with NBC, his specials were on CBS, and Sylvania was his sponsor. He still recorded for RCA Records, though, right up to 1987.
Please, do you have any more news from miami?
1:11 Paul Frees is the voice of the Audi commercial.
22:20 Speaking of “never too far from a bar,” the Happy Talk kind of went off the rails here.
The Audi guy sounds like Vincent Price.
You have anything from KGO?
This is 1 week before the Edmund Fitzgerald would go down on Lake Superior
Great News Anchors,Commercials,still a great town Detroit back than, news reporters anchors well dressed and well spoken,was in the 8th grade in 1975.Haven,t watched anything on television since 2016, just garbage these days,reason I love watching this site and other similar websites.
23:03 Cool to see the Standard Oil version of this jingle. I have the Amoco version on my own page (audio from a promotional record).
Were Doris Briscoe and Diana Lewis she was from LA came here in 1977
Is that Marilyn Turner walking in @ 0:15? She passed away yesterday at 93.
Yes it is. Unfortunately, the last few minutes where her weather report are not in this video. I hope more of these old WXYZ videos from the 70’s and 80’s pop up.
@@user-jj1io1et9z ...I hope so too. She did the weather for WXYZ for years, including Kelly & Company with husband John Kelly. Before that, she did weather for WJBK here in Detroit.
Can anybody comment on the result of some of these stories from yesteryear ?
Whatever happened to John Kelly?
Died in 2016, aged 88.
And later he co-hosted "Kelly and Company," a daytime WXYZ talk show with his wife, Marilyn Turner (the "weather girl" on this station). It ran for about 15 years until 1993.
@@MR_MRM_ - And did you notice Ms. Turner making a little cameo at the end of the preview (and referred to by the V/O - would anyone know who he was? he must've worked at WXYZ for years).
This, while New York's WABC at the time had Tex Antoine on at 6, and (but not for long) Gary Essex at 11.
From 16:44 to 17:45, Chrysler's land yacht, the Chrysler Cordoba. If you owned a car like that when it came out, you'd tip the valet to keep it close and tip him again to keep it real close, didn't it?
That guy looks like a Colombian drug lord 😂
Who, Ricardo Montalban?
@@jarrelljimerson3346 it is him? Wasn't sure. But he looks like a bad guy from Scarface there!
@@doctorbohr1585 ...you must be thinking of Robert Loggia. He played one of the bad guys along with Al Pacino in that movie.
@@jarrelljimerson3346 I guess I'm thinking of the colombian dude to whom Scarface said he's only got his word and his balls 😂
The reportorial content is good and well-delivered, but the studio lights in the opening shot; the broadcasters walking onto the set; the "Cool Hand Luck" music, which was standard at ABC owned and operated stations at the time; and, of course, the "happy talk"--these are showbiz touches that have nothing to do with news.
That approach still exists today, of course, even more so. Many so-called television reporters today have more in common with entertainers than with journalists.
The PBS NewsHour remains the best daily news program on American television, and should serve a model at all commercial networks and local stations.
I was there then since I started in 1974. I ran camera for some of those newscasts. For that opening shot that included the studio lights we would frame the shot then point the camera at the floor until about 5 seconds before that shot then tilt up. I ran that camera a few times and I remember those days.
PBS NewsHour has matured greatly over the years.
@@KarlB737 - I was right about the cameras being RCA TK-45A, no?
Yes you are correct.
Ven Marshall………. that’s a bad wig.
It's 1975. WXYZ-TV is a network-owned station in what was at the time a top-10 market.
And (at 11:16) they're using B&W videotape??
Since it's labeled B&W and the news switches back to color, my guess is the color camera or VTR wasn't working for the remote segment.
I'm sure it was shot in color and when it was time to playback clearly the color wouldn't lockup so when they went back to Kelly he was BW until the signal locked up on the studio camera.
here after the stupid “7 news detroit” rebrand
Before Scripps buried them 6ft under...
True.
Yeah. Can't watch them much now.