WEWS TV "Catch 5" Local News Promo from the 1970s
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- Between the psychedelic animation, goofy photo-flipbook effect, saccharine-sweet music, and the all-around goofy news team, this local news promo is everything the movie "Anchorman" should have been.
(Stolen shamelessly from TV-Ark)
Hey all you haters, I grew up in Cleveland and this is a good childhood memory for me, and many others. Yes it IS cheesy but it was the 70's, where cheesy came from. Oh, and by the way, GO BROWNS!!!!!
This was the best WEWS TV5 promo. Wished this was played for a very long time with the famous circle 5. Always been great music during those great Catch 5 years
Better than the "Hello, Cleveland" that followed it.
A little trivia--John Hambrick is the brother of Judd Hambrick, who did the news on TV 8, then TV 3 until 1998 when he retired back home to Texas. Gib Shanley has returned to TV 5 after over 20 years away, doing sports commentaries on the "Sports Sunday" show (think Andy Rooney on "60 Minutes"). Don Webster is now promoting a cruise line, where viewers can make reservations and take cruises with him and his wife (who was a child when this old clip was made).
I was raised in Shaker Heights and would have been about nine when this was used (I'm thinking 1971/72/73) and what I remeber about this promo was that WEWS made a HUGE deal about it, and the new theme music, etc. John Hambrick even went so far to point out on air that the "Dancers were from California"
Now if only someone could find a tape of Ms. Fuldheim throwing Jerry Rubin of the set of her show that would be a real BLAST!
This is why the number 5 was my favorite number for so many years when I was a kid.
Like many of the commenters, this brought back many memories for me as well. Now it will be running through my head like it did back then!
Gib Shanley passed away in 2008. I met him a few times. He was a great football announcer for the Browns up until he gave it up (out of frustration with the losing team) in 1984. I still remember when he called the Kardiac Kids games in 1980. I was at that freezer bowl game at old Cleveland Brown stadium when they lost to the Oakland Raiders when they intercepted in the end zone with about 20 seconds to go. Everyone immediately became cold in the stadium.
OMG, that takes me back to my childhood. I found myself singing the jingle and I haven't heard it in more than 35 years....
Holy cow, it all came rushing back to me. I don't remember this specific promo (I was too young to remember John Hambrick) but I remember the music because they continued to use this jingle for many years till the early '80s at least. And I do certainly remember the legendary Dorothy Fuldheim, still a feisty on-air personality into her 90s!
OMG. I remember this. I even caught myself singing along; how sad is *that*?
Loving your vids, BTW. What great memories!
Loved that! I was a little kid then, but I still remember it and I knew all the words! Thanks!
Wow, I was a high school freshman when this commercial was playing. Thanks for posting it.
OMG! That brought me straight back to my childhood. I expected to see Liz Richard and Fred Griffith next.
WEWS was North East Ohio's ABC affiliate. I was in grade school when this promo came out. I thought it was SO groovy! And it still kind of is!
Wow, it all came back to me in about two seconds...pretty hilarious now, looking back, that they used modern dance to promote a news show..."Everyone reach out now and Catch 5! Jazz Hands!"...And those old shots of the team are priceless...that group of guys in their slick, fake hair with the long sideburns, surrounding Dorothy Fuldheim always looking as if she is laughing riotously at something one of them said...that was it in a nutshell!
RIP Gib Shanley - Thanks for the memories!!
This is excellent. Good job WEWS Cleveland.
Gib Shanley and Don Webster were the first co-hosts of the Ohio Lottery game show they had back in the mid-70s..
I remember this promo!
(I actually started singing along with it!)
Mike (formerly from Euclid, Ohio)
This was the first ever local news image campaign (or news promo song) created in the United States. It is silly to today's audiences, but is historically significant.
In the late 1970s, Washington's WRC-TV had a similar jingle. It was "Catch 4".
Damn you!!! Now I feel all warm and funny inside. As I look at so of your other videos to the left, I have a feeling that I will feel even more fuzzy. Thanks for the memories Dagnabit...somebody pass me some tissue.
*shudder*
And the creepiest part was that I could sing along.
Every single word....
Dang does this bring back some memories... I miss Cleveland.
And this is the way it was in Hoy, West Virginia with Hugh Weinstock and his news team. Hugh was the initial inspiration for "Anchorman." Only his sign off was, "You stay sparkling, Hoy."
The opening of the greatest news program in the history of the world
Great video.I remember when they used to roll the sports scorboard and play music by jazz groups like spyro gyra.
John Hambrick was the oldest of three brothers. Judd and Mike were also anchor men in major markets and I believe I heard that during their careers they were ALL on the air at the same time in Dallas at different stations. Which ment if you were going to watch the evening news in Dallas you were going to watch 1 of the Hambrick brothers.
that promo aired about the time I was in junoir high school in cleveland, and it always struck me as a bizarre mix of Laugh In, and The Mary Tyler Moore show...
Wow, what a flashback....
I think the video was around 1972-1973.
Looked forward to Fall season promotion of new shows.
Before cable, satellite, or internet other than email.
John Hambrick (brother of Judd and Mike Hambrick), Dave Patterson, Don Webster, the late Dorothy Fuldheim and the late Gib Shanley were featured in this classic WEWS TV-5 promo.
I'm Ron Burgundy. You stay classy, Cleveland!
@studebaker62: If you google, you'll find that tape of Ms. Fuldheim throwing Jerry Rubin off her show; I remember finding it a couple of years ago.
Wow, I can still sing the song!
I had such a crush on John Hambrick....such wonderful memories.
Do not make some lot of noise in this church!
Be quiet in this church!
Speak nicely to our friends in the classroom!
Do not curse to our friends in the classroom!
Do not drop your food on the floor!
Do not throw your food on the floor!
Do not look at our friend's food in the food court!
Do not steal our food from our friends in the food court!
Do not punch our friends outside at the park!
Do not kick our friends outside at the park!
Do not hit our friends outside at the park!
Do not take your clothes off in front of our friends outside at the park!
Stand up and push your chair in the large table in the classroom!
Pull your chair out of the large table and sit down on the chair at the large table in the classroom!
Do not put your feet up on the large table in the classroom!
Take your feet down off the large table in the classroom!
Keep your feet down on the floor!
Stay in your seat and do not get up off the chair in the classroom!
at the Florida Moving Image archive, we have a somewhat similar promo for WPTV in West Palm Beach, but for action 5 news.
John Hambrick later worked at WNBC in NYC, and WTVJ in Miami, as well as WCIX (now WFOR) in Miami, i believe he is still alive and retired here in South FL.
awesome video, I love this kind of stuff!
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Right on. Dorothy Fuldheim rocked major socks. Interesting that this commercial seems to be the reverse of newscasts nowadays- good-looking young men (well, with the exception of Gib Shanley) plus a much older woman. Now it's old men plus young beautiful women. Yeesh.
I remember when John Hambrick did the news on channel 5 back then. I liked him and Dave Patterson...
Wow. This is really very 70s. It makes me to remember my childhood. Although i spend most of my childhood in the late 80s and early 90s. My country tv at the time always relied in chromakey & scanimate, which i feel this is.
damn! this thing just made my day.
Ted Henry became a full time weeknight anchor in 1976--a job he held until May 2009.
Good old red right 88, LOL!
I was a wee lass back then, so it totally reminds me of the more trippy stuff they'd have on Sesame Street and Electric Company.
SO very true...I remember Dorothy never seemed to bite her tongue at all.
There's a legend going around the Newschannel 5's studios are haunted with Ms. Fuldheim's ghost, stating that the doors open themselves. In short, she "checking up on them".
Your'e right..at least he still looks good, and he still has his hair (even if it's gray). I seen an updated photo of John Hambrick on a acting agency website, and he's old and bald..too bad you can't turn the clock back 35-40 years...
gnolt I miss those days of REAL music playing during the scoreboards....yep it was pretty much always jazz at that...and it made us go get what was playing.
the Weahter Channel should do that...tell us what song they are playing.
Does anyone have the one with the extended lyrics?
I do. It was funny. Me and my folks were cracking up!
Notice the lead trumpet - kind of burt bacharach styled arranging.
John Hambrick was at KBMT 12 the ABC affiliate in Beaumont Texas for a while.......he died of cancer a few years ago...RIP John....good anchor huh??????!!!!!
Titles by Peter Max. With your hosts John Hambrick, Hunk Hugelarge and Slam Ripchest!
@tritonrocks: I'm guessing that it was a year or two earlier by the way I reacted to it. It brought back memories of a fond part of my childhood.
I must be really old. Even Dorothy Fuldheim looked (relatively) young to me in this video. Glad I escaped Cleveland, though.
You stay classy San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy.
That whole thing looked like some sort of acid trip.
"It makes no difference who you are..... the world is YOURS when you catch 5..."
corny but good. I remember this and Hambrick... and Don Webster with dark hair...
Fuldheim was tooooo much, she didn't suffer fools.
Back when news was serious.
They used this promo from 1974 to 1975. Great to hear Dave Patterson is doing well. How old is he now? I'm guessing in his 70's.
Did Hambrick replace Bill Jorgensen in 1967 while he was going to WNEW in New York at the time?
The current announcer for WJW once worked at WEWS in the 1970s.
What is his name? I forgot.
I'm having a flashback. Where's my Ghoulardi plush doll?
This takes me back to my childhood. Do you know what year this promo was first aired? My guess would be pre-1974.
Hmm, looks awfully a lot like my NBC channel WPTV's logo, which they used from the sametime WEWS did and still use it.
I personally prefer "Big McLargeHuge" and "Crunch Buttsteak" myself. :p
@unconventionalmeans
I agree she must have been in her 80s...I'm the one who feels real old seeing this, LOL!
Look out, Ron Burgundy, Catch 5 is close behind in the ratings!
Wow, I don't remember that!
I wonder if the images in this promo would make sense to me if I dropped three or four hits of LSD before viewing. ;)
welcome 2 cleveland. that team was actually great and had a wonderful chemistry. remember when gibber burned the iranian flag during the hostage crises? a true clevelander. honest and forthright. the rest of the world should be so.
I also know all the words, ah I miss Dorothy!
Hmmm. Maybe I need to drop a couple of hits of LSD and then see how this promo looks. :)
I wonder how this promo would look if I took one or two hits of LSD before watching it. :)
remember when gibber burned the iranian flag? welcome to cleveland! what a great news team!
@jgerard56 And I still remember to this day when Gib Shanley burned the Iranian flag to protest what was going on in the late 70's in Iran (and Dorothy Fultheim watching in total shock as it burned). Classic stuff. Gib was always the troublemaker on that station. May he rest in peace...
I saw lots of herb when I caught 5...hilarious.
Got anymore cuts of the Catch 5 Package?
Ya, try to catch five. They had the worst signal of any TV station in Cleveland and never tried to fix it... I could say something but...
Anyone know WHO did this jingle ??
Frank Gari
groovy man!
Don Webster hasn't changed a bit!!
this sounds like a song that Donny and Marie would sing
@vanillacokehead imagine how hits they musta done to MAKE this thing. lol
Yes, and her last few years weren't good ones. Her physical condition landed her in a nursing facility and she made everyone around her miserable. I suppose that's to be expected considering her personality and background but it's still sad.
LMAO! Yes, Ohio is *exactly* like this. ROFL!
Ahead of its time.
i heard he passed on last year
he has a brother name judd hambrick
This was back when they still put ugly people on TV -- you know, choose newscasters for their journalistic prowess rather than their sex appeal. Those were the days...
Surrender Dorothy !
Not just Ohio. I have a feeling the entire U.S. was like this in the 70s.
Yes it is.
Me too. LOL!
wow, hadn't seen this in 30 years! so cheesy!
Sing by frank gari
ahaha I love the 70s
where's my xanax?
Frank Gari
is Dorthy still alive?