This was Channel 6's best newsroom set in the 1980's. I got misty-eyed seeing Bill Bolen, Tom York, and Colleen Bates anchoring the Noon Edition of Channel 6 News. This was all before Joe Langston and Herb Winces returned to Channel 6.
From Alabama's Number One News Station, This is Channel Six News with Scott Richards, Mike Hogewood, and Meteorologist Mike Royer in The Weather Center.
That red weather computer looks like a Speak N' Spell! Ah yes, severe weather coverage in the 1980's. Any other grown folks out there still get a little chill running down your spine when you see those old radar screens that remind you of being woke up in the middle of the night just in time to see a tornado warning, and with no Doppler not knowing where it was? Good times, good times!
The Solidarity Day indicates that this is from 1981, not 1982. This sounds right because this was the first week with this package and name (and it obviously tripped up Janet Hall at the end of the video: "Total -- Channel 6 News".
It's so funny seeing all their "state of the art" weather technology in 1981.
R.I.P., Scott Richards😢
He was a Legend and OG of Alabama
From Alabama's Number One News Station,
This is Channel Six News, with Bill Bolen, Tom York, and Coleen Bates in the Weather Center.
Satellite, a fax machine, and early “internet.” and Mike’s comedic delivery.
That weather technology looks like my kids toys now lol
that just shows how far technology has come since 1981
This was Channel 6's best newsroom set in the 1980's. I got misty-eyed seeing Bill Bolen, Tom York, and Colleen Bates anchoring the Noon Edition of Channel 6 News. This was all before Joe Langston and Herb Winces returned to Channel 6.
From Alabama's Number One News Station,
This is Channel Six News with Scott Richards, Mike Hogewood, and Meteorologist Mike Royer in The Weather Center.
Hogewood, H-O-G-E-WOOD
I remember these days!!!! :-) I thought, for a moment, that Mike Royer was about to go into singing "I Ran" by "A Flock Of Seagulls"!!!!!!
That red weather computer looks like a Speak N' Spell! Ah yes, severe weather coverage in the 1980's. Any other grown folks out there still get a little chill running down your spine when you see those old radar screens that remind you of being woke up in the middle of the night just in time to see a tornado warning, and with no Doppler not knowing where it was? Good times, good times!
I agree. I wish the coverage was still like that these days. I also wish that their set from back in 1981 was still used today.
That radar and beeping siren would scare the bejeebus out of me!
Is that one of the first examples of an on-set weather center? For the time, that's some pretty impressive kit.
Movin' Ahead by Boutwell Studios from 1981-1983
Mike Royer looked like Joe Paterno the late Penn State football coach who agrees??????!!!!!!!
Dude!! The wind speed thing @ 4:46 clocked 95 MPH... when was that from??
Was this back when that show The Sopranos came on HBO?
Actually, Royer jumped to Channel 13 to host a local morning talk show. IIRC, he didn't start anchoring the news until sometime in the mid '90's.
Channel 6, Movin' Ahead!
The Solidarity Day indicates that this is from 1981, not 1982. This sounds right because this was the first week with this package and name (and it obviously tripped up Janet Hall at the end of the video: "Total -- Channel 6 News".
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Wow i was 5
I was 7 and watched all the time. Channel 13 wasn't cool back then.
guy with brown hair and glasses looks like buck henry
wbrc Fox 6 owned by raycom media
What's that guy doin at 1:21???
Is JP dice on here
Nooooo! I need Mike!
the 6 at WBRC looked like the 6 in the old logo at KFDM 6 in Beaumont Texas
+Cherilyn Hannen Or that of WCPX(their new call letters fail me) in Orlando.
WRTV used that 6 as of 2007.
Come on Along with Channel 6
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wbrc fox 6 owned by raycom media