John Daly and the News ABC Promo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Promotional spot for John Daly and the News, a nightly 15-minute news program that ran from October 1953 to December 1960.
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ABC News had only eighty personnel in their news department at that time worldwide? That is astounding!
John Charles Daly was the vice president in charge of news and sports for ABC from 1953-November 1960. His biggest series of stories were the Army-McCarthy heaings, At that time, ABC had no daytime shows, so he was given the green light to air the hearings, which proved to be a ratings bonanza for ABC.
This promo is probably from 1958. The announcer you hear at the end is Bill Nimmo (Not Ed McMahon as many believe), who was ABC's New York studio announcer for much of the 1950's and early 1960's.
ABC News didn't garnish many viewers, partly because it was up against NBC and CBS, and partly because there weren't many ABC affiliate stations in the 1950's. Where Daly and ABC made their daytime fortune, so to speak, was in covering the McCarthy hearings in the 1950's. ABC had no daytime programming then, and they were free to extensively cover the hearings, which the public was fascinated with. Daly handled most of the duties for that coverage.
In addition to his studio announcer chores, Nimmo also hosted a few shows (such as "Keep It In the Family") and was announcer for many game shows: as much at the time as any other announcer except the prolific Johnny Olsen, who, ironically, was Nimmo's announcer on "Keep It In the Family". One of Nimmo's announcing gigs was for "Do You Trust Your Wife?", hosted by Johnny Carson, which later became "Who Do You Trust?". Nimmo left the show in 1958 due to conflicts related to hosting his own show. He recommended Ed McMahon to Carson as his replacement. That obviously worked out very well for McMahon and Carson, who spent most of the rest of their careers together, but which Nimmo later confessed was certainly the single biggest career mistake he ever made.
Also, as of early 1958 Nimmo was anchoring "The Daily News Report" at 11 P.M. weeknights on WPIX (Channel 11) in New York. (Sports at the time were handled by Harry Wismer, a veteran broadcaster who later became the first owner of what started out as the New York Titans football team, then after it was sold to a consortium featuring Sonny Werblin, became the Jets.)
Love JCD. Legend.
I didn't realize that Johnny Carson worked for ABC!
A young Johnny Carson!
Johnny Carson had a short-lined variety show, entitled “The Johnny Carson Show” on CBS during the 1955-56 TV season. His show got good reviews from the TV critics at that time. Some kinescopes of that show are available for viewing here on TH-cam.
@@LaptopLarry330 After Johnny's variety show was canceled by CBS he went to New York. He spent a year being a guest on several panel/game shows. He even developed a stand-up act and had a spot on the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1957 ABC hired him to take over as host of their afternoon game show "Who Do You Trust?".
Sounded like Johnny Olsen shouting the voiceover tag at the very end. Was he the announcer for Johnny Carson's "Who Do You Trust?"
Ed McMahon was his announcer from 1958 through 1962. And that's Ed.
@@cactusjackNV Higher pitch maybe because the source tape, but it's Ed.
The announcer is Bill Nimmo, who was also the announcer for Carson's show until 1958.
Sucks they only gave him 15 minutes back when news was worth watching
All the networks had a 15-minute newscast at that time.
CBS I think was the first to go to 30 minutes with Walter Cronkite in 1963
ABC News did not go to a 30-minute newscast until 1967, when Peter Jennings did his first stint as the anchor of Peter Jennings and the News.
The networks didn’t expand their broadcasts to 30 minutes until September 1963.
@@micmac99 - They were, on Sept. 2. Huntley/Brinkley on NBC followed a week later on Sept. 9.
As for color: NBC was first, in late 1965; in the spring of 1966 was when the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" went color; then finally, ABC's newscast took the color plunge on the same day in 1967 that it was expanded to a half-hour.