KNBC Channel 4 - Ending of NewsCenter4 with Paul Moyer & Kelly Lange and Editorial Reply (1977)

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8 жыл бұрын

Not from Chicago, but one which, "even then," had overtaken Chicago as the "Second City" in population: a clip of the ending minutes of the early edition of NewsCenter4 with anchors Paul Moyer and Kelly Lange on KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles. Also features Paul Dandridge, John Marshall and Boyd Matson. This was on the tail end of a 3/4" Umatic tape where something was recorded over most of this.
As the tape comes in, Paul Dandridge is concluding the "Business Today" report with a story on prices and supplies of Honda Accords in car dealers' showrooms, then signals for a commercial break by announcing Paul and Kelly will continue with the newscast afterwards.
Sponsor billboard for Merrill Lynch (voiceover by Don Stanley)
Commercial: Merrill Lynch, with questions for Los Angelenos - "There's Only One Merrill Lynch" (Copyright 1977 Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc.)
Back to the studio, where Paul Moyer leads in with the next story:
- Two suspects in eight grisly murders, Patrick Kearney and David Hill, turn themselves in to police in Riverside County - as John Marshall reports, Sheriff Ben Clark speaks about the circumstances leading to their arrest
- Kelly Lange introduces the final story, a report by Boyd Matson from Malibu on a religious meditation pilgrimage by two Buddhist monks who have vowed to spend a year and a half walking the Pacific Coast Highway in a search for inward peace; they had begun their journey at the Gold Wheel temple in Pasadena on May 7th and intend to walk a full 500 miles to a city with 10,000 Buddhists in Lucaya(?), bowing down every three steps along the way; one of the monks, Heng Chau, is heard explaining his motivation for this prayer and meditation pilgrimage
Kelly and Paul then sign off the early edition, and advise viewers to stay tuned for the 11pm edition with John Schubeck
With instrumental guitar music as the background, the credits roll:
Executive Producer - Irwin Safchik
Producers - Steve Friedman, Terry Gill
Directed By Erwin J. Rosen, Julian Finkelstein, John W. Mitchell
Associate Directors - Robert Villar, Sol Avellino, Will Ray, Gloria Hillard, Tony Singletary
Special Projects - Helen Johnson, Alan Kaul
Newswriters - Angus Campbell, Charles Amundson, Stan Rosenthal, Stan Kawakami, Jack Worth, Charlotte Perry, Mike McCormick, Wendy Harris, Dorothy Kupcha, Ed Thomas
Assignment Editors - Warren Cereghino, Beth Polson, Phil Clapick, John Flynn, Bill Whitley, Estella Claggs, Linda Friedman, Robin Lloyd
Research - Donald Craig
Technical Directors - Gordon James, Karl Messerschmidt, O. Tamburri, Jerry Weiss, Richard Lombardo
(NOTE: Messerschmidt and Tamburri were involved in this capacity on many NBC Burbank productions over the years, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Dean Martin Show, and Sanford and Son, among others)
Newsfilm Cameramen - Duane Anderly, Dick Hutchings, Marshall Lockman, John Milek, John Parsons, Carl Yost
Newsfilm Soundmen - Roger Andrews, Gene Coffey, Jim Coughey, Robert Leon, John McLaughlin, Bill Stokes
Minicams - Ernie Chacon, Herman Conant, Lou Cywinski, Bruce Gray, Bill Lewis, Tony Neece, Jim Nickless, Bill Petlowany, Dick Smith, Stan Spring, Diana Upton, George Zanuzoski
Supervising Film Editor - George Bonnell
Film Editors - Bart Cannistra, Jim Hollander, Peter Klusman, George Kramer, Larry Levin, Phil O'Bryant, Bill Powell, Hal Sutter, Bill Woodley
Video Tape Editors - John Kirby, Lou Gabriele, Dennis Hargrove, Donn Hoyer, Nina Jackson, Ron Malvin, Peggy Parker, Steve Schoenberg, Mike Shugrue, Chip Wallace, Mike Welch
Film Librarian - Mildred Ramseyer - Audio Mixer - Al Parsons - Senior Video - Charles Schmidt - Lighting Directors - Steve Cunningham, John Nance - Graphic Arts - Vizmo Productions
Editorial Assistants - Richard Ruedas, David Lewis, Jim Maria, Dan Wolf, Nga Dang, Diana Davis, Joe Rodriguez, Louise Fong, Harold Medina
Art Directors - Fred Harpman, Robert Keene
(Harpman was the set designer for the original NewsCenter4 set at sister station WNBC Channel 4 in New York City; this set was a smaller equivalent, and yet another NBC-owned station - WRC Channel 4 in Washington, DC - also had a set along the lines of KNBC's)
Closing Theme - Donald Craig
Station ID with promo for In Search Of . . . with Leonard Nimoy (searching for Atlantis), Saturday at 7:30pm (voiceover by Don Stanley)
KNBC Editorial Reply disagreeing with plan to build the Century Freeway (opening voiceover by Don Stanley)
The tape cuts out before his reply finishes
This aired on local Los Angeles TV on Friday, July 1st 1977.

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@sugcalif1 Жыл бұрын

The closing news theme brings back memories to Saturday night, and after the news waiting for Saturday Night Live to start.

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

I Grew up in L.A. and from the late 60s to 1980 I heard this damn song every night after the news was over. It was either that or switch to KABC and listen to Baxter Ward pontificate each night, or KTLA to put up with George Putnam, who only knew how to do news standing up. The Ted Baxter character on the Mary Tyler Moore show was loosely based on Putnam and it was hard not to see why.

@RockAndGrohlMe 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh I knew I could track down that music in an old clip! 40 years later and it still pops into my head every so often. Crazy! I can’t remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but I totally knew every note of a stupid news theme?! Too funny!

@Gaylel1 8 жыл бұрын

Something you never see these days. An editorial.

@alfonsogreen2722 7 жыл бұрын

Gayle Lecus ikr. u dont c editorials no more

@kbobdonahue1966 3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, I remember seeing a bunch of houses boarded up in preparation for demolition and the building of the 105, aka Century Freeway, I-105. I attended a school that was in the area.

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

I left L.A. long before the Century Freeway was built and so I didn't even know it was an issue. I knew people going to the airport from the IE had the 91/Imperial Hwy or I-10 to get them there and just took that for granted. Came back for a Navy tour in Long Beach and Port Hueneme in 1984 and the Century Fwy was already built; I was like that's all L.A. needs is another friggin' freeway. Here we are 39 years later and there's like 7 more (toll expressways, most of them). It ain't the L.A. I grew up in, that's for damn sure.

@dariowiter3078 8 жыл бұрын

Boy, did our family watch this newscast in that era! 😁

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

Paul Moyer as an arrogant prick. I always liked Kelly Lange but only because she was a pro and she was pretty hot back then.

@wmbrown6 8 жыл бұрын

Some have noted, in other places, a slight resemblance between Paul Dandridge and longtime anchor for NYC sister station WNBC Channel 4, Chuck Scarborough. Dandridge, however, did do some time in New York, at WCBS Channel 2, as of 1971.

@alfonsogreen2722 7 жыл бұрын

wmbrown6 yep he does look like chuck

@gidzmobug2323 6 жыл бұрын

wmbrown6 As I remember, he spent some time at KABC, too.

@JHollowayNetwork 2 жыл бұрын

@@alfonsogreen2722 Paul Dandridge was the Chuck Scarborough of the west coast.

@MrSamer83 6 жыл бұрын

That dude in the editorial report looks like Ron Burgundy

@ApartmentKing66 6 жыл бұрын

Except Ron Burgundy probably made more sense than that jughead; he sounds like a Jerry Brown clone.

@wmbrown6 6 жыл бұрын

Really? I thought facially he more resembled Sonny Bono . . .

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

They _all_ looked like Ron Burgundy back then. In fact Paul Moyer tried to pattern his looks and mannerisms after Tom Snyder; then when Snyder left the news business Moyer started acting like Dan Rather. It was pathetic.

@dw438 3 жыл бұрын

Boyd (The Underemployed) Matson!

@sriv94 2 жыл бұрын

Weiss and Lombardo also tech directed a bunch of NBC network shows in Burbank.

@danielschear556 Жыл бұрын

Now I understand why Buddhist monks set themselves on fire.

@kengeorgejones6855 8 жыл бұрын

That's Bernard Barrow in the Merrill Lynch ad.

@wmbrown6 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for advising.

@closetedhippie 3 жыл бұрын

5:25 a pre Today Show Steve Friedman in the closing credits.

@axtaxt8372 5 жыл бұрын

That blonde Afro at 1:39

@ApartmentKing66 6 жыл бұрын

Doesn't look like anyone has addressed this, so I will. The town Boyd Matson referred to at 2:55 is "Ukiah," not "Lucaya."

@kuahmelallah 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 80s, it was sad to see the homes moved off of Crenshaw Bl and the surrounding neighborhood to build I-105 (Century Fwy, opened in 1993). Sadder to later learn the racism involved in which areas were chosen. But it's a done deal, part of our lives now.

@gochem3013 6 жыл бұрын

July 4, 1977?

@davidconde1521 5 жыл бұрын

Where is Brick Tamland?

@David_USF 5 жыл бұрын

The Century Freeway (105) was ultimately built, despite the insane opinion of Brent Rushforth. Too bad more freeways haven't been built. The NIMBY's made sure of that.

@jliscorpio Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't kick Paul Moyer or Boyd Matson out of my bed

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

Paul Moyer was an arrogant prick. He was a plagiarer too. In the 70s he tried to be Tom Snyder, in the 80s he tried to be Dan Rather. He never had his own style, he'd rip off from successful anchors figuring it was the shortest distance between two points.

@danielschear556 Жыл бұрын

@@briane173I take total exception to your assessment of Paul Moyer. I worked with Paul at KNBC during the 1990s and found him to be a very nice individual and a fantastically talented news anchor.

@wiedep 6 жыл бұрын

Tom Snyder and Chuck Scarborough look-a-likes, then they walk off and leave an empty set during the deadroll. That's why LA will never be NY.

@davanmani556 6 жыл бұрын

wiedep the Producer Steve Friedman went to the Today show.

@RolloSmokes 6 жыл бұрын

Paul Dandridge resembles Daryl Hall more than he does Scarborough. And Moyer did kind-of bite off of Snyder a bit.

@kuahmelallah 2 жыл бұрын

Who said L.A. wants to be New York?

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

@@RolloSmokes Not kinda. It was a complete rip-off. Then when Snyder moved on he started looking and acting like Dan Rather. It would've been funny if it wasn't so pathetic.

@nedwart 10 ай бұрын

@briane173 I'm curious as to how you think Snyder started to act like Dan Rather. Personally I've never seen a resemblance as far as style goes