'This is Eyewitness News!': Meet the 1980s voice of Channel 7┃WABC-TV 75th Anniversary Moment

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As WABC-TV celebrates 75 years on the air this summer, we look back at Gil Hodges and how he became Eyewitness News' longtime show announcer.
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@TigsNY Жыл бұрын

As a Harlem girl born and raised, Channel 7 was the only station my grandma loved to watch. All thanks to Oprah, Jeopardy!, Wheel Of Fortune, Like it Is with Gil Noble and the grand marshal of the station, Eyewitness News! Those shows were the main reason it became the #1 TV station in the NYC media market. Happy 75th anniversary WABC-TV! Thank you for making Eyewitness News a huge part of our lives here in the Big Apple!

@US_Joe Жыл бұрын

Thanx for this. Tom Snyder was vastly underrated by his own admission of not being politically correct. He was the maverick of journalism.👍👍👍👍👍

@SigHawk04 Жыл бұрын

Mara Wolinsky reminding us that Eyewitness News is "number one".

@vintagetvandexciting Жыл бұрын

According to Roger Grimsby. Lol

@jamallugo6544 Жыл бұрын

very most likely lol

@wmbrown6 Жыл бұрын

I'm curious as to whether there'll be a look at the various test patterns over the first nearly 50 years Channel 7 was on the air, as seen prior to sign-on (actual original telops or slides, not re-creations). There was one in the early to mid-1970's I vaguely remember (where the circle 7 rim was especially narrow), and I know used News Gothic Bold, but I've seen no aircheck with it anywhere since.

@armorybrunotjr.3204 9 ай бұрын

WABC prominent staff announcers: Don Dowd, Bill Rice, Scott Vincent and Gil Hodges.

@DBR00 11 ай бұрын

I always liked Kaity Tong!

@ericsamuelson5656 Жыл бұрын

Gil Hodges was Tom Snyder's Johnny Olsen

@wmbrown6 Жыл бұрын

The business of thanking the announcer by name after the newscast open was done for years by John Schubeck on KNBC Los Angeles ("Thank you, Don Stanley / Donald Rickles / Victor Bozeman / Peggy Taylor. Good evening, everybody . . . ").

@will89687 10 ай бұрын

@@wmbrown6 And switching genres, on the original "Jeopardy!" host Art Fleming would exclaim "Thank you Don Pardo" in his open.

@bmasters1981 9 ай бұрын

@@will89687 And Peter Tomarken would say, "Thank you, Rod Roddy" on Press Your Luck on CBS.

@wmbrown6 Жыл бұрын

There are episodes of "The Mike Wallace Interview" during its 1957-58 ABC run where Hodges' voice is heard at the end promo'ing upcoming shows "on ABC Television Network." (A few other episodes would have other ABC announcers who would be heard over their airwaves into the '80's, including Ed Jordan and Tedd Lawrence.) When he took over the "EWN" announcing gig, he had quite a few big shoes to fill - those of Scott Vincent, who died in 1979. And whom Hodges referred to in one of his interview clips - I presume the reporter was Mara Wolynski?

@johnnyballenatl 6 ай бұрын

And I couldn’t find any obituary info on Gilbert “Gil” Hodges, who probably died sometime in the ‘90s.