ABC Network - ABC World News Tonight (First 18 Minutes, 3/5/1980) 🌐

[@PugetSoundFlyer]

Frank Flippin' Reynolds!!! One of my all time favorites. Also, today's news needs more typewriter sound effects in the background...It makes the news reader sound more credible.

[@Nicksonian]

I’d forgotten how good Frank Reynolds was.

[@mathseacav]

Nice that it had the duration that a newscast should have, not the ten minutes they have nowadays

[@StudioZ7]

There were numerous Brim coffee commercials with different actors, all using the same exact script. I could literally recite it as it played here, 43 years later.

[@jamieburroughs427]

Anybody could recite the commercial (6:55) because the script doesn’t change. "Its only 1/2 a cup. Don't you like my coffee?" "I like the rich taste. It's the caffeine I could do without" "Your drinking Brim decaffinated coffee" "This is Brim?" "This is Brim and its decaffinated so you don't have to stop at half a cup." "If it tastes this rich, I don't wanna stop. Fill it to the rim!" "...with Brim :)"

[@mikestevenson576]

Everyone knows World News Tonight never heated up until minute 19.

[@andyrose5616]

I loved the ending when Frank Reynolds would come out in a robe and introduce all of that night’s guest stars.

[@merlindragonstar8783]

No, that's usually about the time my dad had me go outside and adjust the TV antenna so we could get a better signal. Good ol' analog TV.

[@ajaugenti1976]

Loved Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, and the rest of the ABC news team. Too bad that journalism is has gone out the window.

[@Nicksonian]

And those three top broadcast journalists were on the number three news network. That just goes to show how deep the pool of great journalists was back then. As a photojournalist during the 1988 presidential election, I ended up walking down a hall with Sam Donaldson while covering Al Gore. He started off by saying to me, “man, that was a real snore fest.”

[@ajaugenti1976]

@@Nicksonian I love it!😂

[@digital2500]

What a memory! Bernard Shaw reporting for ABC!

[@SpongeDan]

Nice to see another tape

[@StudioZ7]

I remember being annoyed with the Visa commercial with the jingle naming every state in the union, as my home state of Minnesota is mentioned last, almost as an afterthought.

[@squirehaggard4749]

A nation of grownup acting like grownups. How long ago it all seems.

[@janinecox256]

That was my 13th birthday!

[@Nicksonian]

Catherine Mackin. She covered Ted Kennedy in this newscast and I just happened to look her up. From Wikipedia: “ In 1972 she became NBC's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the national political conventions. In 1976, she became the first woman to regularly anchor an evening network newscast alone.” Sadly, Mackin died of cancer in 1982 at the much too young age of 43.

[@digital2500]

Frank Reynolds was a World War II veteran who earned a purple heart. He is laid to rest in Section 7A of Arlington National Cemetery.

[@byrd56]

"WNT" was still using the electronic ticker version of their iconic theme music. But wouldn't it be a few months after, when they switch that out for a more orchestral version?

[@jamieburroughs427]

Later that month (either on or near march 21, probably when nightline was launched) WNT used that theme. The synthesizer ticker theme would continue to be used in lead-ins to commercial breaks and ABC Newsbriefs until spring 1997. The synthesizer ticker theme was dropped for the open & close first on WNT Sunday in Fall ‘79 and then weekdays of WNT in Mid-March ‘80

[@Nicksonian]

I voted for John Anderson the first time I cast a vote for president. By November, Anderson had lost the Republican nomination to Reagan and was running as an independent. Can you imagine Anderson running as a Republican today? Bush and even Reagan would feel uncomfortable with today’s GOP.

[@modgodel]

I had no idea he ran in Republican primaries

[@jamieburroughs427]

Anderson would move from GOP to independent on April 24th.

[@JasonA.Routhier-vw1wd]

Hard to believe 43 almost 44 years since this aired!! I know I.m an old man now at 51 almost 52 in April of 2024.

[@ThePumpin1]

Don't say you are an old man, because I that would make me one at 50. I am right behind you.

[@JasonA.Routhier-vw1wd]

@@ThePumpin1 HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA I KNOW RIGHT!!

[@JasonA.Routhier-vw1wd]

I was getting to turn 8 years old in 1980 & still living in St.Paul MN.I sure miss the classic World News Tonight.I was deeply saddened when Frank Reynolds died in 1983-I was already living in Baltimore Md going on 2 almost 3 years.I was also deeply saddened when Max Robinson died & finally Peter Jennings in 2005.RIP!! FRANK REYNOLDS MAX ROBINSON PETER JENNINGS!! PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH SR-41!! & EDWARD KENNEDY!!

[@ThePumpin1]

This broadcast was aired one day before my 7th birthday.

[@cellytron]

Lovely!!!

[@shaunfossett]

Frank was a POS. I heard he wasn't nice to Max in Chicago.

[@eric-hj8pn]

10:36

[@meetjohndoe1078]

Dow Jones 844.88! If I only knew!!!

[@iscariot666]

The stocks used in the DJIA have changed over the years, as well.

[@andyrose5616]

@@iscariot666But each time they change a stock in the index, they adjust the formula so that it doesn’t affect the value of the index.

[@Nicksonian]

Apple’s IPO was nine months later.