ABC News brief 1978

Max Robinson anchors this 1978 ABC News brief.

[@Supremmo]

I hope they make a movie about him someday. He was the first black anchorman to do a nationwide broadcast.

[@bmasters1981]

Two things I would like to know about that: 1. Who do you think could play Max Robinson? 2. Would they recreate the ABC News Chicago bureau (as it was then) for that film (as presented in this 1978 News Brief)?

[@hozonkai9967]

They really should. A flawed, yet truly underrated, underappreciated and undervalued trailblazer

[@eugeniasyro7315]

A memorable and likeable man.

[@bigroy38]

Max was the man!!

[@coreystuart]

Funny you'd NEVER hear that clakety clack clack clackin' in today's news segments.

[@auntbettysvirtualthriftsho5164]

Right?? LOL!

[@joemartin1253]

coreystuart because it sucks now lol.

[@asill.6668]

Lol

[@christophersantana5895]

RIP MAX ROBINSON.

[@TempeSoldier123]

I was 5 years old during this. I'm 49 now. Wow, what a time.

[@asill.6668]

I was a just a little baby in 1978 :)

[@RacketyTrash]

the only reason im watching this is because i typed my name in the search bar

[@asill.6668]

Lol

[@TomMcRand]

what a great theme song. i had forgotten how imperative it sounded. and the Foley teletype sound all though the broadcast. fancy!

[@TheSirToady]

At least the anchors seemed serious and authoritative back then.

[@tarmale]

You can hear the "typewriters" in the back. They don't do that anymore.

[@GamingHistorySource]

Background ... click click click click clack click click click click clack click click click click clack click click click click clack click click click click clack click click click click clack ... lol Now when You heard that You knew You were hearing REAL news.

[@MaidenUtah1]

Hearing the clickity clack of the teletype in the background, one would expect the camera to shift to Dan Ackroyd or Jane Curtain....

[@shermsworld]

Maiden Utah zx

[@sherryhannah9262]

Maiden Utah that was Jane Curtin

[@tarmale]

Oh, not sure what a teletype is but I do remember that sound as a kid.

[@riceboy1701e]

@GamingHistorySource YES! Good old teletype machines. Man those were the days...

[@paulsonj72]

This from September 1978. What gave it a way was the story on the Minnesota primary. At the time Minnesota held primaries to determine nominees for political office in September.

[@robertcarillio9126]

Just imagining how the Jonestown, Guyana tragedy happened just a couple months later!

[@lenovovo]

Hey Paul, I was 15 and 3 months years old when this aired. I wish that I could go back to that year. Those were good times for me back then. -Sunday, November 20, 2022 - 10:08 PM - Colorado Springs, Colorado

[@southport97]

Barbara Walters is about the only one left from 70s news.

[@hozonkai9967]

Ted Koppel, Hugh Downs, Sam Donaldson and Tom Jarriel (among others) are still around

[@bmasters1981]

@@hozonkai9967 Hugh is no longer-- passed on earlier this year at 99.

[@tuningin88]

R.I.P., to Barbara Walters. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😍😍😍☮️☮️☮️ she passed away last year.

[@samuelgriffin4167]

ABC World News Tonight debuted in 1978

[@mubd1234]

I've never seen such a quick switch from news to beer ads

[@elijahmoses5675]

I think this is from September 13, 1978.

[@ericandsarahsmom1000]

Two days after my 20th birthday! Six months later, I started working at KGTV, the ABC affiliate in San Diego. I was there for nearly four years. I remember "World News Tonight" very well.

[@samuelgriffin4167]

David Muir and Linsey Davis now hosting World News Tonight on ABC

[@jeffwilson6522]

@3bhui They were called...Teletype machines. And there were actual times where the teletype machines were behind the news anchor. So they sometimes couldn't be helped but to be heard over the mics. My Dad had several sitting behind him when he worked for a local TV station..he said it drove him nuts cause it never stopped ticking.

[@MMAfighter38113]

Ford later said it was cheaper to pay out future lawsuits than to recall the Pinto.

[@jamesslick4790]

It was in production for another TWO YEARS after this newscast too!

[@MMAfighter38113]

@@jamesslick4790 I’m surprised it was in production as long as it was. There were more efficient, economical cars to choose from besides a Pinto.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@MMAfighter38113 Ford loyalists kept buying the dang things I guess.

[@salaamakbar3630]

I just love nastalgia

[@j-mobxssmultiverse]

lolz typo alert, it's nostalgia not nastalgia

[@sherryhannah9262]

Lorenzo Sloan me too

[@overtothisside504]

Me 3

[@BenjaminBowling777]

I was born in April 1978. so yeah I was around.

[@asill.6668]

Bat Bowling I was born in April 1978 also...it was a good year!

[@Dafranchise1104]

I was born in November 1978. I was preparing to enter the world.

[@tarmale]

Just realized their all gone now.

[@southport97]

@tarmale Typewriters? That's what one would think but they were actually teletype machines. That was basically "the wire" and fastest news could travel. Kind of a prehistoric Internet. The Announcers would use the terms after someone whispered in their ear: "this just in" or "breaking now." "I've just been made aware of.."

[@johnnysama]

Just shortly after ABC News changed up its look and music, and would become a factor in the TV news ratings race for the first time.

[@GamingHistorySource]

Stop it at 1:23 I think He was trying to tell ABC something. lol

[@HorizonSun100]

What was up with 1:24? That WAS weird.

[@dlewisnoble]

MAX!!!!!

[@tuningin88]

Most of the ABC affiliates, back then, used the news theme song, as their own , for their newscasts.

[@jefferygreening4015]

An ABC News Brief, brought to you by Trojan Ens Condoms. Now from Chicago Max Robinson.

[@domirules28]

@mubd1234L: this was common in the late 70s-early 90s...max robinson and later peter jennings would say: "now this" and they it would cut to the commercial of the sponsor..., then the anhor would come back with a story...

[@sherryhannah9262]

gameshowfan84 the word is anchor

[@generalBlasto]

When he said: " Pinto" I laughed. What were they thinking back then?

[@jamesslick4790]

That "bomb" (literal and figurative!) was made for 10 years!

[@htool11462]

I love the teletype sound effect .... those were the days... same govt controlled news and beer ads!!

[@Mr.Majestic77]

How did Max Robinson become HIV positive?

[@salaamakbar3630]

Bad Ass Jody Powell!!!

[@edscottable]

four inches of rain in four hours!?lol it was a river out there. no wonder he's smiling afterward.

[@LeeCarvello1]

How hard is it to say Natural Light? Good articulator my eye.

[@abc64pan]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. All the stories the anchor reported in this brief could have been today's stories.

[@LaurenLover81]

Looks like Max is pretty angry after seeing himself in the upper box from the monitor he must've been glancing at. It's like he was about to go off on someone after the newsbrief was over. Though, barely remembering WNT 3 anchor format on my own, it does fascinate me how ABC did this for 5 years and was very successful. I can't get over why ABC went and dropped this format whether Frank Reynolds would've died or not.

[@Seoulmanaja]

I wonder why that happened at 1:26. Weird..lol

[@andyrose5616]

And check out the jump cut at 1:21. Looks like they recorded that second segment twice and still made an error that was left in the show.

[@samuriguy909]

@shewillful and the royal wedding...

[@knowallcity]

Max dies of aids. How he got it-who knows?