CBS Newsbreak with Morton Dean 1977

a July 4 1977 CBS Newsbreak featuring Morton Dean, as well as a vintage Burger Chef ad (featuring actor James Cromwell) and station ID for WKZO.

[@patrickrogers9499]

The famous CBS hourly time chime . Still in use even today on CBS Radio stations .

[@countenanceblog]

I'm just old enough to remember hearing it on St. Louis's CBS TV affiliate. Of course, since St. Louis has a very well known CBS radio affiliate, the tone isn't lost on much of anyone.

[@heatherferreira4225]

I remember it well. Today I'm 48 and find myself in instant tears the moment I hear it. Good for CBS continuing to use it for radio; that's where it was born. Above all other networks CBS maintains the strongest relationship to her radio roots, and I for one REALLY appreciate that.

[@stevemandl5140]

I didn't hear the chime in this

[@stevemandl5140]

never mind I heard it

[@jessecoffey4737]

@@countenanceblogThat affiliate was KMOV, which, under the KMOX-TV callsign, was owned by CBS until 1985.

[@icom1020]

I miss the top of the hour tone and the live studio announcers

[@jfpl7672]

So do I.

[@LisaCupcake]

A bus was hijacked. These days, they'd cover that non-stop until it was over and have 40 experts on to tell us various possible outcomes, what caused it, and why the hijacker isn't really bad, just misunderstood. I miss the days when news was news and it was kept in its own time slot.

[@crassyfrake]

isnt the dad from the burger chef commercial James Cromwell?

[@bufnyfan1]

My friend was a Vietnamese refugee who was stuck in a squalid camp just outside Hong Kong for 3 years in the 70s. He waited patiently to be processed/vetted and then came to the US and is now a gastroenterologist in Seattle. He is furious about the situation at the southern border today and has NO sympathy for anyone who crosses illegally without proper processing. If he had to wait, why shouldn't they wait

[@brooke050870]

This is just awesome...thank God for KZbin and for Robatsea.

[@rosrychaplet]

Thanks for the memories.

[@bybeert]

This brings back lots of memories of growing up in the 70s. My how TV has changed and not for the better either!

[@jfpl7672]

You got that right!

[@sherryhannah9262]

Todd Bybee will you act like the grown man you are and not like a 4 year old boy?????????

[@jcampton1]

The entire CBS Monday Night schedule was preempted and included these shows. The Jeffersons Shields & Yarnell Maude All's Fair The Sonny and Cher Show They were preempted for Our Happiest Birthday: A Bicentennial Retrospective (A CBS News Special) and They Said It With Music: From Yankee Doodle to Ragtime

[@RolandTaylorJr]

That Burger Chef commercial also featured Patsy Garrett (a.k.a. the Cat Chow lady). I remember that there used to be a Burger Chef in Charleston (WV). Now it's a Hardee's restaurant.

[@stevebradbury101]

There was also a Burger Chef in South Charleston and St. Albans WV. The St. Albans location became a Hardee's while the the South Charleston location became a Godfather's Pizza. Both locations are something entirely different now. St. Albans location is a Corvette sales lot and South Charleston sells truck toppers.

[@fromthesidelines]

Rooney's CBS "essay" was originally intended to be "Goofing Off In America"; but when Andy discovered that virtually all of the people he interviewed actually worked hard at their jobs, and were proud of them, he changed the focus [and title] to "Mr. Rooney Goes To Work".

[@Oodus]

Announcer: "The Sonny and Cher Show will not be presented this evening." U.S. Population: "Thank God."

[@ericpurkey7502]

When I ived in South west Michigan I watched wkzo 3 from Kalamazoo back during the 1980's

[@bettertvreceptionwithfoilf7100]

I live there now. WKZO TV is now WWMT.

[@nakamichiguy]

This does bring back memories of watching TV as a kid. I love old news clips. I do think that TV has gotten better. MUCH better...does anyone really want to see that 'special' they teased? ;-) Network news, however, has suffered greatly since then. It's very sad.

[@kuahmelallah]

We're news'd out now. Local news is at least 1/3 of every station schedule, indicating to me that they no longer have prohramming imagination.

[@tommiej3]

OMG Burger Chef -there was one on Rt 73 southbound right before the Marlton NJ Circle near where the Kohl's is today.

[@thefirefighter2011]

@robatsea2009 was that Richard Crenna from the short lived CBS sitcom "All's Fair?"

[@dootuss83]

Yes it is.

[@dalewarshaw4534]

If you have the original series "Hawaii Five-0" soundtrack album, you'll recognize the CBS Special "jingle" at the end here as a piece of a song therein. I always got a kick out of that when I played the album!

[@GregNoll61]

@Superbook4Eva The only real connection is that the founders of Burger Chef were a couplea guys who who hired to create a flame broiling machine for Burger King. After they built the machine they decided to use it for themselves and open their own burger place, and Burger Chef was born. The company was eventually was sold to the Hardee's chain, who still bring back the Super Chef sandwich every year or so.

[@elijahmoses5675]

This might have also been one of the first ever CBS Newsbreaks.

[@balloonpilot2]

Wow... great attention to detail by whomever loaded the Maude slide and didn't level it. ;)

[@ApartmentKing66]

The lady in the Burger Chef ad is the actress who played the housekeeper in the movie "Benji."

[@AllRequired]

The CBS reference is in unlit blue here. Also seen it in unlit green. Of course, with the fuse animation, it's lit in orange-red.

[@samuelgriffin4167]

CBS Newsbreak old school television

[@Stevis82]

Oh, no! They missed Maude that night! I don't know how life went on.

[@douglasdixon524]

Damnit, now I'm pissed here in 2023 because I remember missing Sonny and Cher that night in 1977.

[@justincase7937]

Andy Rooney reports: Americans love to work! Boy how times have changed!

[@Dana_inc]

TV station was so plain back then!

[@steeltownbrown52]

SCTV Season 4 Godfather parody brought me here; wanted to see Morton Dean.

[@melaniemills4505]

I loved Rose Milk lotion! 😍

[@pdxtal7468]

I remember that commercial.

[@crystalward7202]

My mom used it and I loved the smell. The 'Rose' lotion that Bath and Body Works carries smells just like it to me.

[@laronmaron98]

WOW! I thought that was Cromwell in that ad...then thought, nah...couldn't be him. Poster: thanks for sharing this. How do you know for a fact it was Cromwell?

[@robatsea2009]

This news break? It's from a commercial break during a July 4 1977 television special.

[@HowieP]

WKZO is now WWMT as of 1985. I know, cause I live in Grand Rapids.

[@TheAndyinSeattle]

makes you wonder what the special presentation was

[@diamonddog13]

0:43 So that's where they got the old Twitter logo from

[@Superbook4Eva]

Two questions: 1) When did CBS stop using that 'Special Presentation' graphic? If I remember correctly, it was being used as late as 1984 to 1986 - I have memories of seeing it used before the annual airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on WJBK-TV in Detroit. 2) What is the Burger Chef/Burger King connection? I thought I read somewhere that BK bought out Burger Chef.

[@robatsea2009]

@crassyfrake Yes; that's actually mentioned in my clip description.

[@wonmoss0206]

Did that kid from the Burger Chef commercial grow up to be a Nerd? (James Cromwell reference)

[@turbo1964]

Julie London - An American legend - and Rose Milk spokesperson!

[@parlet]

And Bea Arthur was PISSED

[@AlanSmitheeman]

Back when the news broadcasted facts and not opinions.

[@Juliaflo]

@raposofan Forever raising my hand. What do you think television has become today?

[@JesseL85719]

1) They stopped using this graphic in the early 1990s. 2) See GregNoll61's comment.

[@AarHan3]

Happy 201st birthday, America! ;^)

[@martinshields5673]

James Cromwell at 1:43

[@gregorkrause]

1:15 some colors are patriotic, that's because the bicentennial was the following year, 1976

[@MikeLutton]

i was born a month before this aired

[@doloreshuntoon7698]

How about that!

[@JesseL85719]

"They Said It With Music: From Yankee Doodle To Ragtime" (1:25)

[@disneyfan81]

Actually the Mythbusters proved that, despite the saying, you actually can polish it.

[@stevemandl5140]

oookay,the hostage taker has no idea where he wants to go.

[@Hawaiifive01]

Damn! We're gonna miss Maud!

[@raymondcaruso507]

Wow, remember when news and journalists were professional, and not a bunch of stooges who are so biased and fake? I really miss those days.

[@sherryhannah9262]

Raymond Caruso grow up and stop calling people names like a 5 year old boy

[@raymondcaruso507]

@@sherryhannah9262 Stating the obvious and fact of American journalists is acting like a 5 year old? You are a braindead, brainwashed misfit that needs to #1 mind your own business and not respond negatively to what other people post. That's what I know along with the majority of the country regarding the overtly corupt, biesed media, (fake news) and # 2 do you really think I give a 💩 what you think?

[@sherryhannah9262]

@@raymondcaruso507 I am not a brain dead brainwashed misfit guess you enjoy calling people who don’t agree with you names well sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me

[@allanfisch]

No Maude?...

[@peteradaniel]

Too many eerie silences and dead air back then. No wonder we hated watching the tub. I had a shit load of night mares from those awful graphics.

[@tjohnson3880]

You are not alone.

[@sherryhannah9262]

Alex Daniel you did not now stop lying

[@BaronVonPurp]

@KJTV67 lol,ok,i was joking

[@floooky1]

@TheAndyinSeattle The Special Presentation was "They Said It With Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime." I miss many things about the 70's, but a music variety special preempting scheduled programming isn't one of them!

[@sherryhannah9262]

floooky1 you didn’t like variety specials in the ‘ 70s?????!!!…shame on you

[@StormsongK]

@raposofan Me!

[@superbuick]

Exactly what I was thinking. Not that I'm terribly upset that Maude got bumped, but this "special" looks like a turd. And as the saying goes, you can't polish a turd.

[@sherryhannah9262]

superbuick the special was not a turd it was was nice you oughta be ashamed of yourself

[@BaronVonPurp]

1:19 "with Will Smith"? its 1977! how is he a grown man?

[@sherryhannah9262]

El Taconator that was a different Will Smith GODDAMN DON’T BE SO DUMB AND GULLIBLE

[@stirlwm]

Jason Robards was in this garbage right at the time he had won one Oscar (All the President's Men) & would win another (Julia) the following year too...

[@sherryhannah9262]

Matt Stirling it was NOT GARBAGE NOW GROW UP AND STOP REPEAT STOP WHINING LIKE A 4 YEAR OLD BOY

[@stirlwm]

@@sherryhannah9262 Hi, Sherry--I'm sure you're a nice person in real life, but I think somebody hacked your KZbin account and is yelling nonsense at me about something I said a decade ago. And yes, I stand by what I said after I had to remind myself about the context & assure myself that I feel the same about that stupid f***ing special in 2022 as I did back in 2012.

[@Rengis33]

WHAT THE HELL??? They took Maude off, for this shit?!?

[@sherryhannah9262]

Rengis33 that was not shit at least there were no shows that night showing pig cops shooting people just cause they were a different skin color

[@Rengis33]

@@sherryhannah9262 Wow. What channel is that on? Might have to set the VCR.