Bill Tush was a vital part of the beginning of Superstation WTBS and CNN. People in Atlanta saw something we will never see again and still talk about today. Bill talks about those early days.
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@craigmarlowe17344 жыл бұрын
Rex the Wonder Dog was owned by a camera guy from Northbrook IL. I was a part of that show (video engineer, I was at the end of the cable from the camera). It was a blast.
@mabahokano75673 жыл бұрын
Bill was always doing something on TBS, I would watch all afternoon in in the late 70's and early 80's. Do you remember the Halloween craziness with the WTCG is changing to WTBS announcements with the witch😂
@R0dan4 жыл бұрын
LOVED HIS SHOW! Nobody else had ever heard of it. Had a Betamax with Bill’s shows. Would play the shows during young age drinking parties. As the night went on everyone was laughing their ass off! Had a huge crush on Jan Hooks❤️ Anybody remember Rod Sewer?
@michaelsix96842 жыл бұрын
such low budget incredible comedy, it's still funny today, we all love Jan Hooks
@greghicks35087 жыл бұрын
Bill, you were awesome! Watched you when I couldn't sleep at night. Thanks for the memories!
@Filmation773 ай бұрын
Im 51 years old and i remember watching Tush when i was a little kid
@andyinoregon8 жыл бұрын
Great posting. Forgot how much I enjoyed Bill Tush back in the day. Such a sly sense of humor ... you always sensed he was in on the joke, much like early David Letterman.
@howardmiller53814 жыл бұрын
I lived in Atlanta in those days, working an evening shift at Georgia Baptist Hospital. I'd stay up to catch the news on WTBS before going to bed. That was about 1977-1978.
@jm-bv1wh4 жыл бұрын
I think that Bill Tush may have underestimated the number of people who were watching overnight. Lots of people on the 3 - 11 shift tuned in. I would come home from my waiter's job and watch Atlanta Braves replays of the game played earlier that night. Lots of great memories of Channel 17 in the Seventies.
@nedwart3 жыл бұрын
"I'm surprised you touched me with your new suit" That completely cracked me up.
@amenrafreedom97572 жыл бұрын
He use to host Show Biz Today on CNN. That show went off the air when CNN went crazy with 24 hours coverage of O.J. Simpson.
@TheScunion6 жыл бұрын
Watched tbs news when I was a kid in Lima, Ohio. Our first 24 hour station. I lived these newscast and would stay up late in the summer of the later seventies just to watch them. This brings back some good memories.
@dabrupro Жыл бұрын
My eyes have seen it My eyes have seen it My eyes have seen it And it is large and it is large
@22nola Жыл бұрын
I loved Bill. Unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to see him until he did his Tush show.
@clarencebonner15233 жыл бұрын
I remember when he, the cameraman, and Willys the Guard manned the station during a 4 day ice storm and got silly day and night. Around 1980 or so?
@michaelsix96843 жыл бұрын
TUSH show is on KZbin, it's very funny, Jan Hooks was great, lots of funny skits, better than SNL today
@dwhiteatl110 жыл бұрын
Steve, Bill mentioned not long ago in a message to me about a KZbin channel, and ongoing series. This is pretty good basics.
@Malcham78 жыл бұрын
+David White He's my manager at Lefont Theater.
@karlhungus5554 Жыл бұрын
I'd rather watch that than most of the crap today.
@muggy554 жыл бұрын
One of the first Fake News shows and still one of the funniest!
@VBaskin20108 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Troll.
@17maxcloudjr733 жыл бұрын
4:08-4:11 Jan Hooks ?
@GeorgeRawlintrumpet8 жыл бұрын
Wonderful stuff. Richard Brady and I played trumpet and trombone on your theme song Bill. Thats all I can say out here in the public. By the way do you remember the Japanese attacking the bar....:)
@michaelsix96842 жыл бұрын
who wrote theme song, it's really good
@MikeLutton5 жыл бұрын
who was the unkown newsman was it ever revealed
@HumblyArtsy8 жыл бұрын
is that interview available somewhere online? the one on 2:07?
@jcburns8 жыл бұрын
Hey, why the "tuning it in" static-y effects, Steve? WTBS was on cable! No static at all!
@stevemitchell50147 жыл бұрын
cable came much later. It was and still is an over-the-air signal.
@douglaslowe54 жыл бұрын
WTCG was over the air UHF in Atlanta. Ted Turner put it on Satellite shortly after he bought the Braves..
@mabahokano75673 жыл бұрын
@CNNRotatingSquare WTCG was on cable for a short time, at least the call sign anyway before it changed to WTBS. I remember all of the spots about it changing while watching from Arkansas on cable.
@ackotele-radiochannel74083 жыл бұрын
@@mabahokano7567 I can't believe Ted Turner would sell WTCG Channel 17 because now it's a simulcast station that airs all other stations. Sad !
@geniusmchaggis7 жыл бұрын
what year was this interview?
@stevemitchell50147 жыл бұрын
2012
@geniusmchaggis7 жыл бұрын
lol... yeah he looks 68. i was thinking that he would be OLDER...only 68...a young fella.
@geniusmchaggis7 жыл бұрын
good reply...very DRY...
@HildebrandJohnson8 жыл бұрын
Tina could have been hurt when he pulled the chair out from under her!
@Veritas.010 күн бұрын
Should have stayed this way. CNN ruined television journalism.
@CapstoneTider6 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when I was little kid if you got it by antenna it was channel 17 WT CG. If it was cable it was just WT CG which turned into TBS. Before that it was channel 36-in Atlanta. Ted Turner got screwed by New York Jews and lost everything that he built