INN - Independent Network News - WPIX Channel 11 [New York, NY] (Complete Broadcast, 8/26/1982) 📺

Here, from New York City, is a news block of the national Independent Network News and the local Action News on WPIX Channel 11. Anchors are Pat Harper, Steve Bosh and Tim Malloy.
Includes:
Recording coming in midway through theatrical trailer for "Homework" (ending voiceover by Bill Biery)
Commercials for:
ColecoVision (posted separately here: • ColecoVision - "Bring ... )
Greyhound
Promo for Weekend Sports Wrap-Up (voiceover by Ralph Lowenstein), with station ID at end
Newscast open with Jeff Kamen report on conditions at Beth Rivka nursing home in Staten Island
Preview of news stories from Steve, Pat and Tim, sports from Jerry Girard, weather from Bob Harris, and film review from Jeffrey Lyons
INN opening titles (with sponsor billboard voiceover for W.R. Grace and Anacin by Bill Biery)
- Transcripts from July crash of Pan Am Flight 759 in Kenner, LA released, as reported by Drew Scott
- 138 passengers and crew escape from a plane before it explodes on Ishigaki Island, Japan
- PLO exodus from West Beirut, 550 Palestinians arrive in Syria
- Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon gives speech to Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; Jeff Kamen reports
Commercials for:
W.R. Grace
Solar Games from Bandai (posted separately here: • Bandai - Solar Games (... )
Frankart Furniture - with president Bernie Frankel
- Hundreds of thousands celebrate 600th anniversary of Black Madonna icon in Poland
- Ford Rowan report on U.S. government blacklisting two French companies for supplying parts for Soviet gas pipeline
- Tim Malloy report on Manville Corp. filing for bankruptcy in face of pending lawsuits against company
Commercials for:
Anacin (with Patricia Neal)
Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats - New Apple Flavor
Chinet disposable plates
TV Guide
- Benjamin Sasway convicted of refusing to register for draft
- Nation's crime rates decline 2% - first drop in four years
Jerry Girard sports, with look at John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at U.S. Open
Commercials for:
Brim decaffeinated coffee
National Enquirer (August 31st issue)
- Another possible witness in probe of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan murdered
- Alec Roberts reports on arrest in connection with murder of two boys on August 19th 1978
Commercials for:
Milford Plaza Hotel
Concentrated All detergent
- Business news including day's Wall Street activity, Fed lowering discount rate, gold prices, 572 businesses filing for bankruptcy, and Cleveland newspaper labor negotiations
- NY Daily News reaches deal with its unions
- Federal court invalidates Parker Brothers' monopoly on word "Monopoly"
- Frank Casey reports on two Alaska baby walruses finding home in Brooklyn
Sponsor billboard for Kellogg's, Brim and W.R. Grace (voiceover by Bill Biery)
Commercials for:
Potamkin Cadillac (Luba Potamkin appears at end)
The New WHT
- Jury still deliberating in trial of five mobsters, as Jeff Roberts reports
- Eric Shawn report on ads for "21-calorie" cookies found to be deceptive
- Tractor trailer with vitamins overturns on New England Thruway
- Bomb found in Rio de Janeiro on Pan Am Flight 441 from Miami
Commercials for:
Rolykit (ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds)
- Jodie Foster's parents enraged over National Enquirer publishing poem by John Hinckley Jr.; Patricia Sagon reports
- Kristi Witker report on Exxon closing 850 stations in upstate New York and four other states
Commercials for:
New York Health & Racquet Club - HRC
Cottonelle [had to be mostly edited out due to blocking issue] (posted separately here: • Cottonelle (Commercial... )
'82 US Open
Ford Factory Cash Incentives
- Forbes publishes list of 400 richest
Jerry Girard sports report, with Yankee baseball, boxing (Howie Davis wins over Steve Martinez), and horse racing results
Commercial: $1.00 Rest Mate from Magic Motion
Bob Harris weather
Jeffrey Lyons review of movie "Zapped!"
End of newscast
"NEXT - The Twilight Zone" bumper
A WPIX Editorial - Finalist - 1982 WPIX High School Editorial Competition (recording ends before we see who it is)
This aired on local New York TV on Thursday, August 26th 1982 within the 9:59pm to 10:57pm (Eastern time) timeframe.
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[@x60hz]

How could ya not love Jerry!!

[@BeliaLastes]

Lived in Connecticut but used to watch channel 11 allot so I remember seeing this such nostalgia ❤️

[@wmbrown6]

Given who put this up, this does have a Chicago connection insofar as WPIX was then sister station to WGN Channel 9. But it resonates with me as I've lived in NYC all my life.

[@SoUtHMeMpHis]

Back when riding Greyhound and Trailways alone was an adventure 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@toxievope3617]

These older news broadcasts bring back memories of conditions etc. That I'd almost forgotten ,and some never knew. I was 19 years, at this time and from Maryland.

[@alfonsogreen2722]

Childhood memories in Brooklyn. I loved watching Pat Steve Jerry Bob n Jeffrey as a kid

[@wmbrown6]

Sounds like Bill Jorgensen was on vacation or something, for Tim Malloy to have been on this night. (He had two stints with 'PIX, here and then in the late '80's / early '90's; in the mid-'80's he was a co-anchor at KCOP Channel 13 in Los Angeles - which aired INN until Tribune took over KTLA Channel 5.)

[@alfonsogreen2722]

@@wmbrown6 I forgot about Tim Malloy. I know him n Steve r still alive today

[@LaurenLover81]

Milford Plaza, I wasn’t born in NYC but I certainly saw this add in Philly whenever watching network programming such as ABC’s WORLD NEWS THIS MORNING.

[@epaddon]

WPIX news as I remember it. Yankee highlights from their first of fourteen years of no postseason at the 48 minute mark including rare video of famous Met Lee Mazzilli as a Yankee! (I also remember those tacky TV trailer spots for the teen-sex film "Homework")

[@wmbrown6]

At this juncture, WPIX's announcing pool was rather thin compared with WGN's, no? (Only two V/O's here, Ralph Lowenstein and the late Bill Biery.) As for that trailer . . . wasn't it custom on other NYC stations to use NBC's Howard Reig to announce when it was to start or where it was playing?

[@WPPCProductions]

Hi Fuzzy.I used to watch INN all the time WPIX here in Connecticut on cable..Great anchor lineup.

[@TTrigg]

LOL @ that Homework trailer"I'm gonna do it!" "I said NO!!!!!"

[@danherman4081]

Refraining from researching online, I am recalling WPIX having 2 sets of local news, their "Action News" which I believe was on at 10pm, competing directly with WNEW's 10'O' Clock News (with the great v/o "It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?") I believe once a week there would be a 2nd version of the news using the same NYC staff for INN. Action News was borrowed from Philadelphia's version of local news broadcast's, even using the shortened opening theme of "Move Closer To Your World". I didn't know of Philly's version until I first moved there. I remember Bob Harris' anecdotal Top 10 days....days he said that were so good you could keep in a bottle and save for when needed.

[@wmbrown6]

From what I could tell, in this period they had the national INN edition woven in on the first half of this block, followed by local news, sports and weather on the second half. And this from someone who was there at the time, and saw the newscasts occasionally. Harris, meanwhile, landed his long job at "11 Alive" after a scandal about phony meteorological credentials which cost him his jobs at WCBS Newsradio 88 and WNEW-TV (where he arrived after Tex Antoine's short stint at Channel 5 ended and he basically retired from the business, his comeback attempt after the infamous "rape" comments that got him booted from WABC-TV in 1976 having fizzled out; at WNEW Harris would be replaced by a certain Linda Gialanella).

[@matthewcampbell7985]

One of inn affiliates is ktvt tv now a CBS affiliate

[@Musicradio77Network]

This newscast has been repeated during the early morning hours at 5AM in 1982 with an encore broadcast of INN. 31:28 is something about “Monopoly” and Parker Brothers (now Hasbro), and a person who sued Hasbro for using the name. 28:23 is a legendary commercial for the Milford Plaza hotel. This ad still remains a classic, but it continued into the early 1990’s. 56:59 is the Next slide where “The Twilight Zone” comes on, but it’s on Paramount+. 57:01 is the WPIX Editorial with Richard N Hughes. Unfortunately, it ended abruptly before Richard N Hughes comes on. This was aired around August 1981, and WPIX-TV was using the “11 Alive” logo which was used from 1976 through 1982. By the fall of 1982, they updated with a new logo redesign with CGI, but it continued to used it until 1985 with the “Circle 11” logo with “11 Alive” for a short time until 1986 where they dropped “Alive” from the brand and rebranded as channel 11 where it made its return to form. In 1985, channel 11 did put out a series of promos about Henry Tillman and his “Big Idea” campaign. I remember those days when it happened.

[@wmbrown6]

They probably had some HS finalist do the editorial in place of Mr. Hughes on this occasion. I think they did that every year for some years. As for the headline descriptions: I understand they *reeeeeaaaaallllly* had to keep it short due to something about character limits. A b****, I know, but there you are.

[@wmbrown6]

Also, as for their "Henry Tillman" campaign - wasn't he named in part after former WPIX anchor (1948-67) John Tillman?

[@wmbrown6]

Of course, Chicagoans would have only gotten the national part of this newscast over WGN Channel 9 (as would the rest of the nation). The Milford Plaza ad, they ran on all the stations for ages. And Luba Potamkin on two clips (this, and Ron Hunter's Miami stint) in the Fuzzy universe.

[@vinniemystery563]

They need to bring bk INN for ppl who never seen it

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

From New York... This is INDEPENDENT NETWORK NEWS

[@waynekrumbach]

They call it 11 Alive for a reason.

[@wmbrown6]

Nice to see Jerry Girard at his zenith . . . Which reminds me: Anyone notice the similarities between the "Zapped!" logo and that of Zenith, especially in that last letter in the alphabet?

[@ChrisHadleyWriter]

July 9th, 1982 - I was born at 3:44 PM that day at Methodist Hospital in New Orleans. Pan Am 759 crashed shortly after 4 PM.

[@davanmani556]

Lindsey Nelson announcing.

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

Well, now I need to see Zapped!, obviously.

[@drummingdanny84]

Tim Malloy looks like Peter Gabriel. 🤭

[@davidhoj]

My coleco came off the back of a truck

[@wmbrown6]

Not the one that overturned on the New England Thruway, I hope . . . ? ;-)

[@scottjeune154]

Thats awesome

[@davidhoj]

@@wmbrown6 port Newark, NJ

[@wmbrown6]

@@davidhoj - Thank G-d for that. ;-)

[@erickaufmann4839]

COULD DO WITHOUT FUZZY MEMORIES ON BOTTOM OF SCREEN!

[@deandrep4380]

Tape Off Are Stuck Because Off Screen

[@dgendvil]

Bad audio for most of the newscast.

[@lennykoss8777]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@MediaWatchDawg]

Save yourself some aggravation and "start" at 4:00.

[@gingergia4169]

34:05- I've heard this production music before, ha HA! watch?v=WGE1wUFBLJU&t=20m18s Thanks for the video, it's terrific!