KABC-TV Channel 7 Los Angeles CA/The Saturday Night Movie Closing/Editorial/Sign Off News

[@barryobrien7935]

Len always had the most powerful delivery of Eyewitness News opens. “Number ONE in Southern California, this is channel seven’s EYEwitness News!”

[@frankdenardo8684]

The national anthom shows the highlights of the American Revolution. 1976 was the Bicentennial of the event.

[@jasonburger3533]

KABC-TV Channel 7 had not yet begun the Moog synthesizer version of the national anthem as part of their sign-off editions.

[@samuelward6396]

25:29 is a British song also jupiter and a church song

[@smilinmoo]

You’re right, it’s “Jupiter” from “The Planets” by Gustav Holst. The British patriotic song is “I Vow To Thee, My Country” and the church song you’re thinking of is “Let Streams Of Living Justice,” a beautiful Lutheran hymn. The tune is so gorgeous, no wonder it was “borrowed” as a setting for so many songs!

[@gidzmobug2323]

@@smilinmooThe tune for "God Save The King" (the UK national anthem) was borrowed for "My Country Tis of Thee".

[@brettshepherd5240]

WE NEED MORE OF THESE NEWS REPORTS. I LOVE IT

[@wmbrown6]

I can imagine that before the corporate name was changed on July 3, 1965, the station sign-off (unless the Television Code spiel was part of it then, as it isn't here) would have begun thusly: "Channel 7, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, owned by the American Broadcasting Company, a division of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., with studios and executive offices at ABC Television Center . . . "

[@Gaylel1]

Note this was before every television station showed infomercials and/or late night programming, including news.

[@jasonburger3533]

Infomercials did not become legal under the FCC rules until 1984. This sign-off edition is from the mid-1980s, maybe about 1976. Len Beardsley did the sign-off editions, audio only, throughout much of the 1970s into the early 1980s. KABC-TV had sign-off editions through 1990. By then, they were a 24-hour a day 7 day a week station. There was only televised news at 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays at 1 hour each and the 11:00 p.m. news was 30 minutes in length. There were no early morning newscasts, only 5 minutes at 7:25 a.m. and 5 minutes at 8:25 a.m. and that included commercials. That was during the broadcast of "Good Morning America", on a 3-hour tape delay from New York City, as it still is broadcast. It was not until the late 1980s that KABC-TV would have early morning local newscasts. The first television station to do so was KNBC-TV, which began "Today In L.A." at the end of June 1986. That was 30 minutes in length. The other network affiliates would begin local early morning newscasts between 1989 and 1993. In 1991, then-independent KTLA-TV Channel 5 added a 2-hour local morning newscast from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and expanded it by 1 hour in June 1993 when Fox 11 introduced a 3-hour newscast, the 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. part being called "Good Day L.A" preceded by the "Fox Morning News". Early morning television news in Los Angeles currently begins at 4:00 a.m. weekdays and goes through 12:00 noon on many stations. Weekend mornings have long news blocks as well, but not as many as on weekday mornings. The network national morning shows expanded to weekends, beginning with "CBS News Sunday Morning" in 1979, NBC News "Sunday Today" in 1987, NBC News "Saturday Today" in 1992, ABC "Good Morning America/Sunday" in 1993 but discontinued in the late 1990s through the early 2000s and brought back in the mid-2000s, "CBS News Saturday Morning" in 1996, ABC News "Good Morning America/Saturday" and "Good Morning America/Sunday" in the mid-2000s, and the local network affiliates began adding early morning weekend newscasts beginning with KNBC-TV Channel 4 and "Today In L.A. Saturday" and "Today In L.A. Sunday" beginning in 1992, then KABC-TV Channel added weekend morning newscasts in 2002, with KCBS-TV Channel 2 adding their early morning news by 2007 or so. The CW KTLA-TV Channel 5 and KTTV-TV Fox 11 added early morning weekend newscasts since. KCAL-TV Channel 9 added a 3-hour prime time newscast in March 1990 and added weekend editions by early 2005. Those air from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. KTLA-TV Channel 5 and KTTV-TV Channel 11 have also expanded their afternoon and evening newscasts. The news blocks are huge compared to the 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s, as local newscasts have expanded in television markets all across the country.

[@caljees]

The date of this is October 12, 1976. Cincinnati would defeat Philadelphia 7-6 to sweep the Best-of-5 series.

[@ronrondon9780]

Cal Jees and yes they went on to beat the NY Yankees in the world series

[@muzikdude1188]

+Cal Jees The Reds swept both the NLCS and the World Series that year to go undefeated in the postseason. No MLB team has done it since.

[@schnu44]

+Cal Jees Its funny - I actually went to game 3 of the ALCS (Yankees-Royals) as an 8 year old with my father (who was 39 at the time, younger than me today). Funny to hear a preview report about a game you attended 40 years ago.

[@gidzmobug2323]

Mid-October? The 1976-77 NHL season would only have been a few weeks old. The LA Kings were still at the Forum; there was no mention of the Ducks or the Sharks.

[@gidzmobug2323]

The problems outlined in the editorial re solar heating are still with us. No protection from shady operators, etc.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

That movie closing was edited from another recording, one I had found and uploaded from December 1978. You can see an obvious shift in picture quality after that.

[@JosephPratt1986]

What time would KABC sign off each night?

[@ronrondon9780]

Joseph Pratt sometime around 2 or 3 am local time in LA and weekends around 1:30am or 2:00 am

[@dariowiter3078]

That's correct. The station would sign off around the 2:00 AM hour during the week, and, would sometimes end in those hours on the weekend on rare occasions. 😃

[@johnking5174]

@@ronrondon9780 What time did ABC Los Angeles start their day usually in 1976? I am British and I am fascinated by the start and end times, as British television was VERY different in broadcasting hours in the 1970s.

[@gidzmobug2323]

@@johnking5174 Approximately 5:30-6:00 am LA time. Usually the first program was something educational ("Real Estate for the Consumer") or a cartoon ("SuperFriends").

[@johnking5174]

@@gidzmobug2323 Wow, and that was in the 1970s?

[@nicoleberry2750]

@RonRondon I would like to make requests; but before I do I would like to know how often you upload videos and if you could please send me notification via KZbin. Thanks.

[@wendyokoopa7048]

I really like it when someone tells me before I walk out into oncoming traffic

[@essvee86]

Doesn't MicroJaw have this up already?

[@wendyokoopa7048]

I want a fleafestation

[@nicoleberry2750]

@RonRondon I would like to know if I could please have your email address. Can you please send it to me via KZbin?