WTOP Eyewitness News 1972

[@NathanielEssex1849]

Another DC area news memory being awoken. I can't get over Mike Buchanan, Bob Strickland, Bob Dalton and Patrick McGrath - even JC. Heyward! I needed this after the late Jim Vance passing. Thanks to you for posting this video.

[@ZnenTitan]

Yep, Memories from a long ago Washington D.C. (I remember all of them)

[@mE-zx7pt]

Also remember Maureen Bunyan, Max Robinson & Warner Wolfe

[@damienchance2622]

WOW Patrick McGrath was on channel 9 too??

[@gmcmurry]

Since this is Bob Dalton, it must have been a weekend newscast. I worked at WTOP during that time. It was an amazing experience. I used to be an Assistant Director and worked there about 4 years. I remember all those guys. Thanks for posting this bit of broadcast history. Who knows, I could have even worked on this broadcast!

[@markemanuele1929]

Are you the guy who wrote the "THERE'S NO FUXXING AUDIO !!!" story? I laughed so hard when I read this because I remember hearing it on the air many years ago while visiting my aunt in La Plata, Md.

[@MattMcIrvin]

Sounds like it's from Election Day, so it would have been a Tuesday. This was just months after we moved into the DC area--this is mostly the Eyewitness News lineup I remember seeing as a kid.

[@tyrese3745]

I don’t think so. It was Election Night ’72 (Tuesday, November 7, 1972). Gordon Peterson & Max Robinson we’re covering the election results at the Campaign studios there during the CBS News national coverage.

[@ivanlambert5524]

Hi Greg, I've talked with Frank Herzog. He told me he was at WTOP radio at this time, but that they would pull him in to work a weekend, fill in for someone etc. Do you recall Frank at WTOP 9 in these early days? He was hired later in a full-time role but that was in I believe 1979.

[@cryscars]

Thank You for posting this, brings back memories of childhood.❤ Native Washington DC person here, grew up in DC and Eyewitness News was the favorite news broadcast in my Family in the 1960s-1970s. Normally that music was the signal for me to go to bed {LOL}, but I do remember seeing some late night broadcasts sometimes, JC Hayward spoke at my High School in 1980s.

[@rigid1454]

Wow, when I heard the theme music to this, I took a trip back to my childhood. Funny how your brain works, certain music or images can trigger your memory

[@mrceleb2006]

Incredible pristine quality for an old 1972 American TV clip!

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

+Shane Spencer This is probably off of a professional grade tape format. That's the only explanation I can think of.

[@mrceleb2006]

I see.

[@JadedAnon]

This really took me back. When I heard the theme song come on, it was like it all came back, and I even remembered the theme and started humming it. I miss those days.

[@ZnenTitan]

Same here. I can't remember the last time I heard the channel 9 introduction music.

[@MattMcIrvin]

@@ZnenTitan I just found out where it came from--it's from the overture to the flop 60s stage musical "It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman"! The tune is from a song in which Lois Lane laments being in love with Superman.

[@jbjacobs9514]

Thanks so much for this! I wish people would consider this telecast when thinking about current voting debacles!

[@thatDonOguy]

The first 30 seconds is the reason why I miss TV!

[@NoEntertainment]

And you probably still watch TV; but the true television was back in the day, when shit didn't exist :/

[@raposofan]

That first 30 seconds is why I and a team of specialists here in LA are about to bring that kind of TV back :)

[@NoEntertainment]

Noice.

[@ronlawray1563]

Great seeing Strickland, JC and the others... Really miss Mike's haunting voice when reporting crimes... After loyal service for 30 years, gotta be a better way to cut the ties and make everyone, including viewers happy!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

That is "The Big News" set the then WTOP-TV used from 1969-74.

[@rooseveltdavis9559]

The legendary 1970's. The greatest decade of the 20th century.

[@mordecaiesther3591]

This was when you had REAL NEWS !!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Look for Patrick McGrath as a reporter in this 1972 broadcast. His daughter,Megan, is a successful correspondent at NBC 4.

[@damienchance2622]

Wait a minute....his daughter megan????...I didn't know they related

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Yes. I met Megan at Channel 4's Health and Fitness Expo.

[@ScoopNemeth]

5:52 - That's Hilton Kaderli before transferring to former sister station and another CBS affiliate...WFSB CBS3 in Hartford, CT

[@videonut1988]

He was at the “One & Only” before he left for “The Land Of The Three”...

[@bhayes06]

At 5:49, Hilton "Gullywhumper" Kaderli before his legendary run at WFSB in Hartford.

[@TimelordR]

That newsroom looks like something from the BBC. A very interesting video, especially when it was during the highly contested 1972 Presidential Election.

[@Drchainsaw77]

+TimelordR Highly contested? 1972? Is that sarcasm? It was a blowout -- what are you talking about?

[@ReverendBrown.]

Wow! A blast from the past. WTOP changed to WDVM for a brief time and then to their current call letters WUSA.

[@davewanamaker3690]

Great voice - Bob Strickland! Great team! They would be a good model for a broadcasting class to study delivery and presence.

[@thegrovetube]

Just think...someone just dropped acid, 'shrooms or something else altering realty. Then that Channel 9 legal I.D. and wild visual and music happens. A mind blowing experience.

[@Drchainsaw77]

Hey, how 'bout that. 1,972 views. :-p

[@WhiteCamry]

The election was on November 7, 1972.

[@cfoster81]

A very young Mike "Buck" Buchanan as well as J.C. Heyward and Patrick McGrath with more hair

[@terrisorenson6791]

Today's broadcasters could take a lesson from the behavior of broadcasters of 48 years ago.

[@AlextheMLAATRfan]

0:00-0:09 Whenever I hear this, I think of videogames.

[@imrustyokay]

Always interesting to see what would later become the "Watergate election".

[@MattMcIrvin]

I've always thought it was amazing that Nixon would go to all that illegal trouble for an election that he was going to win in a walloping landslide anyway. He could have played it straight and been fine. It's not like recent elections where everything seems to be a game of inches.

[@ZnenTitan]

Ahh, the good old days in D.C. Back when we had real news,

[@NicoDiamante]

When colors in brazil has new

[@Arthur_McGowan]

The music is the title song from the musical "Superman." One reason they chose it was that the show was a bomb, so they figured few viewers would recognize it. I heard that either on ZWTOP radio or TV.

[@ZnenTitan]

You are right! It's a bird....It's a plane....It's Superman!: Overture. From the 1966 musical of the same name.

[@tomservo5007]

1972, even after giving 18yos the right to vote AND the unpopular Vietnam War, Tricky Dick still won. No wonder Roger Stone has a huge Nixon tattoo

[@jchow5966]

Nixon won this one.

[@damienchance3153]

Mike Buchanan looks a little bit like drew Carey

[@sambaker7703]

He does LOL

[@damienchance3153]

@@sambaker7703 lol

[@damienchance3153]

Wow Bob and j c looks so young

[@damienchance3153]

I didn't know Patrick mcgraff was on channel 9

[@johnfarr2738]

damien chance yep