WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News at 10pm (Complete Broadcast, 10/19/1980) 📺

Here's a complete broadcast of the Sunday Eyewitness News at 10pm, with Larry Moore and Mary Ann Childers.
Includes:
ABC ID slide (voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Eyewitness News preview
Theatrical Trailer for TV for "The First Deadly Sin" (ending voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Opening titles (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Peter Karl in first of Target Seven look on "Crime's Second Chance" about criminals on probation walking the streets rather than in prison; interviews with rape victim Evette and her mother, Judge Kenneth Wendt, two probation officers, Cordell Murray (on probation for burglary) and Chief Probation Officer Richard Napoli
Commercials for:
Amoco - "Energy Message"
John Deere snowmobiles
More news:
Diane Lawson at neo-Nazi rally at Lovelace Park in Evanston (Dana Hodgdon credited with "additional tape); an anti-Nazi rally at Northwestern University's Deering Meadow, with Rosemarie Gulley and Presidential candidate John Anderson in attendance, and Andy Huckman interviewed
Fire at 955 W. Foster, no one hurt
Commercials for:
Amana Touchmatic II Radarange (with Rotorave) - with Barbara Hale
Chicago Championship Rodeo for October 24th-26th at International Amphitheater
True Value Hardware Stores (voiceover by Pat Summerall)
WBEZ 91.5 FM
News resumes:
Updates on American hostage situation in Day 351, including role of Algerian government in brokering deal to release them; clips of Secretary of State Edmund Muskie from Issues and Answers and former President Gerald Ford from CBS's Face the Nation
Commercials for:
Evans furs
Illinois Bell
Grillmaster Chicken Franks - with Wilfrid Hyde-White
Richard Daley's widow endorses President Carter; clip of her at 11 S. LaSalle
Jim Ramsey's weather forecast (years before he moved to WGN-TV)
Commercials for:
Chrysler Imperial
Tatiana by Diane von Furstenberg
Mr. Boston wine cocktails
Dictaphone dual display word processor
Jay Berry with sports, including Bears' 24-7 win over Detroit Lions (interviews with QB Vince Evans and defensive end Dan Hampton by Al Lerner), Stan Mikita's retirement from the Black Hawks, and Phillies' come-from-behind 4-3 win over Kansas City in Game 5 of World Series; Harry Caray joins Jay Berry live in-studio and reports he is "heartsick" as he'd picked the Royals to win
News report ends with story on chefs making delicacies with Native American foodstuffs such as cranberries
(C) 1980 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
PSA for National Education Association - spotlighting teacher Sue White
Commercials for:
WLS Musicradio 89 Fantastic Plastic Card - with Larry Lujack
Milk - from American Dairy Association of Wisconsin - "It's time for milking me?"
(immediately following this was an edition of the ABC News Weekend Report, seen here: • ABC Network - ABC Worl... )
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 19th 1980 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe.
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[@crashboombang8163]

I was at the Stadium that night when Stan Mikita's #21 was raised to the rafters. Thank you , Mrs. Landini! Final score: Hawks 8 Caps 4. We moved to Wisconsin on November 1st of that year and I've been playing catch up ever since. Sweet. Home. Chicago. ❤

[@That0neMonkey]

Childers and Carray and Lujack. These were the DAYS!!!!

[@lordfinbar]

Back when journalists had integrity and evening news was (mostly) real news.

[@jimklipper6022]

lordfinbar Why is news then real and now fake?

[@lordfinbar]

​@@jimklipper6022 That's a good question. I blame the fact that we now have instant 24 hour news coverage. The demand for instant news all the time has lead to a decrease in accuracy and quality.

[@Joscope]

Jim Klipper it’s because today it’s all about how the news is packaged in order to steer and influence your behavior rather then to just keep you informed. Look at the way Mary Ann is dressed. Today she’d have to wear a sleeveless tube dress showing the top 1/3 of her chest. Look at the graphics and the set they did the 1980 broadcast from and what you get today. Today its all about gearing the broadcast to get more eyes watching all the packaging, the actual news is secondary. How accurate can the actual reporting be? They don’t care about you anymore. The news media today cares more about their corporate masters and the advertising dollars than their audience plus liberal politicians have discovered how to leverage the evening news as a way to spread their agenda and shape public opinion. So the news really isn’t fake, it’s the people bringing you the news and why they are bringing it to you and how that is TOTALLY FAKE where in 1980 that wasn’t the case at all.

[@norbertop.niebres6320]

It used to be that when you want to see the news on television, you had to tune in at a set time each weekday. On Monday Through Friday, that would be 5pm, 6pm, and 10pm Central Time. On weekends, that would be 10pm Central Time. That is just the local news.

[@youtubeguest9628]

I don't think local news has lost its integrity. National and cable news is different story

[@davanmani556]

ABC was so good during the 70’s and 80’s.

[@christopherbarry2086]

Especially those 3:30 movies!!

[@blazekohen1442]

instaBlaster.

[@Boricua3lions1985]

And then Disney took over.

[@mrmapful]

to quote the Blues Brothers. "Illinois nazi's, I Hate Illinois nazi's"

[@misstee101]

That's what I was thinking

[@cgeorge6786]

I was thinking about the Blues Brothers too!

[@norbertop.niebres6320]

I love Mary Ann Childress. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@cccalll]

She wasn’t as pretty as Terry Murphy😊

[@alfonsogreen2722]

Mary Ann Childress: Gorgeous

[@norbertop.niebres6320]

Awesome.

[@Agent-xn1hr]

I had such a crush on her. She was incredibly beautiful.

[@cccalll]

Wasn’t as pretty as Terry Murphy😊

[@איתןפוזילוף]

Absolutely, she was gorgeous, I used to watch because of her

[@lsmftymf]

16:29-16:59 Wilfrid Hyde-White was such a wonderful pitchman. By the end of the decade, WLS-TV 7 had Childers, Linda Yu, Joan Esposito and Diann Burns. Unusual newscast considering that Moore was closely associated with Kansas City's KMBC and Berry Detroit's WXYZ.

[@lvdude8631]

Larry left KMBC initially for KPIX in San Francisco. He wasn't happy there, so it was off to WLS, then back to KMBC. Jay Berry wasn't the first person ABC moved out of Detroit. They moved Bill Bonds to LA when they started Eyewitness News there; after a minute he was back in Detroit. Then when Bill Beutel left WABC for the precursor to GMA, Bill went to New York for an even shorter time. Bonds and Roger Grimsby on the same anchor desk - I'd have paid to see the drinking contest between those two.

[@chigal0926]

The first news story just shows how things have not changed. Cook County still releases dangerous criminals into the streets on probation.

[@ig8895]

True but much worse now though. No pizza parties in jail back then

[@troyplummer4300]

The criminal justice system is in shambles I live in NYC and one month later I was born after this newscast in the Bronx ny which was bad too nothing will change unless we change these laws God bless you Chigirl!

[@darrellmfume3513]

I know I wasn't the only kid in the 80's growing up in Chicago. who had a BIG CRUSH on Maryann Childers.

[@איתןפוזילוף]

Me too

[@ahlivetuhsidamaro150]

I remember all of these journalists and they were excellent! It’s odd to me that essentially the same news Almost 40 years ago is essentially the same news today. Very sad but one generation doesn’t learn from the last clearly

[@andrewhill4986]

I find it strangely comforting

[@song4you80]

I lived in Harvey Illinois at that time and was 17 years old and was happy at that time in my life and didn't even know it.

[@TimothyStevens-y1w]

Solid newscast. They had the same time as today but seemed to cover fewer stories, I think, so you learned more from each report. It was really cool having Harry on set doing analysis.

[@msaltzma]

I wish we could see highlights of Da Bears like this today. Vince Evans was passing up a storm, Sweetness was running all over the place. Now we get an anemic Bears offense and so-so defense.

[@hornet6969]

@1:44 Chroma Key goes haywire!

[@norbertoniebres1615]

ABC7 Eyewitness News. Chicago, Illinois.

[@Tribeca40]

I'm curious about this piece of music used for the opening for the WLS newscast here, since by late 1980 they were no longer using the "Cool Hand Luke" music used on the other ABC O&Os.

[@hrtvfan2870]

This tune is "On Your Side" from Frank Gari, and I am pretty certain WLS was the original station to commission the theme.

[@Tribeca40]

@@hrtvfan2870 Thanks for the info!

[@hrtvfan2870]

@@Tribeca40 You're welcome

[@collectivefilmgroup4241]

WABC New York used that theme for it's 4:30 newscast during that period.

[@raydemos1181]

I remember this Mary ann childeres , shev was miss cool, no amount of violence shakes her in her reporting

[@kevinblanchard9064]

Am I the only person who had a crush on Mary Ann Childers?

[@davanmani556]

Nope

[@cccalll]

Terry Murphy was way prettier 😊

[@troytakesphotos]

Pretty sure Larry was also rooting for Kansas City then as well. (It'll always be unusual seeing him behind an anchor desk that's not at KMBC.)

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

He also worked at KPIX in 1978

[@melodycjefferson1323]

Moving that big heavy weather board vs. electronic computer graphics😃

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Jim Ramsey’s great voice sounds flat on the 1980 microphone technology. He retired from WGN TV in 2018 or 2019....

[@AckzaTV]

i want a physical museum full of 1980s stuff and tv archives playing 24 7 like u can wa5tch 80s tv in an 80s living room

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Looking back 39 years - not as slick a show as today. News hasn’t changed much, neither the stories...

[@cccalll]

15:00 I remember fur commercial as a kid😊

[@davanmani556]

Harry looks a little smitten for Mary Ann.

[@jrodlange8099]

Man did the Bears passing attack suck in Walter Payton's first 7-8 years of his career. Vince Evans threw a whooping 8 passes.

[@killosama72]

I can't remember that WLS personality in the Disneyland commercial at the end.

[@trombone7]

Larry Lujack // kzbin.info/www/bejne/mITZiYJvqrWkjKs

[@trombone7]

Thx

[@trombone7]

No problem.

[@Chris-i2h]

44 years later not a whole lot has changed

[@jerdog557]

24:48

[@frankcheers7529]

Evans Furs!

[@whodie4130]

The day I was born

[@wrotedog]

Shale oil intro 7:50

[@DickVanWrinkle]

Early fracking commercial from Amoco

[@zaheerahshareef8131]

Wow what a great day to turn 4 years old ❤❤😁😁😁