WNEW-TV commercials [February 6, 1985]

Aired during Young Frankenstein (1974) and The 10 O'clock News.

[@danmccarthy4700]

There's something oddly comforting about that station ID jingle.

[@rty1955]

That TV station is the longest on air station in the country, longer than NBC, CBS or ABC. It was the 4th network as WABD

[@drummingdanny84]

🎶 Channel 5. Eighty years of fine tuning...Channel 5! 🎶

[@crb4059]

It almost feels like peak America, before a slow inexorable decline.

[@spacecowboy3063]

i watch a lot of 80's commercials so I can say with confidence that this prime grade stuff, right here. many thanks.

[@charlesjnbjbnbngb8518]

I was 9 years old living in Bensonhurst Brooklyn at the time

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

I'd truly was infant, after I'd truly was born in #1983, at *#JamaicaNYC**.*

[@Equint77]

Midwood Brooklyn here. I remember the crazy eddies on kings highway.

[@charlesjnbjbnbngb8518]

@@Equint77 Yep, me too!

[@Leonlavoe1973]

I was 11 yo, living in Boro Park. Good times!!

[@christopherjudge1138]

Matt Lauer, before the NBC Today Show!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

0:28 Matt Lauer in pre-Today era.

[@Colortiniz]

RIP Metromedia

[@drummingdanny84]

1955-1986

[@ThomasSellers]

Parental discretion for Young Frankenstein? Unfair since this never happened before!

[@jayadams6760]

Chances are that like many independent channels in the early 80's, they would sometimes air PG rated movies uncut with limited commercial interruptions, but would advise parental discretion. That could have been the case with this presentation.

[@Nick_Nightingale]

Charming. Hopefully we can get the return of these Indy, local tv stations on Tubi, Roku, Pluto, etc…

[@wmbrown6]

1:15 - "Parental discretion" disclaimer V/O Tom Gregory. 3:31 - "One Day At A Time" V/O Ed Ladd. 4:41 - Cadillac Carpet V/O Gene Edwards. 7:04 - "Three's Company" V/O Ed Ladd. 8:44 - See 1:15 9:02 - News Update / Mitsubishi V/O Peter Lucas. 13:51 - Carmel ending tag V/O Ed Ladd. 16:02 - "Heaven Help Us" ending tag V/O Howard Reig. 16:06 - "Taxi" V/O Ed Ladd. 19:38 - "My Darling Clementine" V/O Ed Ladd. 20:44 - "Witness" ending tag V/O Howard Reig. 21:16 - "The 10 O'Clock News" ending tag V/O Ed Ladd. 21:32 - Big Apple Minute / Mitsubishi V/O Peter Lucas. 25:03 - "The Sugarland Express" V/O Tom Gregory. 26:13 - See 4:41 26:23 - See 1:15 26:42 - News Update / Eastern Airlines V/O Ed Ladd. 30:11 - "Love and Bullets" V/O Ed Ladd. 31:21 - HEAP PSA V/O Tom Gregory. 33:49 - "Star Search '85" ending tag V/O Tom Gregory. 35:18 - "A Fistful of Dollars" V/O Tom Gregory. 37:52 - "America's Top 10 Book of Love" ending tag V/O Tom Gregory.

[@rty1955]

I knew them all

[@richardspeziale]

FAVE! 1:15 - "Parental discretion" disclaimer V/O Tom Gregory. THANK YOU @wmbrown6 for crediting the ch. 5 announcers

[@ericsamuelson5656]

Matt Lauer looked like he was in high school.

[@Colortiniz]

Yup, before he was on WWOR.

[@drummingdanny84]

And had hair at age 25.

[@jtmoore662]

I was all, man ML looks like a kid.

[@jtmoore662]

1:44 that is the guy that played the police chief in the movie Highlander.

[@a.puente7831]

Thank you🎉

[@FUGP72]

Matt Lauer. Wow.

[@youtubedj9298]

Cooking... WELL.

[@timhockett7605]

Now fox 5

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

😀Absolutely, *Tim Hockett!😄*

[@Nick_Nightingale]

I liked Fox 5 from it’s start (87?) until they canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I love these commercials but don’t remember pre-fox 5 WNew tv.

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

Holy mackerel,@@Nick_Nightingale!

[@rty1955]

Prior to that WABD the 4th Network

[@richardspeziale]

22:33

[@richardspeziale]

5:02 TIME

[@MikeDBrnchBannks-eh1ni]

Hi

[@JMDogg]

Metromedia Dog!

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