WRC Washington DC 7PM News Wednesday August 4, 1971

[@Scottj2011]

It's like a time capsule. Very nice video and sound quality 👍👍

[@ericsamuelson5656]

Gordon Graham was on NBC News from 1970-77 then to WXYZ Ch 7 Detroit from 1977-88. Beginning in 1988, he went to CNN Headline News where he's best remembered.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

One of Washington's most prominent newscasters was the late, great Julian Barber (the nephew of baseball broadcaster Red Barber). He was a three-time local Emmy winner. This is a rare gem. That's Lee Dayton as the announcer in this 1971 Channel Four newscast. Don Sarreals is one of the first black weathermen. That's future Headline News newscaster Gordon Graham doing a report for NBC. I remember when Channel 4 had 7 o'clock news on weeknights from 1967-74.RIP, Julian and Lee.

[@byrd56]

And if it was Sunday during the 1960's and '70s, it was Lee Dayton's voice on "Meet the Press".

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

I saw a "Today In Washington" segment from (approximately) 1967 with Don Doak doing a report, and Phil Gaines was the announcer.

[@iamnomad101]

Great find! I always like watching newscasts from before the late '70s, before home videotape became quite common.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Sony AV-3650 (EIAJ-1), Ampex VR-3000 and the then-recently introduced U-matic were the only consumer home video recorders available at the time.

[@higorch95]

Very nice commercials! Thanks for up!

[@americangiant1003]

Starting at around the 13 minute 20 second mark a story about desegregation with the Alexandria, Va school district. The story would led to the first time Black and White students would play for the city's High School Football team. That story of the 1971 Alexandria Football team would be made 30 years later into a critically praised Hit Movie "Remember the Titans" starting Denzel Washington.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

That high school was T.C. Williams, which was the consolidation of the original T.C. Williams, Hammond High and George Washington High Schools. (Now it is simply known as Alexandria City High School.)

[@americangiant1003]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 Thanks for info. Even after watching the Titans several times, I often get confused on the exact name of that Alexandria High School football team since the names of that merged 1971 Williams, Hammond and GW club are all often mentioned.

[@lee4hmz]

This is a very sharp capture for something from 1971. What was the source format?

[@eyeontv]

2” videotape

[@dgendvil]

This was before the happy news era started.....

[@americangiant1003]

Actually the "happy news chat and Hollywood" style sensationalism of local news (headlines of crime, sex scandals, etc.)aka the Eyewitness/Action News era of the 1970's and '80's was just getting started in 1971 I think. The renamed title of WABC-TV Local Newscasts to "Eyewitness News" and also at the same time for the "Action News" format on their Philadelphia ABC sister affiliate station WPVI-TV was just around a year or two old by the air date of this WRC-TV broadcast.

[@EthanMHarp]

What time would NBC Nightly News have aired? I thought the networks didn’t go before 7pm ET back in the day.

[@eyeontv]

There always were two feeds of network news one at 6:30 and one at 7PM for CBS and NBC, I think ABC may have had a third one at 6

[@byrd56]

@@eyeontv That would be about right, since a lot of ABC affiliates back then carried the network news at 6 pm Eastern, given their 3rd-place status among the networks.

[@wmbrown6]

Looks from the picture quality that WRC was still using the old TK-41 class cameras at this juncture . . . by contrast, New York's WNBC-TV (which was branding its newscasts "News 4 New York" for the first of three intervals at this point) had already graduated to TK-44A's, as apparently had Los Angeles' KNBC and Chicago's WMAQ-TV (can't say about Cleveland's WKYC-TV during this period).

[@billelkins1974]

Would love to see a newscast from this period from WKYC TV

[@johnfarr2738]

I should call that old number for the shady grove music fair and see if it’s still an active number

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

No chance. Shady Grove Music Fair has since died in the mid to late 1970s.

[@geoffsmith7891]

The Tasters Choice spot features voice actor Paul Frees in a rare on-screen role

[@robertlandonijr2481]

Thanks !, i knew the voice , but could not place the face.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

1:32 Nice bug!

[@robertlandonijr2481]

Vizmo? , haven't heard that term before,i see what you mean in the video though. the set to the left of the anchor

[@eyeontv]

It was a system of rear screen projection mostly used by NBC.

[@robertlandonijr2481]

Thanks for the reply, did Huntley Brinkley report use this type of projection also , even though they weren't standing ?

[@eyeontv]

Yes they did