WTHR 6pm News, July 7, 1977

Weeknight newscast from the then-ABC affiliate in Indianapolis. Commercials are included. Quality varies due to original tape conditions.
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[@patzimmer1052]

I like this thing where the main guy casually sits on his correspondent's desks to chat about their stories.

[@TimmyTheTinman]

Yeah, I love the unique set up. We don’t really see that anymore.

[@mangdannyboy]

WTHR was definitely a decade ahead of one of our local stations here in the Toronto area called Citytv...City also adopted a live-from-and-around-the-newsroom newscast format in 1987-they were the only Toronto station that did it then, and they still do it that way today...

[@tyrese3745]

I think WWOR-TV Channel 9 used that format during the late 80s/early 1990s.

[@robbot8054]

yeah, we at Indy's Channel 13 started NewsCenter 13 in jan of 1976 with Paul Udell

[@videonut1988]

Christopher Howell, from around 1988 until ‘95 when they were becoming UPN9...

[@jessemathes5126]

@@robbot8054 Is it true that 13 was an abc affiliate? Keep in mind I was 4.

[@NewsActive3]

@@jessemathes5126 WTHR had been an ABC affiliate since signing on in 1957. They switched to NBC in 1979 when WRTV dropped that network and joined ABC.

[@timripley3396]

Hank Philippi is better known as Hank Philippi Ryan, the longtime consumer reporter at WHDH Boston.

[@NoName-ux7lh]

That intro and its associated graphics was epic.

[@jahwangful]

fantastic hair style at that time !

[@timripley3396]

Callie Crosley currently works at WGBH Boston; she's a contributor to the weekly media analysis show Beat the Press on WGBH-TV and works in WGBH-FM's news department.

[@robbot8054]

wow, worked with Callie as a fellow reporter in Indianapolis...came to us from Memphis...sweet, smart gal...

[@phonehome6612]

Is she one of THE Crosleys or is she "a" Crosley? WTHR was founded by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, a division of Avco.

[@hrtvfan2870]

Final story: First time I've seen footage of a younger Stan Lee.

[@johnnysama]

Eyewitness NewsCenter 13. Talk about having your cake and eating it; that was a weird newscast title, a hybrid of "Eyewitness News" and "NewsCenter ".

[@robbot8054]

you are right. i was there...used every cliche there was due to the general manager

[@jimpich4846]

The newscast was from July 7, 1977 instead of June 7, 1977. The Chicago Cubs faced the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 7, according to baseballreference.com

[@NewsActive3]

Noted.

[@tnitron9750]

I was married on Saturday july 2 1977 in Indianapolis. This was Thursday night July 7 1977 Indianapolis. I remember these newscasters. Summer of Star wars movie. Bob Gregory son now works at local channel 6 wrtv weatherman.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you!!!

[@Rap4Rights1]

Can you please tell me how you acquired this? Looking for footage on my grandfather, hotel owner Andrew Foster (Foster Motor Lodge, circa 1950-1980)

[@1wicked2008]

keep hearing them talking about the heat in 1977 ..i would love to see this news when the blizzard of 78 was happening

[@jlobiafra]

Man I miss those old school long john silvers

[@Lamontontherun]

Hello hank

[@nicholasyoder]

I was 11 days old

[@eastest566]

Ernie Anderson is doing the v/o on the station ID.

[@newstarcadefan]

+eastest566 Yup, this is when they were ABC, and WRTV was NBC.

[@eastest566]

+newstarcadefan Was this also right after 13 switched from the WLWI calls to the WTHR calls?

[@NewsActive3]

+eastest566 Channel 13's call letters changed from WLWI to WTHR in 1976.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

You are right!,It has & been doing it since 2/28/1976.

[@jasonbertalotto4296]

Paul Udell later worked for KRON in 1982!

[@tyrese3745]

And before that, at WLS-TV for Eyewitness News back in '81.

[@robbot8054]

and settled in Hawaii

[@wmbrown6]

From 1972 to 1973, he co-anchored the "Sixth Hour News" on WNBC-TV in New York City with former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes; after Udell left for some NBC network assignments before moving on elsewhere, Stokes would be paired with Jim Hartz at 6. The Stokes/Udell team achieved a dubious distinction in '72 when their newscast's ratings were so low (behind not only leader WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" and WCBS-TV's "Six O'Clock Report" but presumably also the syndicated offerings put out by WNEW-TV, WPIX and WOR-TV) that they were designated by an asterisk ( * ) - as noted by Ron Powers in the 1980 edition of his book "The Newscasters: The News Business As Show Business." At least Udell had a run in New York - a distinction that, say, Ron Hunter never had.

[@seabrook1976]

1:44 holy menthol, Batman!

[@travisa7669]

I spot James Cromwell in that Burger King ad.

[@gsnfan]

53:54 ❤

[@champat187198220]

I am looking for New York news footage from 10/7/99 where Bush, Giuliani and Pataki were inside the Belmont market campaigning. How would I get such footage?

[@robbot8054]

don't remember that exact newscast; tended to show up on the 11pm news more and covering stories for that during the early news time. started there in late 75; we started NC13 the Jan of 76 with that one of a kind news set studio and Paul Udell--Bob Campbell...by the way went on to be the News Director thru the 80s and early 90s..when news was News...not bias opinion...my 2 cents

[@mrkrinkle72]

They talk about coke like its as cute as coffee!

[@irvan36mm]

0:41 Wasn’t that the plot of Dom deLuise’s comedy movie “Hot Stuff”?

[@cathedral94]

A very young Hank Philippi Ryan

[@heedfulnewt6625]

Noice feels like yesterday

[@jchow5966]

….. then the crack epidemic happened……