WTOP-TV 6pm News, July 31, 1968

Weeknight newscast from the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. Commercials were included. Quality varies due to original tape conditions.
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[@gmcmurry]

Thanks for posting this. I worked at WTOP TV in the early 1970s. I bet we had the same cameras that this was shot on. They were made by GE.

[@nguyendailam6703]

I wish one of these existed for every day in 1968.

[@jehobden]

Just a week or 2 later, Vanderbilt University started a network news archive, recording ABC, CBS & NBC weekday network newscasts off the local Nashville tv stations in B&W. Vanderbilt didn't start taping the newscasts in color until 1979, and I think by now it's added tapes from various cable news networks.

[@johnnoone4323]

As a DC native, I was 15 years old and we lived in DC from 1968-69. In retrospect and in looking at other DC news broadcast, the announcers speak and talk in a deadpan manner.

[@dougbadgley6672]

Back in those days, history recorded that the Johnson administration monitored not only all three of the major networks, but also the local channels out of DC. As I have learned over the years, Johnson and his cronies were dirty.

[@shawnmalone9711]

Warren Olney was a newscaster on Channel 2 , KNXT, Los Angeles in the 1970s.

[@jeffearle8172]

I remember him registering disgust with his weatherman at the time for his lighthearted delivery. The weatherman was Pat Sajak.

[@steveprestegard5151]

Olney ditched the glasses in LA.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Some excellent Channel 9 talent in this video: Warren Olney, Don Allen,Bill Zimmerman,Bob Waller ,Charles Crawford and John Douglas from 1968.

[@stevenramos1181]

It's now known as WUSA9

[@luisreyes1963]

One of the oldest videos of a news report I have seen. I was 2 years old when all of that was going on.

[@jehobden]

i'd recently turned 3 years old myself on the above-listed date. BTW, Mary Jo Catlett, later on MASH & the final maid on DIFF'RENT STROKES, appeared in the Sinclair commercial starting at 21:39.

[@graymanmedia]

Blue Screen Technology of 1968

[@shem01]

A Rare WTOP-TV/CBS 9 1960's Logo in 1968 TV Footage 0:02

[@sayhibobbi]

Decades before the CBS Mandate.

[@jesuslopez8325]

😊 great 👍

[@RaeAnne232]

I wish news channels would report the news, without their personal views, like the news used to be. News channels these days are politically motivated and people just want the news and nothing but the news. We can form our own opinions.

[@billmason2785]

Just Born... 👍.. Go 68'

[@Vgy926]

Frank Howard, also known as The Capitol Punisher.

[@Diapason16ft]

6:49 Wallace was right tho.

[@tubesocksbrigade3031]

23:03 Bob Waller. 5 years before coming to Chicago to be Harry Caray's partner for the White Sox