This was a very catchy song. I never really understood how it promoted Channel 7 though, because it didn’t include any personalities from the station or clips from local or CBS shows.
For The EmbassyEggs Era: Embassy New Day Dawning The 81’ Network Just Begun Now Is Your Chance To Land Up Overnight The Shiniest Sun Is The Cool Sun That Is Bright 1981 Is Coming To A Start This Summer Flying United States To Canada Greece Then Mexico Then United Kingdom There’s A New Day Dawning The 81’ Network Just Begun For The Greece Network’s New Day Dawning: Embassy New Day Dawning Welcome To Greece In United States
Very catchy, great theme music! Group W (Westinghouse) had great image campaigns for all their stations and this one from WBZ was a hallmark of that. Nicely done!
The early 80s is when all 3 network morning news shows had a sexy blonde anchor, Diane Sawyer here on the CBS Morning News, Jane Pauley on NBC Today, and Joan Lunden on ABC Good Morning America
If a local PBS station on Channel 7 did run their "Feel Good About That" Jingle rather than the PBS "TV Worth Watching" campaign, then those viewers would sure support a local PBS station running their own non-commercial operation.
The music score for this sales tape was done by Frank Gari and Danny Baker. Frank and Danny have done countless scores for local news programs over the years. I don't know if Frank and Danny are retiring.
Up here in eureka ca. My dad made sure we watched this show everyday. After the 5pm news, 5:30 world news, 6pm news, 6:30 world news..but before the 10 pm news, 11 on news, 11:30 pm world news AND the Streets of San Fransisco. Lol
As a kid I talked to Richard Hart for a few minutes at some Ice Cream event near the Gift Center. He was pretty coo,l even when asking him dumb ass 7 year old questions. On that note wonder if he dressed up as Phil Collins for a Halloween in the 80s.
That was my all-time favorite starting news graphic in my childhood.😀 Oxymoronically, this soporific theme song woke me and my parents up in the morning!!🌚
I believe this segment was broadcast on the final edition of WBZ's "Evening Magazine". Boston was the second city to adopt "Evening" (in April of 1977); San Francisco's KPIX created the format and aired it as a local show beginning in 1976. Once there were multiple stations carrying "Evening", they began top exchange segments. By the fall of 977, the other there Group W/Westinghouse stations (in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) had launched their own versions of "Evening". Their huge successes led Group W to franchise "Evening" to other cities (in the non-Group W cities, it was titled "PM magazine"). Each station had it's own local hosts and produced a few segments a week; segments that each station thought had national appeal would be sent to the national "Evening"/"PM" office (which I think was in San Francisco) and if the national office agreed, these segments would be distributed to the other stations running "Evening"/"PM", who could then run these segments in their cities. So in a typical week, one would see both locally-produced segments and segments produced by other members of the "Evening"/"PM" cooperative. TV needs something like "Evening/PM Magazine" today!
