WJLA-TV 7 Washington, D.C. News 7 + Commercials August 14,1980 

1982 about 25 months after this broadcast AIR FLORIDA FLIGHT 90 smashed into the Potomac river LITERALLY bc of exactly what this concerned pilot is saying around the 15 minute mark of the video. CHILLS up my spine! THIS MAN PREDICTED THE DISASTER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER! This video is very important for this reason!

I was 7 and probably saw this broadcast in the background while we ate supper. 80's DC kid, plenty of memories

A younger Chris Gordon reading the news for Channel 7 in 1980 with longer hair and a mustache.

Other well known newsmen who also read the news for WMAL/WJLA-TV: Bryson Rash,Harry K. Smith,Fred Thomas,Paul Berry, Jim Clarke,Wes Sarginson,Charles Gibson,Jim Steer,Chris Curle David Schoumacher,Rene Pouissant,Gwen Dillard,Dolores Handy, Ed Turney,Gordon Peterson and Maureen Bunyan. That's longtime staff announcer Fred Weiss doing the weather.

1:52, Classic! WJLA, having the old ABC News theme, as their own news theme.

Isn't that Sela Ward in the Maybelline commercial?

John Lennon was still alive during this broadcast?

Can't believe they ever actually considered allowing jumbo jets to use National Airport. That airport was scary enough flying on a 727.