Another DC area news memory being awoken. I can't get over Mike Buchanan, Bob Strickland, Bob Dalton and Patrick McGrath - even JC. Heyward! I needed this after the late Jim Vance passing. Thanks to you for posting this video.
Since this is Bob Dalton, it must have been a weekend newscast. I worked at WTOP during that time. It was an amazing experience. I used to be an Assistant Director and worked there about 4 years. I remember all those guys. Thanks for posting this bit of broadcast history. Who knows, I could have even worked on this broadcast!
Are you the guy who wrote the "THERE'S NO FUXXING AUDIO !!!" story? I laughed so hard when I read this because I remember hearing it on the air many years ago while visiting my aunt in La Plata, Md.
Sounds like it's from Election Day, so it would have been a Tuesday. This was just months after we moved into the DC area--this is mostly the Eyewitness News lineup I remember seeing as a kid.
I don’t think so. It was Election Night ’72 (Tuesday, November 7, 1972). Gordon Peterson & Max Robinson we’re covering the election results at the Campaign studios there during the CBS News national coverage.
Hi Greg, I've talked with Frank Herzog. He told me he was at WTOP radio at this time, but that they would pull him in to work a weekend, fill in for someone etc. Do you recall Frank at WTOP 9 in these early days? He was hired later in a full-time role but that was in I believe 1979.
Thank You for posting this, brings back memories of childhood.❤ Native Washington DC person here, grew up in DC and Eyewitness News was the favorite news broadcast in my Family in the 1960s-1970s. Normally that music was the signal for me to go to bed {LOL}, but I do remember seeing some late night broadcasts sometimes, JC Hayward spoke at my High School in 1980s.
Wow, when I heard the theme music to this, I took a trip back to my childhood. Funny how your brain works, certain music or images can trigger your memory
Great seeing Strickland, JC and the others... Really miss Mike's haunting voice when reporting crimes... After loyal service for 30 years, gotta be a better way to cut the ties and make everyone, including viewers happy!
This really took me back. When I heard the theme song come on, it was like it all came back, and I even remembered the theme and started humming it. I miss those days.
@@ZnenTitan I just found out where it came from--it's from the overture to the flop 60s stage musical "It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman"! The tune is from a song in which Lois Lane laments being in love with Superman.
That newsroom looks like something from the BBC. A very interesting video, especially when it was during the highly contested 1972 Presidential Election.
Just think...someone just dropped acid, 'shrooms or something else altering realty. Then that Channel 9 legal I.D. and wild visual and music happens. A mind blowing experience.
I've always thought it was amazing that Nixon would go to all that illegal trouble for an election that he was going to win in a walloping landslide anyway. He could have played it straight and been fine. It's not like recent elections where everything seems to be a game of inches.
The music is the title song from the musical "Superman." One reason they chose it was that the show was a bomb, so they figured few viewers would recognize it. I heard that either on ZWTOP radio or TV.
