The recording on this tape was actually started here to tape the news, but cut off a bit before the end. This may be the first vintage newscast on RU-vid at 60fps, if I'm wrong please tell me what is!
@@cfoster81 Incorrect. As Rollo was right in stating that Roker was born in raised in the NYC area. And went to college at a small college in Upstate New York near the Canadian border. FYI Roker also has had some famous family relatives being of Afro-Caribbean American . That includes Rock/Pop Star Lenny Kravitz and his late Mom who played "Helen" on the hit comedy series the "Jeffersons."
I knew Al worked in Cleveland for a bit as well. However did not know he also worked in DC as well. Wow he was a then 'kid" probably in his first major TV weather casting job.
When Al Roker was in D.C., that's when he first met Willard Scott. When Al was on this station, Willard was on WRC Ch 4. Also on the NBC station in Washington at the same time was Al's future WNBC anchor Sue Simmons.
IKAROS 420, before deregulation of broadcast television every station had to demonstrate it was operating in the community service. Its news was part of that service. In the 1980s those requirements were dropped, television "infomercials" became common and ratings and market share was the only thing of value for a station. Public service became irrelevant. Today the old system would be called "socialism."
The lower frame rate was my biggest problem with online video. Glad it's possible to do video properly now, but it's still far too rare overall. Commercial services that have videotaped sitcoms still can't get those right, nor anyone who's been putting recent news clips online!
I've noticed some of my videos and others will play at the right frame rate through my LG TV's RU-vid app while others do not. The Roku app, which looks about the same, does play everything right. Wish I knew what encoding I had to use for it to work everywhere, or that they'd update the other apps.
1978 was also the year Suffolk Marketing, responsible for the success of Slim Whitman and Boxcar Willie, released 50 Songs You'll Always Love, a compilation of old-time standards performed by "The Fabulous Fingers of" Irving Fields at the piano. I hope you have the 50 Songs ad somewhere in your archives. Keep up the good work!
Also I see they are still using the filmchain system for programming. This was a transitional period where video was taking it's place. The full conversion was completed about 82 or 83.
I’m gonna download as many of these videos as I can and edit the commercials around episodes of shows like The Odd Couple and Mash and just take myself back to my childhood once in a while. Things were so much simpler and tolerable back then.
The music in the commercial at 23:16 should be very familiar to fans of TV sign offs; it’s the same music from the “High Flight” film narrated by William Conrad!
@@DHTSciFiArtist That's what they used for the opening music. The music in the Seiko Watch commercial is a library track, also used on the High Flight sign-off film and Pioneer's "Laserdisc: What It Is".
@@dgendvilMaury Povich hosted Panorama in January 1975. Someone I knew closely appeared as a guest on it during that month and year. Before the camera started recording, my relative and Maury had a friendly conversation. WTTG did not save the videotape. It is gone.
At 25:27 there's a sportscaster named Dan Patrick. But its NOT the famous ESPN dude, it's the OTHER Dan Patrick - the GOP tool in Texas! I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Dan Patrick should have stuck to sports!"