NBC News: Today, May 16, 1972-Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The first hour of NBC's long-running national morning show, as broadcast via WRC-TV in Washington, DC. Commercials are included. The lead story was the assassination attempt on George Wallace.
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Back then, you actually LISTENED to the news. Today, it's all video, joking anchors and commercials, especially the morning shows.
MediaWatchDawg I know!! That's why I gave up on "Today." I've seen classic clips with Dave Garroway and it was a mixture of news and good human interest for the 1950's, today it's noting but lame gimmicks and way too much fluff.
CBS This Morning has 2 solid hours of news.
Barbara Walters had problems with McGee. McGee was to much of a professional news man for Walters.
This is priceless footage
Listen to that telephone line-induced audio. When I was a kid, I could tell what network was on the tv by listening to its audio. Seemed each network's sound had its own nuances...and look at Today--a true hard news program, not the ladies coffee-clatch it has devolved into...
Yep, the old "5k telco" lines (5k as in 5 KHz audio frequency response) AT&T used to use for their broadcast TV audio & radio feeds in their Bell System days.
I'm old enough to remember when network television audio still used to sound like that in the early '80s, just before the Bell System was broken up in '84 per government decree. Which resulted then in AT&T Long Lines (who handled broadcast feeds over their network then, along with their long-distance telephone traffic) mostly getting out of the broadcast distribution industry with their terrestrial facilities (microwave, cable, etc).
That resulted in other telecom companies pretty much taking over the broadcast distribution market then with satellite distribution (RCA Americom with their Satcom satellites, Western Union with Westar, GTE with Spacenet & GStar, etc), which was much cheaper and provided better video and especially audio quality nationwide compared to AT&T's prior Long Lines infrastructure for broadcast distribution. Eventually AT&T got into the satellite distribution arena with their Comstar and Telstar sats in the early 80s (and prior, IINM) right after their government-mandated breakup.
At 7:25 for Amarillo, TX, KGNC is now KAMR, KGNC had became KAMR 2 years after this aired
The time when The Today Show was a serious news program.
R.I.P. Barbara Walters
The Today Show was professional and newsworthy with Frank McGee . McGee never got the credit like Tom Brokaw did in later years.
actually, he was recognized during the 90s on its 40th year. still, it's a shame for NBC not to include his work on the later anniversary specials.
The Today Show was at it's best under Frank Mcgee a real old school journalist. Today Show now is a fluff show with fluff news people.
I was born later this evening
Bremer (Wallace's shooter) had actually been in Ottawa, Canada a few weeks before this during a visit there by Richard Nixon to the Canadian Parliament---when he realized security was too tight to attack Nixon he headed back to the US and then followed Wallace's campaign as Wallace would be an easier target
The forecast roll aired on stations that didn't cover the local breaks.
Why IS everyone criticizing today's news as fluff, spin, jokes and opinion?
I recall watching this before leaving for school. Such a violent society.
14:45 price of gold 50ish 😅 All time highs (it was on the way to 800 in the next few years lol.
Bremer wrote a diary.....
"Griffin found the 148-page portion of the diary Aug. 26, 1980, while on a construction job. Wrapped in plastic and tinfoil, it is a rambling account of Bremer's thoughts between March 2 and April 3 of 1972.
Bremer tried to get the diary back but a judge ruled it was abandoned property and awarded it to Griffin in 1981.
'Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace,' is the way it began.
It is a sometimes incoherent discourse by Bremer of how the world might view him if he shot someone famous.
'It's worth death or a long trial and life in prison,' he wrote. 'Life outside ain't so hot. I want to do something bold and dramatic, forcefull and dynamic. A statement of my manhood for the world to see.'"
Karma is hell Wallace!
Gordon Graham later went to WXYZ-TV in Detroit before joining CNN HN. I bumped into him and one of the Hot Fudge Show's puppets, Mona at the Children's Immunization Fair at the Belle Isle Casino in August of 1979.
MikeTeaveeJr I remember him on WXYZ. You just dusted off a memory.
Had it not been for the previous day's shooting of Governor Wallace, Frank McGee would have also co-hosted his part of "The Today Show" that morning from Detroit.
Frank McGee was better qualified to handle all things, at any time.
Does anyone have the clip when they first broke in with news of the shooting?
Why did Frank McGee say they were shocked by the shooting?
Strange to look back and realize that the Wallace shooting inspired the film 'Taxi Driver' which in turn supposedly inspired John Hickley.
tom sanderson At the time, the nation was just moving on from.RFK death in 1968
this was a case of attempted murder. Bremer wound up serving 35 years in prison.
This is priceless Footage
"Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years (53 years after an appeal) in a Maryland prison for the shooting of Wallace and three bystanders. "
He was released in 2007.
When you actually got the news without opinion and spin
Sure
It looks like the station identification for the today show looks like a piece of denim behind it lol if anybody knows what I’m talking about. We’ve come a long way in technology for news shows.
What is ironic about this broadcast is that the circumstances between the George Wallace assassination attempt in Laurel, MD and the Congressional Baseball practice shooting in Alexandria, VA 45 years later is the level of reactions between both events. The public still can't or won't understand that what happens in other countries can happen here - including the Greater Washington area.
doesn't pbs does stuff like this?
i guess back in those days the "today show" did not have a weatherman.
It did. The late Frank Blair did the national weather.
Does it say it is Twelve o'clock?
The clock only had a minute hand because stations in the Central time zone picked up the second hour (8 a.m. Eastern) of Today live and followed with the first hour on tape delay.
IIRC Nowadays they just air the whole thing on tape delay in the central,eastern,and pacific time zones.
The forecast roll at 7:50 looks like it was done with a Teleprompter scroller, and the text looks like it's a printed paper Teleprompter scroll of the era as well with extra smaller lettering (rub-on Letraset, maybe?) added for the conditions and temperature.
+Ryan Schweitzer Looks like AP or UPI teletype copy, but some groovy Prestype may be in there! Gotta love those hi tech '70's! ;-)
Indeed--we've come a loooong way for TV graphics technology since then! :) It's just quite charming to see how low-tech things were back then (and how they made do with it, suprisingly).
SPOILER ALERT: George Wallace was NOT elected to the white house later that November...
Once the date hits 2020 the 1900's will start to seem like the 1800's did to people like me back during this time.
BOBMILIN Huh? In 1972 they were at least 73 years removed from the 1800s, while even in 2020 we will be only 21 years removed from the 1900s. That is within the vast majority of adults’ lifetimes.
00:08 LOL