Same here. I think it will be a snowy winter here in Brooklyn if temperatures get cold enough. We had one of the wettest falls in recent memory. What do you think?
I was 13, living in suburban NJ, watching this on a 25' console TV eating dinner on a folding "TV tray" lol. Who would have thought 45 years later I'd see it again on a 50" flat screen.
My 7 year old self who ran from the news and hid under my parents bed because 10pm meant bed time, would be absolutely shocked that something like this is nostalgic and means something to me! I long for those innocent times and nights again as an almost 50 year old.
@kristinheath9723 ik lololI was just going to say, "You got to stay up until 10?! I had to go at 8 - when it was still light outside and I could her other kids still outside playing," - at 7:30 ik you know what I mean lol, the indignity!
As a New Yorker, born and raised, this Brings back memories. The City was under tremendous financial pressure and everyone,especially the working class and the poor, paid the price
ESPN owes him a debt of gratitude. He blazed a trail making sports a vital part of the broadcast. Before him they just read the scores. He brought video sports clips to the mainstream. No one did it before him. Everyone did it after.
He was a small man and he brought on Andre the Giant once, Andre picked him up like a little girl and Wolf tried to give Andre a lawsuit for making him feel so tiny
Me too, born in '65... I grew up in Jackson Hghts, Queens, and we watched ABC 7 NYC every night... obvi didn't care about it except for the Yankee's & Frank (& Storm) Fields Weather....!!!! Then I became a fan of ch 4 somebody & sue Simmons...??? I took the 7 train my whole life into the City, left 23 yrs ago b4 Y2k and live by TN... never happier...
I was 10. We lived in Woodside, Qns until we moved upstate when my baby sister was born. I wrote an essay on the Blizzard of 77-78. My 3rd grade teacher submitted it to the NY Daily News and they printed it! What a different world!
We're the same age, I was born in Jersey City. We spent a lot of time in the City. I remember those days really well. This was classic 70s New York TV, along with Crazy Eddie and Carvel commercials.
March 8th, 1978 - I was six living on Staten Island, NY and my parents were going through a divorce; but Roger Grimsby's "Here now the news." makes me smile. Bill Beutel? Chi Chi Williams? Like old family friends who would come to visit. :)
It was really Bill Beutel that changed the news reporting landscape forever. He introduced in-person news reporting. Before that, most news reporters handed over their stories to producers and anchors to be reported. Beutel was doing his stories and interviews live and in person. He passed that format along and gave the evening news a method of reporting that’s still with us today. He also helped craft the Morning News “show” format as well. His contributions to journalism were practically endless.
Sir, I cannot thank you enough for posting these videos and what makes this much more meaningful is that you left the ads in place. It is exactly the way it was in 1978. It is literally watching TV exactly the way it was. Precisely. I am truly home again, except without the smell of Mom making dinner. Unlike too many publishers who upload videos like this and radio uploads, they have an insane obsession with "THE BEST OF" It's massively cut up and after a few minutes, becomes unpleasant to listen to, then it's time to turn it off. One gent insists on uploading "THE BEST OF BOB GRANT" for two hours it's just yelling and screaming and that's not what the Bob Grant show was. I asked him to hit record and go shopping or something. He said people wouldn't be interested then. I said NO! you wouldn't be interested. Sorry for being long winded, but these videos of yours are just precious. And thank you.
I met Bill Beutel many years ago, a hell of a nice guy and a real gentleman. These were journalists, and a lot of reporters nowadays could learn a lot from every one of them.
A law called the Fairness Doctrine required broadcast news to present both sides of a story in a fair and unbiased way. Once cable news came along, the FCC couldn't regulate it, and so the law was dumped. Too bad, as people used to actually become educated voters by watching the news back then.
@@texaswunderkind Yet, even in the 60s, some people thought Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in America wasn't honest for saying being in Vietnam was meaningless and helping take down Nixon. You can bet if Fox News existed then, Archie Bunker would have watched it religiously.
Exactly! And the Reagan administration destroyed that by abolishing the FCC Fairness Doctrine. Afterwards the media became more biased, and political and of course, more profitable!
“Chee Chee Williams” ….Bill Beutel and Roger Grimsby, Gloria Rojas, John Johnson and Roseanne Scamardella! What a staff! These guys would make CNN or MSNBC number one by millions
Omigod. I am once again 11 years old living in NYC sitting on the living room floor watching the news. After playing outside for hours, watching the news was a must for us.
Interesting fact: Charles Rocket, during the disastrous 6th season of SNL, anchored the Weekend Update and used the “Here now the news” line. Rocket had actually been a news anchor before his stint on SNL, the only Weekend Update anchor to have done so.
@@TimBoyd2012 - We know Chevy Chase's "Update" opening - "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not" - was a parody of Grimsby's sign-on. Which Chevy's successor, Jane Curtin, would use verbatim as Rocket would. She even used his "Hoping your news is good news" close once, within this season.
How refreshing to see these people again. It’s like watching films of old friends. It’s funny how their voices and their style is in grand in your head as a young New Yorker. Listen to them back in the day. Years & Years later they’re vocal, cadence, style and tone seem like home.
Growing up in San Mateo, CA in the sixties, Roger Grimsby was the news anchor for the only local TV channel (not a network channel). He came on either at 9:30 or 10:30 pm and did a half hour of news all by himself. I always asked permission to stay up and listen to him. Already had his signature lead in of I'm Roger Grimsby, here now the news. Loved hearing that again. Loved the way he simply went through every story in such a straightforward, no nonsense manner. No opinions, no comments, just facts of what happened. Wish today's news readers were like him. I get sick of hearing what a news reader thinks about a story, or comments upon it. Roger was the best. We moved ftom the Bay Area and I lost track of Roger until I saw he was in NYC. Thank you Roger for here now the news, just the news and nothing but the news. The way it should be done.
@@E_Legal_Alien Nice addendum. In the mid 70s I was living in Eugene, OR, and got Dennis, Elaine and Gary Park on the SF channel, which broadcast that far north. Also got Giant games on the same channel, and one year the Giant TV broadcasters were Gary Park and Al Michaels. Gary Park was a great sports reporter. Dennis and Elaine were great anchors. Loved that broadcast. Watched them all the time. Also got the all time best sports play by play guy, Bill King, for Warrior games; "15 foot shot, goes 14, rebound...." "Rat-A-Tat-Tat of the iron and the shot rims out...." "Tattoos the floor with the dribble" "Touchdown Raiders!" He also did the As games with Lon Simmons for a year or two. Listened to Simmons with Russ Hodges on the radio all the time for Giant games in the 60s, and on tv for Giant away games; "Bye, bye baby." A SF Chronicle sportswriter always ragged on Simmons for the "That's Right Lon Show" because Lon always asked leading questions in post game interviews that always prompted that response. Great memories all around.
@der22672 Holy Mackerel! I didn't know Richard Simmons had been on General Hospital. I will say that the interview he gave in this video is one of his best. His point was crystal clear. Thus really was a gem.
This came up on My RUclips Page as I was getting ready for work this morning. AND MMMAAAAAANNN... I was almost late catching the bus because I was falling into New York News Nostalgia. This was Me at 15, coming home from Music & Art High School in Harlem (in those days). And preparing to watch My Favorite News Channel. With My Favorite News Team. Thanks for the archival memories.
I was 15 when this aired. This and the commercials (I remember all of them) brings back great memories growing up in Suffolk County N.Y. I'd like to see more of these. Thank you
I was 12 years old in March 1978 (turned 13 in June that year), living in Brooklyn, and most likely watching this broadcast. I almost never missed Channel 7 Eyewitness in the evening. Love these guys. Classic! Brings back so much memories of my growing up in NYC!
I was born in the Sixties and was Kid in the seventies,. The City went through some tough times and the Eyewitness News was always there for the Good times and Bad !!! I loved all of the Reporters and staff !!! !!! !!!
Geraldo Rivera started his career as an Eyewitness News reporter and was actually good at his job. That was long before he realized that he could make a lot more money as a right-wing buffoon.
Oh jeez, I was 11 years old ... The city continues to crumble in 2023 and politicians are still corrupt ... Thank you for posting this video, long Island 💛
Whoa. This takes me back. The accents…Grimsby, Beutel. I was 10 in ‘78. Long Island native but moved away when I was 21. Listening to this brought back so many memories. Amazing how it didn’t take two people to finish a paragraph. So much better presentation of topics.
Thank you for sharing this news. I was 7 years old living in New Jersey, my dad always watched the news at 11 with these anchors. I can like others on here close my eyes and memories come to me. Todays news is dead with one sided politics, no longer real news, only what elites, pharma and corporations want us to here. How times have changed and some for the worst. At least we have this to go back on our sort of speak Time Machine. Thank you again.
As a 12 yr old boy I would what this as it was the local news. I lived in Fairfield county Connecticut so this was local NY station we watched. These 2 guys were great. Just news.
NYC’s Eyewitnesses New was the number 1 news show for entire metro area. Watching this episode has brought great memories. I especially love Grimsby’s deadpanned delivery. He was the most popular member of the news cast.
Absolutely incredible that TV was like this at one time.The news was what it was.....the world would never be perfect.....but such pleasant commercials for the most part.And not one for a freakin medical plan or a medication or toxic water lawsuit!!!!!
Fantastic! Took me back to when I was a 12-year-old boy in Hoboken NJ & the entire family would gather around the TV set and watch Roger Grimsby & Bill Beutel. Warner Wolf on sports!
Recently they had the 50th anniversary of WABC Eyewitness News in New York past and present news colleagues do remember Roger Grimsby and Bill BEUTEL John Johnson and Doug Johnson as a kid
Brings back sweet memories for me. After school it was The Edge of Night at 4 then the 4:30 movie, then Eyewitness News at six while my Mom and Dad came home from work and got dinner ready.
WABC Channel 7 in NY used to share the cameras with ALL MY CHILDREN since both were filmed in the same building. This went on every night for many years because the network news budgets were so tight back in the day. This was in Susan Lucci's biography.
Yes, also the production crew of the goth soap opera "Dark Shadows" would borrow the ABC network minicams. They had to work fast to return the cams to the network.
Up until a few years ago, EWN shared a studio with Live!, which is why the studio in the late 2000s/early 2010s looked so ridiculously small and not very flashy. It’s also why GMA cutins were done in the newsroom, to give the crew time to clear the EWN morning news set and get the Live! set ready.
Not really, by 1978. At the time of this newscast, "EWN" was in a studio at 7 West 66th Street, while "AMC" (and "One Life To Live") taped at 101 West 67th Street, and apparently the "ABC Evening News" originated from the Hotel Des Artistes on 67th Street before "World News Tonight" came into being. Even ABC's purchases of color cameras when they "went color" varied wildly. "EWN" used Norelco PC-70's.
Even with budget cuts and overcrowded classrooms, we had some of the best teachers and education in public school. There were a few teachers that were off the wall wackos, but the majority that I had were great.
I lived in New York at this time and while I don't remember specifically, it must have been a rough winter with it being March 8th and still lots of snow on the streets.
Growing up in NYC, we used to argue about who was more drunk for the 6 o'clock news, Roger Grimsby on channel 7 or Jim Jensen on channel 2. I think it was usually Roger.
What is this?!?! Omg, this is amazing!! 😭😭😭😭 I'm literally bawling my eyes out right now. I was only 7 at the time, but, would go back any second. Thank you for this. I need more. ❤
The opening music sounds like a ticker tape machine or an updated one as of 1978. News doesn't come like that now for the average person. The news is all over the web.
The pharmaceutical commercials make up 18 out of 22 commercials on today’s evening news. They are depressing, disgusting, and slimy in their manipulativeness. The Good Seasons commercial of the lady who wouldn’t switch was nice…because good seasons was quite nice. Imagine a pleasant commercial that doesn’t force, in your face, your mortality; that’s what the drug commercials do.
This was the most wonderfully florid, over the top newscast I have ever seen. Now I know why Chevy Chase said he based his SNL news anchor on Roger Grimsby! God bless the 1970s and God bless NYC!!
I couldn't help but notice as I am watching this video in March of 2020 how cold and how much snow there was in NYC in March of 1978. I lived in Cincinnati at the time and the winter was brutal there as well. Hope we never have a cold snowy winter that bad again. The only year in my life we had a true blizzard.
Reporter: "Well the traffic dept says that S&D maintenance is not doing a good job" Scott Berger: "As far as I could see they're not doing any job." Bam!!!!!
Grew up watching Roger, Bill and the rest of the Eyewitnesses News Team - the standard and model for what became the local news style genre in other top markets!! Al Primo - the news director who became a consultant was the architect of this style where the news people were “personalities “ or “characters” but the key was that each talent had to have something unique about them - be it their distinctive voices and delivery - marquee looks and a “signature “ thing they did or said on air! WABC 7 also featured the most diverse “cast” on local TV - other top markets tried to emulate. Bill Buetel, by the way, had one of the great voices and deliveries on air - Roger Grimsby was great too! Chuck Scarborough would come to the market later at WNBC 4 - and Roland Smith at WCBS was wonderful as well. There are so many other notables… 🙏🏿
Spent most of my life in New York City. When I got admitted to grad school in California in 1976, I got out as fast as I could. I did come back in 1987-2002 and the city wasn’t as bad, but moved away for good in 2002. Hard to believe I used to travel with my grandmother in the early 60’s by subway when the seats were straw seats and there were vending machines in the subway.
I could watch the news from the 70s for hours . I cannot watch the news from 2023 for five seconds .
🎯👍 amen!
Basically
Agree!!!
The news today is horrible, makes me want to vomit
Yes
I closed my eyes while playing this video and I promise you I felt like I was back in my parents living room. Amazing.
When you were the remote control.
@@MuzixMaker
Yes!
So true
Me too, I nearly started crying. I was 7 living in Bk NY, that classic Music before the news started. Was like it was yesterday.
Me too! I was living in Washington Heights at the time. Things got so bad. We moved to Fort Lee NJ.
Younger people don’t realize how messed up NYC was in the 70’s
But it is so much better now, right?
Watching this from Brooklyn NY in 2023. Pure gold with some subtle comedy bits from the anchors. Thank you!
Grimsby and Beutel were a tag team ‘Odd Couple’!
Same here.
I think it will be a snowy winter here in Brooklyn if temperatures get cold enough.
We had one of the wettest falls in recent memory.
What do you think?
I was 13, living in suburban NJ, watching this on a 25' console TV eating dinner on a folding "TV tray" lol. Who would have thought 45 years later I'd see it again on a 50" flat screen.
Watching 70s news is far less stressful than today’s.
Even as the city was in much worst shape. So interesting.
Not everything was “breaking news” back then
Yeah, nowadays like 90 percent of the local news is reports of violent crimes and other disturbing activity.
News changed when CNN started
And back then they thought the world was crumbling
My 7 year old self who ran from the news and hid under my parents bed because 10pm meant bed time, would be absolutely shocked that something like this is nostalgic and means something to me! I long for those innocent times and nights again as an almost 50 year old.
My parents made me go to bed at 7:30 when I was 7! My 7 year old self is outraged!
I am 51, lots of meaning. Bells rang watching this. :lol:
Me To.🛶
@kristinheath9723 ik lololI was just going to say, "You got to stay up until 10?! I had to go at 8 - when it was still light outside and I could her other kids still outside playing," - at 7:30 ik you know what I mean lol, the indignity!
I miss the old broken down and dirty NYC.
As a New Yorker, born and raised, this Brings back memories. The City was under tremendous financial pressure and everyone,especially the working class and the poor, paid the price
Guess what "What's old is new again"....
This is so true :)
Well, it’s back to the 70s for NYC now.
It’s getting what it voted for.
Warner Wolf famous for brilliant phrases like "let's go to the videotape" at the time. Does anyone remember him now.
Only as a caricature, but at least he's remembered!
ESPN owes him a debt of gratitude. He blazed a trail making sports a vital part of the broadcast. Before him they just read the scores. He brought video sports clips to the mainstream. No one did it before him. Everyone did it after.
I remember when Warner wolf teeth fell out
It's the fair pole
He was a small man and he brought on Andre the Giant once, Andre picked him up like a little girl and Wolf tried to give Andre a lawsuit for making him feel so tiny
Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel,nothing comes close to a Classic TV News Couple!
Are they still alive?
I agree with you, Michael.
Loved the intro from Cool Hand Luke and loved the news with Roger and Bill! Nothing better!
@@jamesmack3314 - Long deceased. Grimsby shuffled off onto the mortal coil in 1995, Beutel in 2006.
I was 11 in 78'.
Incredible watching this 45 years later. I was 13 at the time and remember those days very fondly.
I was 11. WOW!
Me too, born in '65... I grew up in Jackson Hghts, Queens, and we watched ABC 7 NYC every night... obvi didn't care about it except for the Yankee's & Frank (& Storm) Fields Weather....!!!! Then I became a fan of ch 4 somebody & sue Simmons...??? I took the 7 train my whole life into the City, left 23 yrs ago b4 Y2k and live by TN... never happier...
I was 10. We lived in Woodside, Qns until we moved upstate when my baby sister was born. I wrote an essay on the Blizzard of 77-78. My 3rd grade teacher submitted it to the NY Daily News and they printed it! What a different world!
We're the same age, I was born in Jersey City. We spent a lot of time in the City. I remember those days really well. This was classic 70s New York TV, along with Crazy Eddie and Carvel commercials.
I was 5 days old 😂
The people over 70 in this video were alive when the Titanic sank and experienced the roaring 1920s. Wow.
March 8th, 1978 - I was six living on Staten Island, NY and my parents were going through a divorce; but Roger Grimsby's "Here now the news." makes me smile. Bill Beutel? Chi Chi Williams? Like old family friends who would come to visit. :)
I was 8 living on southern Blvd in the Bronx my parents had been split up 4 or 5 years
My mother was 4 months pregnant with me. 😁
An amazing number of packages, all on film. The amount of effort, time and cash that went into a nightly newscast back in '78 is astounding.
J Polar Plus Vehicles and Other Products
Lots more people were needed before electronic communications
#daytrippingEastvsWest
From the City so nice they named it Twice. 😊
Yeah, but the number of viewers made it a very profitable. On the UK side they called ITV the only legal way to print money.
Roger Gimsby back when local news had credibility..class act
"Good evening, I'm Roger Grimsby, here now the news,"
It was really Bill Beutel that changed the news reporting landscape forever. He introduced in-person news reporting. Before that, most news reporters handed over their stories to producers and anchors to be reported. Beutel was doing his stories and interviews live and in person. He passed that format along and gave the evening news a method of reporting that’s still with us today. He also helped craft the Morning News “show” format as well. His contributions to journalism were practically endless.
When NYC was affordable for ordinary residents
Crumbling though.
@@MeMe-in8tj so great though...loved it back then..great times
When life was affordable to any working person…..
Sir, I cannot thank you enough for posting these videos and what makes this much more meaningful is that you left the ads in place. It is exactly the way it was in 1978. It is literally watching TV exactly the way it was. Precisely. I am truly home again, except without the smell of Mom making dinner.
Unlike too many publishers who upload videos like this and radio uploads, they have an insane obsession with "THE BEST OF" It's massively cut up and after a few minutes, becomes unpleasant to listen to, then it's time to turn it off. One gent insists on uploading "THE BEST OF BOB GRANT" for two hours it's just yelling and screaming and that's not what the Bob Grant show was. I asked him to hit record and go shopping or something. He said people wouldn't be interested then. I said NO! you wouldn't be interested.
Sorry for being long winded, but these videos of yours are just precious. And thank you.
Perfectly said styldsteel!!!
I met Bill Beutel many years ago, a hell of a nice guy and a real gentleman. These were journalists, and a lot of reporters nowadays could learn a lot from every one of them.
When the news told you the news and didn’t play politics
A law called the Fairness Doctrine required broadcast news to present both sides of a story in a fair and unbiased way. Once cable news came along, the FCC couldn't regulate it, and so the law was dumped. Too bad, as people used to actually become educated voters by watching the news back then.
Local news still gives you the news not to b confused with cable news which is opinion
@@texaswunderkind Yet, even in the 60s, some people thought Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in America wasn't honest for saying being in Vietnam was meaningless and helping take down Nixon. You can bet if Fox News existed then, Archie Bunker would have watched it religiously.
I mean they aren’t playing partisan politics but the crumbling infrastructure piece is pretty good example of yellow journalism.
Exactly! And the Reagan administration destroyed that by abolishing the FCC Fairness Doctrine. Afterwards the media became more biased, and political and of course, more profitable!
“Chee Chee Williams” ….Bill Beutel and Roger Grimsby, Gloria Rojas, John Johnson and Roseanne Scamardella!
What a staff!
These guys would make CNN or MSNBC number one by millions
I love these full broadcasts with commercials! And such great quality!
Omigod. I am once again 11 years old living in NYC sitting on the living room floor watching the news. After playing outside for hours, watching the news was a must for us.
Me too!!! I was 101/2. Lol @ playing outside all day!!
Highly professional journalism - way better than nowadays! Side note: I wish I had as cool-sounding a voice as Roger Grimsby.
Anchors try to be cute and funny today. The commentary from news reporters today is not needed.
Interesting fact: Charles Rocket, during the disastrous 6th season of SNL, anchored the Weekend Update and used the “Here now the news” line.
Rocket had actually been a news anchor before his stint on SNL, the only Weekend Update anchor to have done so.
@@TimBoyd2012 - We know Chevy Chase's "Update" opening - "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not" - was a parody of Grimsby's sign-on. Which Chevy's successor, Jane Curtin, would use verbatim as Rocket would. She even used his "Hoping your news is good news" close once, within this season.
How refreshing to see these people again. It’s like watching films of old friends. It’s funny how their voices and their style is in grand in your head as a young New Yorker. Listen to them back in the day. Years & Years later they’re vocal, cadence, style and tone seem like home.
I forgot Grimsby's deadpan delivery of jokes and his comedic side. He was truly funny.
I grew up in New York in the 70's. I can say for sure, Roger Grimsby was the bomb. RIP.
Wow brings back so many memories. I never watched the news as a kid but remember these voices. When my parents would watch. Bring back the 70s
“Employees at the zoo say their wages have been frozen since 1975 & someone forgot to freeze their expenses.” Amen. & wages have yet to thaw.
Growing up in San Mateo, CA in the sixties, Roger Grimsby was the news anchor for the only local TV channel (not a network channel). He came on either at 9:30 or 10:30 pm and did a half hour of news all by himself. I always asked permission to stay up and listen to him. Already had his signature lead in of I'm Roger Grimsby, here now the news. Loved hearing that again. Loved the way he simply went through every story in such a straightforward, no nonsense manner. No opinions, no comments, just facts of what happened. Wish today's news readers were like him. I get sick of hearing what a news reader thinks about a story, or comments upon it. Roger was the best. We moved ftom the Bay Area and I lost track of Roger until I saw he was in NYC. Thank you Roger for here now the news, just the news and nothing but the news. The way it should be done.
Dennis Richmond and Elaine Corral on KTVU
@@E_Legal_Alien Nice addendum. In the mid 70s I was living in Eugene, OR, and got Dennis, Elaine and Gary Park on the SF channel, which broadcast that far north. Also got Giant games on the same channel, and one year the Giant TV broadcasters were Gary Park and Al Michaels. Gary Park was a great sports reporter. Dennis and Elaine were great anchors. Loved that broadcast. Watched them all the time. Also got the all time best sports play by play guy, Bill King, for Warrior games; "15 foot shot, goes 14, rebound...." "Rat-A-Tat-Tat of the iron and the shot rims out...." "Tattoos the floor with the dribble" "Touchdown Raiders!" He also did the As games with Lon Simmons for a year or two. Listened to Simmons with Russ Hodges on the radio all the time for Giant games in the 60s, and on tv for Giant away games; "Bye, bye baby." A SF Chronicle sportswriter always ragged on Simmons for the "That's Right Lon Show" because Lon always asked leading questions in post game interviews that always prompted that response. Great memories all around.
@38:17 pre-fame Richard Simmons. This is a gem right here.
It wouldn’t be pre-fame for long. In 1979, he would join General Hospital, and his exercise empire would take off.
@der22672 Holy Mackerel! I didn't know Richard Simmons had been on General Hospital. I will say that the interview he gave in this video is one of his best. His point was crystal clear. Thus really was a gem.
And today the average person can't even afford a space in New York City.
Notice how just about everyone being interviewed has a New York accent?
You won't be hearing much of that in Newscasts now......no mas.
its pathetic, i have that accent and no matter where i go IN THE WORLD people know I'm from NYC and i like it that way. It really needs a come back.
Plus all the tourists now in NYC- notice now when reporters ask questions around timessquare , parts of Manhattan -they are talking to tourists.😁
This came up on My RUclips Page as I was getting ready for work this morning.
AND MMMAAAAAANNN...
I was almost late catching the bus because I was falling into New York News Nostalgia.
This was Me at 15, coming home from Music & Art High School in Harlem (in those days).
And preparing to watch My Favorite News Channel.
With My Favorite News Team.
Thanks for the archival memories.
Love the New York Accents
Thank you so much 💖
Seems like no one nowadays in NY have the accent except some older people.
Pawking meters…
@@a.b.s_productions blame the out of town hipsters moving in the city....
New Yorkers are starting to sound southern or kardashian like😂
Used to watch this newscast as a kid with my old man back in the day. Amazing that 42 years has gone by.
And now we’re the old men
I can't believe it either. I feel like I was walking into the first day of third grade just last week. Time is a very funny/mysterious thing.
I was 15 when this aired. This and the commercials (I remember all of them) brings back great memories growing up in Suffolk County N.Y.
I'd like to see more of these.
Thank you
Wow, the entire newscast devoted to the crumbling of NYC !! And my childhood was still better than this generation!
I was 12 years old in March 1978 (turned 13 in June that year), living in Brooklyn, and most likely watching this broadcast. I almost never missed Channel 7 Eyewitness in the evening. Love these guys. Classic! Brings back so much memories of my growing up in NYC!
I was 15
I was born in the Sixties and was Kid in the seventies,. The City went through some tough times and the Eyewitness News was always there for the Good times and Bad !!! I loved all of the Reporters and staff !!! !!! !!!
Geraldo Rivera started his career as an Eyewitness News reporter and was actually good at his job. That was long before he realized that he could make a lot more money as a right-wing buffoon.
When I was little, I used to think the title of the newscast was "Eye with a snooze."
That’s awesome. :)
OMG!!! The weather board absolutely cracks me up. It’s hard to believe that’s how they did it back then. Storm Field looks like he’s 16 😂😂
This is so awesome. People were so much more dignified and literate back then. What a wonderful video. Thank you!
Yes, legitimate newsmen.
Everyone was thinner. That's the first thing I noticed. Even older people are in shape.
The lead anchor is only 50 years old in this video. he looks 70.
Before they started putting corn syrup in EVERYTHING. It causes obesity and fatty liver.
i watched it due to Roger and his jokes at the end of the broadcast...i miss him...
Oh jeez, I was 11 years old ... The city continues to crumble in 2023 and politicians are still corrupt ... Thank you for posting this video, long Island 💛
Whoa. This takes me back. The accents…Grimsby, Beutel. I was 10 in ‘78. Long Island native but moved away when I was 21. Listening to this brought back so many memories.
Amazing how it didn’t take two people to finish a paragraph. So much better presentation of topics.
Thank you for sharing this news. I was 7 years old living in New Jersey, my dad always watched the news at 11 with these anchors. I can like others on here close my eyes and memories come to me. Todays news is dead with one sided politics, no longer real news, only what elites, pharma and corporations want us to here. How times have changed and some for the worst. At least we have this to go back on our sort of speak Time Machine. Thank you again.
This is wild. I'm a west coast guy who was born in 77. This is fun. The first reporter is an absolute vibe.
The parking meter segment...all the snow around was from the Blizzard of 78 which was a month prior.
Yup, and I made $50 ( a lot of money then) by shoveling snow for my neighbors.
As a 12 yr old boy I would what this as it was the local news. I lived in Fairfield county Connecticut so this was local NY station we watched. These 2 guys were great. Just news.
The 6:00 Edition Of Eyewitness News Was Aired On Channel 7 40 Years Ago Today! WOW! What a Relief It Is!
"Sid is no longer vicious..... he's dead." Lol!! I was 13 and will never forget this guy Grimsby. And damn!! Phyllis Diller for Wella! My gawd!!!
I was a 6-year-old Brooklyn kid when this was broadcast. Thanks for the time capsule!
I was 18 years old in 1978 brings back memories.
NYC’s Eyewitnesses New was the number 1 news show for entire metro area. Watching this episode has brought great memories. I especially love Grimsby’s deadpanned delivery. He was the most popular member of the news cast.
Bill Beutel came to my middle school to do a report. Super nice guy.
Abc news was so much better in 1978 then today.
Every aspect of life was better back then than now. This is the worst period in human history
It's funny how those commercials brings you back
Absolutely incredible that TV was like this at one time.The news was what it was.....the world would never be perfect.....but such pleasant commercials for the most part.And not one for a freakin medical plan or a medication or toxic water lawsuit!!!!!
This is amazing...Thank you for sharing. I was 5 years old in 78. This was a magnificent piece of nostalgia!
Even though this was in 1978, it still holds power and I enjoyed seeing the girl reunite with her MOM!! Fantastic..
Fantastic! Took me back to when I was a 12-year-old boy in Hoboken NJ & the entire family would gather around the TV set and watch Roger Grimsby & Bill Beutel. Warner Wolf on sports!
Wow, I remember those! I was 10 and living in NYC.
Recently they had the 50th anniversary of WABC Eyewitness News in New York past and present news colleagues do remember Roger Grimsby and Bill BEUTEL John Johnson and Doug Johnson as a kid
The duo of Grimsby and Beutel are the earliest memories I have of watching the news as a kid. Which was more like somewhere in '79-'80 for me.
Brings back sweet memories for me. After school it was The Edge of Night at 4 then the 4:30 movie, then Eyewitness News at six while my Mom and Dad came home from work and got dinner ready.
Yes! Same schedule for me, w/out my parents there.
I am 75 years old and lived in Brooklyn then. Remember all those news anchors and they were a comedy team, unlike news anchors of today.
WABC Channel 7 in NY used to share the cameras with ALL MY CHILDREN since both were filmed in the same building. This went on every night for many years because the network news budgets were so tight back in the day. This was in Susan Lucci's biography.
Yes, also the production crew of the goth soap opera "Dark Shadows" would borrow the ABC network minicams. They had to work fast to return the cams to the network.
Up until a few years ago, EWN shared a studio with Live!, which is why the studio in the late 2000s/early 2010s looked so ridiculously small and not very flashy. It’s also why GMA cutins were done in the newsroom, to give the crew time to clear the EWN morning news set and get the Live! set ready.
Not really, by 1978. At the time of this newscast, "EWN" was in a studio at 7 West 66th Street, while "AMC" (and "One Life To Live") taped at 101 West 67th Street, and apparently the "ABC Evening News" originated from the Hotel Des Artistes on 67th Street before "World News Tonight" came into being. Even ABC's purchases of color cameras when they "went color" varied wildly. "EWN" used Norelco PC-70's.
I was 8 yrs old and I remember Roger and Bill ....6pm news in my parents kitchen eating dinner...such memories
I love the last commercial, “when you find something that works, you stick with it! My Grandparents always said that and it is so true! Good stuff!❤
Milton Lewis is great - I couldn't see him anywhere else BUT New York! Great voice and attitude
Even with budget cuts and overcrowded classrooms, we had some of the best teachers and education in public school. There were a few teachers that were off the wall wackos, but the majority that I had were great.
I lived in New York at this time and while I don't remember specifically, it must have been a rough winter with it being March 8th and still lots of snow on the streets.
The blizzard of 78...legendary
FACTS AF
@@jamesmack3314 oh yeah, i remember it well because I was intrigued and i played in it.
Notice who sponsors the news? Food and batteries. Not Pfizer or Boeing.
Love watching these old news broadcasts and commercials. Pairs well with cold beer's and good pizza.
Roger Grimsby is the reason I watched this everyday .Warner Wolf also!
Remember when the news didn’t tell you their opinion…
Grew up in Bergen County NJ. Watched this as a kid in the 70’s.
Please keep showing more stuff like this from this time period.
I feel like I'm back in High School in Brooklyn right now. Thanks for including the commercials too. Nice touch.
Visited NYC that Summer. Loved it. Again in 1982. Even better. Not sure I want to ever go back.
Roger Grimsby, hoping your news is good news. Bill Beutel, wishing you good luck and wellness. And Richard Simmons before he became famous. Love this.
Everyone’s voice was so calm and soothing… miss that
Growing up in NYC, we used to argue about who was more drunk for the 6 o'clock news, Roger Grimsby on channel 7 or Jim Jensen on channel 2. I think it was usually Roger.
I suppose this was before Jim developed his cocaine addiction . . .
I watched those guys for decades and I never knew about that.😢
Yes, but Jim was doing coke as well.
Omg commercial for Broadway showw Timbuk Tu. Roseann Scamardella...the name inspiration for 'Roseanne Rosanna Danna'
What is this?!?! Omg, this is amazing!! 😭😭😭😭 I'm literally bawling my eyes out right now. I was only 7 at the time, but, would go back any second. Thank you for this. I need more. ❤
I remember Roger Grimsby from ABC in San Francisco. With Van Amberg and Jerry Jensen. I wish I could go back to those school days.
The opening music sounds like a ticker tape machine or an updated one as of 1978. News doesn't come like that now for the average person. The news is all over the web.
Growing up I only knew Roger Grimsby from Woody Allen's Bananas. I always thought he was just an actor. Never new he was a real newsman!
Not a single commercial for pharmaceuticals.
It wasn't legal. The laws were changed in 1985 and then again in 1997 to allow marketing directly to consumers.
The pharmaceutical commercials make up 18 out of 22 commercials on today’s evening news. They are depressing, disgusting, and slimy in their manipulativeness. The Good Seasons commercial of the lady who wouldn’t switch was nice…because good seasons was quite nice. Imagine a pleasant commercial that doesn’t force, in your face, your mortality; that’s what the drug commercials do.
This was the most wonderfully florid, over the top newscast I have ever seen. Now I know why Chevy Chase said he based his SNL news anchor on Roger Grimsby! God bless the 1970s and God bless NYC!!
59 cents for jar 🫙 of jelly…wow
You like jelly, Regina? 😂
I couldn't help but notice as I am watching this video in March of 2020 how cold and how much snow there was in NYC in March of 1978. I lived in Cincinnati at the time and the winter was brutal there as well. Hope we never have a cold snowy winter that bad again. The only year in my life we had a true blizzard.
Wow memories, I remember watching this, wow, wish we could go back to those day's, today's news and world sucks, I miss it, wow..
Such an incredible mix of NYC accents in the first segment about parking meters.
They were from jersey city
Reporter: "Well the traffic dept says that S&D maintenance is not doing a good job"
Scott Berger: "As far as I could see they're not doing any job."
Bam!!!!!
Grew up watching Roger, Bill and the rest of the Eyewitnesses News Team - the standard and model for what became the local news style genre in other top markets!! Al Primo - the news director who became a consultant was the architect of this style where the news people were “personalities “ or “characters” but the key was that each talent had to have something unique about them - be it their distinctive voices and delivery - marquee looks and a “signature “ thing they did or said on air! WABC 7 also featured the most diverse “cast” on local TV - other top markets tried to emulate. Bill Buetel, by the way, had one of the great voices and deliveries on air - Roger Grimsby was great too! Chuck Scarborough would come to the market later at WNBC 4 - and Roland Smith at WCBS was wonderful as well. There are so many other notables… 🙏🏿
WTF was Americas obsession with fish sticks, honestly lol I had them for dinner at least once a week back then
I always wondered the same thing. They was alright for the time, but I don't know what was the hype about them.
I think they were just really cheap lol…definitely a dinner staple when I was a kid
2019 and I watching the news 1978 he said how long has your meter has been decapitated haaaaaaaaaaA😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Spent most of my life in New York City. When I got admitted to grad school in California in 1976, I got out as fast as I could. I did come back in 1987-2002 and the city wasn’t as bad, but moved away for good in 2002. Hard to believe I used to travel with my grandmother in the early 60’s by subway when the seats were straw seats and there were vending machines in the subway.