ABC Network - The News With Ron Cochran - "New Year's Revelers Swallow Art Hellyer" (Excerpt, 1965)
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Here's a report from the State Street New Year's celebrations by WBKB Channel 7's Art Hellyer, as aired on the tail end of “The News with Ron Cochran” on the ABC network. This would have aired on our local WBKB Channel 7.
This was from an original 2" quad tape recording.
Includes:
Tail end of promo for The Sunday Night Movie presentation of "The Misfits" (full clip can be seen here on its own: • ABC Network - The Sund... )
Ron sets up coming report by talking about the difference between broadcasters handling New Year's Eve celebrations understanding what they're in and those not, as he introduces report from Art, who resolves never to take part in such ceremonies again; he is being jostled (and disappeared among the crowd) by the New Year's revelers assembled on State Street - who don't even know it isn't midnight yet!
With that, Ron closes the newscast.
Closing credits (with promo for Issues and Answers for Sunday - voiceover by ??):
Producer - Harry McCarthy
Directed by Lloyd Tweedy
Associate Producer - Gordon Thomas
Washington Production - Bill Lord, Richard Armstrong, W. P. Fowler, Steve Gabocy
Writers - Joe Sauris, Hume Hale, Anne Morrissy
Associate Directors - Norman Samet, Jock Manton
Technical Directors - John Irvine, Vern Hendrickson, Al Smith, Al Dort
Program Assistant - Bob Regan
Film Editors - Pat Cook, Joe Butler, Don LeBlanc
Graphic Arts Director - Ben Blank
Graphic Artists - George Fox, Fred Cospito
This Has Been a Presentation of ABC News
Promo for The Flintstones episode "Fred's Flying Lesson" (can be seen on its own here: • ABC Network - The Flin... )
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 1st 1965 during the (roughly) 6:26pm to 6:29pm timeframe.
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Putting it into perspective, ABC's evening newscasts back then were still 15 min., while Cronkite on CBS and Huntley-Brinkley on NBC were each 30.
Since this would have aired Jan 1, 1965, then I'm thinking this might have been a month before Ron Cochran would be replaced by a younger anchor who, like Ron, was also born in Canada -- Peter Jennings.
As for the announcer on that ABC newscast, my guess is that it might be Les Griffith.
When it was scheduled at 5:45pm(et).
Ron Cochran left ABC News to start his own documentary film company.
@@LaptopLarry330 And then he was replaced by a young 27-year old named Peter Jennings who was inexperienced.
This was during a period before home video recorders became mainstream.
Considering the Sony U-matic wouldn't be released until 1971, and wouldn't be adopted by the most media savvy in their homes for a few years thereafter, this is an accurate statement.
@@stanwbaker The only home video recorders that would come later (before the Sony U-matic) were EIAJ-1 (which recorded in both B&W and Color) and the Ampex VR-3000 which was the first color homevideo recorder.
I appreciate this work on uploading old stuff. Thanks
I miss those flouresent street lights on State St.
We had it in NYC in the 1960s but they were instead in round glass light globes not the long florescent light tubes in Chicago. I am a New Yorker who grew up there during the Mad Men era of the 1960s.
Now it was said on Wikipedia that ABC had Dick Clark do the ball drop in 1959, way before Rockin Eve ever started. Now prior to ABC picking up Rockin Eve from NBC in 1974, how and what did ABC (and their stations) do for NYE coverage?
ABC did not have any late night programming scheduled at 11:30pm(et) before 1964 (when Les Crane appeared for about a year), and another "break" from November 1965 through April 1967 (at which time, "THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW" filled the time period. I would assume WABC-TV in New York had their own local remote in 1960, '61', '62', 63', '65 and '66. If I had listings, I could tell you for sure if the network DID theirs.
In NY, the ball drop was transmitted on an independent station, WOR-TV channel 9. The program was Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians orchestra performing at the Waldorf Astoria
Which they did for several years (I remember the 1970 New Year's Eve telecast).
@@stevieg7672 CBS aired New Year's Eve programs from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, hosted by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, from the 1950s until Lombardo's death.
The whole clip is "a riot!"
"RON COCHRAN WITH THE NEWS", January 1, 1965.
2:10- "Fred's Flying Lesson" was seen on "THE FLINTSTONES" that evening.
Nowadays that reporter would have them all charged with assault for violating his personal space.
He was trampled, and suffered back injuries that handicapped him the rest of his life. They should've been charged.
@@zbsx I just watched a very impressive documentary about Art Hellyer's career narrated by one of his sons. I did not realize that this incident had had such a dramatic impact on his life and his career. My only thought when I made my initial comment was about today's generation of reporters who react a certain way to such things as being slapped on the rear end by a passing runner. To his credit, Hellyer finished his live remote with great professionalism despite probably being in great pain. And based on his recollection of events, did not appear to have any hard feelings towards the people responsible.
A wiser station would have had him on a balcony or a platform.
For the last few decades, nothing happens anymore at the corner of State & Madison in the Chicago Loop on New Year's Eve.
"Not YOUR nose--the plane's nose!"
That VO...is Les Griffith
Are those vuvuzelas?
I think they are...before they were called that
Yesh!
Remember him on channel 2 in ny
New Year's celebration 55 years ago.
Do you have a full version of this?
Yes, I would also like to see the complete January 1,, 1965 broadcast of "The News With Ron Cochran".