WJLA 75th Anniversary Special

In 1947, D.C.'s Channel 7 took to the airwaves on Friday, Oct. 3. It was the third D.C. station to sign on and the first Channel 7 in the United States. The station was owned by the Evening Star Broadcasting Company and it was known as WMAL TV.
In this one-hour special you'll take a trip down memory lane featuring familiar faces from the 7News family throughout the years.
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[@ednamglenn-freeman6050]

We have seen Paul Berry, Ed Walker and we will miss Doug Hill and John Harter and .. Happy 75 Anniversary and Good Blessings and cheers!!!🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Other Channel 7 personalities we should remember- Fred Thomas, Steve Gilmartin, Len Hathaway,Mal Campbell, Claire Kleese Lyons, Jim Steer,
Wes Sarginson,Ed Walker,Gwen Dillard, Sheila Thomas, Baker Morten,Dolores Handy,Steve Bassett,Chris Curle,Harry K. Smith,John Batchelder, Bob Gneiser and others who didn't appear in this special.

[@JosephPratt1986]

WJLA is a fantastic station.

[@rjmcallister1888]

Hell may freeze over before Sinclair does local news again on it's ABC affiliate in St. Louis, KDNL/30. They haven't done their own news since 2005.

[@JJJBRICE]

At 7:15 the Jimmy Dean local TV show from DC with guest Elvis, circa mid 1950s . At 2:19 an ad for the news operation featuring long time weatherman in DC Louis Allen , future game host Bill Malone and WML moderator John Charles Daly while he was doing his main gig as ABC News VP and evening anchorman .

[@dgendvil]

Not even Channel 7 in New York signed on yet?

[@RickyPaquiot284]

*Because WABC was founded on April 1947, WABC-TV signed on August 10, 1948.*

[@rjmcallister1888]

Channel 7 in New York was WJZ-TV, signed on by ABC in 1948 as a sister to WJZ-AM (770). It took until 1953 for WJZ/ABC, WABC, which CBS held the calls for on 880, and a small station, WCBS in Springfield, IL, to get all the deals made to get WABC radio on 770, WABC-TV on Channel 7, along with WABC-FM (95.5). WCBS went to 880/channel 2 and FM 101.1. The WJZ calls ended up in Baltimore.

[@genecollins7375]

As a native DC resident, I recall when this station's (formally WMAL) focus was actually on behalf of every regional viewer. But since Sinclair's acquisition it's become a garbage dump for MAGA and other right-wing misinformation and racist ideologies. I wouldn't watch this station again if it was the last outlet left in the country. Bring back principled journalists who have enough integrity to refuse reciting canned propaganda messages from its slave holders.
They are "not" the same station of Paul Berry's heyday.