This is so cool - thank you for sharing! If you've got anything more like this, especially any newscasts from the Eyewitness News era, it would be awesome to see it!
@@markasflood124 Yeah, This was during the Fred Silverman Era of NBC, Fred Silverman left NBC in July 1st of 1981 thanks to failures such as Pink Lady, and of course Supertrain which kept NBC in third place. Fred Silverman was replaced by Grant Tinker. At the time of this recording, Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC Entertainment, a role which he kept until June of 1991, and NBC was in third place at the time. It would be in first place during the 1985/86 season.
So I'm unclear on the choice of the name "The Daily News." I didn't live in the area at the time, so were local newscasts not a 7-day-a-week deal in 1981? Were the other stations only offering, say, weekday newscasts but they took the weekends off and WAVY saw an opportunity? I'm serious about these questions and I'd love an answer.
It was a cue from NBC's then fall-season campaign theme (Proud as a Peacock), it was used until June 1981. At the time, Fred Silverman was the president of NBC, Robert E. Mulholland was the president of NBC-TV, and Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC Entertainment, a role which He was in until 1991.
This is so cool - thank you for sharing! If you've got anything more like this, especially any newscasts from the Eyewitness News era, it would be awesome to see it!
Or The Daily News era.
@@markasflood124 Yeah, This was during the Fred Silverman Era of NBC, Fred Silverman left NBC in July 1st of 1981 thanks to failures such as Pink Lady, and of course Supertrain which kept NBC in third place. Fred Silverman was replaced by Grant Tinker.
At the time of this recording, Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC Entertainment, a role which he kept until June of 1991, and NBC was in third place at the time. It would be in first place during the 1985/86 season.
So I'm unclear on the choice of the name "The Daily News." I didn't live in the area at the time, so were local newscasts not a 7-day-a-week deal in 1981? Were the other stations only offering, say, weekday newscasts but they took the weekends off and WAVY saw an opportunity? I'm serious about these questions and I'd love an answer.
This was a month before I was born. 1981 still looks and sounds like the 70s.
They need to bring the music back.
Truth! I'm still trying to narrow down the name/artist, I want it in whole!
The Proud As A Peacock song
@@greggsheaffer2521 the image campaign used by NBC from May 14th 1979 to June 1981?
This Footage @ 2:54 Was Also Seen WAVY-TV 10's 50th Anniversary Celebration
I was just 2 months old then
That music sounded like it belonged on some cheesy 70’s porno. A 70’s porno would have been better than the news on Channel 10 though.
It was a cue from NBC's then fall-season campaign theme (Proud as a Peacock), it was used until June 1981. At the time, Fred Silverman was the president of NBC, Robert E. Mulholland was the president of NBC-TV, and Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC Entertainment, a role which He was in until 1991.