The first news open for "The Late News" looked like some SNL type intro, with guys laughing and having fun as they were getting ready to start the show. The music sounds like something out of WBBM in Chicago at that same time period(71 or 72).
At 1:19 The theme tune for News Center 5 was also used on an 'Spider-man' 1967 Episode 'Spider-man meets Skyboy'.at the beginning of the episode there.
Starting at 1:35, put in Phil Tonken with the v/o... Now... Tom Dunn... Sara Lee Kessler... Russ Salzberg with Sports... and Lloyd Lindsay Young's Weather... this is News 9 at Noon.
Some of those opens featured voiceovers from ABC promo announcer Ernie Anderson. His voice was also featured in some of the opens for channel 12 in providence.
These were the days when journalists were journalists. And what a team, Chet Curtis, Tom Ellis, Bob Clinkscale, Don Gillis, Natalie Jacobsen, Anne McGrath, Jim Boyd...a literal Boston News Hall of Fame, at one station... RIP Chet Curtis..
Wasn't Susan Wornick married to Bob Lobel, then thy split? and wasn't Natalie Jacobson married to Chet Curtis ? Oy Via ! I remember Natalie would fall al over Dick Albertson. Where did Susan Burke go to ? I remember coming home from summer school in 1977 and see Susan and Jim Boyd doing the noon time news. Susan was beautiful, very Irish looking like she was grabbed up from County Kerry !
Also at 9:43 in The North West of England we had similar titles to News Center 5 on Granada Tonight in the late 1990's/Early 2000's that stated 'Bringing The News Home to You' instead of 'Coverage You Can Count On'.which was loosely based on.
Awwww..memories! I had a crush on Dick Albert back in the day! ha! (Hey, I was 18 or 19, a kid!) WCVB was my favorite station till I left New England in the early 90s. I still get homesick. Thanks for sharing!
WCVB, the ABC affiliate in Boston MA, is owned by Hearst Television. WCVB is the sister station to ABC affiliate WMUR in Manchester, NH, ABC affiliate WMTW and CW affiliate WPXT in Portland, ME, and NBC affiliate WPTZ and CW affiliate WNNE in Plattsburgh, NY.
Jack Hynes and John Henning were also teamed for a time, after Henning left WNAC (Channel 7) and before he went to WBZ. Henning had also been at the old Channel 5, WHDH, for a period, and, I think, on one of the UHF newscasts as well. Chet Curtis & Natalie Jacobson were also the original midday news team when WCVB first went on the air. Curtis had been the last sole midday news anchor weekdays on the old WHDH-TV (Channel 5). Curtis was also the original host of "Chronicle." I read somewhere Curtis knew he would be the one to leave WCVB after he and Jacobson divorced. I don't get this, as Curtis had more seniority in the news business. I wonder, perhaps, if Curtis had to leave 'CVB because he was told his former wife tested better in focus groups and/or the local Arbitron/Nielsen ratings showed Jacobson the bigger draw of the two. In any event, I also read somewhere NECN, the acronym for New England Cable News, which became Curtis' new "assignment" after leaving 'CVB, was jokingly referred to as "Never EVER Cross Natalie!" In the divorce, Jacobson, effectively, got to remain as anchor on 'CVB, while Curtis was more or less "demoted" to a less-visible spot on a local cable TV news station. In any event, I think this was a horrible situation, that 'CVB should have found some way to retain Curtis, a very capable and intelligent journalist. Surely Curtis could have anchored one evening newscast apart from Jacobson, or he the late news while she remained on the early evening news program, etc. Oh well, all a moot point now, as Curtis is deceased and Jacobson retired. But 'CVB is still the best of the four major Boston TV stations when it comes to local newscasts. Ed Harding, Heather Unruh, etc. are fine, and nice that Mike Lynch and Harvey Leonard, two more old pros, are still around. But I always assumed "Chronicle" host Anthony Everett was being groomed as Curtis' replacement even when Curtis was still at the station. Actually, with no disrespect to Harding, that still wouldn't be a bad idea.
WCVB, the ABC affiliate in Boston MA, is owned by Hearst Television. WCVB is the sister station to fellow ABC affiliates WMUR in Manchester NH and WMTW in Portland ME. WCVB is also the sister station to CW affiliate WPXT in Portland ME.
The opening starting at 1:35 is the one that I remember the most (and it remained, in one variation or another for nearly ten years). And with all of the cool graphics and quick edits, it was a very sophisticated intro for a local newscast during the '70s.
Yes, that’s the one I remember the most as well, from my childhood.. I remember watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and when they were over, my mom would change the channel from 2 to 5, and then we’d see and hear that music.
I noticed that the first piece of music heard was also found at the beginning of a couple of BASADA game shows, the original Jackpot and Pass the Buck.
"WCVB-TV Channel 5 and You" and "Your tune to Channel 5, Where the News Comes First" is my favorite quotes.
Right in the feels. Greatest local news station ever, ever, ever. Miss those days...
0:08 - "Patterns," by The NBC Background Music Library (NBC 112), which is only available on their rare 1970 NBC Background Music Library Demo LP.
The music at 0:08 sounds like they just randomly banged on pots and pans in their kitchen and thought that it sounded good.
The first news open for "The Late News" looked like some SNL type intro, with guys laughing and having fun as they were getting ready to start the show. The music sounds like something out of WBBM in Chicago at that same time period(71 or 72).
this is awesome! chet you may be gone but your not forgotten.
I'm glad i was around in the golden age of Boston newscasts.
At 1:19 The theme tune for News Center 5 was also used on an 'Spider-man' 1967 Episode 'Spider-man meets Skyboy'.at the beginning of the episode there.
Starting at 1:35, put in Phil Tonken with the v/o...
Now... Tom Dunn... Sara Lee Kessler... Russ Salzberg with Sports... and Lloyd Lindsay Young's Weather... this is News 9 at Noon.
July 22, 1986: 2 months away until the first day of school.
September 24, 1987: The season premiere of "Spenser: For Hire" in 3 days.
March 8, 1988: 1 week away of "The Wonder Years" on Tuesdays on the next 6 weeks.
March 26, 1990: The first day of spring continues.
November 29, 1996: Thanksgiving leftovers.
July 29, 1990: The series finale of "Mr. Belvedere", 4 weeks ago.
i like how because WBZ had eyewitness news WCVB took NewsCenter
Some of those opens featured voiceovers from ABC promo announcer Ernie Anderson. His voice was also featured in some of the opens for channel 12 in providence.
13:05 - The opener recognizes that their DTV signal is on channel 20.
These were the days when journalists were journalists. And what a team, Chet Curtis, Tom Ellis, Bob Clinkscale, Don Gillis, Natalie Jacobsen, Anne McGrath, Jim Boyd...a literal Boston News Hall of Fame, at one station... RIP Chet Curtis..
Do not forget RIP Dick Albert
@@TheoHagigeorges ...and Jack Hynes.
Covering Greater Boston and all of New England.
After that first newscast intro, I expect one of the anchors to yell JACKPOT !!!
Wasn't Susan Wornick married to Bob Lobel, then thy split? and wasn't Natalie Jacobson married to Chet Curtis ? Oy Via ! I remember Natalie would fall al over Dick Albertson. Where did Susan Burke go to ? I remember coming home from summer school in 1977 and see Susan and Jim Boyd doing the noon time news. Susan was beautiful, very Irish looking like she was grabbed up from County Kerry !
Also at 9:43 in The North West of England we had similar titles to News Center 5 on Granada Tonight in the late 1990's/Early 2000's that stated 'Bringing The News Home to You' instead of 'Coverage You Can Count On'.which was loosely based on.
Awwww..memories! I had a crush on Dick Albert back in the day! ha! (Hey, I was 18 or 19, a kid!) WCVB was my favorite station till I left New England in the early 90s. I still get homesick. Thanks for sharing!
RIP Dick Albert
Mary Mclocke Dick Albert may be gone but he will not be forgotten ☄
That "5" has been around a long time. Proof that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. You see that, Tegna?
BILL RATNER: You're watching WCVB-TV Channel 5 in high definition, This is NewsCenter 5: Local, Live, Coverage You Can Count On.
In 2017, WCVB Longtime Meterologist Dick Albert dies at 73.
My favorite WCVB opens are when they had the Hearst-Argyle Camera graphics!
WCVB, the ABC affiliate in Boston MA, is owned by Hearst Television. WCVB is the sister station to ABC affiliate WMUR in Manchester, NH, ABC affiliate WMTW and CW affiliate WPXT in Portland, ME, and NBC affiliate WPTZ and CW affiliate WNNE in Plattsburgh, NY.
R.I.P. Chet Curtis.
He and Natalie Jacobsen were New England journalism personified. God rest his soul.
9:58 Very similar to Granada Tonight in the UK in 1999. It's a surprise how the UK uses some of the american news openings.
Or even used their diagrid (if they still exist) 😂
Jack Hynes and John Henning were also teamed for a time, after Henning left WNAC (Channel 7) and before he went to WBZ. Henning had also been at the old Channel 5, WHDH, for a period, and, I think, on one of the UHF newscasts as well.
Chet Curtis & Natalie Jacobson were also the original midday news team when WCVB first went on the air. Curtis had been the last sole midday news anchor weekdays on the old WHDH-TV (Channel 5). Curtis was also the original host of "Chronicle."
I read somewhere Curtis knew he would be the one to leave WCVB after he and Jacobson divorced. I don't get this, as Curtis had more seniority in the news business. I wonder, perhaps, if Curtis had to leave 'CVB because he was told his former wife tested better in focus groups and/or the local Arbitron/Nielsen ratings showed Jacobson the bigger draw of the two. In any event,
I also read somewhere NECN, the acronym for New England Cable News, which became Curtis' new "assignment" after leaving 'CVB, was jokingly referred to as "Never EVER Cross Natalie!" In the divorce, Jacobson, effectively, got to remain as anchor on 'CVB, while Curtis was more or less "demoted" to a less-visible spot on a local cable TV news station. In any event, I think this was a horrible situation, that 'CVB should have found some way to retain Curtis, a very capable and intelligent journalist. Surely Curtis could have anchored one evening newscast apart from Jacobson, or he the late news while she remained on the early evening news program, etc.
Oh well, all a moot point now, as Curtis is deceased and Jacobson retired. But 'CVB is still the best of the four major Boston TV stations when it comes to local newscasts. Ed Harding, Heather Unruh, etc. are fine, and nice that Mike Lynch and Harvey Leonard, two more old pros, are still around. But I always assumed "Chronicle" host Anthony Everett was being groomed as Curtis' replacement even when Curtis was still at the station. Actually, with no disrespect to Harding, that still wouldn't be a bad idea.
And Tom Ellis recently died (2019)
Hearst Opens were good from 1995-2005 (when the stations changed from the Camera Theme), then they sucked until around 2012.
Chet Curtis, Natalie Jacobson, Dick Albert, and Jim Boyd were the ones that left WCVB.
During the intro of "NewsCenter 5 EyeOpener", Ann MacIntyre is doing the sign language.
Sam Hall-Earl I hope you will reply to this I am teaching myself sign language 🤟
In This Clip, From 4:28 To 4:47, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From Tuesday Morning, July 22, 1986.
In This Clip, From 1:34 To 1:49, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From 1978.
In This Clip, From 10:29 To 10:41, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From Thursday Evening, July 6, 2000.
RIP Chet
In This Clip, From 2:20 To 2:36, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From The Early 1980's.
At 0:08 this music is used at the opening of the 70s version of the NBC game show Jackpot hosted by Geoff Edwards
WCVB, the ABC affiliate in Boston MA, is owned by Hearst Television. WCVB is the sister station to fellow ABC affiliates WMUR in Manchester NH and WMTW in Portland ME. WCVB is also the sister station to CW affiliate WPXT in Portland ME.
In This Clip, From 2:40 To 2:52, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Midday Video Open From The Early 1980's.
The opening starting at 1:35 is the one that I remember the most (and it remained, in one variation or another for nearly ten years). And with all of the cool graphics and quick edits, it was a very sophisticated intro for a local newscast during the '70s.
Yes, that’s the one I remember the most as well, from my childhood.. I remember watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and when they were over, my mom would change the channel from 2 to 5, and then we’d see and hear that music.
You're watching NewsCenter 5: New England's Television News Leader.
In This Clip, From 9:23 To 9:40, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Talent Video Open #2 From Early 1995.
In This Clip, From 6:20 To 6:32, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From Thursday Evening, September 24, 1987.
WCVB news anchors Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson announced that they were divorcing on December 14, 1999, a week away from Christmas.
In This Clip, From 8:28 To 8:40, It Was WCVB-TV's Chronicle Video Open From Friday Evening, November 4, 1994.
In This Clip, From 1:50 To 2:03, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From 1978.
The best weather people I like was Bob Copeland and Dick Albert and Barry Burbank on channel 4 I like and trusted
Best weather forecasters ever like waking up in the mornings listening to Bob Copeland and at Dick Albert and weekends Barry Burbank
The WCVB Opens from 1990-1993 are certainly one of my all time favorite news opens.
That first one is just mad.
In This Clip, From 8:40 To 8:53, It Was WCVB-TV's Chronicle Video Open From 1993.
I noticed that the first piece of music heard was also found at the beginning of a couple of BASADA game shows, the original Jackpot and Pass the Buck.
That first theme needs to come back
What music was used at 01:19
3:43 It may look mellow to you or not.
The second clip looks more like a close than an open..
Hold on, you forgot the WHDH defunct channel 5 TV news opens compilation
Like anyone in the fucking 1960s had a tape recording of them.
Voiceover Steve Stone Was Born in Portland, Maine on September 10, 1953.
9:58 Favorite intro 1
9:41 Starts the Hearst Era!
I was at college in Southern VT. That booming station ID is oddly nostalgic.
In This Clip, From 5:11 To 5:41, It Was WCVB-TV's Chronicle Video Open From Wednesday Evening, April 30, 1986.
In This Clip, From 9:00 To 9:05, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open From Early 1995.
In This Clip, From 2:54 To 3:09, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From The Early 1980's.
In This Clip, From 9:57 To 10:10, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Video Open From Late 1996.
RIP Chet.
In This Clip, From 8:09 To 8:22, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From 1993.
In This Clip, From 3:11 To 3:25, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight's Weekend Edition Video Open From The Early 1980's.
In This Clip, From 6:45 To 7:00, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open From The Late 1980's
I didn't recognize any until 10:49. Guess that shows my age.
In This Clip, From 0:07 To 0:38, It Was WCVB-TV's The Late News Video Open From 1972.
In This Clip, From 3:46 To 4:02, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open #2 From The Early 1980's.
In 2019, Legendary Boston TV News Anchor Tom Ellis dies at 86.
How long did the national version of Chronicle run on A&E?
In This Clip, From 1:18 To 1:34, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Video Open From 1975.
You forgot the NewsCenter 5 Eyeopener Talent from '96.
Look how PDI Does for WCVB news intro (1983-1985).
Steve Stone Does Voiceovers at His Current Home In Waco, Texas.
im surprised wcvb being metromedia didn't become fox 5 boston
Boston TV would be different if WCVB was owned by Metromedia until 1986 and became "Fox 5 Boston".
It would be different, and that would mean no Hearst Argyle camera graphics for them.
In This Clip, From 10:10 To 10:24, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Video Open #2 From Late 1996.
metromedia?
Rudy Iraheta Yep. They owned WCVB between 1982 to 1986.
wasn't 5 nbc come to think of it wbz 4 was nbc before 9/95
Nope. 5 has been ABC since 1972.
WCVB-TV CH 5 BOSTON yyour ABC station
The third intro i remember from spider man
Wow its outdated already.
In This Clip, From 2:04 To 2:19, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open From 1978.
In This Clip, From 11:44 To 11:51, It Was WCVB-TV's Chronicle Video Open From The Late 1990's.
In This Clip, From 4:47 To 4:59, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight's Weekend Edition Video Open From 1985.
In This Clip, From 6:02 To 6:12, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From The Late 1980's.
In This Clip, From 9:06 To 9:21, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Talent Video Open From Early 1995.
In This Clip, From 5:00 To 5:11, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From 1985.
In This Clip, From 7:34 To 7:50, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From The Early 1990's.
In This Clip, From 9:42 To 9:57, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From Friday Morning, November 29, 1996.
In This Clip, From 0:38 To 1:18, It Was WCVB-TV's The Late News Video Open From 1973.
In This Clip, From 7:00 To 7:12, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight's Weekend Edition Video Open From The Late 1980's.
In This Clip, From 10:41 To 10:53, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Midday Video Open From 2000.
In This Clip, From 3:26 To 3:41, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open From The Early 1980's.
In This Clip, From 5:41 To 5:52, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open From 1985.
In This Clip, From 7:14 To 7:30, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Eyeopener Video Open From The Early 1990's.
In This Clip, From 11:04 To 11:20, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 5 Talent Video Open From 2000.
In This Clip, From 4:03 To 4:28, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6 Video Open From 1984.
In This Clip, From 6:32 To 6:45, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 At 6's Weekend Edition Video Open From The Late 1980's.
In This Clip, From 7:50 To 8:09, It Was WCVB-TV's Newscenter 5 Tonight Video Open From The Early 1990's.