WBAL Affiliate Switch Promos 1981
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- From WBAL Baltimore, a batch of affiliate switch promos with the CBS stars in 1981. WKRP, Louise Jefferson, the animal from Lou Grant, Mel from Alice, Dan Rather and Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard are all excited about moving on up to TV 11! Also included is a Norm Lewis weather promo with a terrific head of hair!
What a great promo with all these CBS stars! I don't recall that we ever got a promo for any of the Chicago stations featuring the stars of a network's shows. I love the one with Isabel Sanford the most!
And on Saturday mornings the kids saw "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" and "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" on Channel 11. Imagine their surprise!
They said that "Hello Baltimore, Reach For The Stars!
"Reach for the stars" was CBS's slogan at the time.
Interesting to combine CBS's Reach for the Stars Jingle with the Hello Baltimore song by Frank Gari, which WBAL was using at the time
Scoop Nemeth Hello News By Gari
(WMTV 15 Madison, WI)
Hello Madison! We're Saying Hello!
WBAL rejoined NBC in 1995 as CBS moved to WJZ and ABC took over WMAR.
The Green Bay, Wisconsin TV station affiliation swap:
WMBV-TV 11/WLUK-TV 11 started out as NBC, then it became ABC from the 1960s until 1983, became an NBC affiliate again until 1995, when it became an affiliate of the FOX network.
WNAM-TV 42/WFRV-TV 5 started out as ABC, then it became NBC from the 1960s until 1983, became an ABC affiliate again until 1992, when it became a CBS affiliate.
Boss Hogg was the funniest!
Fourteen years later, in 1995, WBAL Channel 11 went back to NBC with its tail between its legs!
which now spreads its colorful six feathers
Coat and pants were same color, white.... but John wore a black shirt, while Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) wore a white vest, shirt, tie... incidentally, Sorrell had guest spots previously on MASH, Good Times. and a recurring role on All in the Family....
Because of this, combined with the 1995 affiliate switches, WMAR Channel 2 ended up being the only station in the Baltimore market to have been affiliated, at one time or another, with all three "original heritage" networks (CBS, NBC, ABC).
I Lives in Baltimore from '65 to 1985. Great place at the time 1
NBC moved to WMAR-TV (Little House on the Prairie, CHiPs, Hill Street Blues etc...)
@DanZero77 Thats the animal, the newspaper photog from Lou Grant
From NBC to CBS and then back to NBC
Interesting tidbit. It is cool to see tv promos and other stuff from different markets. Although I would like to see more 70's/80's Raleigh/Durham market stuff.
I always liked WBAL the most of all of the Baltimore TV stations.
From what I've heard, it was because 11 had higher ratings for news.
Originally, channel 11 was set to affiliate with ABC. However, WBAL decided against this because ABC's evening newscast ratings were very dismal despite that network being #1 and WBAL's corporate parent Hearst being very close to the network. Further, a lot of the CBS shows were preempted by WMAR.
Awesome.
All of those CBS shows from 1981 went into syndication.CBS was really good back in the day.I also noticed that Boss Hogg wears the same suit the John Travolta wore in Saturday Night Fever.But it looked better on John.
WJZ-TV switch to CBS in 1995 after westinghouse joins CBS
As for the WBAL station promos contributing with the switch from CBS, at least they could've least include Larry Hagman and Linda Gray of Dallas, Valerie Bertinelli of One Day at A Time, Joan Van Ark and Ted Shackelford of Knots Landing contribute as well as Charlie Brown and the gang (Peppermint Patty, Lucy Van Pelt, Linus Van Pelt, Sally Brown, etc...)
also I would’ve loved to see an appearance of bob barker promoting the change. to see price on channel 11 though.
the station returned to NBC in 1995
+maxx blazze U are right Maxx!,It did since the day after New Years.
WBAL TV CH.11 with CBS 8-30-1981-1-2-1995 for 14 years before going back to NBC.& CBS going to WJZ TV CH.13 & ABC going to WMAR TV CH.2.in 43 years living in Baltimore I have witnessed 2 network changes in 1981 & 1995.Not to mention the 1979 network in the Twin cities Mpls.St.Paul Mn-my other childhood home!!
Good.old.days
In 1981, WBAL dumped third-place NBC in favor of No. 1 CBS.
It was because Westinghouse who owned WJZ merged with CBS and all their owned stations had to switch to that network as part of the deal..
rockvilleraven Except for KPIX and KDKA, of course (both have been with CBS from day one).
Joseph Lambert More like ABC dumped WJZ, because of WMAR parent company E.W.Scripps Howard Broadcasting..In order of ABC not losing it (2) legacy affiliates WEWS/ Cleveland & WXYZ / Detroit...Scripps Howard said to ABC if we don't get a 10 year deal for our affiliate those (2) legacy stations will jump to CBS.
WMAR, WCPO/ Cincinnati, KNXV/ Phoenix, WFTS/ Tampa all switched to ABC Affiliates....Leaving WJZ owned by Group W. Group W merge with CBS..
KTVK/ Phoenix was dropped ABC & went independent.
WBAL partnered with CBS because then-affiliate WMAR had been a ratings also-ran (loser) because of primarily preemptions, even though people can just watch on channel 9, WTOP/WDVM/WUSA of neighboring Washington for preempted shows.
Jonathan Allen KPIX started with primary CBS affiliation. KDKA was a DuMont station back then with secondary CBS affiliation. When DuMont began to vanish, WIIC (WPXI) channel 11 got a permit and supposed to sign on with CBS affiliation in 1955. Due to 2 years of technical difficulties, channel 11 signed on with NBC affiliation in 1957. And Westinghouse bought KDKA and went to being a permanent CBS affiliate.
The Norm Lewis promo at 1:00 is very similar to ones that WOR-TV New York were running around the same time for their news, with the "as a child" profiles they would have for the various newscasters at the time.
Which CBS show/character did the guy from the promo from 1:30-2:00 appear in?
Animal from “Lou Grant” (Mary Tyler Moore spin-off)
after 1995 nbc its back on ch 11 wbal after the switch
+Jean Vargas Alvarez Right U are!,It did alright!
Because here it was a switch in 1995:
WMAR 2 From 1981, they moved to NBC and they switch on ABC in 1995.
WBAL 11 From 1981, they moved to CBS until they back to NBC in 1995.
WJZ 13 From signed on as ABC affliate until they moved to CBS in 1995 due to The Westinghouse affliation deal in 1995.
WMTV used "You Should See Us Now" as well.
@0:55-Stan Stovall! Wow...
Any WBAL promos from 1994/95 promoting Channel 11 coming home to NBC?
Reach for the Stars on Channel 11!
AestheticEthan As I seen in the Annex, WBAL’s 1981 slogan is “Reach for the Stars on WBAL.”
Everyone wanted out of NBC by the end of 1980. Flop after flop and being a distant third behind ABC and CBS second (until "Who shot J.R.?" on "Dallas" happened), and then the icing on the cake was when NBC lost the Moscow Summer Olympics coverage due to the U.S. boycott.
Either way, NBC's fortunes improved and they'd be back with WBAL 11 14 years later after the CBS/Westinghouse merger made ALL three networks change dial positions in Baltmore moving, CBS to WJZ-TV 13 and NBC back to WBAL. ABC signed a long term affiliation agreement with E.W. Scripps, the owner of WMAR-TV 2 in Baltimore, which gives WMAR a unique case of being a station once affiliated with all traditional Big Three affiliates at one point. Yes, 1994-1996... the years American TV network affiliate bonds were broken like never before.
ABC's switch to WMAR was sort of a blackmail from Scripps-Howard Broadcasting. Scripps has been wooed by CBS to switch WXYZ in Detroit and WEWS in Cleveland to the network following the loss of legacy affiliates WJBK and WJW to Fox, but they wanted to have stronger ties with ABC, leading to include WMAR and flagship WCPO in Detroit as well as outgoing Fox affiliates KNXV in Phoenix and WFTS in Tampa in the affiliation renewal deal. If ABC didn't agree with the deal, WXYZ and WEWS would switch to CBS. Itself, that deal resulted from the fact CBS opted to affiliate with then-independent station KPHO in Phoenix after closing KSAZ to... well, Fox. ABC ceded and Westinghouse felt betrayed with the move. As a result, Westinghouse got into talks with CBS (whose flagship KDKA in Pittsburgh and KPIX in San Francisco were already affiliated with), considering their relationship with NBC wasn't the best due to the preemptions made by KYW in Philly and WBZ in Boston, to affiliate WJZ with. The problem: CBS already owned WCAU in Philly and NBC for long wanted an O&O there. Considering how costly it would be, NBC traded KCNC in Denver and KUTV in Salt Lake City to a Westinghouse-CBS partnership as well as WTVJ's transmitters in Miami in exchange for WCAU (that was also wooed by Fox since they were likely to lose WTXF to UPN, but then Viacom opted to buy WGBS instead and WTXF then became an O&O) and WCIX's transmitters in Miami.
After that, WBZ, KYW, WJZ, KCNC and KUTV all joined CBS, WBAL switched back to NBC (although Fox was interested too, but they already were in good terms with Sinclair and kept their affiliation to WBFF) and then, in 1995, they all became O&Os when Westinghouse bought CBS. And the rest is history...
chanel 11 had some hot looking males on the news team back then stan & norm
@newscaster13 And the moral of that story: it's always best to return to your roots.
that was CBS on WBAL-TV but WBAL-TV got NBC back
+Jean Vargas Alvarez You are right alright!,It did since the day after New Years of 1995.
WBAL switched to CBS to displace last-place WMAR, which became an NBC affiliate. NBC was satisfied with channel 2 more than any other frequently preempting stations (WSVN, WPTF/WRDC, etc...) because they can just watch the preempted shows on the neighboring Washington station WRC.
Scripps, which owns WMAR, made a deal with ABC, in which WXYZ and WEWS (both courted by CBS due to their affiliates’ switching to Fox) to remain their ABC status if some of their stations, including channel 2, switch to ABC. WJZ’s owner, Westinghouse, felt ABC betrayed them after years of loyalty. ABC was also reluctant to displace loser WMAR from winner WJZ. Westinghouse now had to find a network to deal with, which will affect their other stations. W chose CBS, which already affiliate with KPIX in the Bay Area and KPIX in Pittsburgh. The CBS switch affected 2 NBC affiliates, WBZ and KYW. The problem with KYW is that if it switched to CBS directly, Philadelphia would be a major city without NBC, until NBC offered to buy CBS’ O&O, WCAU. CBS chose to trade.
CBS-GROUP W-NBC TRADE MECHANICS:
1. CBS gives WCAU to NBC.
2. NBC gives KCNC and KUTV to CBS.
3. WTVJ and WCIX swap facilities and channel frequencies, with WCIX switching its callsign to WFOR, remembering of the new channel assignment, channel 4.
4. CBS gives a controlling share of KUTV to Group W.
AFFILIATION EFFECTS:
WCAU - NBC (O&O)
KCNC - CBS (O&O)
KUTV - CBS
Who's the dude with Vic Tayback (Mel from "Alice")?
@Gregg Noonberg Ray Bennett was the guy. A popular reporter for WBAL during that time.
What says Isabel after telling "Oh George" to Stan Stovall? I don't understand.
She says "Eat your heart out!"
Yep - she addresses "George" with that comment, as if he were watching Channel 11 at that moment.
to make George jealous of Stan-
Check out that thunderstrike in the background at 2:15
CBS bought rival WJZ in 1995, and at the same time, WBAL came crawling back to NBC (with Tom Brokaw).
Westinghouse made all of their affiliates CBS then bought CBS to become CBS
@@waynesthename5453 Because Westinghouse merged with CBS at the time.
Whatever happened to Rudy Miller?
She works in PR for health company
thetvzone okay
wbal nbc 11 owned by Hearst Television
Don't talk about NBC
Hey NBC is better than cbs
tsusksa the animator who cares but sometimes CBS is better than NBC.
@@Randomlista12 No NBC is better than CBS In Ratings
@@Randomlista12 when the peacock returns to 11 wbal has its tail between its legs returning to the Peacock NETWORK in 1995
same logo as ktrk
Rudy Iraheta KTRK and WBAL’s “Circle [insert number here]” are different but Houston and Baltimore’s channel frequency are same (different on the UHF band.)