ABC Radio Networks - Newscasts - 3/29/1969
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- News broadcasts from each of the four ABC Radio Networks (Contemporary, Information, FM and Entertainment, in that order,) from March 29, 1969. The major news stories of the day included 9 killed in rocket attacks near Hue, Vietnam, the public wake of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower, and news on the Israeli air-raid on Jordan, amid other stories.
Credit to Jeff Miller
The Information anchor is Bob Walker, who was in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963.
@steveprestegard5151 Bob Walker had a long career with ABC radio, and was with the Information Network deep into the 1980s.
Thanks much for posting these! I remember hearing all four ABC networks on various stations in the Seattle area when I was a teenager. Memories!
The four ABC Radio Networks--Contemporary, Entertainment, FM and Information-- were established in 1968.
ABC Radio News was hands down the best for many years. I fondly remember all these networks.
These are so soothing and relaxing
My favorite era in radio news...
Major flashback! Thanks for uploading.
Great footage. Thanks for posting.
At 15:18, Lou Boda (1928-88) did the sportscast. His last work was at WFAN in the summer of 1988, shortly before his death. The Information logo is an optical illiusion. Thanks so much for this!
Maybe the American Information Radio Network logo has since been used in psychological testing much like the rosarch charts.
@@altfactor Wouldn't surprise me. The other logos are pretty out there, too.
Mr. Boda at the time was handling sports on the late evening (11 P.M.) newscasts of "Eyewitness News" on WABC-TV in New York (while Howard Cosell did the early evening newscast's sports). He would later return to WABC as "EWN" sportscaster in 1979 one summer when Warner Wolf was on vacation.
John Bohannon, who was the 1st newscast in this posting, later went on to Mutual. Also, the seat belt spot starting at 1:02. I remember the "What's your excuse?" tagline, though I was only 5 or 6 at the time. Now it's the law.
If I recall correctly Bohannon also worked at NBC Radio.
@@kurttoy5035 Yes, he did.
I remember the Ad Council/National Safety Council "What's Your Excuse" PSA!⛸️
@@lauribricker9439 Jack Webb did one of those spots.
This PSA sounds like Jose Ferrer.
0:00, 5:09, 18:54, and 24:06.
I remember that entrance music
Where’s the ABC Contemporary Newscast? Love you who have included!
Contemporary leads off the piece
WVIC AM and FM in Lansing, Michigan were affiliated with ABC Contemporary. Whenever I hear the opening jingle it takes me back to my "wonder years" when I was a freshman at Lansing Catholic High School during the 1976-77 school year. All my classmates were listening to WVIC and ABC Contemporary News was aired at the top of the hour. (I still have a t-shirt I won from WVIC on Thursday, July 7, 1977 at 7:17 P.M. - I guess all those sevens were lucky? And that t-shirt must be worth big bucks now.)
I wish I had a time machine.
Mostly listened to Contemporary and Entertainment in the early 70's. WABC in NYC and WSTC in Stamford, CT.
These newscasts seem really long. I do remember our local station in the mid 70's onward.....Information Radio newscast was 5 minutes; Contemporary Radio newscast was like 3 minutes & weekend World of Sports was like 3-4 minutes max.
I think the ABC/I broadcast may have been a broadcast like The World Tonight on CBS Radio, a broad overview of everything. Each network ran 5 minute newscasts, and it was up to the stations how much to use, just like today
Stations probably were obligated to run the first two or three minutes and the commercial break.
In many hourly radio newscasts, the only commercial came three minutes into the newscast, so local stations didn't have to run the last minute or two of the newscast.
Local stations sometimes ran a couple of minutes of local news and weather instead of the end of the network newscast, while some music intensive stations might have gone right back to music.
@@altfactor Yes, in the mid 70's our local station ran ABC Information Radio for the full 5 minutes and never bailed out of the 5 minute newscast. On weekends Lou Boda "World Of Sports" followed information ........I remember it was like 8 minutes before the station got back to music, but is was a really an AC leaning station. Another Top 40 station added an FM simulcast in '74 and I remember them carrying ABC Contemporary radio, they would only play the first segment and bail out after before the 1st spot came on....they later dumped the news altogether, as they were an aggressive Top 40 station and were dominant in the market. I know they played the spots as "make goods" later in the hour.
Newscasts in those days were longer. The CBS, Fox and ABC radio newscasts now are shorter and often done with fewer resources. I enjoyed hearing these.
I heard every one of these networks back in the '70s, save the FM network.
old NJ 101.5 Top of the hour ID Sound 0:00-0:03
Nice!
Is that Jim Bohannon anchoring the American Contemporary Network newscast? Did he call himself John Bohannon at that time?
John and Jim Bohannon were not related, as far as I know
No, it was John Bohannon. He and Jim Bohannon, as far as we all know, were of no relation whatsoever.
5 minutes in, and this is history-- far better than FOX "News" Radio could even pretend to be today!
Ben Masters I hope you will reply to this I don’t watch FOX “News”
@@sherryhannah9262 You bet-- me either! It's just Republican political talk radio on television, pretending to be news reporting.
@@bmasters1981 And all the rest of the MSM is the "mouth piece" of democrat party...
This is great!
And CNN
I wonder if ABC wasn't owned or sponsored by Chrysler Motors at one time. Look at that logo. It reminds me of Mopar's Direct Connections.
Chrysler never owned ABC.
@@kevinfitzmaurice4072 - No, but ITT almost did, in the '60's.
When reporters cherished the First Amendment and competed by telling the truth.
Please! Ya can't mix truth and f*x in the same sentence; it just doesn't go together.
wow 9 minutes in USA was doing something about Airplane Hijackers 1969. As we know now How useless this was sadly.