Classic Chicago Newscast from February 1967

[TimL]

Just found on Rich Samuels' Chicago Broadcast History website a complete Thursday, February 23, 1967 10PM newscast from WMAQ-TV 5. The "NBC Night Report" had Floyd Kalber doing News and Sports and Harry Volkman with Weather. While the Newscast was in color the file is a B&W Kinescope..The file is in 7 segments of 2-6 minutes each and will play in Real Player. Includes all commercials within the newscast. Interesting curiosity.

http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/23feb1967/index.html

 

[ClearThinker]

> Just found on Rich Samuels' Chicago Broadcast History
> website a complete Thursday, February 23, 1967 10PM newscast
> from WMAQ-TV 5. The "NBC Night Report" had Floyd Kalber
> doing News and Sports and Harry Volkman with Weather. While
> the Newscast was in color the file is a B&W Kinescope..The
> file is in 7 segments of 2-6 minutes each and will play in
> Real Player. Includes all commercials within the newscast.
> Interesting curiosity.
>
> http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/23feb1967/index.html
>

Fascinating stuff. The thing that strikes me is how long each story was. They had to be twice as lengthy as current newscasts.

And you couldn't beat the sports report

 

[Stitch]

> > http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/23feb1967/index.html

And if you ever get the chance to visit the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, be sure to check out their video/film archive. It contains a 1967 WFLD-TV "News Scope" newscast from, if not the same day, the same week of the WMAQ-TV newscast. You can even find a then-WNBQ-TV newscast in the collection, preserved on film.