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Live at Five 1980-2007

If Chuck and Sue are the stars at WNBC then shouldn't they still keep the 6 & 11 together with Chuck holding down the 7 newscast alone instead of others doing the 6pm show. Maybe even Sue solo at 6, Chuck solo at 7 and them together at 11pm as always.
 
I think they want to show they are serious about the 7 p.m. newscast, so that is why they are giving it to Chuck.
The ideal situation would be to keep the 5 p.m. and turn the 5 p.m. hour back into the old school Live at Five and also have a 7 p.m. newscast.
 
Don't get me wrong, nobody is a bigger fan of Chuck than I am, and I am just throwing this out there. Does anybody think that by not putting Chuck on at 6 they are starting to phase hime out? I am not intending to be anti- Chuck on this and I believe he should be on at 6, I am just wondering..................

My solution, Chuck & Sue at 6, Chuck solo at 7, and Sue with somebody else, or even solo at 11.
 
Changes at 4HD news

NERW and the NY Daily News confirm the changes today.

"News 4 You" with Perri Peltz is the successor to "Live at Five" and will air at 5:30. David Ushery and Linda Baquero will anchor at 6; NBC Nightly News remains at 6:30; Chuck Scarborough will anchor at 7; Sue Simmons will anchor at 11. "Extra" (syndicated showbiz/gossip show) moves to 5.

In addition, 4HD will have news updates every hour during the day.
 
jamjimaria said:
Don't get me wrong, nobody is a bigger fan of Chuck than I am, and I am just throwing this out there. Does anybody think that by not putting Chuck on at 6 they are starting to phase hime out? I am not intending to be anti- Chuck on this and I believe he should be on at 6, I am just wondering..................

My solution, Chuck & Sue at 6, Chuck solo at 7, and Sue with somebody else, or even solo at 11.
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Actually, they may be putting Chuck in at 7, and indeed having news at all at 7, because a growing number of people in the NY metro area aren't home from work at 6, never mind ready to watch the news. That was the first thing I thought of, and the article MarcB references sort of says that.

Also, believe it or not, Chuck and Sue are essentially the same age (63 this year, I think), and while I can't imagine the news without them (I am a diehard NBC news fan), they may be interested in retiring in the not so distant future. NBC may be planning ahead for that, so whatever transition that does occur will not be a total shock to the system.

And yeah, I'm going to miss Live At 5 :(

This is just my opinion. Like Col. Klink, I know nothing.
 
dmargalotti said:
This is just my opinion. Like Col. Klink, I know nothing.
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Apparently, you're right, you DO know nothing (just kidding)...it was Sgt. Schultz, not Col. Klink who "knew nothing".
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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ROFL!! OMG, I can't believe I screwed THAT up, of all things :eek:

See how upset these changes have made me? :D
 
This is the first time in my generation that a major network (excluding Fox) O&O programmed a non-news program at 5 PM.

This won't be the first time an O&O has tried a 7 PM newscast. Remember when CBS/2 attempted it during the days of their "It's 2" campaign?
 
Wow, Chuck still around. He was there for a while and I left in 1978. I remeber when the Huntley/Brinkley Report aired at 7PM along with the CBS Evening news with Walter cronkite. The Local News aired from 6pm to 7 PM. WABC aired movies from 4pmto 6pm in the old days.
 
WABC aired movies from 4pmto 6pm in the old days.
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I think that was the 4:30 movie on WABC - NY. They used to have great theme weeks such as Martin & Lewis, World War II, Spies, Planet of the Apes, and so on. I remembering racing to finish my paper route after school so I could get home in time to see those movies.
 
dmargalotti said:
I think that was the 4:30 movie on WABC - NY. They used to have great theme weeks such as Martin & Lewis, World War II, Spies, Planet of the Apes, and so on. I remembering racing to finish my paper route after school so I could get home in time to see those movies.
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Ahh yes, the 4:30 Movie (with that great animated opening of the cameraman on the crane)...I can actually remember when they showed re-runs of Love, American Style at 4:30. Crap, I'm old!

I'm still trying to figure out WHY we "need" HD News. Two people sitting behind a desk showing hastily-edited news video. I guess we really have reached the point where we need to see every nose hair and pimple.
 
Well, about 4 months after this new schedulle is launched, WNBC has now made the decision to switch back the Regular News to 5PM, placing "Extra" to 5:30 Now. This is probably the most pointless thing to happen to NYC TV since...Well...September when reducing Live at Five for "Extra" was first discussed. They should just go back to a 2 hour news block, put Chuck back at 6PM, Keep NY Nightly and move Extra to the 7:30 "Access Hollywood" slot since it already airs--In FIRST RUN, Mind You--at 4:30. And NBC Wonders why they're in 4th Place?
 
WNBC TV Ch. 4 started carrying the News at 5PM 6 years earlier .
In fact before the title "Live At Five" in 1980, the newscasts at 5:00
first premeired on WNBC TV April 15, 1974 titled "NewsCenter 4"
anchored by Chuck Scarborough.
 
dmargalotti said:
WABC aired movies from 4pmto 6pm in the old days.
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I think that was the 4:30 movie on WABC - NY. They used to have great theme weeks such as Martin & Lewis, World War II, Spies, Planet of the Apes, and so on. I remembering racing to finish my paper route after school so I could get home in time to see those movies.
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You are right. This is how I saw Ben Hur the first time. It took all 5 days to air the movie if I remember right.
 
dmargalotti said:
WABC aired movies from 4pmto 6pm in the old days.
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I think that was the 4:30 movie on WABC - NY. They used to have great theme weeks such as Martin & Lewis, World War II, Spies, Planet of the Apes, and so on. I remembering racing to finish my paper route after school so I could get home in time to see those movies.
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...WLS-TV/7 in Chicago had the same bumper package as WABC-TV but called their afternoon flick The 3:30 Movie (Central Time, y'know). But I have to wonder if WABC-TV and WLS-TV owned the same film packages. Those theme weeks could be brutal in Chicago, as WGN-TV/9 and WBBM-TV/2 usually had the really good packages for their nighttime slots When Movies Were Movies and The Best of CBS, leaving WLS-TV and WFLD-TV/32 with a lot of junk. I remember when WLS-TV ran a Burt Reynolds week on The 3:30 Movie and could only choose from titles like Skullduggery, Sam Whiskey, Navajo Joe and 100 Rifles...
 
Ultimajock said:
dmargalotti said:
WABC aired movies from 4pmto 6pm in the old days.
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I think that was the 4:30 movie on WABC - NY. They used to have great theme weeks such as Martin & Lewis, World War II, Spies, Planet of the Apes, and so on. I remembering racing to finish my paper route after school so I could get home in time to see those movies.
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...WLS-TV/7 in Chicago had the same bumper package as WABC-TV but called their afternoon flick The 3:30 Movie (Central Time, y'know). But I have to wonder if WABC-TV and WLS-TV owned the same film packages. Those theme weeks could be brutal in Chicago, as WGN-TV/9 and WBBM-TV/2 usually had the really good packages for their nighttime slots When Movies Were Movies and The Best of CBS, leaving WLS-TV and WFLD-TV/32 with a lot of junk. I remember when WLS-TV ran a Burt Reynolds week on The 3:30 Movie and could only choose from titles like Skullduggery, Sam Whiskey, Navajo Joe and 100 Rifles...
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I.I.N.M., the ABC O&O's had pretty much the same pick of movies as one another. One aspect, in New York, of WABC's 4:30 Movie was that in the early 1970's, before NewsCenter4 was even conceived, let alone debuted, WNBC's dead-last-in-the-ratings Movie 4 (not only walloped by WABC, but also The Mike Douglas Show on WCBS) began running its own "theme weeks" in response, namely of certain actors. In May 1972, for example, WNBC had a "Frank Sinatra Week" where such films as Assault on a Queen and High Society were shown. WNBC generally had a higher caliber of movies, on average, on their Movie 4, but viewers by and large preferred the other offerings.

Aside from WABC, the only other ABC O&O to have the exact same 4:30 Movie title was WXYZ in Detroit (though, by the end of the '70's, it was moved a half-hour earlier to become The 4:00 Movie). From 1971 to 1974, KABC in Los Angeles and KGO in San Francisco had The Six-Thirty Movie, but after that year they moved to the same 3:30 time as WLS's umbrella. (Pre-1971, they were on at 6:00, before the Prime-Time Access Rule kicked in.)
 
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