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Local TV News 1982 behind the scenes ABC 20/20

RadioPatrol said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_pX5x6Ei78&app=desktop

This segment was done at 1982 took a look at KTSP-TV Minneapolis. But they mentioned that Connie Chung of KNXT 2 now called KCBS2 was the highest paid Local TV anchor back in the early 1980's at $600k.
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Good find. While much has changed in local news the past 30+ years, much is still the same. I enjoyed a young Bob Jordan in this report, who went on to work at KING and later at KIRO in Seattle. And those remarkable 50K salaries for top anchors!
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_pX5x6Ei78&app=desktop

This segment was done at 1982 took a look at KTSP-TV Minneapolis. But they mentioned that Connie Chung of KNXT 2 now called KCBS2 was the highest paid Local TV anchor back in the early 1980's at $600k.
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I believe (Fred) Van Amburg at KGO-TV San Francisco, was also making about $600K in that year. When the frugal Capital Cities bought ABC, they sent Amburg packing, and hired Sacramento anchor Pete Wilson for about a third of that. Wilson became the "dean" of Bay Area news until his untimely death a few years ago. 60 Minutes did a segment about TV news in San Francisco in the late 70s (Mike Wallace, IIRC), and the "if it bleeds, it leads" style of news - of which KGO-TV was expert, in those days. The doc was on You Tube for a long time, but I just looked for it, and couldn't find it.
 
I remember there was another article back in the 1990's to 2000 that Pete Wilson and Gary Radnich then KRON staff members who actually had previously teamed up with each other on KTXL Sacramento. Were at one point the highest paid Bay Area Broadcasting talent because they were doing both radio and and TV at the time. Pete Wilson at KGO-AM and Radnich at KNBR both doing talk radio too.

But I think Paul Moyer was mentioned at one point for being the highest paid local TV talent in the nation at one time too.

Back in this clip they showed Al Primo the News Director of WABC-TV who got Roger Grimsby to leave KGO-TV and team up with Bill Beutel to do WABC Eyewitness News. Van Amburg went to KGO around the time Grimsby went to New York.
 
I wonder how often are the salaries of those who anchor the local news are inflated for publicity ?? When Glenn Brenner for DC's WUSA passed away in 1992 the rumor was, started by his own wife was that Brenner made a million dollars a year just by doing sports at WUSA. I don't know why his wife would spread such a rumor but there was no correction to his salary on the part of WUSA so a lot of people still believe to this day that Glenn Brenner made a million dollars a year.
 
As a sidenote, KSTP has one of the longest running logos in local tv today. Here, this classic "groovy" 1969 logo is shown on their current website. Reminds me a lot of KTLA in Los Angeles, from decades ago.

http://kstp.com/
 
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seatownmedia said:
As a sidenote, KSTP has one of the longest running logos in local tv today. Here, this classic "groovy" 1969 logo is shown on their current website. Reminds me a lot of KTLA in Los Angeles, from decades ago.

http://kstp.com/
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That is similar to the old KTLA "5" when it was owned by Golden West Broadcasters (Gene Autry). How old is the logo? The circle 7 logo at the ABC stations harkens back to 1962. Also pretty old are those "Westinghouse" font logos that started with the Group W owned stations in the early or mid 60s, and is still used to this day - at KPIX 5 San Francisco, for example, and 1010 WINS Newsradio in New York.
 
LKellerIII said:
That is similar to the old KTLA "5" when it was owned by Golden West Broadcasters (Gene Autry). How old is the logo? The circle 7 logo at the ABC stations harkens back to 1962. Also pretty old are those "Westinghouse" font logos that started with the Group W owned stations in the early or mid 60s, and is still used to this day - at KPIX 5 San Francisco, for example, and 1010 WINS Newsradio in New York.
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You can add Baltimore's WJZ to that list. They are a former Group W stations and has had their logo since 1963.
 
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