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Marcia Yockey on You Tube

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radiorob2.0

Yes, I know this is a radio board..........But.

I found some Marcia Moments...

Channel 7's Ron Rhodes submitted this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLrRqg1VPw

Moments of her on WFIE at about 8:38 into the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVT-fvIQWo&feature=related Bonus....a young David Blake, Mike Blake and Brad Byrd in the credits. The Lady Godiva mention is in reference to being part of a parade. She was in a body suit but with Marcia you never knew.

Finally, her 1969 Moon landing and forecast while she was at Channel 7

About :45 into the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHmAoFrOy4&NR=1

There will never be another one like her.
 
Here's something even better. I actually watched her do the weather every night.

Her weather while maybe hokey was always involving viewers and not jsut for the sake of making a scene. She really was interested in what was happening with her audience.

David James seemed to be who Chevy Chase modeled after for weekend update. Never knew he had that much hair.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
Yes, I know this is a radio board..........But.

I found some Marcia Moments...
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Angela Buchman in another 30 years. ;)
 
I never would have guessed Mike Blake had been on the anchor desk longer than Brad Byrd :p
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
I never would have guessed Mike Blake had been on the anchor desk longer than Brad Byrd :p
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Brad has been an anchor at 25 since the late 70's. My aunt has an old video tape of a Dallas episode from around 1980 that ran over and had part of 25 Alive news. Back then Brad had curly hair.
 
thanks for the thread!

We lived in Evansville from 1950-54, year 5 through 9 of my life.

To this day I recall watching a young Macia do the weather. The whole family watched and loved her reports. I remember being very upset when I found out Marcia would not be a part of my TV viewing in Indianapolis.
 
A old type 'Radio Type' personality on TV in the early days of the 'tube' in the Tri-State... WFIE started at Channel 60 and she was there! Then to 7 and back to 14.... WTVW didn't have the bells or whistles that WFIE and WEHT had, but it had the VHF position on the dial and my folks would actually watch 14's cast until it was time for Marsha.. Then they'd flip to 7.... When she went back to 14, many would do the same in the fringe.. If they had '7' on, they'd go to some 'snow' and eek out Marsha on 14 (which was on the 600 foot stick and only 400,000 watts visual, at the time)... When they went to their 1.4 million watts (first installment on the upgrade) at 1,000 feet from Wolf Hills, KY, they really started to dominate the ADI, as well as the metro..It was Marsha that led the charge.. I can say, I was scared out of my wits, when I went up with her in the 'copter' (she had a license)...I went up with her in the 'whirlybird', just once.. ONLY ONCE! And she got away with having a pet goat in her Newburgh village yard.. It was "Marsha" and the folks in old Newburgh were not going to deny their most cherrished resident! ;D
 
skippertthomas said:
A old type 'Radio Type' personality on TV in the early days of the 'tube' in the Tri-State... WFIE started at Channel 60 and she was there! Then to 7 and back to 14.... WTVW didn't have the bells or whistles that WFIE and WEHT had, but it had the VHF position on the dial and my folks would actually watch 14's cast until it was time for Marsha.. Then they'd flip to 7.... When she went back to 14, many would do the same in the fringe.. If they had '7' on, they'd go to some 'snow' and eek out Marsha on 14 (which was on the 600 foot stick and only 400,000 watts visual, at the time)... When they went to their 1.4 million watts (first installment on the upgrade) at 1,000 feet from Wolf Hills, KY, they really started to dominate the ADI, as well as the metro..It was Marsha that led the charge.. I can say, I was scared out of my wits, when I went up with her in the 'copter' (she had a license)...I went up with her in the 'whirlybird', just once.. ONLY ONCE! And she got away with having a pet goat in her Newburgh village yard.. It was "Marsha" and the folks in old Newburgh were not going to deny their most cherrished resident! ;D
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A quick correction, WFIE started on 62. Beyond that Skip nails it about Yock. Urban legend says she flew a single engine plane under the twin bridges.
 
Yep... '62'... '25/WEHT' was '50' prior to their mid-sixties move..... Terre Haute can barely keep three TV's on and only one has a full news staff! Yet, they got two VHF's and one UHF to Evansville's commercial entries of one VHF and two UHF's....Of course 'PBS' came in on '9'.....
 
skipper,

I count two news staffs in Terre Haute. While WTWO isn't my choice for news, I don't think they're significantly understaffed compared to WTHI.
 
Feel free to add, subtract or multiply or divide, but here is what happened to Marcia based on what I was told....

New management took over at WFIE and believed weather was a meteorologist using fancy computer graphics. Instead they had an old woman in a pony tail using a wet marker board. What new management didn't comprehend was Marcia was her own promotion machine. She was very outgoing attending everything from charity events to frat parties. It was the later that gave her the Bob Barker/Price is Right status among the college kids. Instead of understanding the reason why people watched Marcia they researched her out of a job. She was exiled from the 10pm news to midday news.

Meanwhile, Geraldo Rivera did a general interest talk show produced by WWOR New York. He was planning a topic on wacky weather people, among those featured was WWOR and former WFIE weather man Lloyd Lindsay Young. "Double L" told the producers to contact Marcia. The producers contacted WFIE, management spoke for Marcia and said, "she wasn't interested". Lloyd Lindsay called Marcia wondering why she refused the appearance and Marcia said, "What appearance?" Marcia then confronted management and suggested many ways they could perform asexual reproduction and quit.

Shortly after her falling out with Channel 14, Marcia was invited to speak to a Kentucky Wesleyan College broadcasting class. Marcia won the class from the start when she ask the students about bars around town. Her best advice to these young college students, "If you want to do something and management says 'no', ---- 'em, do it anyway!" The general theme was ---- management. After the class, she took the students to the fire station across the street and convinced the firemen to give them a ride on a fire truck.

I'll say it again, there will never be another like her.
 
WAY NEATO, ROB! Re: Marcia Yockey on You Tube

TOO COOL!
Okay! For style points - the weather lady on Ch. 25 & the newsmen (and I'll give you one: Tim Spencer) -

AND
on Ch. 7 - it was Andy... - (started w/an H)

AND
name two of Marcia's sponsors!

Note: there is no prize, only style points. Which will be awarded 15 years ago at Helen's Fine Foods on Maryland St.

(Bill Barnhill: we won't go there.)...
 
Thanks Chief! I remember WTHI cutting back on Sports and having a pretty lean staff a couple of years back when I was dealing with the on line hosting and website for Crossroads.. They were scratching their heads how TH was getting smaller and smaller in TV and Radio... I hear my Jay Michaels from the WIKY weekend crew is heading to TH for a radio gig.. More to come... I was partial to "2" due to many years of good friends there...

"Skippy"
 
NONA, NONA, NONA! Nona Miller and those low cut tops and mini-skirts.. Dry Tim Spencer with the naughty boy look as he introduced the 'sexpot' of Evansville Media in the early 70's... Tim looked like that fifth grader looking at his first Playboy and then saying; "Thank You, GOD!".... Most of the rumors on Nona, were just that.. No truth to them..... Yes, Bill B....Don't go there.. He was one of the first media people to go down in flames due to the social disorder that is delt with these days, and not so in days of old.....
 
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