.......ON MOST OF THESE ABC STATIONS......

[gregg75]

On a vintage game show I watched the other day, at the end of the program as the
credits rolled, the music faded and an announcer came on and said something like

"Bob Hope makes a suprise visit on blah blah blah and the gang ends up lost and
confused at a race track in California, this Thursday on blah blah blah, on most of
these ABC stations."

I remember when these PLUGS were inserted at the end of most programs, but you
rarely see it anymore. Do the networks even have a live ON AIR announcer today as
they once did?

 

[newsmark]

Great question. Most, if not all, of those types of announcements, have been replaced by squeezebacks: credits on part of the screen, pre-produced promos on part of the screen.

However, sometimes after a news bulletin, you'll see a "voice-over-slide" announcement that seems pretty specific about programming, so maybe they have someone "on call." The announcers don't have to be sitting in ABC Master Control anymore to do such an announcement, even live.

 

[firepoint525]

I've always figured that such announcements were pre-recorded. At any rate, when it is approaching 10:00, and time for the local news, the local news anchors usually take over the closing credits of the previous show, and tell us what is coming up in the news.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Interesting that they used the phrase "on MOST of these ABC stations".
ABC, particularly in the 60's, was on shared time arrangements in many parts of
the country. They had to therefore hedge a bit.

 

[Ultimajock]

...although "most of" announcements were also standard on NBC and CBS in the '60s and '70s, too. You can still occasionally hear Johnny Olson plugging TattleTales "next on most of these CBS stations" on a GSN rerun of Match Game 7x...

 

[cd637299]

In Miami, where pre-emptions seemed to be the rule-of-the-day, *if* a show that was not carried here was to be plugged, I'd rarely hear it, even if it were on "most" of these XXX stations....seemed to me that our local stations had an inside track as to what was *to be* announced!

Being that the announcer said "on MOST of these stations," it wouldn't be a sin to let it run, here....after all, it's the truth!

Game show freak that I was in the 60s, I had to depend on West Palm Beach stations to see (with horrible fuzzy pictures) many of these game shows! (I'd still see the "home games" in our local stores....I wonder how they sold in markets that didn't carry the shows, vis-a-vis those that did!)

BTW, IMO, "Eye Guess" was maybe the best ever game show *not* to have been shown in Miami. ymmv.

cd

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...if a show that was not carried here was to be plugged, I'd rarely hear it, even if it were on
"most" of these XXX stations....seemed to me that our local stations had an inside track as to
what was *to be* announced!

Sure they did...at least the CBS affiliates had info showing what was to be plugged
in the "audio over credits" and the content of the system cue ("CTN") for each show.

 

[Mario500]

On a vintage game show I watched the other day, at the end of the program as the
credits rolled, the music faded and an announcer came on and said something like

"Bob Hope makes a suprise visit on blah blah blah and the gang ends up lost and
confused at a race track in California, this Thursday on blah blah blah, on most of
these ABC stations."

I remember when these PLUGS were inserted at the end of most programs, but you
rarely see it anymore. Do the networks even have a live ON AIR announcer today as
they once did?

The quotation marks were unnecessary if you were not quoting someone.

 

[onairb]

On a vintage game show I watched the other day, at the end of the program as the
credits rolled, the music faded and an announcer came on and said something like

"Bob Hope makes a suprise visit on blah blah blah and the gang ends up lost and
confused at a race track in California, this Thursday on blah blah blah, on most of
these ABC stations."

I remember when these PLUGS were inserted at the end of most programs, but you
rarely see it anymore. Do the networks even have a live ON AIR announcer today as
they once did?

The quotation marks were unnecessary if you were not quoting someone.

"Stay tuned for The Pedantry Game...NEXT, on MOST of this same thread!" ;D
The quotation marks set off what Gregg said from what he announcer said..so they WERE useful, and necessary.

 

[bmasters1981]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxVbrOe22w

Here's a great example, I think, of what's being talked about here, from Blue Thunder in early 1984. The announcer plugs Ripley's Believe It or Not, Hardcastle and McCormick, and then an ABC Sunday Night Movie entitled "Slap Shot," before finishing w/a plug for Matt Houston, next after an ABC News Brief.

 

[bpatrick]

Usually, if the network announcer was plugging any show the
local affiliate wasn't carrying, the station would simply cut the
sound until the promo was done. We used to go one better
when I worked at WGHP, particularly with "Edge Of Night,"
which we didn't carry (in fact, it was the only ABC daytime
show we pre-empted). It worked like this: the "Love In The
Afternoon" music would play, then up would come a scene from
"Edge" and the announcer saying, "On 'The Edge Of Night'...".
We'd keep the picture and sound up, but superimpose a graphic
saying, "This program will not be seen on TV8."

IIRC, for a few weeks prior to WGHP's switch from ABC to Fox,
all promos for ABC shows airing on or after Sept. 3, 1995, were
deleted entirely.

 

[FreddyE1977]

...although "most of" announcements were also standard on NBC and CBS in the '60s and '70s, too. You can still occasionally hear Johnny Olson plugging TattleTales "next on most of these CBS stations" on a GSN rerun of Match Game 7x...

"...except in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Provo, Utah where they believe Gene Rayburn is the Devil" ;D

 

[cd637299]

"This program will not be seen on TV8."

This reminded me.....OT, but I'll say it.....

When I was stationed near Anchorage 1978-80, the NBC station's non-news/sports programming was on a 3 week delay; for the CBS station it was 2 weeks, and on the ABC it was 1 week. (The PBS was the first to go same-night!)

Whenever you'd see a sporting event live via satellite, there'd be a promo for a show coming up that night, complete with audio & video, but a deep-voiced "spoiler" would cut in during the promo to say, "Not current in Alaska."

That meant that we'd be seeing Christmas specials well into January, and Johnny Carson's jokes just didn't have the "bite" they coulda had sooner!

Anchorage DJ "Marcus in the Morning" once said on his show, sometime like Dec 30...."Merry Christmas!" The canned "crowd" would say "WHAT??!?!?" and then Marcus would say "Not current in Alaska."

It became quite the running gag. Our Fairbanks member, I am sure, had it even worse there, during that time.

Of course now, with cheaper-to-run satellites (I assume), all AK & HI get their shows the same night.

cd

 

[Ultimajock]

...although "most of" announcements were also standard on NBC and CBS in the '60s and '70s, too. You can still occasionally hear Johnny Olson plugging TattleTales "next on most of these CBS stations" on a GSN rerun of Match Game 7x...

"...except in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Provo, Utah where they believe Gene Rayburn is the Devil" ;D

...if it's a TattleTales plug, it'd have been Bert Convy that they'd think was the Devil ;-) ...