Unusual newscast titles

[quadraphonic]

FICTIONAL PICK:
EyeCandyActionPublicRecordsSearchesandLocalMayhemReportage[channel#]
That's what it would say on the business cards and the marketing.
On air, it would just be "EyeCandy5."
Admittedly it's a little cumbersome, but it's mostly honest.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Surprised nobody had mention those newscast titles that had included the name of the sponsor. NBC's Camel News Caravan everyone knows about but I have seen a few local news ads from the 50's & 60's that more/less did the same too. I saw an old ad on the Newspaperarchive.com site of Charleston, West Virginia's WCHS-TV 8 who for a brief time in the 50's had called their newscast "The Diamond News"..The Diamond being one of Charleston's then big department stores.

In the early 70's WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland called their news "The Martins Food Valley News"...that didn't last very long though.

In my post I mentioned "Alka-Seltzer News Desk", which was the first newscast aired on CKCO-TV Kitchener, Ontario in 1954. Another newscast I'm aware of was on CKSO in Sudbury, Ontario, which had mining company Inco in its title.

 

[gr8oldies]

This was radio but fed by a TV station: the DP&L (Dayton Power and Light) News Network at 5pm weekdays on an ad hoc network of Western Ohio stations

 

[bpatrick]

Want a fictional newscast title? Readers of Tank McNamara are no doubt aware that Tank is the sports anchor for On-The-Spot News. Or at least he was when I was an avid Tank reader in the early '80s.

My fantasy newscast title is Power News. Any real-life newscasts have that title?

ixnay

Don't know about Power News, but On-The-Spot News reminds me that WISH Indianapolis used to call its newscast 8 On The Scene News.

 

[rwells2265]

Back in the 70s, KGTV called their newscast "The News"

Was it said with an emphasis on "THE"?

The CBS affiliate here in Savannah, Ga. (WTOC-11) brands its various newscasts "THE News" -- has done so for going on 30 years now!

--Russell

 

[rwells2265]

Channel 6 in Paducah, Kentucky, had the "News Beat" slogan for many years, with the year following it during the '70s, as in "NewsBeat '73," "NewsBeat '74," "NewsBeat '75," "NewsBeat '76," etc. finally dropping the year beginning in 1977, and calling it just "NewsBeat 6," although it took their reporters some time to accustom to. Their logo was the "heartbeat" blipping across the bottom of the screen. They continued to use the "NewsBeat" theme for another 20 years or so.

I remember that opening back in my days in Cape Girardeau (late '70s/early '80s). 6's news production values were rather good for a market its size - it was the first time I'd ever seen a weather map with animated icons.

--Russell

 

[johnnya2k6]

Here's the video of the aforementioned KCOP "World Network Newsline" with Charlie O'Donnell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVOaUMsIzg0

I wonder if any of the stations called their newscast "The SuperNews" in the '70s...

 

[searadiofreak]

Here's the video of the aforementioned KCOP "World Network Newsline" with Charlie O'Donnell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVOaUMsIzg0

I wonder if any of the stations called their newscast "The SuperNews" in the '70s...

That's interesting...very staccato delivery at a time when many stations were softening their approach. This reminds me more of the late 60's than the early 80's.

 

[formeraa]

I wish that channels 2 and 4 here in Nashville would stop using their channel numbers as prepositions, as in "working 4 you" (channel 4's slogan for many years now), and channel 2 has segments with names like "2 your health." You would think that Prince works for these TV stations!

Stations have done that for decades. WTMJ-TV Milwaukee had "News 4 Milwaukee" and WTTV had "News 4 Indiana" in the '70s. IIRC, WNBC did the same type of thing in NYC for awhile. Some stations on Channel 5 have a "5-cast" instead of a forecast during their weather segment.

The worst was KPNX-TV/12 Phoenix a few years back. They were "The 1-2 watch for news." But they're infamous for idiotic slogans, such as "(Lin Sue) Cooney & (Mark) Curtis - Two different people, one great news team." And we thought that they were the same person all this time. ;D

And the 12 News slogan "12 Stands For Local News".

 

[formeraa]

In the 70's, one of the Las Vegas stations had "Total Information News".

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up: KVII-Amarillo calls their newscast "ProNews 7," which I find really kinda dumb. Are they the only "pro"fessional news in town? or do they "pro"mote the news more?

 

[firepoint525]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up: KVII-Amarillo calls their newscast "ProNews 7," which I find really kinda dumb. Are they the only "pro"fessional news in town? or do they "pro"mote the news more?

Maybe they were trying to imply that their competition was "anti-news"? ;D

 

[johnnya2k6]

Well, I guess the term "SuperNews" was the order of the day in the '70s, with WNBC being first in the nation with TWO HOURS of local news from 4:30-6:30, and then KNXT (now KCBS) in Los Angeles with 2 1/2 hours from 4-6:30!!!

And during the pipeline construction boom that time, KTVF was the first here in Alaska to expand their evening news to an hour (5:30-6:30). Their newscast became the "Fairbanks Evening News" in 1971 to tie in with the "CBS Evening News."

 

[oldiesfan6479]

KTVF...their newscast became the "Fairbanks Evening News" in 1971 to tie in with the "CBS Evening News."

In 1971 weren't the early-evening netcasts still taped in Seattle and
flown up, and aired somewhere after 10:30 PM?

 

[Tim L]

Surprised nobody had mention those newscast titles that had included the name of the sponsor. NBC's Camel News Caravan everyone knows about but I have seen a few local news ads from the 50's & 60's that more/less did the same too. I saw an old ad on the Newspaperarchive.com site of Charleston, West Virginia's WCHS-TV 8 who for a brief time in the 50's had called their newscast "The Diamond News"..The Diamond being one of Charleston's then big department stores.

In the early 70's WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland called their news "The Martins Food Valley News"...that didn't last very long though.

I've mentioned this many times, but Warren Guthrie was the main newscaster for "Sohio Reporter" a 10-minute newscast simulcast from 1951-63 on WJW-8 Cleveland, WSPD-13 Toledo, and WKBN-27 Youngstown, Oh.

 

[johnnya2k6]

KTVF...their newscast became the "Fairbanks Evening News" in 1971 to tie in with the "CBS Evening News."

In 1971 weren't the early-evening netcasts still taped in Seattle and
flown up, and aired somewhere after 10:30 PM?

No; they were aired on a one-day delay.

 

[bpatrick]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up: KVII-Amarillo calls their newscast "ProNews 7," which I find really kinda dumb. Are they the only "pro"fessional news in town? or do they "pro"mote the news more?

It stands for "Pro"fessional News; KRIS Corpus Christi, AFAIK, still calls its newscast "Pro 6 News."
John Tyler, I believe, started "Pro News" at KVII; he took the title with him to WXIA, which used
it for four years (1972-76) before adopting the "11 Alive" nickname.

 

[Bluenoser]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up: KVII-Amarillo calls their newscast "ProNews 7," which I find really kinda dumb. Are they the only "pro"fessional news in town? or do they "pro"mote the news more?

It stands for "Pro"fessional News; KRIS Corpus Christi, AFAIK, still calls its newscast "Pro 6 News."
John Tyler, I believe, started "Pro News" at KVII; he took the title with him to WXIA, which used
it for four years (1972-76) before adopting the "11 Alive" nickname.

And KGNS Laredo uses Pro 8 News as their title.

 

[Toledo Eleven]

I just posted this ad from July 1974 for Atlanta's WXIA-TV's Pro News with Roger Davis and Susan Howard (at noon). http://vintagetoledotv.squarespace.com/southern-states/single-gallery/4612031

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

Well, I guess the term "SuperNews" was the order of the day in the '70s, with WNBC being first in the nation with TWO HOURS of local news from 4:30-6:30, and then KNXT (now KCBS) in Los Angeles with 2 1/2 hours from 4-6:30!!!

WNBC-TV's two-hour newsblock was actually from 5 to 7 PM, starting in 1974 and lasting until NBC Nightly News was moved up to 6:30 in the fall of 1990.