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WNEW-TV 5, New York- October 17-23, 1965

K.M. Richards said:
In the early 1960's, KTTV also did a 15-minute newscast in the 6:00pm hour, competing with the network O&Os' casts, with Putnam as the anchor. It was there that he developed his trademark sign off: "Ladies and gentlemen, that's the news, up-to-the-minute, that's all the news. Back at ten, see you then!" (I bet King Daevid remembers that as clearly as I.)
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...only from airchecks I've heard, as I was a toddler in Chicagoland at the time and my grandmother damn near glued the dial to WMAQ-TV/5 to get her nightly fix of Chet Huntley and Floyd Kalber ;-) . It's also notable that George Putnam, for all his conservative bluster, openly admired some on the other side of the political ledger; Harlan Ellison, when he wrote his heavily-leftist TV column The Glass Teat for the Los Angeles Free Press, once expressed his mixed emotions at finding out Putnam was a huge fan of the column, while Harlan himself couldn't stand George at all...
 
Ultimajock said:
...only from airchecks I've heard, as I was a toddler in Chicagoland at the time and my grandmother damn near glued the dial to WMAQ-TV/5 to get her nightly fix of Chet Huntley and Floyd Kalber ;-) . It's also notable that George Putnam, for all his conservative bluster, openly admired some on the other side of the political ledger; Harlan Ellison, when he wrote his heavily-leftist TV column The Glass Teat for the Los Angeles Free Press, once expressed his mixed emotions at finding out Putnam was a huge fan of the column, while Harlan himself couldn't stand George at all...
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Ellison is against the mongrelization of television and, by extension, American culture. I remember his evisceration of Chuck Barris after Ellison's disastrous experience on "The Dating Game." You didn't have to be a card-carrying commie to appreciate that. I'd compare it to Phil Mushnick's sports-media column in New York -- all he's looking for are sports and sports broadcasting that aren't dumbed down, vulgarized and overly commercialized. Politically, he's far to the right of Ellison, but I would think he'd appreciate Harlan's take on media and culture if he's had a chance to read it.
 
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