Favorite Newscaster of the 1970's
DiScOPaT2000
with my folks while having dinner. One of the newscasters we watched alot
during the 1970's was none other then Sandy Hill who was the co-host on ABC's
"Good Morning America" with David Hartman from 1978-80 (Sandy was replaced by
Joan Lunden in 1980). Before she joined "Good Morning America" in 1978, Sandy
Hill started her news career here in Seattle from 1969-74 on the CBS affiliate,
KIRO TV 7, as the co-anchor and weather forcaster with the late Cliff Kirk on
the 6:30 PM news. Sandy also was known as the "movie gal" for hosting "The Big
Money Movie" on KIRO TV that used to come on every afternoon at 3:30 PM in
where you can win big money if you can answer the trivia question right from
her.
I liked Sandy alot when I was an infant because she was known for her wonderful
smile everytime she's on TV. She was really wonderful and funny! Today Sandy
now lives in Bellevue, Washington which a suburb of Seattle and is no longer in
the TV business.
Also another favorite of mines was Ann Martin who also was with KIRO TV from
1974-76. Ann was a close friend and classmate of Sandy Hill while they were
attending school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. Back in 1974
just a few months before Sandy was about ready to leave Seattle for the big
time (I think she was going to either KABC or KNXT (now KCBS) in Los Angeles
after she left KIRO), Sandy invited Ann to come and work at KIRO to do the news
and do the weather also and thats how Ann got her start in the broadcasting
business. Ann Martin left KIRO in 1976 and went on to KABC in Los Angeles and
is now on KCBS TV as the co-anchor on the 5PM news down there.
So now you know about my favorite newscasters during the 70's they started out
local and made it to the big time. Anyone remember Sandy Hill when she was on
"GMA"? Also Ann Martin? Also please respond if you have your own favorite
newscaster during the 1970's.
Francis McGill
from Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York City. She
was on around 1979 and just has to be the happiest person
I've ever seen on TV. She was bubbly but sincere, and
the rare times she would fill in for grumpy Roger Grimsby,
the newscasts were just a lot nicer.
Does anyone else remember her?
By the way, Joan Lunden was on that same station right
before Good Morning America hired her.
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years after that. She was the first female newscaster in Cleveland, and
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Oil Impressionist
discop...@aol.com (DiScOPaT2000) wrote:
> please respond if you have your own favorite
> newscaster during the 1970's.
>
>
In the late 70s and early 80s, we watched Allison Payne on our local
channel 5: Flint/Saginaw/Bay City (Michigan) WNEM news. We really
liked her and were sort of sad when they announced she was leaving for
Chicago, but they didn't say to what channel. Well, about two days
later, there she was on cable channel WGN (9) in Chicago! And she's
still there!! :-)
Dawna - Oil Impressionist
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Jill Munro
sent the following thru the ether:
>I'd give anything to know whatever happened to Anna Bond,
>from Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York City. She
>was on around 1979 and just has to be the happiest person
>I've ever seen on TV. She was bubbly but sincere, and
>the rare times she would fill in for grumpy Roger Grimsby,
>the newscasts were just a lot nicer.
>Does anyone else remember her?
>
>By the way, Joan Lunden was on that same station right
>before Good Morning America hired her.
>
I can't stand Joan Blunden (her real name). She always struck me as
something of a smarmy know-it-all. Oh well...its probably just me,
but I was so happy when she left GMA. As for Sandy Hill, I remember
her very well. But then, I'm old enough to recall her predecessor,
Nancy Dussalt. Anyone else recall Nancy cohosting GMA with David
Hartman in the early days (~1975)?
CJ Green
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> > I can't stand Joan Blunden (her real name). She always struck me as
> something of a smarmy know-it-all. Oh well...its probably just me,
> but I was so happy when she left GMA. As for Sandy Hill, I remember
> her very well. But then, I'm old enough to recall her predecessor,
> Nancy Dussalt. Anyone else recall Nancy cohosting GMA with David
> Hartman in the early days (~1975)?
Oh, yes. Ms. Two-Close-For-Comfort herself. I never could watch that show
without constantly thinking "That's that woman from Good Morning America!"
TrueToBrad
believe. This of course was all before everything became computerized. She
stood in back of a large map that was printed on plexiglass. She would then
write out the temperatures on the plexiglass for the different areas/regions.
The thing is, she would have to write the numbers backwards so that they showed
up correctly for the viewer. It was funny to watch when she was out sick or on
vacation and watching the "temp" writing the numbers backwards to the viewers!
When I was younger, I used to practice writing numbers backwards in case I ever
wanted to apply for that job :)
Jill Munro
following thru the ether:
>This thread reminds of our "weather girl" on Channel 4 in the early 70's, I
LOL! For a short time in the 70's we had a British man doing the
weather on our Channel 4. It was hilarious to watch him because he
didn't know any of the names of the states. He would point in a
general direction on the map and say "over here it will be cloudy and
further south it will rain and up this way..."
On Channel 6 we had a cat puppet who *helped* do the weather reports.
He was great and did ok as long as the weatherman with the drinking
problem worked with him. We used to watch just to see how red the
weatherman's nose was on any given night and how many times the cat
puppet had to catch one of his errors.
After the inebriated weatherman *retired*, the TV station got a
meteorologist to replace him. The organization that accredits
meteorologists threatened to take this new guy's meteorologist
credentials away because he was performing with a puppet (the weather
is very serious business...hahaha).
This must have upset the meteorologist because every once in a while
he would fight on the air with the puppet. Not scripted stuff either.
Real fights. About stuff like accusing the puppet of messing around
with his weather maps. So, finally the TV station fired the puppet.
After that and as a way of protesting the firing of the puppet, nobody
would watch that channel's news programs anymore. The meteorologist
also had a nasty habit of deliberately running over his time and using
up the sports segment's time. Which the station disliked because of
advertising issues. Eventually, the meteorologist moved to a TV
station in Chicago where he still is, I guess.
And now this same TV station has a morning weatherman who works on air
with a real dog. So maybe a real cat wouldn't have been a problem...
Retro Man
was Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel on WABC's Eyewitness News. That newscast
also included Roseanne Scamardella (whose name Gilda Radner lampooned as
Roseanne Rosannadanna on SNL) and weatherman Tex Antoine, who was later
replaced by Storm Field. David Letterman showed his longterm New Yawk-ness,
ribbing Stone Phillips for awhile by calling him Storm Field.
