Best local TV blooper ever (not, WPXI)
Dr. Bernard D. Newman
>
> Let me say, ohhh, 1975 +/- a year or two. Late October / early November.
> (for you historians that might be able to confirm an actual date on this)
>
> The normal procedure back then was that the first "commercial" position
> after prime time programming (about 10:58:00 or so) was filled by a
> "tease" for the local news, then they ran a commercial, then the news
> started at 11:00 straight up. Prety much what we still have now, except
> that the locals do a squeeze zoom on the network credits and run the
> tease simultaneously with the last few seconds of the network show.
>
> Anyway, Emperor Hirohito of Japan was due to arrive in DC the next day
> for talks with (Jimmy Carter?). Pittsburgh, and young pup wheatherman
> Bob Kudzma were awaiting an unusually cold evening for this mid-fall
> night, temps expected to get down into the teens, if I recall.
>
> Network show ends, dissolve through black, up on local ...
>
> Audio Video
>
> Our nations capital prepares for Quick cuts of workers building
> bleachers, placing barricades,
> a visit from Emperor Hirohito of directing traffic
>
> Japan ... and Kudzma says there'll Cut to Bill Burns, medium c/u
>
> be a nip in the air tonight.
>
> (up music) Dissolve to open animation
>
> I was watching the news with my dad, immediately looked at him, and we
> both started to howl. Dear ol' Bill was red as a beet when the newscast
> eventually opened, and it took him about 10 minutes to totally regain
> his composure! I often wonder what happened to the person who -wrote-
> that tease? ...
>
> I swear, it happened. Yet it gets nowhere near the mentions as the
> Beverly Byers "...took a turn for the worse, in fact, he died." line.
> (can't remember who that was about)
>
> --
> Tom Pendergast, Owner Production / Editing / Distribution
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Tom,
Yeah, I did not SEE that newscast, but I DO remember it. As far as Bill
Burns being redfaced, that could have been just his USUAL look!
*BERNIE*
Dr. Bernard D. Newman
Bortz Alfred
: Tom Pendergast wrote:
: >
----snip----
: >
: > Anyway, Emperor Hirohito of Japan was due to arrive in DC the next day
: > for talks with (Jimmy Carter?). Pittsburgh, and young pup wheatherman
: > Bob Kudzma were awaiting an unusually cold evening for this mid-fall
: > night, temps expected to get down into the teens, if I recall.
: >
: > Network show ends, dissolve through black, up on local ...
: >
: > Audio Video
: >
: > Our nations capital prepares for Quick cuts of workers building
: > bleachers, placing barricades,
: > a visit from Emperor Hirohito of directing traffic
: >
: > Japan ... and Kudzma says there'll Cut to Bill Burns, medium c/u
: >
: > be a nip in the air tonight.
: >
: > (up music) Dissolve to open animation
----snip----
: >
: > I swear, it happened.
----snip----
Yup! I was watching, and I wasn't sure whether someone had put in an
atrocious pun on purpose. You have to remember that was long before
"political correctness" entered our vocabularies.
Fred Bortz
Mar-Jean A. Zamperini
early '80's....He did the 12 noon news, and then said "Stay tuned for
the Young and the Breastless...."
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mar-Jean Zamperini
mz...@andrew.cmu.edu
Butler Soundwave-1995
Steel City Ambassadors-1989-1991
Tom Pendergast
>: Tom Pendergast wrote:
>----snip----
>> I swear, it happened.
>----snip----
>Yup! I was watching, and I wasn't sure whether someone had put in an
>atrocious pun on purpose. You have to remember that was long before
>"political correctness" entered our vocabularies.
Fred - I'm sure glad someone else saw it, and will back me up that it
happened. Nah, even though we weren't P.C. back then, I think that would
have still been pretty crude to say about the good Emperor...
BTW, some typos are obvious (hitting thw "w" key when you were aiming
for the "e"), some are dubious (possible bad spelling?), but anyone with
the foggiest idea of where that stray comma came from in my subject line,
hey - I'm all ears. I wrote it, but I'll be damned if I know what I was
thinking at the time ...
--
Tom Pendergast
Tom Pendergast
(for you historians that might be able to confirm an actual date on this)
The normal procedure back then was that the first "commercial" position
after prime time programming (about 10:58:00 or so) was filled by a
"tease" for the local news, then they ran a commercial, then the news
started at 11:00 straight up. Prety much what we still have now, except
that the locals do a squeeze zoom on the network credits and run the
tease simultaneously with the last few seconds of the network show.
Anyway, Emperor Hirohito of Japan was due to arrive in DC the next day
for talks with (Jimmy Carter?). Pittsburgh, and young pup wheatherman
Bob Kudzma were awaiting an unusually cold evening for this mid-fall
night, temps expected to get down into the teens, if I recall.
Network show ends, dissolve through black, up on local ...
Audio Video
Our nations capital prepares for Quick cuts of workers building
bleachers, placing barricades,
a visit from Emperor Hirohito of directing traffic
Japan ... and Kudzma says there'll Cut to Bill Burns, medium c/u
be a nip in the air tonight.
(up music) Dissolve to open animation
I was watching the news with my dad, immediately looked at him, and we
Dr. Bernard D. Newman
Tom,
Larry Berger
> I swear, it happened. Yet it gets nowhere near the mentions as the
> Beverly Byers "...took a turn for the worse, in fact, he died." line.
> (can't remember who that was about)
That was Groucho Marx...and he would have loved it! <g>
Larry Berger
Mark Tomlinson
sorry this thread is from a while back, i'm just catching up with the group...
my personal favorite involved one of wpxi's 30 second updates about 7 or
8 years ago, you know the ones which used "rent-an-anchors" and whoever
else they could find to do it at 4 in the morning.
so this update comes on about 2 am one morning. dee thompson's mouth is
moving, but right behind him is a cleaning woman with her back to the
camera pushing a sweeper back and forth around the newsroom, and all you
can hear is the sweeper, it was really loud. this goes on for the whole
30 seconds. couldn't hear a word dee said.
not as humorous as the one with the empty chair, but still amusing...
Mark Tomlinson * ma...@andrew.cmu.edu * http://ivory.lm.com/~markt
Kathi Iannamico
>my personal favorite involved one of wpxi's 30 second updates about 7 or
>8 years ago, you know the ones which used "rent-an-anchors" and whoever
>else they could find to do it at 4 in the morning.
>
>so this update comes on about 2 am one morning. dee thompson's mouth is
>moving, but right behind him is a cleaning woman with her back to the
>camera pushing a sweeper back and forth around the newsroom, and all you
>can hear is the sweeper, it was really loud. this goes on for the whole
>30 seconds. couldn't hear a word dee said.
>
>not as humorous as the one with the empty chair, but still amusing...
This is the best yet. It's like a skit from French and Saunders.
Anna Matyas Houck
A couple of months ago Kris Long came on with one of those promos
they do. This one was about gas explosion and as soon as he said
'gas explosion' it looked like he suppressed a burp.
While not a blooper I thought this was amusing. On the early morning
WPXI news, Della Crews once called the weatherman by her co-anchor's
name. When he called her on it she waved her hand and said something
like, "Oh, I can't help it. All you weathermen look alike to me.'
Anna