RE: speaking of CKLW

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, that was just about same thing that i heard. 
Pretty amazing how they were nice enough to go into
details about the baseball bat used by the guy who
clubbed his wife.


> The little boy run over by a rig story was really
> something. Too much
> information!
> 
> I wasn't able to get audio from the site the past
> week... I got the audio
> about 4 years ago... of 70s newscasts. A husband who
> clubbed his wife to
> death went something like "... and then he pullout
> his Genuine Willie Mays
> Louisville Slugger and proceeded to bat a thousand
> on her head" and then
> somewhere in there mentioned that his batting could
> be used by the Tigers...
> just unreal stuff. A floater in the (Detroit?) River
> found by kids
> fishing... "the kids caught more than just
> supper.... and then audio of a
> young girl about 10 years old describing the
> victim... I'd have to refresh
> my memory but the facts were _highly_
> sensationalized. Mighty insensitive of
> the vicims. Then there's the clip where the say
> Prime Minister Trudeau was
> called an ass***e by President Nixon... word not
> deleted/beeped on the
> newscast. I haven't heard of many stations being
> that brazen with their
> newscasts back in the 70s... 
> 
> Ron Gitschier
> 1970s listener to the Big 8 from Lowell Mass at
> night... 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Cooper Fox [SMTP:fox893@yahoo.com]
> > 
> > Speaking of CKLW... Today I had a chance to hear
> one
> > of their late 60s or early 70s newscasts.  Our GM
> has
> > them on tape.  It was interesting to see(hear???)
> how
> > they approached news.  The example I heard was the
> > report of a tractor trailer vs child accident
> where an
> > eye whitness explained the recovery of the child's
> > body in gruesome detail.
> > 


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