Re: WABC IMISSEDIT NEWS

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

All this thread has done for me is have the WE'RE FOUR music running in 
my head.

Maybe time to do a run to the BPL and do a timeline of Boston TV news.

What's funny I remember Victor Best as the ESSO REPORTER on 4 and John 
Day doing the A&P report on 5. 7 I am hard pressed to remember anything 
before Palmer Payne and Roy Leonard (except for Louise Morgan)




On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 4:26PM -0500, Ron Bello wrote:
>
> Sorry to differ but....
>
> Tony Pepper replaced Jack Cole.  Remember the promo line to
> "Join the Ellis / Pepper Bandwagon" in the early 70's.
>
> Jack Williams arrived in 1975.  Everyone knew Ellis was going
> to NYC.  Williams started anchoring the new 5:30pm news.
> The 1/2 hour was light on news and known in the building as "4 play".
> When Ellis left Williams and Pepper did 6 & 11 pm.
>
> It did not take much time for Ellis to bomb in NYC.  He signed with 
> WCVB
> just about 6 months before his non-comp with BZ was set to expire.
> He couldn't do much more than hold a microphone in front of someone
> without talking.  I am not sure of when the triple anchor team of
> Tom, Chet and Nat started together.
>
>
>
> At 01:21 PM 2/14/03 -0500, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>> Tony Pepper replaced Ellis at BZ in 70 or 71 and Jack Williams arrived 
>> in 74.
>>
>> If I recall correctly WABC gave Ellis something on the lines of a 10 
>> year contract and he sat at home on the Cape for a good chunk of it. 
>> In any event he was at WCVB in the late 70's with the charming Nat and 
>> it was around 1980 when she demanded CVB get rid of him. She of course 
>> wanted Chet and Tom napalmed his relationship with Natalie when after 
>> a story of a gorilla giving birth and breast feeding shot was shown 
>> Tom quipped "Oh Natalie can ask her for lessons"
>>
>> 1982 Tom was part of the WNEV "dream team" with Robin Young.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:07PM -0500, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm confused by the chronology here. I remember Ellis on WABC late
>>> '70s/early '80s. Did he have another stint in New York?
>>>
>>>> There is a Boston connection to the birth of Eyewitness News in NYC.
>>>> WABC was desperate to repair the damage done by Tom Ellis who Jim 
>>>> Jensen
>>>> just had for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
>>>>
>>>> Then when Eyewitness took off, WNBC grabbed Chuck Scarboro from WNAC 
>>>> in
>>>> a move that was laughed at 30 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> CBS did everything wrong. They revamped newscasts that were doing fine
>>>> in both NYC and Chicago and sank to the bottom in both markets and 
>>>> have
>>>> never recovered.
>>