WBZ Channel 4 - Eyewitness News (Preview, Break & 1st 7 Minutes, 11/21/1976)
on channel: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)
Here's the first seven minutes (after commercial break) of an edition of Eyewitness News as aired over Boston, MA's then NBC affiliate, WBZ Channel 4 (now a CBS O&O/affiliate), anchored by Maurice Lewis. This was broadcast immediately after the special NBC: The First Fifty Years, aired under the umbrella The Big Event.
Includes:
Promo for "The Savage Bees" (voiceover by Adolph Caesar)
Maurice previews items in coming newscast
Commercial: Jordan Marsh - Winter Festival of Values
Promos for:
Woman '76 (Sharon King's cooking ideas for low-calorie Thanksgiving meals - check an RCA TK-44A camera in background)
Boston Ballet opening night of "The Nutcracker Suite," conducted by Arthur Fiedler, on December 9th - sponsored by Children's Hospital League
"We're 4 Boston" ID (with football scenes)
Eyewitness News opening, with following items:
Firemen in five communities (Canton, Sharon, Dedham, Westwood and Walpole) battle five-alarm fire at Line Lumber Company on East Hoyle Street in Norwood which started after 5pm (there's your "film at 11")
Firemen rush to alarm on Route 128 in Yarmouth where two-story commercial building was ablaze; they were hampered by ammunition inside nearby sporting goods store
Investigators from State Fire Marshal's Office headed to New Bedford to investigate fire that destroyed a Penn Central freight warehouse
Fire following collision on Massachusetts Turnpike Extension claims life of highly decorated State Trooper, Edward Mahoney, 44, whose cruiser was rammed by a trailer truck driven by Glen Wolf (sp?) of Hillsborough, OR; Jack Borden reports, Trooper Richard Whelan reminisces about fallen colleague
Fire and explosion at vat rip American Chicle factory (makers of Dentyne and Chiclets) in Queens, NY; four dozen injured, 38 seriously, one near death; report from NBC News' Chris Wallace (son of 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace, and formerly at WBBM Channel 2), with interview with Queensborough Correctional Facility guard Waldman who was on scene; only 150 worked at time of explosion, whereas on a normal day 800 are on job
Boston Police Commissioner Joseph Jordan invites Mattapan residents to give comments and criticism of department, with topic not only about crime but prevention, as reported by William Zayas Sanjurjo; four area residents are interviewed
Report on Coast Guard about to start when sound cuts out, followed thereafter by end of recording
This aired on local Boston TV on Sunday, November 21st 1976 during the 10:58pm to 11:07pm (Eastern) timeframe.
This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.
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