Not from Chicago, but one which, "even then," had overtaken Chicago as the "Second City" in population: a clip of the ending minutes of the early edition of NewsCenter4 with anchors Paul Moyer and Kelly Lange on KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles. Also features Paul Dandridge, John Marshall and Boyd Matson. This was on the tail end of a 3/4" Umatic tape where something was recorded over most of this.
As the tape comes in, Paul Dandridge is concluding the "Business Today" report with a story on prices and supplies of Honda Accords in car dealers' showrooms, then signals for a commercial break by announcing Paul and Kelly will continue with the newscast afterwards.
Sponsor billboard for Merrill Lynch (voiceover by Don Stanley)
Commercial: Merrill Lynch, with questions for Los Angelenos - "There's Only One Merrill Lynch" (Copyright 1977 Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc.)
Back to the studio, where Paul Moyer leads in with the next story:
- Two suspects in eight grisly murders, Patrick Kearney and David Hill, turn themselves in to police in Riverside County - as John Marshall reports, Sheriff Ben Clark speaks about the circumstances leading to their arrest
- Kelly Lange introduces the final story, a report by Boyd Matson from Malibu on a religious meditation pilgrimage by two Buddhist monks who have vowed to spend a year and a half walking the Pacific Coast Highway in a search for inward peace; they had begun their journey at the Gold Wheel temple in Pasadena on May 7th and intend to walk a full 500 miles to a city with 10,000 Buddhists in Lucaya(?), bowing down every three steps along the way; one of the monks, Heng Chau, is heard explaining his motivation for this prayer and meditation pilgrimage
Kelly and Paul then sign off the early edition, and advise viewers to stay tuned for the 11pm edition with John Schubeck
With instrumental guitar music as the background, the credits roll:
Executive Producer - Irwin Safchik
Producers - Steve Friedman, Terry Gill
Directed By Erwin J. Rosen, Julian Finkelstein, John W. Mitchell
Associate Directors - Robert Villar, Sol Avellino, Will Ray, Gloria Hillard, Tony Singletary
Special Projects - Helen Johnson, Alan Kaul
Newswriters - Angus Campbell, Charles Amundson, Stan Rosenthal, Stan Kawakami, Jack Worth, Charlotte Perry, Mike McCormick, Wendy Harris, Dorothy Kupcha, Ed Thomas
Assignment Editors - Warren Cereghino, Beth Polson, Phil Clapick, John Flynn, Bill Whitley, Estella Claggs, Linda Friedman, Robin Lloyd
Research - Donald Craig
Technical Directors - Gordon James, Karl Messerschmidt, O. Tamburri, Jerry Weiss, Richard Lombardo
(NOTE: Messerschmidt and Tamburri were involved in this capacity on many NBC Burbank productions over the years, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Dean Martin Show, and Sanford and Son, among others)
Newsfilm Cameramen - Duane Anderly, Dick Hutchings, Marshall Lockman, John Milek, John Parsons, Carl Yost
Newsfilm Soundmen - Roger Andrews, Gene Coffey, Jim Coughey, Robert Leon, John McLaughlin, Bill Stokes
Minicams - Ernie Chacon, Herman Conant, Lou Cywinski, Bruce Gray, Bill Lewis, Tony Neece, Jim Nickless, Bill Petlowany, Dick Smith, Stan Spring, Diana Upton, George Zanuzoski
Supervising Film Editor - George Bonnell
Film Editors - Bart Cannistra, Jim Hollander, Peter Klusman, George Kramer, Larry Levin, Phil O'Bryant, Bill Powell, Hal Sutter, Bill Woodley
Video Tape Editors - John Kirby, Lou Gabriele, Dennis Hargrove, Donn Hoyer, Nina Jackson, Ron Malvin, Peggy Parker, Steve Schoenberg, Mike Shugrue, Chip Wallace, Mike Welch
Film Librarian - Mildred Ramseyer - Audio Mixer - Al Parsons - Senior Video - Charles Schmidt - Lighting Directors - Steve Cunningham, John Nance - Graphic Arts - Vizmo Productions
Editorial Assistants - Richard Ruedas, David Lewis, Jim Maria, Dan Wolf, Nga Dang, Diana Davis, Joe Rodriguez, Louise Fong, Harold Medina
Art Directors - Fred Harpman, Robert Keene
(Harpman was the set designer for the original NewsCenter4 set at sister station WNBC Channel 4 in New York City; this set was a smaller equivalent, and yet another NBC-owned station - WRC Channel 4 in Washington, DC - also had a set along the lines of KNBC's)
Closing Theme - Donald Craig
Station ID with promo for In Search Of . . . with Leonard Nimoy (searching for Atlantis), Saturday at 7:30pm (voiceover by Don Stanley)
KNBC Editorial Reply disagreeing with plan to build the Century Freeway (opening voiceover by Don Stanley)
The tape cuts out before his reply finishes
This aired on local Los Angeles TV on Friday, July 1st 1977.
