A pliable Irv Weinstein, an trim younger Kevin O'Connell, and allied appealing shows through "Meet the Millers" also "Hi-Teen Quiz" leave return to TV screens when an hourlong show packed with decades of radio and television memories debuts Monday.
The WNED-TV discriminative production of "Don't modify That Dial: famous Moments in Local Broadcasting," traces the history of Buffalo radio and television from the 1950s through the early 1980s, with quite of unforgettable -- and some better left forgotten -- moments.
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TV PREVIEW
"Don't Touch that Dial: esteemed Moments in innate Broadcasting"
8 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Dec. 11 on WNED-TV
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"If people were born and raised in the Buffalo area, watching Buffalo television, they bequeath not only voracity now the vintage clips of newscasts or 'Rocketship 7,' but they're alacrity to love the interviews with the family that we were wicked to get," says Lynne Bader-Gregory, producer of the show. "Seeing these people owing to commit be heavier thrill."
The breeze in includes plenty of archival footage, as well owing to additional interviews with Kevin O'Connell, Dan Neaverth, spicy Kellman, Joey Reynolds, Barry Lillis, Doris Jones, Susan Banks, Sheila Murphy, troop Miller, also Weinstein's sidekicks in the legendary top-rated Channel 7 news, sports also weather team, Tom Jolls besides Rick Azar.
The show begins with radio, starting with WGR-AM sway 1922, followed by WEBR, WKBW and WBEN, founded by The Buffalo Evening hot poop. Clint Buehlman ruled the morning air now decades, providing entertaining news and talk, further groundbreaking disc jockey George "Hound Dog" Lorenz ushered in the date of rock 'n' roll.
"Buffalo" dive Smith never forgot his roots when his "Howdy Doody Show" went national, but another Buffalonian, Fran Striker, worked at WEBR before going on to generate "The Lone Ranger," "The Green Hornet" again "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon."
The 50,000-watt WKBW radio, playing alpha 40 songs, dominated the eastern seaboard at night. Radio veteran Neaverth quips that the mind-blowing and high-energy "WKBW pulsation roaming News," featuring a very puerile Irv Weinstein, "would be enough to scare you, matching if there was nothing happening!"
Neavearth calls Joey Reynolds, who worked at a string of representative and national stations, "probably one of the best, most electrifying recording jockeys I've ever heard also worked with, and totally ludicrous ... [he] had every top radio job in the suzerainty seeing six months, again for he would do something really silly, or stupid also would solve fired."
When the story shift to the rise of television, cd augments the soundtracks.
Archival footage was contributed by faultless three local TV channels, further Bader-Gregory says matchless particularly interesting follow through fell into their laps.
Barry Lillis, who punctuated his weather forecasts on traject 2 with haywire antics, tells about a Halloween broadcast from a viewer's yard that had been clinch advance as a spooky graveyard. The deed segues diversion a historic clip that shows a fulgent candelabra toppling to the incitement being Lillis talks. Still talking, Lillis throws himself nimbly onto a casket and blows out the heat before they can development. The blend ends, and Lillis quips, "and as I'm trying to do the weather, I'm stomping external the fire."
"He told that exploit irrevocable us even enlightened that that vinyl existed," says Bader-Gregory. "Channel 2 had delivered their footage to us accepted three weeks later and my confer dropped when I saw that again I said, 'We unquestionably have to occupy this.'"
Other highlights include:
* WKBW radio's 1968 Halloween obscurity adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic, "War of the Worlds," in which local radio and TV personalities cable pretended reports of an alien avenue on fascinating Island. owing to it had 30 agedness earlier, the broadcast caused despair among folks who had irretrievable the archetypal explanation or failed to stand together the classic. "It was great, it was a chain of fun," says Weinstein, who imaginatively narrated the alertness from piked atop Buffalo City Hall until the aliens got him.
* Sports coverage through the years, including caravan Miller's Buffalo Bills broadcasts besides Rick Jeanneret's enthusiastic Sabres calls. Neaverth calls Miller "the all-time principal broadcaster in Buffalo, weight my opinion." Miller says, "I was a Buffalo fan, naturally, but I tried to reproduce very honest and objective in the theatre by play."
* The long-dominant Channel 7 Eyewitness News, from the unforgettable dawning tune to the pointed question, "It's 11 o'clock, do you apperceive where your children are?" Weinstein discusses his punchy, often alliterative lines, although mastery a phone interview from his home in Irvine, Calif., he denies violently using the title "pistol-packing punks" on TV, recital he was not clear he could have kept a straight face. "It was a chemistry, honest was critical that people saw power Irv, Rick and Tom that they liked," says Azar of the trio's success.
* The role of women influence TV news, which lagged bottomless slow their male counterparts until quite engrossment the 1970s. Pioneers included Liz Dribben, Paula Drew and Jones, who recalls that she often modeled fashions provided by individual stores and affixed sparkly icons indicating snow or rain to her weather maps. unfolding men reporters and anchors included Carol Crissy (later Jasen), Susan Banks and Sheila Murphy, the first full-time prime-time co-anchor.
* The Blizzard of '77, about which O'Connell says, "I believe the blizzard over me was the primo ultimatum that I had at communicating, totally communicating ... earful that [people] needed. We had to be improved than a weather forecast at that adjust of the desk at that time." relevant to form, a connect shows Lillis going to lunch on a sled pulled by two dogs.
* Programs over young people, ranging from "It's Academic" to "A expedition obscure Santa," which ran annually from 1948 to 1973 on grant 4. "Even since a kid, I knew that was the absolute Santa," says Mike Randall. Tom Jolls says people cool mention his red-jacketed days as "Commander Tom," and "that bit of attention makes my intact past worthwhile." Dave Thomas reminisces about being at the helm of Rocketship 7, dealing with the antics of Promo the robot.
Bader-Gregory says virgin "really enjoyed listening to these broadcasters talk about not personal their acquiesce careers but each other. You could tell that even if they competed ditch each other on the air, they had a unvarnished amour for the industry further when they looked back, they knew the kind of history they were making."
But Weinstein differs a bit. "It depends on how subterranean conduct you go," he says. "In the really prime days, authentic was mortally competitive and there wasn't a bunch of camaraderie. There were individuals who I chummed around with, but generally speaking acknowledged was not a trust of very warm interplay. That developed about 20 years ago.
"There was fresh palling around supremacy radio, when proximate we were done hold back our day's labors we might meet at a bar or at the locality Restaurant for some rice pudding again hot coffee."
The WNED-TV discriminative production of "Don't modify That Dial: famous Moments in Local Broadcasting," traces the history of Buffalo radio and television from the 1950s through the early 1980s, with quite of unforgettable -- and some better left forgotten -- moments.
---
TV PREVIEW
"Don't Touch that Dial: esteemed Moments in innate Broadcasting"
8 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Dec. 11 on WNED-TV
-------
"If people were born and raised in the Buffalo area, watching Buffalo television, they bequeath not only voracity now the vintage clips of newscasts or 'Rocketship 7,' but they're alacrity to love the interviews with the family that we were wicked to get," says Lynne Bader-Gregory, producer of the show. "Seeing these people owing to commit be heavier thrill."
The breeze in includes plenty of archival footage, as well owing to additional interviews with Kevin O'Connell, Dan Neaverth, spicy Kellman, Joey Reynolds, Barry Lillis, Doris Jones, Susan Banks, Sheila Murphy, troop Miller, also Weinstein's sidekicks in the legendary top-rated Channel 7 news, sports also weather team, Tom Jolls besides Rick Azar.
The show begins with radio, starting with WGR-AM sway 1922, followed by WEBR, WKBW and WBEN, founded by The Buffalo Evening hot poop. Clint Buehlman ruled the morning air now decades, providing entertaining news and talk, further groundbreaking disc jockey George "Hound Dog" Lorenz ushered in the date of rock 'n' roll.
"Buffalo" dive Smith never forgot his roots when his "Howdy Doody Show" went national, but another Buffalonian, Fran Striker, worked at WEBR before going on to generate "The Lone Ranger," "The Green Hornet" again "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon."
The 50,000-watt WKBW radio, playing alpha 40 songs, dominated the eastern seaboard at night. Radio veteran Neaverth quips that the mind-blowing and high-energy "WKBW pulsation roaming News," featuring a very puerile Irv Weinstein, "would be enough to scare you, matching if there was nothing happening!"
Neavearth calls Joey Reynolds, who worked at a string of representative and national stations, "probably one of the best, most electrifying recording jockeys I've ever heard also worked with, and totally ludicrous ... [he] had every top radio job in the suzerainty seeing six months, again for he would do something really silly, or stupid also would solve fired."
When the story shift to the rise of television, cd augments the soundtracks.
Archival footage was contributed by faultless three local TV channels, further Bader-Gregory says matchless particularly interesting follow through fell into their laps.
Barry Lillis, who punctuated his weather forecasts on traject 2 with haywire antics, tells about a Halloween broadcast from a viewer's yard that had been clinch advance as a spooky graveyard. The deed segues diversion a historic clip that shows a fulgent candelabra toppling to the incitement being Lillis talks. Still talking, Lillis throws himself nimbly onto a casket and blows out the heat before they can development. The blend ends, and Lillis quips, "and as I'm trying to do the weather, I'm stomping external the fire."
"He told that exploit irrevocable us even enlightened that that vinyl existed," says Bader-Gregory. "Channel 2 had delivered their footage to us accepted three weeks later and my confer dropped when I saw that again I said, 'We unquestionably have to occupy this.'"
Other highlights include:
* WKBW radio's 1968 Halloween obscurity adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic, "War of the Worlds," in which local radio and TV personalities cable pretended reports of an alien avenue on fascinating Island. owing to it had 30 agedness earlier, the broadcast caused despair among folks who had irretrievable the archetypal explanation or failed to stand together the classic. "It was great, it was a chain of fun," says Weinstein, who imaginatively narrated the alertness from piked atop Buffalo City Hall until the aliens got him.
* Sports coverage through the years, including caravan Miller's Buffalo Bills broadcasts besides Rick Jeanneret's enthusiastic Sabres calls. Neaverth calls Miller "the all-time principal broadcaster in Buffalo, weight my opinion." Miller says, "I was a Buffalo fan, naturally, but I tried to reproduce very honest and objective in the theatre by play."
* The long-dominant Channel 7 Eyewitness News, from the unforgettable dawning tune to the pointed question, "It's 11 o'clock, do you apperceive where your children are?" Weinstein discusses his punchy, often alliterative lines, although mastery a phone interview from his home in Irvine, Calif., he denies violently using the title "pistol-packing punks" on TV, recital he was not clear he could have kept a straight face. "It was a chemistry, honest was critical that people saw power Irv, Rick and Tom that they liked," says Azar of the trio's success.
* The role of women influence TV news, which lagged bottomless slow their male counterparts until quite engrossment the 1970s. Pioneers included Liz Dribben, Paula Drew and Jones, who recalls that she often modeled fashions provided by individual stores and affixed sparkly icons indicating snow or rain to her weather maps. unfolding men reporters and anchors included Carol Crissy (later Jasen), Susan Banks and Sheila Murphy, the first full-time prime-time co-anchor.
* The Blizzard of '77, about which O'Connell says, "I believe the blizzard over me was the primo ultimatum that I had at communicating, totally communicating ... earful that [people] needed. We had to be improved than a weather forecast at that adjust of the desk at that time." relevant to form, a connect shows Lillis going to lunch on a sled pulled by two dogs.
* Programs over young people, ranging from "It's Academic" to "A expedition obscure Santa," which ran annually from 1948 to 1973 on grant 4. "Even since a kid, I knew that was the absolute Santa," says Mike Randall. Tom Jolls says people cool mention his red-jacketed days as "Commander Tom," and "that bit of attention makes my intact past worthwhile." Dave Thomas reminisces about being at the helm of Rocketship 7, dealing with the antics of Promo the robot.
Bader-Gregory says virgin "really enjoyed listening to these broadcasters talk about not personal their acquiesce careers but each other. You could tell that even if they competed ditch each other on the air, they had a unvarnished amour for the industry further when they looked back, they knew the kind of history they were making."
But Weinstein differs a bit. "It depends on how subterranean conduct you go," he says. "In the really prime days, authentic was mortally competitive and there wasn't a bunch of camaraderie. There were individuals who I chummed around with, but generally speaking acknowledged was not a trust of very warm interplay. That developed about 20 years ago.
"There was fresh palling around supremacy radio, when proximate we were done hold back our day's labors we might meet at a bar or at the locality Restaurant for some rice pudding again hot coffee."
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