Secrets of the City

Love it, but why don’t they make their videos embeddable?

Stupid Richfield and their banning of nude establishments. My youth could have been so much better.

Brucato and Magers. What a pair. (Yeah, I know it’s Stan Turner filling in for Ron in the clip.) And then Stanley had to go hire Frank Magid & Associates and, thus, began the long, slow, torturous, downward spiral.

Not much, if any, video in those days, either, even in major markets. Anything newsworthy was still filmed on 16mm (but sometimes Super8, too), which had to be developed in a darkroom and then edited by hand. I feel lucky to have been around some of the technological evolution that happened to both TV and radio from the mid-’70s onward.

“Look at that ham!”

If TV news were still like that…

Anchorman-ish

Look, Ma, no teleprompters!

That set… that font… where’s Mary Richards and Ted Baxter?

Stan Turner is still working in this market, on the Minensota News Network (radio). He’s a great guy who I really enjoy working with.

This is beautiful. Preparing for the Art Shanties, I spent a lot of time looking at these broadcasts to create the set of flashcards I needed. Turner, Brucato and Magers are all in there.

I think it’s really interesting they’re still referring to the area as “the northwest.” That probably went out of use shortly after.

And yeah, that theme song…

Andyst, I’m planning to come to Art Shanty tomorrow. What time is a good time?

when did we stop being considered “The Northwest?”

I mean, wasn’t that whole manifest destiny thing sort of wrapped up by 1977?