Comments on: KSTP News, 1977

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:04:49 +0000

when did we stop being considered “The Northwest?”

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

By: jane

jane — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:30:30 +0000

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

By: andyst

andyst — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:20:57 +0000

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…

By: justpbob

justpbob — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:52:52 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:25:51 +0000

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

By: mjm

mjm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:01:36 +0000

Look, Ma, no teleprompters!

By: rndmcwby

rndmcwby — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:23:59 +0000

Anchorman-ish

By: kwatt

kwatt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:21:19 +0000

If TV news were still like that…

By: crz

crz — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:04:42 +0000

“Look at that ham!”

By: noodleman

noodleman — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:20:30 +0000

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.