News 8: The 10 O'Clock Update - WFAA Channel 8 (Mostly Complete Rebroadcast, 10/14/1979) 📺

Описание: Not from Chicago, but an interesting find nevertheless: Here's most of a rebroadcast of News 8: The 10 O'Clock Update (originally aired on Friday, October 13th 1979 at 10pm) as transmitted over WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, following their airing of the film "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry." Anchor is John Criswell.

Includes:

Station ID slide with disclaimer about this being a rebroadcast

News open, leading off with:

House Majority Leader Jim Wright honored by more than 5,000 in Fort Worth - including KKK (Ku Klux Klan) and ACORN protestors outside Tarrant County Convention Center (reported by Dave Cassidy); among the speakers was Arizona Rep. Morris Udall

Carole Kneeland report on State Representative John Bryant mulling a run for House Speaker against Bill Clayton

Chris Thomas reports on frenetic activity surrounding fans buying tickets (some scalped) for coming Cotton Bowl with Texas OU at Fair Park, and 72,000 fans at Cotton Bowl itself

Lakewood School District in Tarrant Country will have to try again on ballot initiative for funding of new high school in Lake Worth, as that proposal lost by four votes

Staff and administrators at Parkland Memorial Hospital huddle over $80 million bond program for more space, as detailed by Dennis Johnson; comments from administrator Dr. Charles Mullins

Commercials for:
Mercantile Bank - with Soapbox Derby winner Darren Hart
Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages
I Love New York (spotlighting Broadway shows) - from Braniff Airlines

President Carter, on public radio show, urges families to tighten their belts to fight inflation, while leading Edward Kennedy in a straw poll in Florida

Fidel Castro meets in New York with Texas Rep. Mickey Leland, California Rep. Ron Dellums, and members of news media

Mexican officials at runaway oil site deny reports that oil has stopped flowing from it

Dave Cassidy, in Grand Prairie, reports on archaeological find in Grand Prairie: a fossil of an 800-pound fish, discovered along Interstate 20; fossil collector Robert Price speaks of the find

Steve Newman previews his weather report (there is a Chicago connection, as in 1973 Newman was weekend weatherman on WLS Channel 7 as seen here:    • WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Weather...  )

Commercials for:
Men's clothes from Levi's Sportswear
Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers - weekends at Six Flags, good during October
First in Dallas - "Results"
Red Carpet Real Estate (most of this ad removed to avoid YouTube blocking)

Steve provides the weather forecast for the DFW area (cut out in middle)

(From here on out, this is a cut-in from the end of the original newscast as aired before the movie)

0Recording cuts in towards end of State Fair of Texas ad

George Riba reports on:

College football scores, including Oklahoma-Texas game reported on earlier

Baltimore Orioles lead Pittsburgh Pirates 3 games to 1 in World Series

John then closes newscast

Bonus: "Pan and scan" version of 20th Century-Fox "fanfare" logo before start of "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry".

This aired on local Dallas/Fort Worth TV early Saturday, October 14th 1979 during the 12:15am to 12:45am timeframe. (Originally aired Friday, October 13th 1979 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe.)

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