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KJRH Tulsa Newscenter 2 March 1989 evening edition

Is this the same John Gerard who was billed as meteorologist on that one WATE Knoxville TV-6 Live Eyewitness News evening edition from 1986 on YouTube (Kim Simmons filled in for him)?

It is indeed-- it would also be like if KTRK Eyewitness News in Houston had suddenly changed from "#1 in Texas" to "#1 in Houston" in the 80s (hypothetical of course).

Probably for the same reason that USA made the same practically their bread and butter (to the detriment of all the game shows that were there before, like Press Your Luck, Pyramid and Scrabble).

KPRC Big 2 News evening edition, Monday, May 8, 1978

I feel the same way about all opinion "news" channels, especially FNC and MSNBC (here lately, new news is no news).

Just saw the opening of the new Evening News, and it's just a short sting as was in the late-80s with Rather (albeit without the story rundowns; just right into the broadcast).

Wasn't it that way in the 80s w/Rather (and any and all substitutes), when that wireframe world map was the backdrop?

Will both anchors be at the same desk, as on the PBS Newshour?

I do know one thing about this-- it will make it where all three major network broadcasts are from New York again (don't know how long it lasted in Washington with O'Donnell).

That one of WIXT of Syracuse is very interesting in two facets-- one, Bud Hedinger did both main news and the weather report (at least, it seems here), and two, there was no off-screen announcer billing the broadcast as Eyewitness News, or even having a daypart or time name (Hedinger simply did a cold open at the top here).

Back when Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were on 20/20, they said hello to the viewers at the top of each broadcast by stating their names-- "Good evening-- I'm Hugh Downs." "And I'm Barbara Walters, and this is 20/20." One thing you've probably noticed about that (I've noticed it a lot) is that when Barbara finished (as she finished) her part of the hello, just before the opening graphics/titles started, Hugh gave a short (split-second, possibly a blip) nod to camera, and then the graphics started. What I'd like to know is why Hugh gave that split-second nod-- was that to say to the control room, "We've said hello, and now we're ready for the show to start"? Here's a 1990 broadcast of 20/20, to illustrate what I'm wanting to know about here:

Saw that tribute (it's on YouTube as well), and the part where it showed him in the studio on The Prudential College Football Report in 1989 had a better-quality version (in video) of that screencap I posted earlier (CBS must have had it in the archives, Greg's [IINM] first role there).

Here are some earlier roles of his in sportscasting you might not have known about-- --As sports man on WMAQ NewsCenter 5 in Chicago, from a 1980 late edition (captured from YouTube upload by FuzzyMemoriesTV)... --As studio man on the last season of The Prudential College Football Report for CBS Sports, the 1989 college football season (this one before he got Mike Francesa as a co-host); captured from YouTube upload by user Colorado Football...

I hate to say it, but I think the NFL did this because they are uber-insistent on today's NFL being "the" NFL, and CBS in turn having a hand in it because they think today's AFC NFL on CBS should be "the" NFL on CBS as well.