Eat News 4738 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Sunset strip LA 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Sunset strip LA 1970[ATTACH=full]2464[/ATTACH] The era before Bonds left to join WXYZ for a second time and became famous in Detroit once he left LA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 The era before Bonds left to join WXYZ for a second time and became famous in Detroit once he left LA. He lasted all of 5 minutes in LA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 He lasted all of 5 minutes in LA... Blame it on Yoko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5280 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Message aside, I hate that song with a passion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 And all jokes and stuff aside, I still miss Bill Bonds. R.I.P. to the ultimate professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4225 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 The era before Bonds left to join WXYZ for a second time and became famous in Detroit once he left LA. ABC also tried out Bill Bonds at KGO and WABC. None of those markets warmed up to Bill, who became a Detroit institution following the 1967 riots. (BTW, I'm more partial to "Instant Karma." "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" had a noble message, but a total disappointment in execution... and radio stations overplaying it during their Christmas music stunting doesn't help.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 ABC also tried out Bill Bonds at KGO and WABC. None of those markets warmed up to Bill, who became a Detroit institution following the 1967 riots. (BTW, I'm more partial to "Instant Karma." "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" had a noble message, but a total disappointment in execution... and radio stations overplaying it during their Christmas music stunting doesn't help.) When he died one of the things that was shown was some footage of Bill at the riots... Another of their reporters, Jim Harrington (he covered politics into the 90's) also died recently... The color footage of both of them holding the original circle 7 mic flags reporting with burning buildings as backdrops is where I figured out they were originally black and white instead of silver and blue... Much much plainer that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4225 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 When he died one of the things that was shown was some footage of Bill at the riots... Another of their reporters, Jim Harrington (he covered politics into the 90's) also died recently... The color footage of both of them holding the original circle 7 mic flags reporting with burning buildings as backdrops is where I figured out they were originally black and white instead of silver and blue... Much much plainer that way... If I'm not mistaken, didn't the blue and silver scheme date to the station ID teleop slides circa the late 1960s? (which were standard issue among all ABC O&Os of that period) WABC definitely didn't use the current color scheme for the actual logo until the Bill Applegate era, and it apparently got standardized from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 If I'm not mistaken, didn't the blue and silver scheme date to the station ID teleop slides circa the late 1960s? (which were standard issue among all ABC O&Os of that period) WABC definitely didn't use the current color scheme for the actual logo until the Bill Applegate era, and it apparently got standardized from there. I think you're right although in 1967 I don't think blue and silver per se existed not like the 70's and onward flags... Fun fact... The WXYZ-TV Detroit lettering is exactly the same look on that image as what they use today. It's a little smaller nowadays though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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