atlnews2 567 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Jim greeting tailgaters in the parking lot 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 382 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Charlie Van Dyke's new billing on Action News, like I said, will be something we'll have to get used to from here forward: "Action News...Delaware Valley's leading news program...with Ducis Rodgers, meteorologist Cecily Tynan, and Brian Taff." Also, this retirement of Jim Gardner will mean that all omnibus collections of WPVI opens on YouTube will have to be updated to reflect this new reality (as I understand it). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readingreporter 12 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 And that’s a wrap! The montage was wonderful. Jim was remarkably somber in his final newscast but gave a pretty robust and powerful farewell speech. I almost chocked up when Jim and Cecily made their final exchange after Cecily gave the forecast right before the last commercial break. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 382 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 And one other thing-- not once in all of Jim Gardner's time there (or Rob Jennings, or any other anchor [morning, noon, night or weekend]) did we ever hear Jefferson Kaye or Charlie Van Dyke bill the newscast as anything but Action News (no time of day qualifiers or anything else); it may have been visually billed on a title slide as Action News at 4 pm at one time, but other than that, the auditory billing was unchanged for the longest time (outside of billing the anchors at any one particular time per the time of day). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cg41386 131 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 5 hours ago, bmasters1 said: And one other thing-- not once in all of Jim Gardner's time there (or Rob Jennings, or any other anchor [morning, noon, night or weekend]) did we ever hear Jefferson Kaye or Charlie Van Dyke bill the newscast as anything but Action News (no time of day qualifiers or anything else); it may have been visually billed on a title slide as Action News at 4 pm at one time, but other than that, the auditory billing was unchanged for the longest time (outside of billing the anchors at any one particular time per the time of day). Not to my knowledge. WABC was the same way for a long time. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSSZNews 1049 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, bmasters1 said: And one other thing-- not once in all of Jim Gardner's time there (or Rob Jennings, or any other anchor [morning, noon, night or weekend]) did we ever hear Jefferson Kaye or Charlie Van Dyke bill the newscast as anything but Action News (no time of day qualifiers or anything else); it may have been visually billed on a title slide as Action News at 4 pm at one time, but other than that, the auditory billing was unchanged for the longest time (outside of billing the anchors at any one particular time per the time of day). Not true! When the 4p and 10p launched they announced the times in that show only. Anyway, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal, Jim's last show got a 79 share in Philly and 540,000 OTA viewers. The Eagles Super Bowl when they won got an 81. https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2022/12/22/jim-gardners-historic-action-news-swan-song.html Edited December 22, 2022 by TSSZNews 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 410 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 They had the opens already to go for tonight: I have to say Charlie is sounding rough these days. I wonder if they have plans to move on from him in the future. Maybe to someone like Paul Turner. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 382 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 1 hour ago, WCAUTVNBC10 said: They had the opens already to go for tonight: I have to say Charlie is sounding rough these days. I wonder if they have plans to move on from him in the future. Maybe to someone like Paul Turner. Apparently, I got the billing right (albeit, like you said, Van Dyke sounds a bit out of it [as I recall, he is in his 70s; a younger man might do better here]). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 233 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 49 minutes ago, bmasters1 said: Apparently, I got the billing right (albeit, like you said, Van Dyke sounds a bit out of it [as I recall, he is in his 70s; a younger man might do better here]). Adding my congratulations to Jim Gardner on his retirement (and was floored to see the post on that last newscast having a rating share almost as big as the Eagles' Super Bowl win almost 5 years ago) I will agree that WPVI might need to look for someone younger for the intros (the intro reminded me a bit of how Van Dyke sounded on the last couple of intros he did for WAVY-TV 10 before they dropped him in early 2017); though at least his voice hasn't declined to the extent Jeff Kaye's did about 12 years or so ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 548 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Happy retirement, Jim!! Being old sucks. I wish some of these anchors could do it forever but father time sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycnewsjunkie 1428 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 I don’t know if any other market has someone like a Jim Gardner. I know other cities have people who’ve anchored for a long time, but I’m not sure they’ve had the same cultural impact/relevance that Jim has in Philly. I mean, the dude had people tailgating in the parking lot for this. Nobody deserves it more, though. Happy retirement, Jim. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 382 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Here is last night's Gardner retrospective: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4362 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 On 12/22/2022 at 6:30 PM, WCAUTVNBC10 said: They had the opens already to go for tonight: I have to say Charlie is sounding rough these days. I wonder if they have plans to move on from him in the future. Maybe to someone like Paul Turner. I mean, WPVI kept Jefferson Kaye for far longer than necessary out of traditional alone. The last VOs he recorded for them were borderline tragic to hear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyfla 203 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) 19 hours ago, Myron Falwell said: I mean, WPVI kept Jefferson Kaye for far longer than necessary out of traditional alone. The last VOs he recorded for them were borderline tragic to hear. Didn’t they run them and then a week or two later ditch them (because they sounded so rough) for generic nameless opens until they went with Charlie Van Dyke? Edited December 28, 2022 by jerseyfla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readingreporter 12 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 21 minutes ago, jerseyfla said: Didn’t they run them and then a week or two later ditch them (because they sounded so rough) for generic nameless opens until they went with Charlie Van Dyke? They sure did. People had complained about them similar to the infamous 1996 updated opening, so the WPVI quickly dropped them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 471 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Speaking of the 96 theme…Gardner was quoted in this detailed article looking back on the incident https://billypenn.com/2015/08/12/phillys-action-news-theme-song-has-survived-10-presidential-elections-and-20-olympic-games-and-isnt-going-anywhere/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF1964 60 Posted November 16 Share Posted November 16 I saw this Philadelphia TV News book recommended on another site. I put it in the Jim Gardner thread because he's on the cover. The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1991 Posted November 17 Share Posted November 17 9 hours ago, SF1964 said: I saw this Philadelphia TV News book recommended on another site. I put it in the Jim Gardner thread because he's on the cover. The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News. That sounds like a book that I need to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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