Anyone from the Twin Cities will love this one: It's a WCCO newscast, from 1981, a few days after Reagan was shot. Highlights include the unbelievably young Pat Miles and Don Shelby, as well as the interview with 16-year-old Jodie Foster. But unfortunately, there's no weather report from Bud Kraehling. Did people really refer to Minneapolis-St. Paul as "the Northwest," as late as the '80s?
I was three years old when this aired. But since my family was unquestionably a "10 PM Report" household, I don't doubt that it was on in my house that night. Local news really isn't what it used to be, is it? It's been unwatchable in every city I've ever lived in as an adult.
I don't know if you were living in NYC when Lloyd Lidsay Young did the weather on Channel 9, but that news was so bad I used to watch it in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 way. If its going to bad, let it be horrible. That is why I watchted KSTP Chennel 5 when I lived in Minnesota. Joe Schmidt could not be beaten as stereotype local sportscaster.
Posted by: J. Lichty at March 17, 2007 08:22 PMmost interesting part of the video: John Hinckley was kicked out of the American Nazi Party for being too violent.
Posted by: LilB at March 19, 2007 12:17 PM