Eyewitness News at 11pm - "Boston Blizzard of '78" - WBZ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 2/7/1978) 📺 ❄️ ❄️
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Here's the full broadcast of the 11pm edition of Eyewitness News on WBZ Channel 4 in Boston, MA, recorded on Umatic tape and anchored by Jack Williams and Gail Harris, in the wake of the massive blizzard that hit the city on February 6th and 7th and dumped up to 30 inches of snow.
Includes:
Promo for The Mike Douglas Show with co-host Linda Lavin (voiceover by Mike Douglas)
Jack and Gail preview coming newscast
Commercials for:
Emery Air Freight
McDonald's Quarter Pounder
Station ID - "We're 4 Boston"
News open (with RCA TK-46 in shot)
- Looting reported (34 arrested to that point) and coastal flooding, Army troops from Fort Devens in Revere, President Carter declares entire region a Federal disaster area, power outages in several areas
- Attempts to clear runway of Logan Airport for Army troops, Ron Brinn of Massport speaks of situation
- Jerry Liddell at NBC Communications Center with updates on road conditions, and interview with Gov. Mike Dukakis about arrival of Army troops to help movement and rescue efforts
- Dept. of Public Works just beginning effort to clear streets, will take several days
- Meterologist Bruce Schwoegler says worst of storm is over
- Residents along coast including Revere being evacuated
- 53 thus far arrested on looting charges, worst in Roxbury, Dorchester and South End
- Western area likewise impassable
- Restaurant/bar/museum at Peter Stuyvesant on harbor side sinks
- 2/3 in Hull experiencing flooding, heavy flooding along White Horse Beach in Plymouth
- Travelers' advisory in New Hampshire and Maine due to coastal flooding and beach erosion
- Cape Cod also affected by high winds, Outermost House washed away
- Two Winchester boys die of carbon monoxide poisoning while inside car to keep warm
- 3-alarm fire burning in Lawrence
- MBTA says service will be very slow, a list of those lines still running is shown, but no buses or commuter rail, and a list of snow shovelers and where
- Massachusetts Electric Utilities says power has mostly been restored in areas hit by outages
- Lists of emergency info and special snow centers
- Rhode Island hit worst by storms, also reports on the situations in Connecticut and New York City, and all up and down Eastern Seaboard
- Full financial impact of storm yet to be determined
Commercials for:
New Homemade Soup Starter
General Electric Great Annual Red Tag Sale (ends March 5th)
Jones Minute Breakfast Links
La Choy Oriental Vegetables
Theatrical trailer for "Coma"
- Bruce has another weather report, warning of another storm starting Saturday, but insists worst of this is over
Commercials for:
Buick Regal (with homemaker Lydia P. Rice, personnel analyst G. Scott Schoppert, Jr., homemaker Debra Magruder, electronic technician Peter Ozzello, and businessman Shawn Walker)
Hostess Breakfast Bake Shop
SunSensor lenses
Sports (whatever there were) with Len Berman (later a fixture of WNBC Channel 4 in New York):
- Celtics on 4-game winning streak, beating Pacers in Indianapolis as reported by Johnny Most
- Followed by other NBA and NHL scores
- In college basketball, UMass at Rutgers, Fairfield at Army, Brown at Yale and Rhode Island at St. John's all cancelled due to snows, Notre Dame at Holy Cross postponed
- Highlights of Harvard v. Northeastern hockey game, coaches speak but only one - B.U.'s Jack Parker - is identified on screen
- 100 fans and employees all at Boston Garden previous night as Buffalo beats Bruins
- Jerry Liddell with update on how Army troops from Fort Devens are moving after being stranded on 128 en route to 1A into Revere - and advice not to drive tomorrow
Encapsulation of situation on the ground before newscast ends
Station ID / promo for Action 4
First four seconds of opening of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson before recording ends
"It's 11pm. Do you know where your package is?"
This aired on local Boston TV on Tuesday, February 7th 1978 during the 10:59pm to 11:30pm timeframe.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.
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Boston broadcasting GOLD. Thanks for the post .. and the trip down memory lane... here's hoping you have other vintage Boston newscasts !
I was 10 yrs old. Loved 78
@ajaugenti1976
6 ай бұрын
I was almost 2 years old.
5 years before I was born. I heard so many stories about this blizzard growing up, and Boston has still never experienced anything quite like it
What a time to be conceived in my mother's womb.
17 in 1978 we lived right on the coast just south of Boston, we got 4' of ocean slush in the living room, evacuated with Mom and Dad while I carried my little brother, wading through that 4' of slush to get to the snowdrifts through howling winds blinding snow a 1/2 mile up the hill to grandparents house, thank God for them and their real fireplace we huddled around. Next day I walked back to house, our cars were frozen solid in 5' of ice, only the cars antenna was visible, literally walking on top of the cars. North Weymouth 1978.
[Len Berman (later a fixture of WNBC Channel 4 in New York) ] From one NBC 4 to another. Now Len is partnered with Broadway Columnist Michael Riddel to do AM drive on 710 WOR Radio in NYC.
I was two years old (just about in June), my Mom and my biological Dad were both living in New Hampshire and my Mom wanted to divorce him. Finally got it done in November 1978 before remarrying to her second husband in December 1978.
I REMEMBER WHEN ALL TV WAS LIKE THIS 1980-1982
This is great to see. I missed this because I was still living in the Chicago area at the time but there was talk about this for years once I moved to the area.
Thanks I really like any news broadcast from Chicago when the weather is bad Like earlier this year we saw ABC Ted Koppel on the 1982 blizard and also WLS covering the 1983 Feb Storm. I do not care for Today's TV news.
CT was hit by this storm as well. Up to 2 feet I think in some parts of the state. I was almost turning 4 at the time. My mom was about to go to a local court to start divorce proceedings against my father when the storm hit (TMI maybe, but that's how she tells it). I-95 and all major CT Roads closed because of this, but at the asking of then Governor Ella Grasso (RIP) who became a heroine to the state. Many people called it the storm that changed the way they're forecast. Wondering if there is any Blizzard of 78 stuff from WTNH, WFSB or even WHNB (later in 1978 to become WVIT). Saw something on the 'Tube from WJAR in Providence. This was some way to start WBZ-TV's 30th year on air. Of course at the time of this newscast WBZ-TV was an NBC affiliate.
Ah, 12 Years old and riding my Scorpion Snowmobile around town at my leisure. italian sub? no problem.
Is crazy I'm watching this and I wasn't born until 87 lol
@stephendacey8761
3 ай бұрын
Unabomber?
The storm that started the silly bread and milk runs everytime there's flurries in New England.
That's a great thumbnail of Dukakis. He should have used that in his '88 campaign...
@stephendacey8761
3 ай бұрын
Instead he used him in a tank.
If you have any johnny carson shows or even just the original intro sequences to shows I'd be so grateful:)
I remember watching this on WBZ when I was stuck home from school due to the blizzard.
@tkaye2
6 ай бұрын
I wonder if many of the people involved in this newscast were stranded at the station.
Do have any from the Tom Ellis and Tony Pepper era?
I was 9 living in a town on lake Michigan, snow stacked to the roof of the house
@fenderjazzbrian
6 ай бұрын
My guess is that was part of the winter of 79 in which the snow piled up over multiple storms. I also got the 2 confused when I was young, having lived in both regions during that time.
@wmbrown6
6 ай бұрын
@@fenderjazzbrian - Especially as the Eastern seaboard, or portions thereof, were also hit with blizzards in '79.
I was five days shy of turning two months old.
Is there any chance of seeing some more of the carson footage at the end?
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
6 ай бұрын
What you see is where the tape cut out. We do have some other Carson shows - nothing that they don’t have already I’m sure.
@MyThirdPlaceLtd
6 ай бұрын
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV would love to see them :)
If this happened today, RepubliBANS would be screaming tyranny because Dukakis asked people to stay home.
Notice on that short snippet of the Carson open - this was around the time the networks were switching from the old 5 kHz telco audio to diplexing audio and video signals so that the rest of the country got the same 15 kHz quality as did New York and Los Angeles.