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Entry from May 30, 2006
Eyewitness News
"Eyewitness News" was a term that was first popularly used in reporting World War II. In the 1960s, it became applied to television half-hour local news programs. "Eyewitness News" began on Channel 7 (WABC) in 1968. It quickly became popular.

Today, there are many programs called "Eyewitness News" throughout the country.


Wikipedia: Eyewitness News
In 1965, Al Primo, the new News Director at KYW-TV in Philadelphia created the "Eyewitness News" format. The reporter would be the "eyewitness" to the anchor in the studio and the viewer at home. He used the cue "007" from the 1963 film From Russia with Love as the theme. The format quickly became a hit in Philadelphia and allowed KYW to surge past longtime leader WCAU-TV for first place, a position it kept on and off until the late 1970s. Rival WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV) developed the Action News format to compete with it.
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In 1968, Primo moved to WABC-TV in New York City and took the Eyewitness News concept there with him, choosing music from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke -- the "Tar Sequence" cue (composed by Lalo Schifrin) -- as the theme. However, he added a new twist at WABC--chatter among the anchors, which came to be known as "happy talk". WABC has kept the name and format since then, and has been the highest-rated station in New York for much of that time.

The format, as tweaked by WABC, was copied by many other stations in the United States, with most other stations owned and operated by ABC using the Cool Hand Luke theme.

18 October 1942, Los Angeles (CA) Times, pg. A1:
New "Times" Radio Program
Will Start Tomorrow Night

"Eyewitness News" to Be Presented Every Monday,
Giving Correspondents' War Front Experiences

Southern California radio listeners are scheduled for an unusual treat tomorrow night and every Monday night thereafter when The Times starts its new radio program, "Eyewitness News."

"Eyewitness News" will present, for the first time on the air, the actual experiences of Associated Press correspondents on the battle fronts of the present war. Enacted by a top notch cast of radio stars, the programs will relate events exactly as they happened and were witnessed by Associated Press correspondents.

11 November 1968, New York (NY) Times, pg. 94:
IF YOU
WEREN'T THERE,
WE WERE.

If you want to get the story straight, you want to hear it from people who were there. You want Eyewitness News.

Instead of hearing about what's going on Out There from some remote figure on a scratchy piece of film, Eyewitness News fills you in live.

Eyewitness News is reporters scrambling back to the studio with their stories so they can tell you all about it themselves.

It's 6:30 Anchorman John Schubeck and 11:00 Anchorman Roger Grimsby slipping out from behind their desks to cover stories themselves.

It's on Channel 7.

EYEWITNESS
NEWS
6:30 & 11 WEEKNIGHTS

9 February 1972, New York (NY) Times, pg. 79:
TV: The Enduring Success of "Eyewitness News"
After 3 Years, Format
Still Appears Fresh
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
In the beginning, about three years ago, some critics and most competitors slapped the concept with the label of "happy talk news." That was enough to trigger automatic smiles of condescension, especially among journalists, in and out of television, whose concepts of news were firmly grounded in the traditions of print.

But, as it turns out, WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" is a success, and in television, as in any other notorious rat race, success works wonders.

(Trademark)
Word Mark EYEWITNESS NEWS
Goods and Services IC 041. US 107. G & S: TITLE OF A TELEVISION RADIO PROGRAM-NAMELY, A NEWS REPORTING PROGRAM. FIRST USE: 19601231. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19601231
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Design Search Code
Serial Number 72288902
Filing Date January 15, 1968
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Registration Number 0888864
Registration Date March 31, 1970
Owner (REGISTRANT) WESTINGHOUSE BROADCASTING CO., INC. CORPORATION INDIANA 3 GATEWAY CENTER PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA 15230
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Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
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Register PRINCIPAL
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Renewal 2ND RENEWAL 20011228
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Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityRadio/Television • Tuesday, May 30, 2006 • Permalink


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