KDFW Channel 4 [Dallas-Fort Worth, TX] - THE 10 O'Clock News (Complete Broadcast, 3/21/1979) 📺

Here's the complete (re)broadcast of THE 10 O'Clock News - not from Chicago, but rather from KDFW Channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, anchored by Barry Judge and Clarice Tinsley. (The title is not the only Chicago connection; read further to see what the other is.)

Includes:

CBS 'Eye-D'

Clarice previewing upcoming stories (with ubiquitous teletype sound in background)

(Notice in faraway shot of news set, the General Electric PE-250 camera used by the station then)

Commercials for:

White Cloud (with Mrs. Dolores Zweiselbauer)

Emery Express (voiceover by Jackson Beck)

Promo for Diaghlev Ballet at New Arts Theatre - with Serge Diaghlev

Station ID slide - with notice of rebroadcast of earlier newscast

THE 10 O'Clock News opening (voiceover by Charlie Van Dyke), followed by stories:

A battle in Austin against annexation of Tarrant County by Fort Worth, reported by Quin Mathews

State Senate approves bill legalizing bingo among charitable groups, reported by Dave Tracy

State Legislature rejects bill that would have allowed prisoners to have conjugal visits with spouses

Linda May Burnett sentenced to death by lethal injection for murder of 3-year-old boy and four other members of boy's family

Body floating in Trinity River identified as Richard Davis, missing since February 22nd

Greg Lefevre reports on press conference by Dallas County Sheriff Carl Thomas defending his firing of three deputies

Commercials for:

Skillern's drug store

First Texas Savings Association of Dallas' IRA account

Dillard's Record Days sales

[removed to prevent YouTube blocking] Pennzoil Gumout carburetor cleaner (voiceover by Dan Ingram) (posted separately here:    • Gumout by Pennzoil - "The Between Tune-Ups...  )

Segment 2 reports:

Ray Brady on corporate profits increasing by 26 percent while consumer income only went up 3 percent

President Carter to reveal new energy plan to nation next Thursday (March 29th)

Israeli Prime Minister Begin vows no Palestinian state on West Bank of Jordan

Space shuttle Columbia spending night in El Paso after getting off ground in California

Braniff airlines and flight attendants reach pact calling for $200 raise by 1980

Rochelle Brown report on Dallas Federation of Teachers

Commercials for:

Purina Cat Chow Country Blend

Bill King's Brake-O (with the man himself) - "5 Minutes to 6"

Town East Ford, with goal of selling 400 cars by March 31st

Channel 4 Mike Douglas Sweepstakes

PSA for Dallas Social Security Administration on supplemental security income

Segment 3 - Gary Bazner with weather

Commercials for:

Southwestern Bell - "Long Distance"

The Dallas Morning News

Jack in the Box - "Guaranteed Great Breakfast"

"Pre-recorded earlier" slide

Segment 4 - Sports with Allen Stone including:

Brad Sham report on Rangers' Bobby Tolan

Colleges hiring basketball coaches

Report on Dallas Tornado's NASL season opener; goalie Alex Stepney interviewed

Commercials for:

Young Chevrolet

Bonanza Restaurants' Dippin' Chicken and Steak

Texas State Railroad Historical Park - a ride on the Iron Horse passenger train

PSA for U.S. Labor Department Labor-Management Services for brochure on pension-welfare law

Segment 5 - report on making of "The Lathe of Heaven" from future WLS-TV newsman Dick Johnson (about which is posted separately here:    • Channel 4 News - "Lathe of Heaven Shoot" -...   ), and newscast end

Station ID slide - with newscast rebroadcast notice

Commercial: Town East Ford (repeat)

PSA's for:

Dallas Council on Alcoholism (posted separately here:    • Dallas Council on Alcoholism - "Alcohol Is...   )

Contact (posted separately here:    • Contact - "Lose What's Bugging You" (Comme...   )

First two minutes of Point of View, hosted by Walter Evans, with guests A. Graham Down and Dennis Gray of Council for Basic Education (Mr. Down is pontificating when recording ends)

This aired on local Dallas-Fort Worth TV early Wednesday, March 21st 1979 during the 1:28am to 2:03am timeframe. (Rebroadcast of THE Ten O'Clock News from Tuesday, March 20th 1979, a few hours earlier.)

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