WXYZ: Staging.
WXYZ: TV, Assignment Desk.
Just one of the ads Rick Placed in Broadcasting for additional help at the station.
Rick Eyler – Broadcasting, January 12, 1981
WXYZ: Celebrating the coming of the new near just before midnight on December 31, 1981, after the 11pm news. Yes, those are real typewriters in the foreground.
Back Row: John Armand, Steve Kremer, Wanda Doerner, Barbara Horner, Dayna Eubanks, John Gross, Diane Charles
Kneeling: Terry Pochert, Rick Eyler
Photo from Terry Pochert collection
WXYZ: From the book, “There Was A Time” by George Burlbaugh, “George Cheely was our desk supervisor. He had been with CBS, left to take over as news director at WXYZ in Detroit and came to the NBC Washington Bureau after that. … He drove a 1960 Chevy II which was given to him as a going away present from WXYZ. It was one of the first of its model off the assembly line and George drove it as long as I knew him.”[1]
References:
My involvement with television and television news began more than a half century ago, almost by accident. Out of High School, I installed tv antennas, went to Korea in communication intelligence and ended up a tv news director and network news producer. This is a look back at some of the things I remember best.
WXYZ: Engineering