>>> I would have said NBC News Overnight, but I guess that is because I am an >>> old man. I saw almost every episode, since I got back from the library >>> around 1:30 or 2:00 in those days. So it goes,,, >> >> I recall when the name/format change occurred.... > > I'd give a week's pay to see Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobbins or Bill > Schechner in that spot. Hell. I'd give three days' pay to see Aaron > Brown and Lisa McRee there.
I'm with you, Dave. Thalia Assuras would be OK with Aaron Brown. Overnight to Nightside was a "name/format change" the way Later with Bob Costas to Last Call with Carson Daly was. Overnight was the rare newscast that assumed its viewers were intelligent, and worked with a middle-of-the-night budget to present itself accordingly. CBS also tried something called Nightwatch in the early '80s; before long, it became Charlie Rose doing interviews for two hours. By ~1990, when the three networks decided to feed newscasts though the overnight, they mostly aimed lower. (Charlie had moved on.) ABC's World News Now with Aaron Brown and Lisa McRee anchoring came the closest to what NBC had done with Overnight, and they'd accurately mock their competitors as "generic newscasts". As anchors and producers left that show, it became generic, too. Now, CBS and ABC both have newscasts that do their best to exemplify the cheapness that Kevin describes, while NBC shows Leno reruns instead. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
