"The Evening News" With Jack Benny

[Jhammes]

It was unusual, in Jack's day, for newscasters to appear on entertainment shows. How times have changed. However...

Several newscasters did put in an appearance with Jack Benny on television.
Name some of them...

[Yhtapmys]

It was unusual, in Jack's day, for newscasters to appear on entertainment shows. How times have changed. However...

Not necessarily. John Daly hosted What's My Line? and even Ed Murrow did Person to Person, which was hardly a news show. Go back to the radio days and there was Wendy Warren With the News, which featurd (I think) Doug Edwards.

I can't think what news people would have been on Jack's show, unless CBS was using them for cross-promotional purposes.

Yhtapmys

[Maxwell]

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley introduced Jack's show when he moved to NBC, right?

[LLeff]

Sure did.

[Jhammes]

Remember who presented Don Wilson with his 27th Anniversary plaque... a plaque Don had for all of one minute.

[Moose Hatrack]

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley introduced Jack's show when he moved to NBC, right?

That happened when Jack moved back to NBC televison, right?

[TimL2005]

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley introduced Jack's show when he moved to NBC, right?

That happened when Jack moved back to NBC televison, right?

Yes..Huntley/Brinkley News started in 1956-After Jack's Radio Show..By 1964 Huntley/Brinkley was well established on NBC..So it would have made sense for them to introduce Jack at that time.

[Moose Hatrack]

Thanks for shedding that light TimL. It makes me wonder... was there a "welcome back prodigal Jack" fanfare at NBC TV? Or was the Paley talent raid just a faded footnote to Broadcast History by 1964? (Take a moment to clean the Johnson's wax off your head before you answer.)

[Yhtapmys]

Thanks for shedding that light TimL. It makes me wonder... was there a "welcome back prodigal Jack" fanfare at NBC TV? Or was the Paley talent raid just a faded footnote to Broadcast History by 1964? (Take a moment to clean the Johnson's wax off your head before you answer.)

The raid happened during the days of network radio, which was considered as something nostaglic, old-fashioned and even a bit quaint even in 1964 by the folks in television. Mass communications had come a long was and wasn't looking back too much.

Yhtaypms

[LLeff]

Thanks for shedding that light TimL. It makes me wonder... was there a "welcome back prodigal Jack" fanfare at NBC TV? Or was the Paley talent raid just a faded footnote to Broadcast History by 1964? (Take a moment to clean the Johnson's wax off your head before you answer.)

I haven't actually seen that first NBC broadcast yet, but I'd guess that it was somewhat different than the big build-up that CBS gave Jack when moving over. Considering the harsh way Jack was "terminated" from CBS, thanks to James Aubrey, and William Paley's subsequent anger over it, I would suspect that Jack would have wanted something a bit more subdued, lest it be seen as rubbing Paley's nose in the incident. Of course, still a guess not having seen the first NBC 1964 show, though.

[Moose Hatrack]

Ah. I read about Aubrey's sparkling personality in the Brasselle thread. What jokers. They remind me of the bully and the toady in A Christmas Story.
I hope that first episode surfaces. I'd expect at least a reference to a reserved parking space! (Maybe Aubrey's old spot?)