FIVE
FIVE ON
FIVE ON YOUR SIDE FIRST WENT ON THE AIR SEVENTY FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY AND WE'RE CELEBRATING.
HERE'S A VINTAGE EDITION A
SPECIAL EDITION OF VINTAGE KSDK
LOOKING BACK ON HOW IT ALL
STARTED AND WHERE WE'RE GOING
FROM HERE FEBRUARY EIGHT
NINETEEN FORTY SEVEN WHAT WAS
THEN KNOWN AS KSD SIGNED ON THE
AIR BECOMING SAY LEWIS'S FIRST
TELEVISION STATION.
THERE WASN'T A BIG AUDIENCE.
THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT FOUR TV'S
THAT'S IN THE ENTIRE VIEWING
AREA.
PROGRAMING THAT DAY CONSISTED
OF INTERVIEWS, DANCING AND A
SPORTS SHOW WITH CARDINALS
BROADCASTERS HARRY CAREY AND
GABBY STREEP AND A PLAYER NAMED
JOE GARAGIOLA SPORTS FIELD A
LOT OF THE PROGRAMING TIME BUT
SO DID OTHER SHOWS CREATED JUST
FOR TV AND THAT WILL BE A RADIO
SHOW EXECUTIVE NAMED GEORGE
BURBACH BROUGHT TELEVISION TO
ST. LOUIS AND THE EARLY REVIEWS
WERE GOOD.
I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE GOOD
PEOPLE IN ST. LOUIS HTOWN
TELEVISION OPERATING OUT THERE.
HOW'S IT COMING ALONG?
WELL WE'RE DOING A VERY
SATISFACTORY JOB APPARENTLY WE
DON'T SEEM TO GET TOO MANY
COMPLAINTS IN THE EARLY 1960S
CHANNEL FIVE BECAME THE FIRST
ST. LOUIS TELEVISION STATION TO
BROADCAST IN COLOR.
EVERYBODY WANTED IT AND
OF COURSE CHANNEL FIVE WAS THE
LEADER IN THAT RESPECT.
WE GOT THE FIRST COLOR CAMERAS
BUT THEY CERTAINLY WEREN'T
GOING TO PUT THE FIRST NEWS
PROGRAM IN COLOR.
THEY THOUGHT WHAT THE ANYTHING
GOES AND A CLOWN SHOW SO YOU
CAN YOU COULD BE A PURPLE ONE
DAY AND GREEN THE NEXT AND
AN APPLE COLORED THE NEXT.
BUT WHILE THEY WERE TWEAKING
THE TECHNOLOGY THEY WERE
GETTING READY TO MAKE THEIR BIG
MOVE INTO THE NEWS.
OF COURSE THE TECHNOLOGY HAS
CHANGED DRAMATICALLY OVER THE
YEARS FROM FILM TO VIDEOTAPE TO
THE DIGITAL NEWS GATHERING UP
TODAY YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE
WATER SWEPT THROUGH HOMES AND
BUSINESSES.
BUT WHAT WILL NEVER CHANGE IS
OUR COMMITMENT TO BRINGING ALL
OF THE NEWS FROM OUR COMMUNITY
FROM EPIC FLOODS AS WAVING TO
THE CROWD TO A VISIT BY A POPE
FROM WORLD SERIES CELEBRATIONS
TO A SUPER BOWL PARADE AND EVEN
A STANLEY CUP BROUGHT TO YOU
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS BY SO MANY
FACES, YOU KNOW, AND PEOPLE WHO
ARE JUST LIKE YOU OH WE
WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO IT
WITHOUT YOU AND IN EVERYTHING
WE DO SERVING YOU IS AT THE
HEART OF OUR MISSION.
SO HAPPY.
SEVENTY FOUR YEARS OF KSDK
TELEVISION ST. LOUIS NOW LET'S
GET STARTED ON BRINGING YOU
YOUR NEWS FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT
74 YEARS.
MAN MICHAEL SCOTT, I JUST CAN'T
BELIEVE IT'S BEEN SEVENTY FOUR
YEARS THAT OUR STATION A LOT
OF GREAT MEMORIES AND YOU KNOW,
THINK ABOUT THE TIES THAT BIND
.
WHEN I FIRST STARTED HERE I
WORKED WITH JOHN RODEL WHO WAS
I THINK THE FIRST NEWSCASTER AT
KSDK AND HE WAS STILL HERE WHEN
I GOT HERE WE DID A HIGHLIGHT
ZONE SPECIAL WITH CORKY THE
CLOWN BROUGHT HIM BACK AND HERE
WE ARE ALL STILL WORKING
TOGETHER.
IT IS IT IS SEVEN YEARS.
IT'S PRETTY AMAZING.
AND THINK ABOUT THIS KNOW ST.
LOUIS WE HAVE YOU KNOW, WE HAD
THE BLUES WE HAD THE STANLEY
CUP PARADE.
HOW MANY TELEVISION STATIONS
HAVE HAVE HAD THE STANLEY
UPGRADE A A WORLD SERIES PARADE
AND A SUPER BOWL PARADE ON TV?
YEAH, NOT TOO MANY MANY THINK
EXACTLY.
AND YOU KNOW I HAVE TO SAY CLIP
ST. JAMES PASSED AWAY IN TWENTY
SIXTEEN BUT HE WAS SUCH THE
FACE OF KSDK REALLY WHEN YOU
KNOW BACK IN THE DAY THAT IT
WAS JUST SO IMPORTANT FOR ME TO
PUT HIM IN THAT STORY