THE 10 O'CLOCK NEWS 

March 13, 1967 - July 5, 1968 (Half Hour)
July 8, 1968 - February 23, 1979 (One Hour)

Bill Jorgensen was the founding and longtime anchor of New York City's FIRST PRIME TIME ONE HOUR WEEKLY NEWS BROADCAST premiering  format on July 8, 1968. It began as a half hour News Broadcast anchored by Bill Jorgensen on March 13, 1967.

 When WNEW-TV began producing 10 O'CLOCK NEWS with Bill Jorgensen at the helm, no other commercial television stations had a prime time newscast. The New York Times television critic Jack Gould described the newscast as "a thoroughly professional news summary" due in part to "Mr. Jorgensen's durably pleasing style and demeanor. He suggests authority without affectation." 

The 10 O'CLOCK NEWS on WNEW TV  followed a talk show hosted by Merv Griffin and was followed by a local talk show hosted by Alan Burke, and then followed with The Les Crane Show when The 10'Oclock News was a half hour broadcast. This line-up rapidly built a substantial audience. 

After a twelve year successful run Bill Jorgensen left WNEW and The 10'OClock News and was succeeded at by John Roland, who anchored his first broadcast on March 14, 1979. Jorgensen who quit after his Feb. 23, broadcast left the newscast without an official anchor replacement for two and half weeks. Roland who had previously been a featured reporter and co-anchor became the new anchor. 

Bill Jorgensen's signature signoff was "I'm Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time 'till next time."

NOTE: Bill Jorgensen had it written into his contract at WNEW that he was the only one who could use a TelePrompTer, and this meant that when he was debriefing a reporter on set, the reporter would have to constantly look at his notes. By contract, Jorgensen would always look steadily into the camera, projecting an air of power and confidence. He warred bitterly with station management, including Ted Kavanau, then news director, who says Jorgensen "was a difficult guy, very moody, hardly talked to anybody, but when you turned on that camera, he performed brilliantly. He had a voice that was like fate reaching out to you."

ON THIS BROADCAST:

Women commemorate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment, which granted suffrage to women.
 
An in depth ten minute report leads off this news broadcast.

Women march and demonstrate all over New York City  advocating equality. They picket a multitude of sights. Women's power are on display representing 100 million females in the USA.

In an on location report, women take over radio station WBAB, demanding their voice be heard. Interviews and comments are heard. 

Also, demonstrations are covered in Times Square, Bryant Park,  Washington D.C. and Boston Massachusetts. 

In other news, Palestine crisis, Israeli crisis addressed at UN,
Vice President Spiro Agnew's trip in the East, latest Viet Nam statistics, American marine John Sweeney asks for asylum in Sweden. His family is interviewed, NYC hippies battle police, Nigerian execution of three enemies of the country, Narcotic raids in NYC, Manson case horrors of killings described in court, Black Panther trial, search for wanted criminal Angela Davis, British Airways fire at Kennedy Airport, increasing amount of guns being stored by college students. 

Rona Barrett reviews new TV programs scheduled to debut and return to television in the Fall 1970 season. 

NOTE: 

      NO KNOWN BROADCASTS OR EVEN EXCERPTS OF "10 O'CLOCK NEWS 
      WITH BILL JORGENSEN" EXISTS OR IS ARCHIVED AT THE LIBRARY 
      OF CONGRESS, UCLA FILM & TV ARCHIVE, PALEY CENTER FOR 
      MEDIA, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NEWS ARCHIVE, OR THE ARCHIVES 
      OF WNEW METROMEDIA. ONE ENDING OF THE PROGRAM AND CREDITS 
      CAN BE FOUND ON YOU TUBE (62 SECONDS).                                                                                                                                    

Host Bill Jorgensen was anchor of the 10 O'clock news broadcast on WNEW-TV Channel 5 in New York City from March 13th, 1967 until he left in the Spring of 1979.

Topics: Blackout in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Bob O'Brien and Victor Reisel report on the battles in South Vietnam, Jane Fonda should be guilty of treason, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 100 British soldiers are killed, Mafia investigation, Bella Abzug on the sexual revolution, Western Union brings the singing telegram to an end, first one was on July 28th, 1933, "Happy Birthday, Rudy Vallee. Sports report: Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess tournament evaluation. 

George Sharman subbing for Bill Jorgensen. Also reporting are Gabe Pressman and Steve Bauman. 

Includes commercials.


                                               

Tom Jerrill reports on how to reach a military settlement in Vietnam, Bill Zimmerman reports on the congressional campaigns of Bella Abzug and Adlai Stevenson the 111, report on the Columbus Day Parade, Mrs. Elinor McGovern on the presidential campaign trail for her husband George.     

Host: Harry Reasoner. 

1963-1982 (SYNDICATED). Mike Douglas hosted one of television's longest-running talk shows (19 years). Each week Douglas was joined by a different co-host. In 1967, "The Mike Douglas Show" became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy Award.



Broadcast from 1963-1978 in Philadelphia
Broadcast from 1978-1982 in Los Angeles 

Co-Host: Sammy Davis Jr.                                                                                                                         

The ten women voted for the Woman Of The Year Award by Ladies Home Journal. 

Barbara Walters hosts the fourth Woman of the Year awards broadcast live from New York City. Ten women of outstanding achievement will be honored for their contributions to American life. They will be selected according to standards which reflect both public and professional judgements. Women throughout the country were asked to respond to a questionnaire in the January issue of Ladies Home Journal by taking recommendations in each of 10 categories. A panel of 14 distinguished women made the the final selections guided by the reader preferences but not bound by them,. The winner, who will be announced on the NBC telecast, will each receive a special pendant designed ty Cartier and presented by personalities for the arts show business and government 

The 10 categories in which 1976 "Women of the Year" awards are made is government and diplomacy, political life, business and economics, science and research sports, communications, performing arts, inspirational leadership, educational leadership and humanitarian and community service. 

Carol Burnett, Pearl Bailey, Billie Jean King, Marlo Thomas, Rep. Barbara Jordan and Jill Ruckelshaus serve as special presenters. 

Songs heard on the program include:
"Super Lovin' Lady," "This is my Song," "God Bless the Child by 
Petula Clark.
"God Bless America" by Kate Smith.
"Ease on Down the Road"  and " "Love Hangover" by Fifth Dimension.