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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Retro Thursday: "The Team to Watch"



KCBS-TV moved out of Hollywood last weekend and into new digs at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City. The station throws an official ribbon-cutting on Friday, with Mayor Villaraigosa and CBS head Leslie Moonves.

Here's a promo from 25 years ago -- 1982, when Channel 2 was still known as KNXT-TV. Spot highlights then-Channel 2 stars Ralph Story, Marcia Brandwynne, Connie Chung, Jess Marlowe... and Jim Hill (wow, he's still there.) The station touts its ratings gains as "The Team to Watch." (Although I believe it was already in third place at this point.)

Meanwhile, here's one more for ya. KCBS anchor Paul Magers... a bit younger, in 1986, when he was still an anchor in Minneapolis-St. Paul:

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