Your Evening Magazine Memories
I wish they would release DVDs of the show.
Jon Coppinger
I can remember when I was real young, they went to the ohio state fair! I loved this show as a kid!
Tony
I'd love to know whatever became of Candace Hasey. It's as if she dropped off the face of the earth after doing the show as a replacement for Robin Young. There is plenty of mention of both Robin and also Sara Edwards when talking about "Evening," but never Candace. :-? What happened to her? Where is she now? I always liked her. She is a beautiful and talented woman.
John M. Ciampa
I spent four years with PM MAGAZINE at WJAR in Providence, hosted by Sheila Martines and Matt Lauer. I started as an intern, became an Associate Producer and, finally, Program Producer. It was a dream job and I loved every minute of it.
Mike Valerio
I'm searching for information about a show that was aired in Pittsburgh by Liz Miles. The show was about a man named Vandergrift or Vandegrift who I believe was possibly my great grandfather. Does anyone know if Liz is still in Pittsburgh, and if I can somehow get a copy of the show? My relatives on my father's side, including my father, are now deceased; the only information I have is the remembrance of something my father told me about the show years ago. Thanks...
Carole Vandergrift
I think Evening Magazine was a wonderful show. You can see clips on YouTube. In Pittsburgh, where I'm from, it aired on KDKA. Jon and Liz are the best together.
I still enjoy watching Jon to this day.
Joseph
I hosted PM Magazine in New Orleans and will never forget it. The richness of the culture there and the unique and authentic city it is made it one of the best PM Magazine shows in the nation. We should all contribute stories from around the nation and begin a true PM Magazine renaissance!
Lea Sinclair
Who’s putting this web site together? This is great. I was on the original Evening staff at WJZ in Baltimore and then went on to the National Office in San Francisco. I produced the Special Edition show that’s on this site. Please contact me. john@declarity.com. Thanks and good work.
John Norton
We are looking for a spring 1979 feature PM magazine did on George Clinton/Parliament-Funkadeli c. It aired in the Atlanta market on a Friday night in late May/early June on WAGA-TV.
If you have any details on it please email me at leemariejr@hotmail.com thanks.
Bob
Other Evening Magazine hosts in Pittsburgh, besides Jon Burnett and Liz Miles, include Donna Hanover and Mary Robb Jackson. I still enjoy watching
Jon Burnett, "weather" or not he's in a good mood.
Joseph
Some of the best parts of Evening Magazine were the travel segments from Linda Harris. She had some wonderful adventures!
Boston4Today
Late one night I was at a Bickford's Family Restaurant on South Willow Street in Manchester, NH. While sitting at a window seat I saw the EVENING MAGAZINE van pull up. Three guys entered Bickford's from that van and sat down at a table near my booth. Immediately I recognized Marty Sender, The first host of Boston's EM. Marty looked over at me and nodded with a smile. I was surprised, I thought he'd be stuck-up and he wasn't.
Now whenever I hear Evening Magazine's original opening theme music I remember that night in 1977 at Bickford's and Marty Sender.
Leisure Suit Larry
My name is Chuck Smith was a co-host & producer for PM MAGAZINE at KSLA TV in Shreveport, LA from 1979 -84. We were among the first 50 stations to join the Group W cooperative. I believe Jim Ziegler was our original coordinating producer from the national office.
Like many PMs across the country, we were learning the "ins & outs", etc. of the show but managed to be #1 in the ratings throughout the run. Last Arbitron was a 25 rtg./39 share.
In '84, despite ratings & financial success, the new station owners(Viacom) cancelled our show :-/ and replaced it with "3's Company" reruns ( that Viacom owned) which tanked almost immediately. Local viewers were ticked and tons of viewer mail revealed as much. It was a great learning experience as I took those PM storytelling tips to heart and have used them ever since.
Enjoyed meeting some other PM'ers along the way as well.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS: 3 days doing a "behind-the-scenes" ; story on America's Youngest Governor: BILL CLINTON AND having the Disney private plane pick us up to to stories at Disneyworld & EPCOT in Orlando !! AND
"behind-the-scenes"; at a Playboy photo-shoot.:-) AND having to chaperone CHEF TELL when he was in town...the guy was a party-animal!!#-)
Chuck Smith
Agenda Video & Creative Media Srvcs.
agendavideo@msn.com
Hi there! Want to know if anyone found out how to obtain a show or not?? I want to obtain one from the Summer of 1979, that featured my husband a Ocean City, Maryland Beach Patrol Lifeguard at the time. We have been married for 27 years & now he just turned 51 today & we just went to Ocean City, MD for the day last weekend & he got to talk to the Beach Patrol having a swim competition. I just think it would be so nice to get him a copy, he was promised one & never got it. It would make his day, year or life to get a copy! Willing to pay for it if necessary. Anyone that knows how to find a copy please contact me at: katerina361@yahoo.com Thanks so much!
Kathy
Very well done website. I produced and directed the preview show that introduced Evening to Baltimore in 1977 at WJZ. Then was blessed to work on the program for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, then Boston, finally there at WBZ as EP. What a delightful experience; it was very hard work and LONG hours, but I've never worked with such a talented and committed team of people on any other production. Like John Norton, I'd ask who put this site together?
Joseph Heston
Thanks to Evening, I grew from intern to soundman to shooter/editor and finally to producer. If it weren't for that show, I wouldn't have a career.
I cherish the memories of my days working at at WBZ/Evening Magazine in Boston. I've never met such wonderful people. Robin was everybody's heart throb and Marty was always a hoot. If I could go back to those days, I'd drive that van all over New England.
Hamilton Fisher
I was just telling someone the other day about Tom Bergeron interviewing me briefly in a spot he did about the Isles of Shoals, back in the early 80's ('83?). We were on a charter boat out of Portsmouth,NH and our little gang kept 'bothering' him about getting on camera, chasing him around the decks and sticking our noses into the backgrounds of the shots. He interviewed all 5 of us kids but I was the only one to make it onto the screen. I was wearing a green Celtics t-shirt, #7 Tiny Archibald (their guard at the time), and was wondering if there's any way to retrieve that segment. I've done some digging but haven't been able to find much online. I remember the show fondly, and watched regularly with my family, though Tom only reluctantly and somewhat arrogantly gave us our 1/2-minute of fame...!
Greg Leavitt
Hello!
There was one episode back in 1987 where they showed a preview of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and had interviews with Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton and Marina Sirtis.
My father taped it on audiotape when it played but I've never seen it and would love to!
Thanks!
JeffWorks@aol.com
My vague memories of this show are when Jan Yanehiro interviewed Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip "Peanuts," the classic 1976-1980 original theme music, and the wonderful opening/closing animations, as well as those leading back into the program from commercial breaks. Here is a little info correction; "PM Magazine" had been on KHOU-TV 11 in Houston, Texas, not on KHTV 39.
Does WBZ-TV still have the original opening/in-between/closing animations from the series first four years of 1976-1980? If not, who does? How about the section of the opening theme music from those years that would play in the background as we were being told what was going to be on for that night?
Did Frank Gari compose the 1976-1980 theme?
David M. Gill
dmg90232@yahoo.com