[Magdalen] Huntley and Brinkley

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 17:49:10 UTC 2015


Who was it had a skit about the Huntley-Brinkley-Nutley-Winkley report? Was
it Steve Allen?

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Love it!
>
> There was an NBC employee version that started
>
> Huntley and Brinkley were whooping it up
> in Hurley;s Saloon downstairs . . .
>
> (Don’t remember the rest,  but it got scatological in an early 1960s sort
> of way <g>; it tracked Services' "A bunch of the boys).
>
> What's not widely known was that officially, Huntley was a staff announcer
> while
> Brinkley was a reporter - different AFTRA agreement  rules.
>
> I worked for a radio station (Sunday morning God-Squad hours, mainly)
> co-owned
> by Huntley in Riverhead, LI one summer.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>
>


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