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  Roger Grimsby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Grimsby (September 23, 1928 – June 23, 1995) was an American news anchor and actor.
Grimsby was known for beginning his broadcasts with the phrase "I'm Roger Grimsby, here now the news" and ending his newscasts with the phrase 'Hoping your news is good news, I'm Roger Grimsby.' He often appeared in films, usually playing himself as an anchorman, and had roles in Bananas, The Exterminator, Ghostbusters, and Turk 182!
Grimsby died of lung cancer at the age of 66.
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 Cleethorpes 54
Mad Roger and Windy Ted volunteered to empty the bus and were soon happily occupied heaving sodden sackbags in all directions.
Apparently, when Mad Roger was a child he often used to pay in the yard of an animal by-products factory near where he lived.
Mad Roger informed him that they had come to collect a trolleybus and was asked in return "Can't you do it quietly?" The answer to this was "It is Sunday morning and we're singing hymns".
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 "The Broadcast Legends Home Page - Roger Grimsby"
That Roger Grimsby celebrated his 18th anniversary with WABC-TV on June 1, 1984 is testimony to his winning approach, journalistic skill and unique delivery.
Roger also was the only American news anchor in 1977 to visit and report on South Africa's racial and political strife, following the tumultuous summer of 1976, His WABC-TV documentary, "The Voices of South Africa," garnered two 1978 New York area Emmy Awards for "outstanding documentary program" and for "individual craft.
Roger Grimsby passed away from lung cancer on Friday, June 23, 1995 at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City.
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 The Big Apple: Hoping your news is good news
Roger Grimsby was the face of Eyewitness News from 1968 to 1986, famous for his catchphrase, “I’m Roger Grimsby, here now the news”, with a generally serious demeanor, though he could have fun.
Roger Grimsby, whose commanding delivery and acerbic wit as the anchor of “Eyewitness News”; at WABC=TV in New York helped redefine local television news, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
Grimsby became the center of an innovative style of presenting the news that came to be labeled “happy talk,” though the anchors regarded that description as derisive and, Mr.
www.barrypopik.com /article/516/hoping-your-news-is-good-news   (327 words)

  
 Police Brutality, TV, by Lew Irwin - CJR, Sept/Oct 91   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Grimsby, who went on to become anchor at WABC-TV in New York and is now retired, was addressing a meeting of California Press broadcasters.
In his speech Grimsby said that earlier that year he had been allotted funds to hire an additional news crew and that he had decided to use it to cover San Francisco at night.
Grimsby told his audience that, during their very first week in the field, the crew picked up a police call about a drug deal in progress in the Haight-Asbury area.
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 The Dog's Breakfast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For those who may be too young to remember, Beutel and Roger Grimsby on Eyewitness News in NYC in the '70s were the FIRST of the ad libbing, wry news anchors.
Grimsby was the wiseass, Beutel the serious voice of reason who often couldn't help but break-up at his partner's irreverent comments.
The camera immediately shot to Beutel, who delivered a swift apology, and that was the end of Tex. Grimsby was fired in 1986 and died of lung cancer in 1995.
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 News Search: grimsby job - WebFetch.com
Grimsby boss Russell Slade goes into Sunday's League Two play-off final against Cheltenham not knowing where he or his team will be next season.
Grimsby narrowly missed out on automatic promotion on the final day of the season, having rarely been out of the top three all year, but
Grimsby but if he sticks with the team that beat Wycombe, then I won't be playing." CURTIS WOODHOUSE has threatened to dish out a good hiding to
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 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Rest in print
But after the tribute was over, they had the near-tears anchor, followed by a phone call with the current anchor, followed by even more tributes, to the point that if it wasn’t for the weather segment, it would have gone on and on and on.
Grimsby was always the one with the wise-ass remarks, either towards Rona Barrett or Howard Cosell, while Tex Antoine had his own schtick with Uncle Weatherbee, and (unfortunately for Tex), a bad sense of what type of joke to tell viewers at his on-air birthday party.
Buetel was the straight man to all of this, and all the tributes I’ve seen said he was a nice guy off-camera, which is probably why he got such a lengthy tribute on Ch.
www.buzzmachine.com /index.php/2006/03/20/rest-in-print   (913 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Longtime anchor Beutel dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Al Primo, the news director at the time, recalled how he tried to pair several different newsmen with anchor Roger Grimsby before someone suggested Beutel, who was working in London.
Bill's great strength was he was able to provide that quick retort to Roger's delivery and do it with style and sense of humor.
Beutel and Grimsby stayed a team for 16 years, dominating the ratings, and Beutel stayed at WABC long after Grimsby was canned.
www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/v-pfriendly/story/401054p-339768c.html   (335 words)

  
 WABC's Bill Beutel dies at 75 - AM New York
For 16 of those years, he was paired with the wry and legendary Roger Grimsby, who died in 1995.
His iconic pairing with Grimsby on the program, with its reporters reflecting the city's diversity and its dramatic Lalo Schifrin-penned music theme, was an immediate hit with viewers.
Grimsby and Beutel anchored during some of New York's darkest, crime-filled days.
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 Late Final: Comment on Where Have You Gone, Roger Grimsby?
My husband and I were talking tonight and we were wondering what happened to Roger Grimsby.
Roger was OUTSTANDING, He Left us to soon, I miss his wit and charm.
Bill and Roger were as much a part of NY as any of the landmarks.
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 WABC-TV -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For eighteen years, the late Roger Grimsby was the face of Eyewitness News.
He was known for his opening tagline, "Good Evening, I'm Roger Grimsby, here now the news" and his closing line, "Hoping your news is good news, I'm Roger Grimsby." His April 16, 1986 firing by Applegate drew considerable fire, and he was quickly hired by rival WNBC.
His most famous partner at the anchor desk was the late Bill Beutel, who had previously worked at WABC from 1962 to 1968 and spent two years at the network's London bureau.
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 Bill Beutel; A stylish 'Eyewitness News' originator; 75 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Beutel's tenure at “Eyewitness News”; stretched from 1970 to 2001, his on-air personality was most strongly defined in the first 16 years, during which he was anchor opposite the wry and sometimes acerbic Roger Grimsby, who died in 1995.
Several anchors were tried opposite Grimsby, but all were consumed by his overpowering personality, said Albert T. Primo, who was then the director of news and public affairs for WABC-TV.
Beutel remained the steady counterweight, describing himself in a 2003 interview as “kind of the censor” for Grimsby.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060323/news_1m23beutel.html   (580 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - Pinnacle: Al Primo: Making the News New Again - June 4, 2000
ROGER GRIMSBY, ANCHOR: Good evening, I'm Roger Grimsby.
SCHUCH: Primo was the creator of eyewitness news, a style, a concept, that almost overnight made television news friendlier and made Primo and the ABC television network very, very rich.
ROGER MILLER, REPORTER: Flying over the Jersey shore, Robert Miller, Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
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 A Question Which Might Not Have Been Asked . . .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It is known that Chevy, by his own admission, had patterned his "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not" sign-on tag from "Weekend Update" as a reaction to New York local news anchor Roger Grimsby's "Here now the news" opening (although, ironically, Jane Curtin would open "Updates" with Mr.
Grimsby's sign-on within a few years of her taking over the anchor duties upon Mr.
Chase's departure from "SNL"); the question on my mind, though, is: Does anyone out there know how or where his closing "Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow" (subsequently used by Ms.
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 Roger Grimsby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Roger Grimsby
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 About Weekend Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On 'Weekend Update' I was being a newscaster, I was being Roger Grimsby, actually.
Grimsby, and here now the news." One of the strangest pieces of syntax I've ever heard in my life: "And here now the news." But I knew I should
And on the fourth show, it just came out: "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not." And that was it.
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 San Marcos (fictional) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In exchange for the aid it requests from the United States, San Marcos can offer locusts at popular prices, as well as women.
After the assassination of the president – reported live by Howard Cosell, Roger Grimsby and Don Dunphy - General Emilio M Vargas seizes control.
Guerrilla leader Esposito ousts Vargas with the help of New York consumer products tester Fielding Mellish (Allen).
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 Roger Moors (Sucrologist)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roger Moors (Grimsby's Delivery Office Manager) has a some what unusual hobby.
He's a "Sucrologist" or in other words a collector of sugar cube wrappers, or sugar sachets.
Roger has many hundreds of wrappers in his collection, and has been collecting since the early 1970's.
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 Famous Denfeld Alumni Duluth Minnesota G-L
: Roger became a news reporter and anchor for such monster TV satations as WABC in New York and KGO in San Francisco.
Roger also appeared on such TV shows as THE EQUALIZER (1988), TO TELL THE TRUTH and RYAN'S HOPE (1975).
Roger's broadcast career started at WEBC in Duluth.
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 TV Week
He first appeared on-air for WABC in 1962 on "The Big News." He frequently contributed to ABC News and co-anchored "AM America," the short-lived forerunner to "Good Morning America," in 1975.
Beutel was the network's London bureau chief for two years before returning in 1970 to try his luck where numerous others had failed: as the co-anchor who could hold his own next to the sardonic Roger Grimsby on "Eyewitness News."
Beutel stepped down from the ABC flagship station's anchor desk in 2001 but continued to report for WABC until he retired in 2003.
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 Gothamist: Bill Beutel, 1931-2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Or maybe it was just wishful thinking and after all those years with Roger Grimsby, he was simply hoping his news was good news.
He was certainly the elder statesman of Eyewitness News, maybe even all of NYC broadcast news.
The funny thing is that when he first started on Eyewitness News, I thought he was the young turk come to upstage Roger Grimsby.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2006/03/19/bill_beutel_193.php   (783 words)

  
 Tulsa TV Memories Guestbook 107
He was in great voice...still has the high register, though he did complain in jest that if he had known he would be singing these songs 25 years later, he would have written some in a lower key.
In case anyone is unaware, David Gates is a Tulsa Rogers graduate (in the same class as Russell Bridges, aka Leon Russell), and cut his musical teeth here in Tulsa, backing most of the rock 'n roll acts that came through in the late 50's/early 60's.
He had been with Roger Grimsby way back when Al Primo first came up with Eyewitness "happy talk" News.
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 Chevy Chase: Trivia!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He spends up to five hours a day practicing.
was inspired by New York news anchor Roger Grimsby to create his now-famous "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not" opening line?
Grimsby's line was "I'm Roger Grimby and here now the news."
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 WNYC - News - Bill Beutel Dead at 75
NEW YORK, NY March 20, 2006 —Bill Beutel, the news anchor for WABC-TV for more than 30 years, has died.
Beutel was known as an calm and accessible on-air personality who was best known for his rapport with longtime co-anchor Roger Grimsby.
His trademark sign off -- "Good luck and be well" -- closed the network's local newscasts for more than 30 years.
www.wnyc.org /news/articles/58247   (123 words)

  
 This is going to be BIG! - My 50 Favorite Movies -- Ghostbusters (1984)
Nice cameo by local anchorman Roger Grimsby, too...
I remember Grimsby and Bill Beutel every night at dinner on Channel 7.
Little details that just make the whole thing a little more authentic...well, as authentic as you can get a movie about catching ghosts.
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 Warsailors.com :: Ship Forum :: Fishing Vessel OPHIR ll (Grimsby)
Warsailors.com :: Ship Forum :: Fishing Vessel OPHIR ll (Grimsby)
I am trying to trace any information in respect of the above vessel on board which I understand my Great Uncle, Cyril Denison, Second Engineer, perished on the 7th September 1941.
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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 DVD WORLD: Bananas (DVD)
Stars: Louise Lasser, Woody Allen, Charlotte Rae, Carlos Montalban, Howard Cosell, Roger Grimsby, Don Dunphy, Conrad Bain
Woody Allen’s second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships.
The "DVD WORLD" Name and Design Are Either Trademarks or Registered Trademarks Of DVD WORLD Pictures Corp., A Division of The DVD WORLD Company.
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 PHXnews.com | Kerry Gets Standing Ovation from Veteran Group
Presidential Candidate John Kerry's recent appearance drew a standing ovation from some of the audience last night.
"Almost brought tears to my eyes !",said Roger Grimsby.
Handy and Grimsby were part of a veteran group in attendance:all Senior Puppetmasters,with "over 100 years experience",according to member Louis Di Natale.
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 football-books.com - A-Z index by author
Haynes, Keith and Phil Sumbler - Roger Freestone: Another Day at the Office (2001)
Lincoln, Bob and Michael Robinson - Reminiscenses of Grimsby Town FC 1879-1912 (2003)
McCartney, Iain - Roger Byrne: Captain of the Busby Babes (2000)
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