Digg it!5. Chet Huntley and David Brinkley: Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night for NBC News
Popular nightly signoff of NBC news anchor superstars Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.
Chet Huntley said good night to David Brinkley for the last time on July 31, 1970 with the hope that “There will be better and happier news, one day, if we work at it.”
John Chancellor and Frank McGee joined David Brinkley the following week on August 3rd with a new rotating nightly news format.
4. Dave Garroway: Peace
This signoff was used by Dave Garroway, early host of the TODAY SHOW on NBC beginning in January 1952.
He would raise his hand and utter the single word.
He started out a disk jockey and started out in TV with a variety program GARROWAY AT LARGE/NBC/1949-51. This is also where he first used the sign off ‘Peace’.
He left Today in 1961 saying his famous sign off for the last time.
Arsenio Hall paid tribute to Garroway by using the same sign off in his talk show Arsenio Hall Show.
4. Dennis Miller: That s the news and I am outta here.
The hit closing remark of satirist Dennis Miller when hosted the “Weekend Update” (1985-90) on the NBC’s late night comedy Saturday Night Live and later on his HBO program Dennis Miller Live.
3. Charles Osgood: See you on the radio.
Perhaps one of the most popular sign off of a journalist.
Charles Osgood hosed a CBS radio and television show. He wrote a book “The Osgood Files” that served as a compilation of his best ideas, poignant thoughts and humorous observations.
2. Edward R. Murrow: Good night and good luck.
“Good night and good luck” has already been turn into a movie. This was popularized by veteran newscaster Edward R. Murrow who began his career reporting via radio the events of the Blitz in London during World War II.
His also hosted the Person to Person show in CBS, See It Now.
One of his most shining moments on TV was his commentary on the simultaneous telecast of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: “We are impressed by a medium through which a man sitting in his living room has been able for the first time to look at two oceans at once.”
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