Celebrating 70 Years of ABC7
70 Years of ABC7: Van Amburg, the 1970s and a TV news revolution
Van Amburg and the rest of the Channel 7 News Gang put on their cowboy outfits and rode into San Francisco Bay television sets in the 1970s, creating an iconic TV commercial that created buzz on the level of today's viral videos and launching a decade of the some of the highest ratings in the entire country.