Sports in the 1970s were rife with tragedy and triumph. Here, she announces to viewers that she'll be leaving NBC for ABC, where she'd be hosting the evening news alongside Harry Reasoner, earning $5 million over. In the 1970s, pioneering TV journalist Barbara Walters became the first woman to be named an official co-host of the 'Today' show and the first woman to co-anchor an evening news program. Walk a block or so on any big city street, you’de see women wearing Indian block-print bedspread dresses, tight tie-dye T-shirts and hip hugger jeans, afros, boots that hooked up the front, long calico dresses, rose-printed black-challis dirndl skirts, maxi coats, and. “The year 1970 was a year with no predominant look.
