"Live on City Line" was a local program which aired on WCAU-TV, Channel 10 for a short while during late 1987 and early 1988. The hosts of the show were Sheela Allen-Stephens and a guy who "recently" joined the Channel 10 staff, 29 year-old Matt Lauer who later went on the host "The Today Show" on NBC Television.

Matt Lauer grew up in New York City and watched John Zacherle in "The Big Apple." It's obvious from watching our clips that Lauer was a fan of Zacherley, his moniker in NYC. Yes, it's spelled correctly. Zacherle's last name has no Y but his air name did. Go figure.

This show aired from 5 pm to 5:30 daily and the date of this particular broadcast is somewhere from these four dates, Monday, October 26th to Thursday, October 29th. Our best guess is that it is the Wednesday, October 28, 1987 program. We have three clips from that telecast.

In October of 2016, we updated the type of Real Video file so that it would play on all modern Real Video Players. At that time, we also added the Windows Media Format to our page.

Clip One!
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Watch in Windows Media!

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