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Now this a gem from Cleveland's Own Newscenter8.

I just watched the GMA interview the FL couple. Why on earth did they choose to conduct the interview with the streetside window behind the couple?

Fancy car no less... Uber X level service... neat...

Looks like somebody was watching Anthony Ponce.

KOVR 13 in Sacramento had a nearly identical set and graphics package beginning in April of ‘87 and lasting until maybe November of that same year if my memory serves me right. Video of that branding is pretty much nonexistent on the web. If anybody has any tape, please post! They eventually got a KCOP rip-off logo changed the graphics and tweaked the set a bit.

There's another one of these somewhere on the internet...or at least there was (same open animation). I believe it might even have been on TV-Ark somewhere (it was definitely not in great quality). So I'd known that this existed, but I hadn't seen another copy of it. The rarity is accentuated by the fact that Trebek only did this gig from January to May of 1987. In an interview he did that fall for People, Trebek wasn't quite happy with VTV:

Savannah did NN tonight from the Winter Games. Interesting, was Lester sick?

Horrific.

Thank you so much, 24994J! This certainly answers a lot of questions.

I'll answer over here... https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?threads/the-definitive-abc-7-thread.12805/page-119#post-203014

The following 1983 WLS newscast is really interesting; it's from the On Your Side era and features extensive coverage of the mayoral election that took place the following day. And because it's an in-studio recording, it includes conversations during commercial breaks: I've always liked the On Your Side era, but since it was short-lived and was followed by another anchor reshuffle, I presume WLS experienced declining ratings at the time. Does anyone know more about this time in the station's history? And the timing has always confused me -- the KABC-like set was introduced before Joe Ahern joined the station, right?

That mystery guy strikes again in this KSFY promo from 1997, and we finally get to see the ABC version of the Ellis/EQ Vance look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Fow50aYwAwk;m=3;s=8 And at long last, the full Kelo-Land News open with First News/Nowhere Else:

Another puppy on the today show, starting monday

...And here's the rest of that newscast...

WLS, Chicago; 1979; 10 p.m. (w/ extensive coverage of the Freeze of '79):

Yep, Jerimiah has several accounts. Remember when I posted the WPVI clips from 3/1/00 and WABC from right after 9/11? The accounts those came from (homebeerman and inspector squirrel) are also his.

That VTV open has some seriously impressive compositing work. Whoever made that got their money's worth out of their ADO! (and yes, it's just as weird for me seeing Alex Trebek in a role like that...)

Yeah, "The Morning Program" was an utter disaster. Seriously, Bob Saget doing comedy on a morning news program? What the hell was CBS smoking? No wonder Rolland fled for WWOR (where he had to do Universal Studios Florida's Kongfrontation, and that was actually MORE dignified!) And.... Alex Trebek as an infomercial host? Wha...? At least he had experience for all those Colonial Penn and Hooked on Phonics infomercials he's been doing since the late 90s. And Meredith Macrae! While she was better known as a talk show host, she did do at least one game show pilot, the unsold 1985 Bob Stewart pilot $50,000 a Minute, as co-host with her Mid-Morning LA partner Geoff Edwards! (It was pitched to ABC, but they likely didn't take it because after Family Feud ended, they kinda lost interest in any daytime games, and any they did they only put in half-hearted efforts.)

These two are not local news but they are worth your time. I must admit, today I learned what "The Morning Program" was. And this...just watch a bit of it. At least the open.

Yes, that's Total. No, KTVX didn't commission it. (One or two short newspaper articles from 1993 mentioned Non-Stop making music for WCBS.) Also, Jeremiah's channel has other stuff on it (in fact, a variety of markets are represented):

Cool. Sticking with the WOWT clip, the uploader has more - including a WJLA 1984 newscast (must’ve been after Wes joined them, and they were about to debut the ugly red set, unless this was after). They still have the ‘83 Theme during breaks:

That production track is called "Flash", by Keith Mansfield, and was used as the theme for the 1983 pilot of Press Your Luck (when the series landed, they replaced it with an original theme from Lee Ringuette that sounded vaguely similar):

While I posted CKVR's "VRLand News" the other day, I think it's worth putting into context how... out of character that look was for them! The 1990 open is new. In the mid-80s, CKVR used this pulsating ditty that is a production track (it was at least used by the UK's Channel 4). This is the new material - an open from 1990: This theme, with one or two graphical variations, was used from 1991/92 through to the VRLand change:

Former KVIA and KTAB meteorologist-turned “gogo dancer” Stephen Decatur calls out GM and anchors at KVIA. http://elpaso411.com/2018/02/former-kvia-meteorologist-explains-fallout-calls-out-news-team/

Just filmed on the NBC set.