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WJW FOX 8 is welcoming back Tom Meyer, Carl Monday, and Tom Merriman as contributors to FOX 8 News I-Team. Combined, the three investigative reporters have 130 years of experience and 156 Emmy awards to the station. All three reporters start Monday.

Some KWTV goods. This is the TV9 I remember growing up with before moving north. (And we won't discuss my mother's seeming infatuation with Mitch Jelniker...)

From June 5, 1994, WWL and then-ABC station WVUE's 10 PM newscasts: Continuing with that vintage New Orleans flavor, here's a partial WDSU Newscenter 6 at 10 PM from August 5, 1985 (courtesy jacky9br): Another partial newscast, this one a 6 PM WWL Eyewitness News edition from January 13, 1984 (again from jacky9br): From an overnight rebroadcast, a full edition of WDSU's 10 PM news from November 7, 1994: A pre-Katrina WWL newscast from April 22, 2005: WWL's Eyewitness News Nightwatch from Super Bowl 26 eve, 1992: And a WWL 10 PM newscast from April 4, 2002:

No news opens featured, but a couple stories about Ronnie Speeks, a local East Tennessee singer and Elvis tribute artist Ronnie Speeks. Featured at 2:07 is anchor Elisa Jaffe who would go on to host a local show on KOMO for a number of years. FYI: Elisa Jaffe's first television job was at WATE-TV, Knoxville in the 1980s and on her Facebook page, she shares a photo collage of her time at WATE. But wait...there's more. Here is a rare look at Idaho television news at the end of the decade with a full KBCI newscast. It features an interesting "Action News" logo and *NEWS OPEN*. The year: 1979. You may notice longtime WLEX news anchor Alan Cutler in the sports anchor chair. This was one of his earlier gigs before hitting it big in Lexington, KY at WLEX-TV. Now, wait just a minute...we have another sighting. This time, from KBYU-TV, the PBS station. Their newscasts were known as "Newsroom 11" and their theme: Bob James' "The Golden Apple." Not too long after the newscast was recorded, their newscast became...."Weeknight."

Ever wanted to hear Doug Paul do am impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

WJLA ends the day in March of 1980, using the same audio used in the already unearthed 1986 sign-off, but with a mention of the TV Code at the begining. Also preceding the sign off is the outro to their Late Great Movie using very late 70's graphics and music, plus a brief community affairs interview segment (which I assume also aired at sign-on):

Some commercials from WTLV using their 2nd TVbD look: BTW, I'm Facebook friends with the guy who gave Channel 37 this tape (he's also given some material, mostly Jacksonville & Florida clips, to NewsActive3, who I'm also Facebook friends with now!).

A rare WVIT newacast from 1981.

Incorrect, that is In-Sink - V.1 to be specific.

In case you don't know the lyrics....

The Omaha-fest continues: KETV's Newswatch 7 Update from March 1980 using a long cut of News People! Another Newswatch 7 update, from 12/31/79: KETV had introduced News People by early 1978. (The original station was KGTV San Diego)

WNCN 11/21/1998 (re-broadcast of the 11pm show)

No ownership mention—probably because NBC had already bought WTVJ at this point... Here's a New Year's rarity: the Final Edition pre-signoff newscast, with its own open!!, from KOLN-KGIN on January 1, 1985. The close mentions "10/11 Strong". The signoff follows, with the National Anthem by the Scarlet and Cream Singers and a visual mention of the employees' IBEW local. Right before cutting the carrier, KOLN itself throws up an even earlier logo slide:

WTVJ/Miami Sign Off (July 1988)

An excerpt of the Satellite News Channel from New Year's Day 1983. SNC was a short-lived CNN competitor from ABC and Group W; it was eventually bought by Ted Turner and "merged" with CNN (it effectively closed down): Happy New Year!

If you were to show me this as like one of those question-on-the-street types of questions, I would've chosen WLS any day over WBBM at this era.

In my opinion this is probably one of the best titles someone had ever given such a special.

Never seen this before: Interesting 1987 interview of President Reagan by the network anchors: Dan, Peter, Tom and Bernard.

Sinclairs Dayton old building..has actually been abandoned a while. Hmmm

WJBK 12/13/94 2 days after the switch from CBS to FOX.

WYFF from 1993!!!! 2 months later they would go JCBD.

Classic Inside Edition from 1990. LONG close of their first Kalehoff theme. (DOWNLOAD WHILE YOU CAN) EDIT: Just discovered an even longer one (I think it’s virtually the entire closing cut). If you can make it through the animatronics, you’re golden.

From Phoenix, several KPNX news updates and teases recorded just before the 1991 Gulf War:

WICU Erie NewsCenter 12 (10/1992)

WAVY's 11:00 The Daily News for May 17, 1989:

A bit of a diversion, but Smith is apparently kind of legendary (he got a nice union award some time back)... He also is the voice of political ads for Republicans in all 50 states and Guam and has been doing political ads for 44 years.

KDVR had a pretty unremarkable history from the time it signed on the air in 1983 until when it became a Fox O&O in 1995 and started a news department in 2000. But this promo theme from 1987 back when they branded as "TV-31" is, uh, a sign of the times. The station's first logo as seen here is also rather unusual too:

Some footage of a young Scott Pelley working as a reporter at WFAA in Dallas (1980s):

Don't think I've seen a non NBC station use that NBC style of Helvetica in its Chyrons (the slightly expanded letters that were used on just about everything that originated in Burbank or NY for a while). I'm guessing it wasn't unique to NBC - they just used it a lot - from KNBC to Scrabble to NBC News to Late Night.

Some WXYZ stuff from 1979: A WFSB 11pm newscast from 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=TeUqalyztUM;t=328

Here's the tail-end of ABC's 1978 primetime election coverage, anchored by Frank Reynolds, followed by Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly, and the beginning of Eyewitness News at 10. Note the mention of the election of a new Arkansas governor, some young kid named Clinton. No word on what became of him. (WLS, 11/7/1980)

Follow up from above, as the season (and the station's time with the Cubs) is about to end.

In memoriam of the late Ed Hopkins: