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Here's something to ponder: If Chris Cuomo had been promoted from newsreader to co-anchor of GMA when Diane Sawyer took over WNT (and he was passed over in favor of George), then all three of the major networks would have ultimately lost their morning show male co-anchors to sexual harassment complaints.

WCPO Channel 9: The Al Schottelkotte News open at the 2:39 mark. (December 29, 1981) WBZ News 4 at 11 (July 16, 1995)

Why would KUMV be uber-retro in 1991 (using the 1979 bird and N, notwithstanding that today's 6-feathered bird would have been 5 years old by then)?

Now, here's the old NewsCenter 3 for WHSV in 1987!

Here's one in Albany for the 6pm WNYT newscast back in 2000:

A couple notes. This is within the first month or so of News Series 2000 Plus' two decade run on WLS, though the station's top-to-bottom refresh was almost a year-long process. Early 1992: in-show graphics and lower thirds Fall 1992: WPVI-style opens and new theme, plus the move to the temporary set Jan/Feb 1993: New set and a few anchor changes Looks familiar, but this is a temporary set. The late 80's model was reconstructed elsewhere, while the new one for 1993 was being built. The easy was to tell is the wide branded panel behind the 2 anchors. The background on the hard set was narrower, so they could pull up the curtain to expose a green screen for reporter tosses. Also, the entire run of that set, from 1987 to 1992, featured only circle 7's on the walls. The placement of ''Eyewitness News' was a preview of what would be on the new set, just in the old model's dark blue, and not the much lighter shade of the new.

YouTube has all of CBS Moring Shows openings from 1961 to present day and a couple of things caught my eye… 1. I did not know Diane Sawyer was on the CBS morning program so long. I just thought she was there for like a year but from the video it seem she was a cohost for much longer. 2. Out of all the cohost of this program, I distinctly remember Rene Syler and Maggie Rodriguez taking them getting let go from the show the hardest. 3. I always said it was a huge mistake to fire Maggie and Harry to replace them with Erica and Chris. They were not that good and it was destined to fail. https://youtu.be/jTWV2lSeHvU

WRGB NewsCenter 6 New at 11pm (October 19, 1997)

Today Show (2003): Allied forces take over Baghdad: CNN (2002): End of Ground Zero cleanup ceremony. Was surprised to find the exact date the tragic site was finally cleared:

A few newscast airchecks I uncovered from Eastern NC. WNCT 11pm newscast from 2001 WCTI 11pm newscast, 2004 The latter half of a WNCT newscast from 2004, weeks away from switching over to the Media General 'crescent' graphics & Wall to Wall News. While the main set was getting a refresh, they were on the Fox 8/14 set temporarily with modifications... I think I figured out the reason for the odd handcuffs background. They were doing a heavy crime-focused series at the time, "Crime and Punishment" as mentioned by Marti Skold at the end of the broadcast.

CBS Sunday Night News, 3/3/1996 (with Russ Mitchell, off KIMA Yakima) KOAA 5/30 Eyewitness News at 6 (partial) 11/23/2001 KXRM Fox 21 News at Nine 11/12/2001, same day as the AA crash in Queens

KCOP, Los Angeles; 10 p.m., 1984:

Excellent response-- very informative! I take it then that these studios from 20/20 in the 80s w/Downs and Walters, and The Prudential College Football Report in 1986 w/Jim Nantz for CBS Sports, are also examples of masthead banners. Also, I'd like to know-- was CBS Sports' Studio 43 overhaul in 1981 (this Studio 43 of course also being used for CBS News at one time, on the CBS Morning News w/Kurtis and Sawyer) based on Roone Arledge's ABC idea?

You got it. 'Masthead' is what newspapers call their logo on the top of the front page. Banner well that seems like something you'd hang high up. I think Roone Arledge, who started the practice when he overhauled ABC NEWS, had some name for them - maybe it was banner or signage or something. I'm guessing in the KPIX case they saw KTVU had a plain beige masthead banner and used a world map for the center backdrop and was climbing in the ratings, so figured why not try that. Their prior masthead banner was an ABC NEWS knockoff with the black background.

"Masthead banner"-- that's a term I've never heard before. Are you referring to the part of the set that had the title of the broadcast (or the overall name of that station's news operation), much like would be on CBS Sports in Studio 43 in the 80s, when Brent Musburger was on The NFL Today, with The NFL Today title in the background on the set?

Here's a gold mine, opens from most of Benedek Broadcasting's stations from 1997, including some never before ones! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkX-g829SLg

KPIX Eyewitness News Nightcast April 1990 with a longish close of the 1988 Michael Karp package These graphics / the open were replaced later in the year by the avant garde lower thirds that replaced over the shoulder graphics And KGO March 1984 with the 1982-84 custom theme package KPIX December 1983 Nightcast (partial)

KPIX Eyewitness News Nightcast April 1987 - weekend. First time a full newscast from this era of KPIX music / graphics has been posted.

WTSP (ABC) from 9/10/94 with a CBS This Morning promo touting the program's switch from WTVT to WTSP which took place on 9/12/94. I also didn't realize The Price Is Right moved over well before the official switch on 12/12/94.

The only portion of Live's 9/11 episode I've seen was in the 9/17/01 episode intro in which aired clips of this. It was up on You Tube years ago. I wondered why they went ahead with the show. Was it because the studio audience was there, for west coast stations, or they expected to air this the following day? According to an interview with Kelly Ripa they did so with the assumption that they wern't pre-empted in other markets and they continued until stations across the country took over coverage.

Off the satellite feed, I see. As WABC was into live coverage, I doubt this got aired on any of their affiliate stations that day. Amazing to see this.

@8Viewer Odd but Interesting, WTEN an ABC affiliate using the CBS enforcer theme! Even more big name anchors filling in on the evening news: Ted Koppel in for Frank Reynolds: Connie Chung in for Peter Jennings: Katie Couric in for Tom Brokaw

Loma prieta quake 1989 coverage Oct. 17-18.

9/11/01: Live with Regis & Kelly featuring WABC news coverage

Here's a news pieces from Independent Network News and WNEW's PM Magazine from 1981 focused on early home satellite owner John Flynn, and it was even uploaded by John himself!

WLFI TV 18 Lafayette Live 1993 WNEP Newswatch 16 1994 WBAL 11 News Tonight 1995

It's the KAPP Local News Hour, taped December 2nd, 1998. Dana Cowley and Issa Arnita are the anchors: And a NEW find! About half of KNXV News 15 at 10, from February 28th, 1997, same day as the North Hollywood Shootout. If I recall, this is my first newscast find from Phoenix.

WBBM, Chicago; 6 p.m., 1985 (the Arlington Racetrack fire is the top story):

Couple of WVEC clips I just ran across From 1978, a story by Kathy Barnstorff on the Phoebus section of Hampton From 1987, local restaurant owner Nelson Fuller (interviewed in the 1978 piece) being interviewed by WVEC's Sherri Brennan

WNAC, Boston, 11 p.m. (rebroadcast), 1980:

About 280 unique entries in my collection of WLS opens, and this is one I've never seen before. The station had used, to my knowledge, little more than a flash of the logo over a wide shot of the set as an open until their WPVI-style 1992 revamp. This clip shows us something rather different. (12/27/78)

On a related note, a 1987 commentary by media critic Ron Powers on the ethics of showing a person's death on television:

In the foreign language US local market news theme category this ones a winner…it’s from their 80s “Window to the World” jingle package

During the 1994-5 affiliation switch in Phoenix, all of the four networks changed stations -- except NBC, which stayed on KPNX. Promos on KPNX emphasized the station's long-term connection to the network: The switch left KTVK without a network, KTVK became an independent and began to heavily promote its newly-forged relationship with CNN: Returning to KPNX, this promo features Willard Scott with Sean McLaughlin, then a meteorologist at KPNX, now an anchor at KPHO/KTVK:

Finding old clips of Spanish TV is like finding a needle in a haystack and today I found one of those needles. WXTV station ID and Reportar 41 open (1987) 1 NYEn Memoria de johanse' 1987 #15 VHS - YouTube

In this video, we have then-WBRZ General Manager John Spain explain why his news crew aired a story the way they did on a man who gunned down Jeff Doucet, who kidnapped Jody Plauche, at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in 1984...the murder was caught on the station's camera and anchor Ed Buggs (RIP) was the reporter. The murder led the 10 pm newscast, which starts at 3:50. The man arrested was later identified as Jody's father, Gary Plauche. It does beg the question: how would THIS be covered today? A good video on ethics in journalism...for 1984.

Just noticed that FOX "News" doesn't have a ticker right now-- have you noticed that?

Update the 17th will be her last day on air

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/chris-wallace-fox-news-channel-departure-1235131514/ Chris Wallace is leaving.