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WHEC/Rochester had the same news set as WNYT.

7 Australia and NBC have a lot of similarities so I'm not surprised

And the first to re-add the 7-9am portion on WWL-TV. They'd do so in a heartbeat.

Even if NBC (and ABC) drop 10pm programming and compete with Fox stations with newscasts, there's still plenty of dayparts where Fox can counter the networks with local news. Most notably, 7-9 am when Today and Good Morning America are on. NBC ties up 9-11am with even more Today and ABC stations are locked in at 11am with The View. CBS may be the first to drop morning news if they finally give up on the 7-9am hour after decades of failure. And WWL would have the last laugh!

I wonder why they decided to change the base to something that resembles the CTM desk?

Maybe now sales/marketing/creative service will get an idea of how hectic and busy the newsroom is when they go off sell or order stuff the newsroom must do before asking anyone "downstairs" if the logistics will work.

KATU channel 2 News 1985 WCNC Celebrating 55 Years!

Also from the same creator, a report on the explosive finale of season 3 of ST - as if it happened on CNN:

WCPO 9 News at 11:00 (April 12, 1987)

WJZ 1995 the big switch.

KTVK, Phoenix, 9 p.m., 2006:

Surprised to see ABC using the bulletin branding as late as 2004. I wonder when they completely dropped using that and just stuck to special report. Special Report is a little overused for repeating events such as the impeachment trial or January 6 hearings. The live coverage designation, like back in the day, would be better suited for such events.

Was going through some tapes and ran across this. It's most of the 6:00 WVEC 13 News for September 27, 1995 (about 5 and a half minutes in the first block got taped over by an episode of the tabloid show Extra, which I edited out); complete with Jim Kincaid's commentary ("Jim's Notes") To my knowledge other than an April 1, 1993 newscast that recently vanished from YouTube, I don't recall seeing any other full or mostly complete WVEC newscasts Jim anchored.

WSRE Newsline 23 1979

WMC-TV 1981

WTVF Eyewitness News at 6:00 open (August 11, 1980) WTVF Eyewitness News at 10:00 open (June 16, 1981)

Well, here's a full open from the same year (though someone cropped it a little too close):

Portion of a KUTV 1977 News Open (with Al Ham's On Top of It All... and you can see where Peru's Pantel got their influence from) It's worth nothing that there are several full KUTV newscasts from the late-70's available from the University of Utah archives, though you'd have to be on campus or request these tapes. https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv245086/

WBRC Fox 6 News at Noon (October 13, 2000)

Staying in Chicago, a WMAQ weekend newscast from 1979:

KRBC Big Country News Nightside (July 20, 1987)

Rebuilding Together: KDKA Eyewitness News Special, 1985 WTNH 1980 Action News 8 KTVK Total News 1980

WPEC 1979-80 Newscast/Clip

Near complete WIIC (now WPXI) Noon newscast from March 7, 1975.

WLNS TV 6 News 1983 WDIV News 4 Detroit 1983 WXYZ 7 Action News 1983 WZZM TV13 Eyewitness News 1983

KMSP Prime Time News promo and open (April 2, 1988) WPTA 21 Alive News at 5:00 (August 12, 1997)

Today Show clip and KGW News 8 Morning Update featuring an interpreter (October 29, 1982)

This week in history 5/11/81, Bob Marley died. One of the few pieces of coverage I could ever find. It's a surprisingly short obit considering Marley's magnitude. You wouldn't even realize that he died that long ago given how often his songs are played today. CBS Evening News:

Another day, another departure from WNYT. Jerry Gretzinger, who anchored the 4:00/4:30/6:00 newscasts, will be leaving the station as of March 11th after 4.5 years. Gretzinger is the tenth on-air personality to have left WNYT since December 2020, on top of longtime GM Steve Baboulis and several longtime photogs, and is the second departure this year after reporter/fill-in anchor Jacquie Slater left the business in January.

This set from WLBT was an interesting design. The set was designed by various teams in Jackson and was installed in 1995. A lot of the features with the images were removed from the set not long after the set debuted. The was a lot of emphasis on the locally-designed part of it, but it was a look that didn’t age well. Wednesday, June 28, 1995, The Clarion-Ledger, newspapers.com 1995 (original set as debuted) ~1996/1997 when the set was updated 1998-2002

WSVN Newsplex mid 1990s! Very CNN. It matched with their hard/tabloid news station format they were aiming for. Today (NBC) 1990. Gorgeous Manhattan apartment style set that was used from the mid 80s until Sep 1990. Love the window level view of the skyline, and the sunrise toned rainbow behind the anchors. The living room area was very detailed with various trinkets and pieces that make it look realistic as if it were going to be used for a soap or sitcom.

I like the set WBAY-TV 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin used in 1987 (when still with CBS) which was mostly white/gray with a blue world map background and red carpet. The world map background would survive a few makeovers in the 1990s (when they joined ABC) until it was retired with a completely new set in 2003.

The anchor changes at WNYT weren't the biggest news to come out of there today. Steve Baboulis, GM since 1996 and an employee of the station since 1977, is retiring. Steve is much of why WNYT went from also-ran to powerhouse and while his "it worked I the 90s" attitude has been a little detrimental as of late, this is a huge loss for a station that's had a rough year personnel wise.

Any idea as to who did the pre-1998 WEWS graphics?, it lasted until they got rid of the longtime "Circle 5" logo (which lasted for over 30 years) and replaced it with a new logo and graphics done by Novocom. They debuted the Novocom graphics around late April 1998. But according to a comment on YouTube, they kept the 1995 set until it was replaced in October that year.

Besides WBAY-TV, WTHR (pre-1997), WHP-TV and WGEM-TV, WICZ-TV in Binghamton, NY also used a variation of the "Balls and Walls" package before the switch to Fox in 1996.

Any idea who did the WEAU-TV news opens & graphics around the same time? (late 1990s)

Speaking of TVbD, their Vimeo page is still up!

Do you know which agency did the 1997 WCAU NBC10 news graphics & opens?, these graphics debuted in Fall 1997 after they dropped 615 Music's "Impact" (which they used since the affiliation switch to NBC in September 1995) and introduced a new theme ("NBC10 News Theme" by Eve Songs).

I'd like to know as well ... The 1999 WLBT package looks very similar as well. I'd almost say that it has a VDO vibe to it.

https://web.archive.org/web/19980110120633/http://tvbd.com/tvbd_news.htm "Balls and Walls" was TVBD and a second version was developed in the early 2000's for then-WOKR in Rochester. TVBD's site used to have a GREAT timeline of station work and packages.

WPVI knockoff on SNL from 2019:

Noticed a definite trend of TV stations converting a production studio into a "working newsroom" in the late 1970's. Some stations executed this better than others. WXIA seemed to have the best design out of these I could find. Does anybody know who consulted these stations? I'm sure this was an effort to make the newscast seem more "instant" and often relied heavily on electronic graphics. I know in the case of WLCY (WTSP) it was part of a broader effort to beef up that station's news department. I think the same set designer did the sets for WXIA, WLCY and WTHR. WXIA (1977) WLCY (1977) WCMH (1976) WTHR (1977)

Here is WKYC in 1976, just a few years off of their old TV3 look, with a set much like it's fellow O&Os. Much of the shakeup may have been due to Virgil Dominic, who worked at WKYC up to the 70's, but was recruited down to Atlanta to try and make something out of WQXI/WXIA (which would also become a Gannett station by way of Combined). He returned to Cleveland to launch NewsCenter8 which vaulted them to the top and along with NBC's waning fortunes sent WKYC in to desperation mode.

Two more of my favorite sets from then, both from ABC News on WNT-- the then-new Washington bureau w/the late Frank Reynolds (here seen on its debut broadcast, Mon. Nov. 2, 1981), and the Chicago bureau w/Max Robinson (one version that started in 1981, from the broadcast of May 23, 1983; and the other from the broadcast of July 13, 1983); also includes a shot of Ted Koppel in Washington on Nightline from 1986...

I always wanted to know who did this set back in the 80s for WJXT, WDIV, WSB & WTVF. The style was very modern for the 80s era and the last picture of WTVF they did change the anchor desk in the 90s.

For WJW there are these sets. The one who made these sets is a mystery.

This is pretty blatant as it gets. Someone in Italy likes the FOX Sports graphics

I'd like to know who designed the Gannett stations' sets, despite adding the "red white and blue" color to them.

Speaking of that design, I didn't realize how many tweaks that KABC set got over time (the second picture best representing what spread to WABC and WLS), and that it lasted for about a dozen years.

News Station gone from WSYR. Next stop...WIVT, the station using 17-year-old TVbD graphics? If there's any real bad sheep in that area of the country, it's WIVT. Seriously, those graphics are old (they blew KOTA out of the water years ago).