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Knowing the way revivals are big these days, I wouldn't be surprised to see Whose Line come back eventually, plus of how cheap it is to produce. Maybe ABC can give it another go alongside its other game shows.

I wonder if they’re preparing TV3 for election night? GMA weekend coming from Times Square the last few week where it should always be in my opinion.

I hope they stay in the Times Square studio permanently, the image on TV3 is horrible.

Ah yes the station were the weird 90's trend of having industrial scaffolding on your set lives on! (just why?)

Andrew Humphrey at FOX 13 Memphis.

Whose Line will film its 20th season in January, and 11th and final season for The CW...surprised at this one because it was reasonable and cost-effective to film, but obviously it wasn't going to stay on the Perry version of the network unless it filmed in Branson or some other cheap tourist hell.

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

Those graphics were also used in South Africa... ...and Australia:

More of Andrew Ball's take on the old-skool ABC O&O News Opens (KABC and WABC)

The WCNC Real News open sample on the NMSA comes from an open digitaldave1982 uploaded to YouTube years ago - I think it was dated 1990 or so, it's long gone unfortunately. There are a few clips of them using Real News on YT if you dig around.

KJAC 1981/2 Newscasts

WBRZ TV-2 Eyewitness News at 6:00pm (October 3, 1981)

Cool to see pre Roone Aldridge ABC News, back when CBS was king and NBC was a close compeditor. Moon landing coverage featuring Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Frank Reunolds and Howrd K Smith (1969).

WWJ (WDIV) The channel 4 News 1969

I have some WCNC clips from 1994, but they got purged by Vimeo - will have to hunt them down and re-post... Jim

Coverage of the Great Flood of '93 (continued from the post above) KBMT Eyewitness News updates, promos, and ID's (August 3, 1986)

Very rare stuff from KDKA and WTOV 1979

WCVB NewsCenter 5 Tonight Weekend (January 6, 1985) WRGB NewsCenter 6 11 at 11 (October 27, 1992) WNEW The 10 O'Clock News (January 22, 1986; starts at 15:32)

A behind the scenes tour of WBOC-TV, Ch. 16 in Salisbury, Maryland, circa 1960's.

WSPA Eyewitness News 1986 KSNW Newschannel 3 Nightbeat 1992 KBMT 12 News 1986 close 9/11 News coverage from Hartford/ New Haven, CT. (Mostly from WTNH)

WCBS-TV Channel 2 News at 11 from January 22, 1986 (starts at 9:00):

Here’s the link to the original KCBS full newscast- and the date is July 8, 1991, not April 4 (the Christopher Commission started in April 1991, and there’s no way they’d have everything wrapped up in a couple of days…) https://archive.org/details/kcbs-070891-11pm

KSAT 12 News Nightbeat (December 26, 2001) WSBK The 7 O'Clock News (September 10, 2001; one day before the 9/11 attacks) KBMT 12 News at 10:00 (December 5, 2001)

KENS 5 talent promo, January 1985.

KTXS Action News at 10:00 (February 21, 1993) KTPX Channel 9 News at 10:00 (April 17, 1989; starts at 7:03)

KTXL early 90s opens (from the studio master):

CNN's Newsnight on the day United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 en route from Denver to Chicago, crashed in Sioux City, Iowa:

That’s peak PVI—Jim, Marc & Lisa, Gary, Dave, Cathy and Nora

WPVI Action News at 11:00pm, 12/31/1999

A few things I noticed. One; I think this might be the first time a full newscast from the WOR era has surfaced (at least, that I'm aware of) and why does Bear look like he's about to...relieve himself in the image that the algorithms at YouTube have chosen for the thumbnail? Also ran across this today (mostly a group of commercials from an episode of Family Ties, but starts with a WAVY special report on a 3 alarm fire {don't recall seeing any local "special report" graphics from that era before})

WSYX 6 News 1992 WMAR 2 News at 6:30 9/9/01 WDIV News 4 Detroit 1988

Both are new overall. KIMA News Weekend Edition, New Year's Day 2006, with a younger Lisa Van Cise before she went to KING-5 and NWCN (Rick's daughter) An early appearance of Dana Cowley in the first couple minutes of KAPP 35's 11:00 Report, taped 1/16/1989 And a repeat posting from the old account: KBCI Idaho 2 News 10 at 10, 9/26/2002.

KTVU 10 O'Clock News 1978

Coverage of the Philadelphia snowstorm from all three Philly TV stations (January 25, 2000)

September 11 clips from Ames-Des Moines, Iowa. This is only Part 1 of an 8 part collection, some of which are rare.

Breifly at 15:35, Church Scarborough fills in for Brian Williams on Weekend Nightly News in 1995.

CBS New York tonight on streaming aired a one hour rebroadcast of the 6:00 newscast on the day after the blackout of '77, which happened 45 years tonight. At helm was Jim Jensen and Pre-ET/Roundball Rock John Tesh. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/a-look-back-major-blackout-hits-new-york-city-on-july-13-1977/

WBAY TV-2 Action News (February 4, 1986) KLBK CBS 13 News at 10:00 (October 10, 1999) WKYC Channel 3 News at 11:00 (Spring 1991) WXYZ 7 Action News at 11:00--the lead story is about Michael Jackson being booked on charges of child molestation. (November 20, 2003)

Revisiting the final years of the Oprah show, it's amazing how well produced it was in terms of aesthetic. Talk shows today look so washed out and cheap. The bright lighting has not helped declining budgets in the age of HD at all. Outside of the quality of the show Oprah generally had the best aesthetic look of all the talk shows at the time. The video walls here blend in nicely. I like how the producers use the portrait effect to blur the background. The lighting isn't too harsh and the high definition looks smooth. It's amazing how far things have gone downhill since 2010 for daytime TV.

The list of locally-produced sitcoms is, unsurprisingly, short. A lot of people in the TV business know of Park Street Under, the sitcom produced by WCVB that's believed to have inspired Cheers and is still remembered by Bostonians of a certain age. On the other hand, you have this: Hamtramck, a production of WDIV in Detroit. A disaster according to almost everyone, it caused the station to be inundated with phone calls from offended viewers, mostly from the Polish community. In fact, according to Mort Crim's memoir, word of the show and it's portrayals made it to Poland itself, and those Poles who heard of it also hated it. In fact, when Crim was on assignment there, his interpreter nearly deserted him when she learned that he worked for WDIV. She stayed on only after Mort and crew convinced her they had nothing to do with Hamtramck. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZiVLneyHRpQqQuEXlUgRZW8tasZIaEt/view

Here's how Portland's ABC station KATU signed off back in the day. This dates back to 1978-79, judging by the ID at the end.

1981 WVTM promo

Rare '81 NBC SportsWorld opening, w/Proud N and SportsWorld title in Serif Gothic

By October, the blue chroma key wall seen in the promo had been salvaged from the remains and transplanted over to the temporary conference room set while repairs were made on the burnt section of the building and a new set was being built:

I'm not positive, but I think The Disney Channel had their once-monthly maintenance periods for several years after going 24/7. Not sure if that remains the case today, but I know all the other premium networks still shut down for their maintenance once a month. The other day, I found this one from Showtime circa 1985/86 (not 1987, as in the video description):

An updated version of the Disney Channel's maintenance sign-off (spelling "interrupting" and "maintenance" correctly this time) was posted a few days ago:

This was found a couple days ago. This is a WTVD sign off from 1979. Previously, the audio sign off from the same year was available on tv-signoffs.com.

KTVO-TV, Ch. 3, Kirksville, MO-Ottumwa, IA, Rare EBS Test & Station ID, Circa 1992.

Bumping this up: long before social media provided the storylines of the daily serials at the click of a mouse or the press of a phone key, the networks then did their own promos for what was to come on the daily serials, and you never knew what would happen unless you followed those serials very closely. Here's a promo from May '81 for Another World (using NBC's Proud N and Serif Gothic promo font of the time):

We all know the classic 'HBO in space' theme but did you know there was an extended instrumental version of the said composition? This version was based off a cassette that was sent to radio stations to promo upcoming movie showings on HBO. There's also a vocal version of the said theme. To hear that, if you have a TVPMM account, you can log in + listen to 'HBO - feature presentation' under category "Movies". I feel like certain TV themes always had some sort of extended CD-esque releases in the 80s. Recently at work I heard (read: figured out) the full version of 'the greatest american hero' thru the sound system.