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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?)

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:

WFLA sportscast from 1989 with popular but polarizing sportscaster Chris Thomas:

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.

WJLA News 7 at 11:00 (October 3, 1993) WLWT News 5 at 11:00 (October 13, 1992)

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):

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)

WNYW Good Day NY, 2/11/1999

WOIO CBS 19 News at 11:00pm, 10/11/1996 KDKA Eyewitness News at 11:00 pm, 2/27/1996 WCAU Channel 10 News at 11:00pm, 9/20/1991

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})

A rare 1996 clip of a WMAQ "Olympic Newsbreak" aired during the Atlanta Olympics:

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

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.

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

An odd 10 second TV station ID from KBSI-TV, Ch. 23 (Fox), Cape Gireadeau, MO, ca. 1990. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmXxWFJ5Nk The guy running the channel that the above clip is on (That Random Oshawott) has been uploading a bunch of extremely rare stuff from the Cape Gireadeau, MO\Carbondale, IL\Paducah, KY TV market (WSIL-TV, WPSD-TV, KFVS-TV & KBSI-TV.) from the early-mid 80's-90's & later recently. EDIT: For some reason, I can't get the video to embed.

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:

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.

A funny video from WXFL/WFLA in Tampa Bay (mid to late 1980s), where anchor Bob Hite mocks and dances to the theme music of Miami Vice. Includes appearances from Bill Ratliff and Gayle Sierens.

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):

25 years ago today, The WB Television Network launched. It was the first of the two eventual predecessors of The CW to launch in January 1995, five days before the United Paramount Network (UPN) made its debut. Here's a look at the commercials that aired during the network's first night (as seen on WLVI in Boston): ...and a couple of teaser commercials for the network's launch:

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.