RetroCirq

Direct rip from yours truly, a WNBC Open from 1995

From yours truly, a forecast from Dick Albert and more from NewsCenter5, WCVB in Boston.

A Promo for ET and a preemption notice from MWC.

[ATTACH=full]2444[/ATTACH] Anybody want a bowl of Scripps brand cereal? This is from WXYZ's brand new morning promo. The show is likely being converted back to a traditional 2 anchors with Weather and Traffic together format after having been expanded in April to include a live center and social media component... That conversion effort fell very very flat...

 

I'll upload the full promo later...

Is it part of our complete breakfast?

Whoopi is under contract until 2016 however, ABC owned stations and affiliates have long term contracts to air Kelly & Michael at 9am. Ben Sherwood wants a third hour of Good Morning America but doesn't mind it being detached from the main two hours, so here's a solution:

Let The View run through the end of next season then in fall 2016, ABC News can give the hour over to Good Morning America to run a third hour with some quick news hits and a lot of celebrity interviews and cooking. Have it go out live at 10am eastern and tell affiliates they can air it at 10am or 11am, depending on syndicated contracts they have. For the 8am hour sign off just have the anchors say "Good Morning America continues later this morning right here on ABC..."

Maybe but that would be overkill....

Let's play programming exec....

 

What would you do?

The only stipulation is you cannot give back the hour to local.

 

My decision would be to beg Baba to come back in a final "hail mary" attempt to milk that thing to the end of the big contracts.

3yr maximum.

 

What would the rest of you do?

This may sound nuts...but since game shows, soaps and syndicated shows are out of the question, my guess is the View can take advantage of its ABC News production unit and have the show go as a straight hard news program. A la Nightline.

Or show reruns of 20/20's umbrella shows, "What Will You do?" That brings in the 18-49 Women demographic. And it serves as a good lead in to the midday news.

By the way, if anyone curious to find out the extended theme, search the title track "Explorers" on the killer tracks' search engine. It's a good track. By the way, as a native new yorker, it's been years since i've seen this open. I hit the jackpot on accident after searching for a different station and year. Oh the years when i was young watching Jim Ryan and the "good day gang". Seeing the open brought back the distant memory I had remembered.

 

Good Day New York Dec. 1993 open (with the controversy surrounding the EMS and then mayor-elect Guiliani) with the Kalehoff classic "Good Day" theme.

 

Part 2 into the continuation of the controversy

Man, I'm not a NYer, but when I do watch that particular open it feels that you are watching a NY program, as opposed to today's shell of its former self.

Boston TV News and Commercials from 1982

(mostly WCVB, WBZ and WNEV)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbfqq0i_XK4

WCBS "It's 2" Promo. Starts at the 5 minute mark:

The biggest irony is that, this is a LOCAL image campaign which has the budget/feel of a NATIONAL campaign. (Can you believe the same year this was when CBS had "TV You Can Feel (aka You can Feel it on CBS)??" If only the network had the cojones to use it as the NATIONAL promo who knew it would give ABC and NBC a run for its money. :bang:

WTVJ Noon Newscast 12/29/1988:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-vqSzDsggo

(Man, if only WFOR went with that look)

WCVB NewsCenter 5: Dick Albert Retiring Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ccsdBYtuE

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEivnPniNCw

Courtesy of tvnutboy

ABC News Viewpoint: The Day After

The Live discussion show that aired after the 1983 movie.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7yopzWVFtU

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb9D6cmbEao

Courtesy of FuzzyMemories.tv

1980 WOR weathercast:

 

If you click through to this dude's channel, he has a bunch of network stuff, too, mostly around elections.

It's actually WNEW [current FOX WNYW]

KCOP Real News [scoped Aircheck from vsn plus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTk9fwpOGVM

Bill O'Reilly on WCVB NewsCenter 5 in 1986:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKI6EXw3Fco

A [VSN Plus] Exclusive

WBZ-TV Eyewitness News (Walker/Willams Era)[10/86]:

This comes courtesy of MSTS1 and it includes the commercials intact.

Part 1 (Joined in Progress, no intro)

Part 2:

There's more to come....

I saw it. That was really cool.

 

Now to my stuff...

 

1991 WTVZ ID and Sign-On (with a cool guitar solo at end of sign-on...and SOMEBODY yawning 33 seconds in)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMavt_FfKvo

By the way...the music before the sign-on was the promo campaign "Don't Let Fox Weekend Pass You By!" Here's the full video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNSRfa80xA

News open montage from various stations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyng7J71cyo

That's from Vol. 10 of E. Kimmell's News Potpurri.

Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster from MSNBC/MSTS1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_bdSKEG3s

Reposts from eyeontv:

Come Home to NBC 1987 [FV/HQ]

WJLA "News7 at 5" Open from 1984:

(I have it also from a trade)

WUSA "Get Ready Diner" 1990:

Sales Presentation from WTVJ in 1988:

WCVB NewsCenter 5 1992 Open:

Promo for KCOP's Real News from 1993:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4YPGN_k7o

Steve Edwards on KTLA's 40th Anniversary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v0M6ZXHanI

Courtesy of yours truly.

I think you meant fox2, not channel2.

Chroma Cues isn't cheesy. WJZ has used it for over 20 years and I think it's better than some of the 615 crap.

I'm not from B-more, but I find the Chroma Cues news theme very cool, considering it was written by Bruce Upchurch (writes jingles for JAM, JonesTM and did a news package for WRC-TV)

jesus christ. Um, Your #1 Source for Cheezy News Music!

That theme has been around for a while. So, I wouldn't consider it to be "cheezy!"

WJZ News Open from 1991 (Rarely seen Open):

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WCBS News Break from around 1984 [it's part of the 80s commercial batch I have]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqyYt5gmV38