WWUpdate

CLTV, Chicago, 1997:

On 9/21/2017 at 10:00 AM, WWUpdate said:

 

This promo has reminded me of the sung segment open used by KTVK in the early years of Good Evening Arizona before extended CNN segments:

 

"Bringing you the world, we're the home of CNN!"

 

I wonder if that jingle has ever popped up on YouTube?

And the clip above means we now have this as well: https://youtu.be/aO22akMfbjw?t=1724

Here's a treat -- the 5pm hour of KTVK's Good Evening Arizona from 1996 with the director's track:

WMAQ, Chicago; 4:30pm, 1986, when Warner Saunders was the sports anchor:

The launch of MSNBC with Jodi Applegate, fresh from KTVK's Good Morning Arizona:

The 1996 launch of Fox News Channel:

10 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

What even is this open 

 

This looks (and sounds) like an SNL parody of a small-market station's newscast.

WCIX, Miami; 1991:

WMAQ, Chicago; noon, 1990:

1 minute ago, promoguy98 said:

@WWUpdate@Spring Rubber  The theme appears to be a custom "newswire" cut and mixout variation originally made for a series of promos with the tagline: Committed to Chicago. You can make out the newswire audio logo towards the end for a sports promo in the first commerical break at 9:42 and in the morning show tease during the second comm. break at 16:26 in the 1997 clip above.

 

Here's another mix variation of it for a 1995 "Commited to Chicago" news promo.  There may be more promos on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtEVcnZ_sM

 

Interesting! So do you think that they adopted this cut as a transitional theme ahead of the Newschannel 5 rebrand?

WMAQ, Chicago; 6 p.m., 1997 -- w/ an unusual theme (an obscure cut of Newswire?) just days before the station adopted the Cheatwood-era Newschannel 5 branding:

WTVJ's 50th anniversary special from 1999:

The first edition of Headline News after the big 2001 revamp:

WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1997:

WGN, Chicago; 7 a.m., 1997 w/ a KTLA-inspired open (even featuring Sam Rubin!):

WLS, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1990:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1990:

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1986:

And a rare (partial) clip of WBBM's First Edition from the same year:

A 1976 news promo for Chicago's WLS:

A weekend edition of KTVK's Good Evening Arizona w/ the director's track from 2007:

KTVK, Phoenix; 10 p.m., 2005:

Another Phoenix treat from Bryan Beasley's channel; a 1977 KTAR (now KPNX) news promo:

A 10pm KTVK newscast from November 1995 -- several months before the late edition of NewsChannel 3 was replaced by Tonight Arizona -- with the director's track:

POP TV, Slovenia, 2003 -- featuring the station's long-running, still-unidentified Gari theme:

That's the CBS Evening News desk in the background, right?