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Another Phoenix video, this time bits and pieces of KPNX -- the only station not to change affiliations in the '94/'95 shuffle -- from January 1996:

Another blatant logo ripoff: The logo rotated during news programming:

Rare glimpses at the pre-1986 KTVK set at the 4:47 mark and the very last frame of the clip. And at the 6:36 mark: a newly discovered KTSP theme?

Speaking of George Reading:

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1983:

Various stations' and networks' coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 in Chicago, 1979:

CNN launched on today's date 40 years ago. Here is a behind-the-scenes tour from the news channel's second hour on the air:

It's 1992 and Hurricane Andrew is approaching southern Florida. Here's CNN's PrimeNews:

On today's date in 1976, a special U.S.-themed edition of the evening news on the French Antenne 2 network was broadcast from the CBS newsroom in New York:

Al Arabiya has a new look -- and a **huge** new set:

KOOL, Phoenix, 1979:

KPHO, Phoenix, 1986:

The first NBC Nightly News with the 1995 set: And here's a version of that set as seen on Germany's Sat.1:

Some really great uploads by btm0815ma; the clips are wonderfully curated and the descriptions have obviously been written by someone with deep knowledge of the history of TV news in this country. Do we know who btm0815ma is? Is he or she a member of this forum? Thank you for all your work if you're reading this.

Shortly before the Tienanmen Square massacre, CNN is ordered -- live on the air -- to stop broadcasting from Beijing:

An edition of CNN's WorldView from 1998 -- the day before the news channel's long-running lower-thirds and yellow bug were retired:

Barbara Matusow describes that transitional format in her book The Evening Stars: The Making of the Network News Anchor (1983): "[Arledge's] most immediate problem was what to do the incompatible team of Barbara Walters and Harry Reasoner. Arledge's initial move was to buy time by making format changes designed to minimize their impact on the Evening News while he was working on a replacement formula. "Two-shots" were eliminated, meaning that Walters and Reasoner were not shown together on the screen, and something called a "whip-around" was introduced -- correspondents handing off their reports directly to each other instead of going back to the anchor for introductions. Subanchors began to appear: Frank Reynolds was featured prominently in Washington, as was Peter Jennings from various European capitals." (In this case, Barbara Walters was off and Sam Donaldson served as the Washington subanchor. When WNT premiered, of course, it was permanently anchored by Reynolds in Washington, Max Robinson in Chicago, and Jennings in London. It's also interesting to note that the distinctive red corner stripe was introduced before WNT was launched.)

And here's the midday news from their sister station in Denver, KWGN, 1982:

WLS, Chicago; news update, 1981:

WGN, Chicago; 1 p.m., 1980:

And in France, France 2 and Franceinfo TV aired a joint morning program from Franceinfo's studios:

The BBC has combined its London and its South East regional updates in the mornings because of Covid-19:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 2004:

A nice long close at the end of this 1990 WFLD newscast:

One of the best things about Sunday Morning in the '80s: the thoughtful, literate, sometimes almost poetic media commentaries by Ron Powers. Here's one from 1987 about the televised suicide of Budd Dwyer: