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And for comparison, here's a Tuesday edition of CBS News Morning from the time when the franchise was a six-days-a-week operation:

CBS Morning News, 1983:

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure whether WMAQ used the skyline backdrop set just for the 10 p.m. or also the 6 p.m. in the mid-1990s Does anyone remember?

The separate 10 p.m. set was eventually dropped, but Newswire survived the logo change:

Here's a 10 p.m. WMAQ newscast from the same week as the one above. Notice that the station used a different, city skyline set (instead of the usual newsroom backdrop) for the late news at the time:

And here's WMAQ's 4:30 p.m. news from the same week:

WLS, Chicago, 6 p.m., 1995:

Here's the 1968 election night edition of the ABC Evening News:

And, from several months later, here's an edition of the midday news with the aforementioned new set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5f4uZ1lEQg And here's a spot from the promo campaign that launched the CBS2 Works For You era:

From 2002, the 5 p.m. news from WBBM; this was at the beginning of the station's short-lived CBS2 Works for You era, before the (also short-lived) new set was introduced:

WHO, Des Moines; 10 p.m. weekend news, 1987: And from Chicago. a 1988 WBBM promo:

Can anyone identify the VO in this open? It sounds vaguely like Daniel Schorr, but Schorr had left CBS (acrimoniously) by this point and was working for CNN, so it's almost certainly not him.

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1995 -- shortly after the station ditched the last vestiges of its black-red-and-white tabloid-era look and brought back its classic "This is My City, Chicago's My Town" signature in the form of Gari's Enforcer. The overall style still retained a somewhat tabloid flavor:

And this is what the first newscast from the new streetside studio looked like:

From 1985, CNN's coverage of the crash of Delta Flight 191, combining a feed from WFAA with its own coverage:

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 2001: No opens in this 1999 video, but various bits and pieces from WMAQ, WLS, WBBM, and WGN:

And finally, I think this has been posted here before, but no look at Chicago anchor tributes would be complete without this hour-long (!) special that WLS devoted to Fahey Flynn when he died in 1983:

Since we're doing Chicago anchor farewells... Here's Kalber's second and final Chicago farewell -- on the occasion of his 1998 retirement from WLS:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m. weekend news, 1997; severe weather is the lead story:

And this is how WGN remembered John Drury when he died in 2007:

An interesting 1982 close from WGN in Chicago with the credits given by the announcer: The set is a slightly modified version of the one seen in this 1980 clip, when WGN's news aired at 10 p.m. and was using NewsNine branding:

By the way, it's interesting to note that KTVK was already using the orange-and-purple-rainbow NewsChannel 3-era lower-thirds in May 1986, before the name change. As we've seen, KTVK was still using the old lower-thirds in December 1985:

From KTVK in Phoenix, a part of "Hands Across America" coverage from 1986 with weekend anchors Heidi Foglesong and Frank Camacho; this was just before the station's transition from Eyewitness News to NewsChannel 3. As you can see in the clip, Mary Joe West was still at KTVK, but within a few weeks, Heidi Fogelsong would replace her on weekdays and West would leave the station and commercial television news for good:

A new clip of WMAQ's First Thing in the Morning from Bob Sirott's wacky early '90s stint at the station -- and early on in the clip, we even get a nice view of WMAQ's first newsroom set in the NBC Tower:

WCAX did a wonderful job with their 60th anniversary special in 2014. It's one of the best station history documentaries I've ever seen. (And yes, it's not technically a pre-2008 video, but it has plenty of classic footage):