WWUpdate

WBBM, Chicago: WHTM, Harrisburg: KFDA, Amarillo:

Puls 4 in Austria:

WLS in Chicago and WSBT, a CBS affiliate in the neighboring South Bend market:

In 1981, KNXT took a look back at the history of television in Los Angeles:

The weather right now in Chicago is miserable with rain about to turn to ice and snow. Similar icing conditions on today's date a quarter century ago caused an American Eagle plane to crash on its approach to O'Hare. Here are some WBBM opens from that day (as well as from November 2):

Great find! I believe this is only the second news clip we've ever seen of WCIU from back when the Chicago independent (now a CW affiliate) was a multilingual station and a part-time Univision affiliate. The other one is this 1989 weather forecast and close: a

This must not have been long after WLS dropped Cool Hand Luke and adopted Gari's On Your Side in 1980 -- as far as I can tell, all other elements remained unchanged at the time:

I wonder why they had a special open for the rebroadcast, rather than just slapping a "Recorded Earlier" tag on the screen like most other stations.

My favorite cut of the Enforcer -- essentially a straight cover of the original I Love Chicago: For the sake of completeness, here's KTVK's coverage, complete with the director's track: And here's Swiss TV coverage of the earthquake:

A 1984 promo for WLS's recently hired on-air personalities; this period marked the end of WLS's troubles of the early '80s and the beginning of decades-long dominance:

A 1983 promo for CNN:

By the way, the "KXLA" anchor in the above clip was played by real-life anchor Stan Bohrman. Here's an interesting KPIX feature about Bohrman from a year ago:

From Phoenix, a Sunday 10 p.m. edition of KPNX's Action News from 1983: Tease: The newscast itself (incomplete): By the way, was KPNX the only station to use the Gannett sounder as the sole music in the open? And was this done only on the weekends?

WMAQ, Chicago; noon news, 1978:

Not a classic video per se, but a present-day commemoration of a 1994 launch; KTVK looks back at 25 years of Good Morning Arizona:

KCNC, Denver; 5 p.m., a few months before the switch to CBS:

Thanks, T.L.

Me and my crappy musical memory... The Crossfire theme from this 1991 CNN compilation sounds so familiar, but I can't quite place it:

The International Video thread may be a better fit for this, but since we're on the subject of the moon landing, let's keep it all in one place... ARD (WDR), West Germany, part 1: Part 2:

Speaking of United Airlines Flight 232, here's a news tease with the latest about the crash from KTSP (now KSAZ) in Phoenix:

And speaking of KTVK, here's some newly uploaded material from 1990 -- the station's coverage of a record-breaking heatwave:

And if you've ever wondered how the people at KTVK felt about ABC yanking its affiliation from the station, here's your answer:

From Phoenix, a treasure trove of KTVK promos from the '80s, '90s, and '00s, including many never seen before online:

Fantastic! Speaking of Phoenix stations covering California earthquakes, tonight might me a good time to repost this -- KTVK's coverage of the 1989 Bay Area Earthquake with the director's track:

A new compilation of WMAQ news intros from the 1940s (!) to the present: