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From 1987, WCCO's special coverage of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 225, including bits of WJBK's coverage:

A 1983 edition of CNN's Prime News during the invasion of Grenada (but the newscast opens with an item about the shutdown of CNN competitor SNC):

A 1988 edition of CNN's Sports Latenight with Dan Patrick and Gary Miller. The two anchors would leave for ESPN in 1989 and 1990 respectively:

A 1992 edition of The World Today, CNN's flagship early evening newscast:

A 2001 newscast from Pax station WVPX in Akron; this is how Wikipedia explains the station's news arrangement at the time (note that either the date in the clip title or the Wikipedia timeline is a bit off):

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WKYC subsequently announced on March 28, 2001, the launch of a new newscast produced for WVPX by WKYC's news department but focused on Akron stories, and based at an expanded Akron bureau.^[205] Launched on July 13, 2001, under the Pax 23 News banner,^[204] the program was anchored by WKYC's Akron bureau chief Eric Mansfield, with sports and weather provided by Jim Donovan and Mark Nolan, respectively; both Mansfield and Nolan previously worked at WAKC in the early 1990s.^[63] 

On 5/17/2023 at 5:17 AM, TheOneManHerd said:

Ladies and gentlemen, the next mayor of Jacksonville:

 

A bit off-thread but on-topic: I give you the current President of Slovenia (the female anchor of this 1998 POP TV newscast):

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From 1996, a sports-heavy postgame edition of WFLD's weekend news:

Speaking of tabloid eras, here's a entire 10 p.m. WBBM newscast from 1992:

Hurricane Andrew tops this WGN midday newscast from 1992:

A 9 p.m. WGN newscast from Day 8 the Great Chicago Flood of 1992:

And speaking of Turner, here's a 1996 promo for the just-launched CNNfn, intended to compete with CNBC. The channel shut down in 2004.

And from the same year, a promo for the flagship CNN channel:

This may be the only news open from Ted Turner's WRET in Charlotte that's available online. The station only began producing news in 1978, when the former independent became an NBC affiliate. The following year, Turner sold WRET to Group W, a transaction that financed the 1980 launch of CNN, and WRET changed its call letters to WPCQ.

And this is how Springer responded in his first--and next to last--commentary on WMAQ:

ABC's World News Tonight reports on Carol Marin's sudden resignation from WMAQ in the wake of the Jerry Springer fiasco, 1997:

Here's a 1979 KPNX sign-off:

A 1983 topical promo for KTVK's Eyewitness News and the opening minutes of ABC's World News This Morning with coverage of the '83 Coalinga earthquake:

A 9 p.m. WGN newscast during the 1991 Gulf War:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m. weekend news, 1999:

3 hours ago, H-Town TV Fan said:

WMAQ Channel 5 News at 5:00 (March 10, 1985)

 

It intrigues me that as late as 1985, WMAQ was still using news opens from the late NewsCenter 5 era (which ended in 1982), with "Channel 5 News" awkwardly overlaid on top of the original "NewsCenter 5" title:

1 hour ago, Rusty Muck said:

WBBM-TV also does not have anything close to a reputation or heritage that WGN-TV or WLS-TV have… or even WMAQ-TV, certainly not since Bill Applegate left in 1993.

Applegate destroyed much of WBBM's hard-won journalistic reputation. After a short uptick because of the curiosity factor, viewers deserted the station in droves because its blood-and-guts, in-your-face style was simply not suited to the market--and WBBM never really recovered image-wise, its reputation as a serious news outlet in tatters. It's even more poignant that this was once the station of Jacobson and Kurtis, whose relatively sober, hard news approach was admired around the country. (Walter Jacobson ultimately condemned Applegate's approach and bolted to WFLD.)

Applegate is one of the people who ensured that WBBM no longer has anything close to the reputation that WGN or WLS have.

An entire weekend Eyewitness News Tonight newscast from WLS in Chicago, 1983 (the Seven on Your Side era):

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the theme used by POP TV in Slovenia as the background music for news updates in the 1990s (headphones may help):

Is it a rarely used cut of Eyewitness News, which POP TV used for closes? Is it a part of Gari's (unnamed) custom theme for POP TV? Or was it taken from some other package?

Thanks in advance!

WBBM, Chicago: 10 p.m., 1979:

On 4/10/2023 at 9:10 PM, 8Viewer said:

 

Another ABC affiliate that used Ernie Anderson. Also, KTVK's news director at the time was Cecil Tuck, brother of Michael Tuck of San Diego fame and Gene Tuck from KTVI and KSAT. 

Here's an Arizona Republic article from 1981 about Cecil Tuck and his decision to pair Allen and Scoutten, while demoting Dave Nichols and getting rid Ray Thompson:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55737168/changes-at-channel-3/

In this 1987 clip, CBS Sunday Morning media critic Ron Powers takes a look at the state of television news at the time and sees some disturbing trends:

Here's a rarity---a 1983 newscast from KTVK in Phoenix during the Phil Allen/Jim Scoutten period of the Eyewitness News era. Apparently, the station was on the verge of becoming competitive at the time, but personnel changes would later once again doom it to runner-up status. It  took a management overhaul and the adoption of the NewsChannel 3 brand for the station to reverse its fortunes for good in the late 1980s:

WLS, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1988: