WWUpdate

Speaking of record-setting heat waves...

NBC Nightly News (Saturday edition), 1992 -- with a far more grown-up, interesting, and worthwhile story selection than what we would see now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFmXXiayWq8

KRON, San Francisco; news promo, 1979: WDAF, Kansas City; 35th anniversary segment, 1984:

WAGA, Atlanta; 11 p.m., 1981:

WCAU's 40th anniversary special, 1988:

KNBC's 25th anniversary special, 1974: WCBS, 6 p.m., 1984:

Some wonderful network material (including segments of the CBS Morning News) in this 1972 compilation:

By the way, those are the TV and radio transmitters on South Mountain in the animation; you can read more about them here: https://www.fybush.com/sites/2010/site-100730.html

A 1997 edition of Tonight Arizona (the 10 p.m. news) from KTVK in Phoenix:

CBS Nightwatch from 1983 with Mary Jo West, after she had left KOOL and before she joined KTVK (I've cued up the clip to start at the beginning of Nightwatch, but the rest of the clip contains some interesting KMGH promos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=OYR06gieGyM;m=23;s=3

Behind the scenes at Tampa's WTVT, 1974:

WLS, Chicago; 4:30 p.m., 1984: A year earlier, WLS's 4:30 p.m. news looked very different:

Canal 9; Lima, Peru; 1984 (using Tuesday16):

A very early edition of Good Morning America from 1975 (still featuring dual news anchors, among other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=CjLJ0bmMqtI;m=2;s=21

And from two years earlier, here's KNXT's 50th anniversary special. I've cued it to start with a feature about The Big News, the station's revolutionary local newscast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=-SP3C2QfySQ;m=29;s=47

A few KNXT promos for Connie Chung and Joe Benti, 1977:

When KNXT became KCBS in 1984, it aired this special looking back at its history:

KVIA, El Paso; 10 p.m., 1989:

Today's 35th anniversary special with appearances by former hosts and contributors:

KNBC, Los Angeles; 6 p.m. (special edition), 1981:

WGN, Chicago, 9 p.m. open with an alternate cut of the 1984 theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyrvgRnwVPY

KNBC, Los Angeles; news update w/ Tom Brokaw, 1971 (also note the rare KABC fragments later on in the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0kjvGF5QGUg;m=7;s=53

From France, Antenne 2's 8 p.m. news on today's date 40 years ago -- the extended pan at the beginning provides an interesting look behind the scenes of the studio (including the makeup area):

The Today Show moves to a new set, 1990:

A complete edition of the CBS Evening News from 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=OrQFRQ2zNA8;m=1;s=10