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KNXT, Los Angeles; 11 p.m., 1974: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=CakVhymQBzw;m=1;s=10

KOTV, Tulsa; 5 p.m. open, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXKFL4Xyeo

A multicultural, multilingual CityPulse promo from 1998:

Did KNXT always use cold opens back in 1973? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=_BN_WXRyFMg;m=3;s=22

WGN, Chicago; topical promo, 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2lZ3wIlGvk

And this is how TVS reported on the loss of its broadcast license more than a year earlier:

And the same from the TVS's newscast serving the southeastern part of its viewing area (also titled Coast to Coast):

One today's date 25 years ago, TVS in the United Kingdom, serving the south coast of England, broadcast its last-ever newscast before handing over its license to Meridian on January 1. The newscast introduced the new broadcaster and looked back at the history of TVS's news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csuXY5zMrqA

KCBS, Los Angeles; 5 and 6 p.m., 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1pitXaZ2hA

WBBM, Chicago; 6 p.m., 1979; the "Disco Demolition" is the lead story:

KWGN, Denver; 9 p.m. (delayed), 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=PsB-hyOXQas;m=23;s=57

Based on some other YT clips, the open had been in use since the mid-'80s, hence the outdated look.

A CNN-branded newscast from TV Asahi in Japan, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xunrxFbjVMY And from France, an edition of Antenne 2's 8 p.m. news anchored live from New York on the occasion of disarmament talks at the UN, 1978:

This 1970 video has a new KNXT Big News / Eleven O'Clock Report promo at the beginning and two fragments of KNBC's news starting at the 4:40 mark:

From the mid-1990s, here are two promos for the One Network News on TV One (TVNZ) in New Zealand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Ow2ulaTn_tI;t=4

And from the late 1990s, here are two opens to the New Zealand version of 20/20:

You know the name, you know the music, and you know the opening graphics -- but this 1992 clip of Nightline is from TV3 in New Zealand: Meanwhile, the Australian version of Nightline used an interesting hybrid theme that combined a part of Cool Hand Luke with Score's ABC News signature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=2o_iHb53q-M;t=28

BBC2, United Kingdom; Newsnight, 1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Mw6kirKSJlc;m=1;s=31 The same program, 1983: By the way, Newsnight still uses an updated version of the same theme almost 38 years later:

Ten years ago tonight:

And here's the launch edition of CityPulse -- I mean Citynoticias -- from CityTV in Bogota, Colombia, 1999: Clips of Citynotícies from the short-lived CityTV station in Barcelona, Spain, early '00s (in Catalan):

CITY, Toronto, Canada; 11 p.m., 1998 (includes a promo for CP24, as well as appearances by Monita Rajpal, later of CNN International, and Claudia DiFolco, later of KTVK):

The story of two (completely unrelated) MBCs... Middle East Broadcasting Center, a compilation of news opens beginning in 1991 (with several Gari themes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=OuL-kahHfDY;t=8 South Korea's Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, a compilation of news opens beginning in 1970 (note the CBS Evening News animation from the 1980s):

RAI Due, Italy; several opens, 1978-1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xmv1eD0So RAI Due, Italy; late news, 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxiD35Y3i8

Two opens from Sky News, United Kingdom, 1991 (with Great News): DDQ-10/5A, SDQ-4, Toowoomba / rural southern Queensland, Australia, 1986 (with Hello News):

WMAQ, Chicago, 1991; post-game newscast with extensive coverage of the Bulls' first NBA Championship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=VBKDcrzQBmQ;m=19;s=22