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A just-uploaded rarity--a 1977 edition of WLS's 6 p.m. news:

Two new Phoenix finds...

A 1987 KPHO newscast:

And a 1992 KTVK weekend newscast:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1981:

Those graphics were also used in South Africa...

...and Australia:

An inter-market rarity: from 2004, the 9 p.m. news on KMSB in Tucson produced by KTVK in Phoenix:

Nova TV in Croatia has a new look, complete with a revolving set:

In Italy, RAI News 24 has a new set designed by the famed architect Renzo Piano:

CNN's Newsnight on the day United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 en route from Denver to Chicago, crashed in Sioux City, Iowa:

After more than two decades, RTL Aktuell has a non-virtual set; the Power News-based musical signature remains:

Several CNN promos from 1983, when the news was still the star:

From WBBM, here's a weekend 10 p.m. newscast from 1977:

A complete 10 p.m. WBBM newscast from 1983:

By the way, was that USA Today commercial produced by Collier Concepts?

A rare 1996 clip of a WMAQ "Olympic Newsbreak" aired during the Atlanta Olympics:

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1981 (complete):

Some KTVK news teases from the station's Eyewitness News era, 1984:

KTVK, Phoenix, 9 p.m., 2006:

With Christi Paul leaving CNN, here are couple of clips from her days at KTVK:

WLS, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1999:

WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1996:

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1999:

A 1989 KTVK newscast from one of the station's Arizona, U.S.A. road trips (similar to KTSP's Celebrate Arizona specials):

Staying in Chicago, a WMAQ weekend newscast from 1979:

On 4/18/2021 at 1:29 AM, WWUpdate said:

 

This was posted here many years ago, but since we're on the subject of Ron Magers' early Chicago career, it's perhaps worth revisiting...

 

KTCA, the PBS station in the Twin Cities, aired a long, thoughtful report about Magers several months after he had moved from KSTP to WMAQ:

 

 

Here's another report about a high-profile Twin-Cities-to-Chicago move, this time meteorologist Paul Douglas' high-profile switch from KARE to WBBM. Unlike Magers, Douglas did not settle in Chicago. He joined WCCO three years later.

^^^^ This is a treat. We've never seen this style KTVK open before (although the theme lived on into the first iteration of the Eyewitness News era).