WWUpdate

A tornado warning interrupts regularly scheduled programming on Chicago's WMAQ, 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=9MxfSB974Fk;t=38

Moving from one independent station to another, a couple of KTVK teases from 1996:

KCOP, Los Angeles; election coverage, 1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=kfb7lbNZ7mg;m=2;s=43 KCOP; news update, 1983:

WGN, Chicago; news promo, 2003: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hUI1WbLw0

Just dying to know what the news on ORTF's Second Network looked like on this day in 1973? Here's YouTube to the rescue: WTOP, Washington D.C.; 6 p.m. news, 1978:

More WGN... 9 p.m. open, 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=vooJJVKZLn0;m=1;s=43 9 p.m. open, 1990:

WGN, Chicago; 9 p.m. close, 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=APhDWq6Q4Zc;m=3;s=22

And here's a CNN report about WAMI's alternative news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjdid7nODxc Staying in France, but going five years further back in time, here's the news from ORTF's First Network on today's date in 1972:

From Miami, a look back at WAMI's alternative newscast, as seen on the last-ever edition in late 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=2JODDQ7rrLU;m=3;s=8

WBBM, Chicago; Weekend News, 1984:

ATN7, Sydney, Australia; 1978 -- some of the spectacular landscape shots in this open remind me of KOOL from this era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=vyVgfPjgO20;m=2;s=22 And for comparison, this is what the open to KOOL News (one of several versions) looked like:

From Phoenix, another KTSP newscast from the tail end of the NewsCenter 10 era:

From France, Antenne 2's national evening news on today' s date 40 years ago: I like how Antenne 2's opening sequence was always a bit different. A few days later, for example, the cameras followed the anchor as he made his way to the set from above:

From CNN's 20th anniversary special, here's a look at how CNN covered the events of that day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=evWyzH_zaR4;t=23

A portion of WAGA's Atlanta A.M. from 1973:

An interesting music-less transitional open from Chicago's WBBM in 1975, apparently just before I Love Chicago was adopted as the station's theme:

WBBM, Chicago; news promo, 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLubHpI50ew WBBM, Chicago; news promo, 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZV9VfGj0DA

What was it with WABC and short-lived anchors from nearby markets in the 1970s? Larry Kane also joined the station for about a year in 1977 before heading back to Philadelphia.

WABC, New York; late news, 1976; the Yankee's American League Pennant win is the top story:

I think we've mentioned this before, but this 1997 article provides an interesting behind-the-scenes account of KNXV's innovative launch format and how it was ultimately abandoned: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/chit-happens-6423248

Here's more -- these promos give some indication of just how revolutionary KNXV's initial format and style were for the Phoenix market:

I think this will make Info Junkie's and Raymie's day -- it certainly made mine; some bits and pieces of KNXV during the station's piecemeal Fox-to-ABC affiliation switch:

A news promo for the Los Angeles independent KCOP, 1985: EDIT: And here's more KCOP from 1985:

KTVK, Phoenix; 10 p.m., 2004 (from the time when the NewsChannel 3 brand made a relatively brief -- and partial -- comeback):

Since we've spent a lot of time talking about the Phoenix market lately, some of you might be interested in this Arizona Republic article from a few months ago: Phoenix's 10 Most Memorable TV News Anchors