WMAQ, Chicago, weekend 10PM news (including a long close), 1987:
From the same year, a bare-bones, glitch-ridden WMAQ newscast recorded during an NBC writers/technicians strike:
I can't access the main site (fuzzymemories.tv) either, but I now remember that I've had problems with that site before. I'm based outside the U.S., so maybe that has something to do with it. (Thanks anyway!)
Staying in 1978 but crossing the Atlantic, here's the French network Antenne 2's 8PM news on today's date that year:
http://www.ina.fr/vi...re-1978.fr.html
And now for something completely different...
Sarajavo TV news open from 1992, when the Bosnian war began -- w/ a very dramatic theme:
You'll find more recent European news opens in THIS thread.