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And those NBC News graphics make another appearance in this compilation of 1980s South African news opens:

NBC News Digest, 1984: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFJLivYihg And here are the same NBC News graphics being used in a 1980s Australian open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ0m-Cn6270

WMAQ, Chicago, weekend news, 1978: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZiohW_oaU WMAQ, Chicago, 10PM news, 1982:

TVQ 10, Brisbane, Australia, 5PM open and close, 1994: TVQ 10, Brisbane, Australia, 6PM open and close, 1989:

WLS, Chicago, weekend news, 1977: WLS, Chicago, 10PM, 1981:

WMAQ, Chicago, 1990, 5PM news (with coverage of an in-flight emergency):

WBBM, Chicago, 10PM news tease, 1989: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxXVi5jcZs

WMAQ, Chicago, 10PM news, 1983:

A similar montage of Chicago was used for a while by WBBM in the '70s:

BTW, an almost identical-looking set was used by Germany's SAT.1 a few years later:

WLS, Chicago, 10PM, 1994:

WBBM, Chicago, 6PM, 1995: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOrvqTCi4zo

KPNX, Phoenix, weekend 5PM open, 2000:

KTVK, Phoenix, Good Morning Arizona Sunday open, 2000: KTVK, Phoenix, Tonight Arizona (weekend editon) open, 2000:

KTVK, Phoenix, midday news promo, mid-1980s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmVma6lAWk

BTW, you may have noticed the slogan "The Place With More Stuff" in the open. Here's KTVK's promo campaign from roughly this period (introduced in 1996): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xiAfhpkdW0&feature=related

A compilation of French news opens -- New Year's Day editions --, from the (very psychedelic) 1970s onwards:

KTVK, Phoenix, Good Evening Arizona 5 PM open, 1998 (3-4 years after becoming an independent station): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKokKiQyV0g

I'm not sure if this has been posted here before: This classic WLS promo from the 1970s spoofs the various different historic styles of anchoring the news and tells viewers what the "Eyewitness News" style is all about:

WMAQ, Chicago, short news promo, 1987: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbWCcdrF5w

WGN, Chicago, 1983, promo (WGN's mid-1980s news theme, which you can hear at the NMSA, was based on this music):

WGN, Chicago, Morning News, 1995:

WLS, Chicago, 1987, news open:

WFLD, Chicago, 1995:

From end-of-Apartheid South Africa, here's South African Broadcasting Corporation's 8PM news in Afrikaans, 1990: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZhe3sHvAQ (You'll find many more classic news videos from overseas in this thread: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/vintage-current-news-presentation-world-24002/page-121 )