More clips from my favorite city in the world:
WMAQ, news open, 1997:
WBBM, newsbreak, 1983:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhG_Sc-0GXQ
WBBM, newsbreak, 1978:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViIBWmENHbM
WLS, aircheck, 1984 (already seen on YT, but later taken down):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBRa6P27osA
WMAQ, aircheck, 1978 (same as above):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goqe25HD-lI
WBBM, aircheck, 1978 (ditto):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2RV6jHGuY
STW9, Perth, Australia; three different vintage news opens, two of them featuring Cool Hand Luke (BTW, "National Nine News" is actually a locally originated newscast):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymynNO6QNnk
Here's a refreshingly old-fashioned (even for that time) newscast from 1981. I had to do a Google search to identify the station; apparently, it's WABI in Bangor, Maine:
CBS Evening News, 1977
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fugu5oj-Qag
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UQVsXmWK6U
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z3ZDMuG5fs
ABC Evening News, 1976
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-te93MeY40
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCQUCQ2cif4
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smidow8GmsQ
WNBC, New York, 1972:
TV Ark has just launched a new subsection with plenty of video clips of CNN International and CNN (US)*, mostly from the 1990s:
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/cnni/progs.html
* At the time, many CNN (US) programs were carried on CNN International.
And here's comprehensive French TV (Antenne 2 this time) coverage of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, March 1981:
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAB00016715
To celebrate New Year, here's the news from TF1 in France on today's date exactly 30 years ago -- a snowy January 1, 1979 (the clip takes a few seconds to load):
http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAA06010454
Note the thoroughly psychedelic open and those wonderful 2CVs!
Happy New Year!