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KOOL, Phoenix; 10 p.m. weekend news, 1982:

That's a great find! And since the article mentions former World News Tonight co-anchor Max Robinson, are there any clips from his WMAQ stint available online? I don't remember ever seeing any. And does anyone know how he and Magers ended up dividing their shifts?

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1984; BTW, both anchors would eventually join WLS -- Linda Yu that same year and Ron Magers 14 years later:

This 1980 KTVK open has been reuploaded to YouTube:

Here is the Sky News (UK) version of the promo above:

Some CNN promos from 1983:

Well, your theory may explain Fox News (given the 65-68 median age of its viewers), but some of the best and most memorable anchors and reporters in television history have been Smith's age and older.

Narrator: Shepard Smith is 57 years old.

CLTV, Chicago; 8:30pm, 2006:

KPNX, Phoenix; 6 p.m., 1988:

WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 2005:

KTVK, Phoenix; 10 p.m., 1988:

From Chicago, a 2000 promo for WGN's 9 p.m. news:

And here's the 10 p.m. news, where Bill Close had already been replaced by Dave Patterson:

WGN, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1992:

And here's the launch of their new, in-house newscast: Here's a part of the YouTube description from Emarsee, who uploaded the clip:

KPNX, Phoenix; 10 p.m., 1988:

KTSP (now KSAZ), Phoenix; 6 p.m., 1988 -- the tail end of the Bill Close era:

Here's News 12 Long Island with coverage of the crash of Avianca Flight 52 in 1990:

Time Warner Cable's local news for Staten Island, 2001:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1993:

And here's the image campaign that went with WGN's theme above:

KNXT, Los Angeles; 10 p.m., 1984:

The news TVE in Spain has a new look: Also today, Serbia saw the launch of a new news channel, Vesti:

Still in L.A., here's a 1991 KTTV newscast with Edd Kalehoff's short-lived theme: