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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtjNgGD0sYw

ABC Sports 1978 College Football, 'Bama/Nebraska

ABC "Monday Night Baseball" opening 1979 (California/Boston, from Fenway Park in Boston)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i851N8_4o4

Raiders-Chargers 1984 "Monday Night Football" opening

http://www.youtube.com/?v=A3OfRjfllgw

1984 NBC "Game of the Week" opening, Tigers/White Sox, from Comiskey Park in Chicago, Saturday, 4/7/84 (bonus Miller Lite ad featuring Boog Powell and umpire Jim Honochick)

CBS NCAA hoops opening and elements 1991 (elements include sponsor bumper and Championship opening)

WKBW Buffalo ID and ABC Sports CFA Football opening '85 (with "ABC Sports 25 Years" tag); game was between Penn State and Notre Dame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOBNaU0fQY

"Entertainment Tonight," Monday 11/7/83

NBC Sports opening from the '84 AFC final, Pittsburgh/Miami (from the Orange Bowl in Miami), 1/6/85

WVIZ Cleveland station ID and "Wall $treet Week" opening 1978 (the "W$W" opening has the quite iconic title track called "TWX in Twelve Bars," by Donald Swartz; also, you may notice that then, the program was simply announced as "Wall $treet Week"; for the remainder of the run, it was announced as "Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser")

CBS "Sunday Morning" opening and headlines, 2/2/86 (after the Challenger disaster)

"The NFL Today" halftime report from 1987 (Dallas/N.Y. Giants)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVtDEYXhTc

ABC '85 "20/20" promo and WKBW Buffalo "Eyewitness News Nightcast" coming up next promo

"Entertainment This Week" 1986 end with Paramount "Blue Mtn." logo

"NBC Magazine with David Brinkley" closing '81 (with a really neat NBC News end cap)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_9o51zQic

Chicago Bears/Washington Redskins 1984 postgame

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4763514n&tag=related;photovideo

A better-quality version of the first ever "Sunday Morning" opening from 1/28/79, in which then-host Charles Kuralt explained what the program would be about, and even took us through the news headlines on that day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzdH7BLHgw

Highlights from SB XVII (including the classic John Riggins touchdown run)

CBS Sports clean openings 1980s (IROC, NBA, NFL, College Football, Sports Saturday, NCAA hoops championship, NCAA hoops regular, U.S. Open tennis)

"Tic Tac Dough" (then known as "The New Tic Tac Dough") 1978 CBS premiere (in 3 parts):

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0fC1SO072w

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ4s35oRJRg

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCQwL4KZ7mY

Ending of a CBS 1985 college football game between #2 Michigan and #1 Iowa.

KSAT 12s early 90s open:

 

NO MUSIC BESIDES Random Orchestral Hits

 

Charlie Van Dyke:

"You're Watching San Antonio's News Station. KSAT 12. SALTER!. GHALLAGER! (sp?) This, is 12News Tonight."

 

AWFUL!!

I saw that before from TV Ark, and that's not much of an opening. Maybe those random orchestral hits were an attempt to make it sound hard-hitting. Anyway, KSAT could have done a lot better than that, I think. There was much room for improvement there. This just screams "bottom-of-the-barrel."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKmXo6ClyI

WSOC Charlotte, NC '86 "EWN" news update, plus "Entertainment Tonight" short promo (using ABC's 1986 'Together' template, which apparently applied to ABC stations as well, not just the network; I liked the voiceover that stated: "Cheryl Ladd: tomorrow @ 7:30 on 9"), and an ABC Sunday Night Movie "we now continue" bump for "A Smoky Mountain Christmas"

WSVN Miami "NewsCenter 7" montage '83 (I think that the station was then known as WCKT)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAUecaqwew

NBC "NFL '85" promo (also includes doubleheader promo of L.A. Raiders/Cleveland and Seattle/Denver)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZICyjJdd3zo

Bob Costas with another promo for "NFL '85"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1zZYAIatIo

A third "NFL '85" promo-- this one centers on Ahmad Rashad. Bob Costas has, I think, a pretty funny one-liner when he catches the football that Ahmad throws:

"We gotta get him his own dressing room..."

Apparently, Bob was studying his material for the program when Ahmad threw that football.

Ahmad is described as having been drafted by "the team who's putting the fun back in football."

'85 Iron Bowl pregame opening (ABC's pregame show then was called "College Football Today," the same name as CBS now; ABC also had a Jim in the studio, Jim Lampley, who, like CBS' Jim Nantz [who had just started at that network], was from North Carolina). You also get to see what ABC's studio looked like then.