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That WLOS 1991 weekend evening edition had a longer version of the end title track then (more of what I remember).

Apparently, based on reactions to my post and this post, I was incorrect-- FOX has not entirely dispensed with the tickers; there is one on Your World with Neil Cavuto.

Apparently there are no more tickers on anything on FOX "News," not even on America's Newsroom (meaning that the only "news" on there now is an endless loop of "blame Biden," "hate the Democrats," "get Trump back in at all costs," etc.).

Various closing montages from NBC and ABC World Series coverage back in the day: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1985: 1986: 1987:

That's true-- even when there is a rain shower that has no other implications (like thunder or lightning), some stations seem to act like it's the possible end of the world.

I came up with a new word to describe partisan political pundits of any stripe ranting into a camera-- "preachitics." Why did I come up with that word? Two reasons: a. Those who are employed in it preach loud and long and incessantly about whatever political grievance(s) they might have (whether it's masking in COVID, the need for more and more and more guns, the "media" being far too liberal, etc.); b. Those who enjoy such rantings and listen to them for most of the day oftentimes yell "preach it!" at the television, because they love hearing their favorite ranters going on and on and on.

1989 CBS College Football broadcast between Notre Dame and Miami, with (for the first time since the original broadcasts) a full-run segment (first couple of seconds missing, however) of The Prudential College Football Report as it was in the 1989 season w/Greg Gumbel and Mike Francesa (this would be Greg's only season as studio man on CBS College Football; Andrea Joyce would take over next season when CBS' Studio 43 was remodeled, and the studio coverage in 1990 became College Football Today). The studio coverage starts at the 1:20:26 mark, with a short preview just a minute or two before that.

Why would that be the case?

ABC 20/20, broadcast of Friday, May 25, 1990; 20/20 title on backdrop is from the 1989 titles, but the actual opening is one that I thought had started in the fall of 1990 (turns out, the 1989 titles didn't even last a full season on that ABC newsmagazine, and the titles were overhauled by the time of this May 1990 broadcast [Bob Cruz's announcement is the same as it was on the previous titles, though]).

And they also were on Sunday Morning on CBS w/Charles Kuralt, and later Charles Osgood, starting in the late-80s, I believe.

And here's more on the captioning on The Cosby Show (1986 article from The New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/06/arts/cosby-captioning-sparks-dispute.html

The NBC promos on the first part of that used two different closed-captioning icons-- the one for The Cosby Show had the new-style late-80s version usually seen on CBS shows, and the Family Ties one had the old-style one generally seen on NBC and ABC.

How I grew up around him...

The other best part on that '83 WLS Eyewitness News weekend late edition was the end-title music; we heard more of it here than in that evening edition from earlier in that year (the mayoral election) when it was on YouTube. And something to look for-- in the billing at the top, the announcer says "Jim Rose, sport"; the announcer also sounded a shade robotic, it seems to me.

Indeed-- the most likely reason.

S'what I thought-- insane!

So basically, no matter how old or new it is, if it's Sony-owned, it's blocked on YouTube?

Why would KUMV be uber-retro in 1991 (using the 1979 bird and N, notwithstanding that today's 6-feathered bird would have been 5 years old by then)?

Rare '81 NBC SportsWorld opening, w/Proud N and SportsWorld title in Serif Gothic

Constant focus on Biden and the left, I take it?

Apparently, Jim Gardner will have been there for the balance of that half-century of MCTYW, the way I understand this.

The end of an era!

Rare NBC Proud as a Peacock station ID from '81 for WSM Channel 4 in Nashville, TN, before that Music City NBC station became WSMV on Nov. 3 of that year (has WSM name and city of license [Nashville] in NBC's Serif Gothic font of the time) Also, a rare CBS Sports opening ID for a CBS Sports Special from 1995 (CBS Sports Special title still used "CBS" in the Eyemark as late as 1995)

Excellent response-- very informative! I take it then that these studios from 20/20 in the 80s w/Downs and Walters, and The Prudential College Football Report in 1986 w/Jim Nantz for CBS Sports, are also examples of masthead banners. Also, I'd like to know-- was CBS Sports' Studio 43 overhaul in 1981 (this Studio 43 of course also being used for CBS News at one time, on the CBS Morning News w/Kurtis and Sawyer) based on Roone Arledge's ABC idea?

"Masthead banner"-- that's a term I've never heard before. Are you referring to the part of the set that had the title of the broadcast (or the overall name of that station's news operation), much like would be on CBS Sports in Studio 43 in the 80s, when Brent Musburger was on The NFL Today, with The NFL Today title in the background on the set?