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Can sports shows be included here? If so, then I'd like to add CBS Sports' Studio 43 design that started in 1981 and ran to 1990 (IIRC); a couple of examples of the same being The Prudential College Football Report w/Jim Nantz from 1986, and The NFL Today from 1988 (this Studio 43 was also used on the CBS Morning News w/Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer for a time).

From btm0815ma: the Nov. 17, 1978 broadcast of WNT (opening has billing reversed; usually Peter would be billed first from London, then Max in Chicago, then Barbara or Howard with special reports/commentaries/editorials if any, and finally Frank would lead off from Washington; this one, however, had Frank billed first, then Max, then Barbara, before having Peter Jennings lead off from London).

59 minutes ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

From 1-21-1983, here is a broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight. At 29:13, you get to see a WNGE ID with a news open featuring the late Ed Hopkins voicing the open.
 

 

Looks like Ted Koppel pulled double duty that night (first WNT, then Nightline).

13 hours ago, hmaxhanson said:

WCHS from 1993: 

 

Looks like Brad Harvey did main news and weather, and Dale Witte was on sports (how many stations these days, if any, have the main anchor also doing weather?).

15 minutes ago, CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI said:

Hmm, I thought it was because at one point, 4:00 was called "Focus at 4" or something? If it isn't then, yeah, that is strange lol. I wonder if 4:00 is a different format or something (pre-COVID 19)?

That could be the most likely explanation.

1 hour ago, TheRolyPoly said:

I don't get why WBMA is now calling their 5:00 p.m. newscast as "First at 5:00" when they also have an hour-long newscast that's earlier than that at 4:00 p.m.

I'm as confused as you are-- they need to change that 5 P.M. title to ABC 33/40 News at 5, and move the First At... to the 4 P.M. show, if I'm reading you right.

4 hours ago, Ntropolis said:

 

Coincidentally, Ed Carter passed away this morning at the age of 81 due to complications from COVID-19.

https://www.wistv.com/2020/04/28/former-wis-anchor-ed-carter-dies/

Very sad! I guess that WIS 1994 edition I posted is now historic in more ways than one.

55 minutes ago, Samantha said:

WIS didn't have a 6:00 newscast until the Gulf War, I believe, when they started "6:00 Carolina".

That's right-- just looked at the Wikipedia entry for WIS, and the 7 P.M. edition that started to follow The Huntley-Brinkley Report was the de facto evening edition until 1991 (before that, it was once at 6 P.M., then moved to 7 P.M.).

WIS Channel 10 (NBC Columbia, SC): The 7:00 Report, for Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994 (WIS did a 7 P.M. edition back in the day, but I'm not sure if they still do that there; I know that WSPA here in my hometown does 7 News at 7, and IIRC, WCIV [ABC in Charleston, SC] does ABC News 4 at 7)

Michael Jordan's legendary 63-point playoff game, Bulls v. Celtics, Game 2, 1986 Eastern Conference playoffs (quarterfinals) (double-OT; the Celtics still won despite all that); this is the radio broadcast from Jim Durham, overlaying the CBS television broadcast; first minutes are of the CBS setup of the game, then Jim Durham starts his feed on the Bulls Radio Network).

CBS News Thursday Morning, for July 17, 1980, from Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, where the 1980 Republican National Convention was held (Bob Schieffer was from CBS' observation deck at the arena, and Jed Duvall did main news from New York, with Valerie Voss on weather; broadcast from WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville)

WKRN Channel 2 (ABC Nashville, TN): Channel 2 News at 5, for Monday, April 21, 1986, when the then-new studio on WKRN debuted (at that time, the de facto evening edition for that Nashville ABC station [de facto because at the end, Bob Mueller thanks viewers for being with him and Anne Holt and the rest here, and says that World News Tonight is to follow, and that he and Anne and the rest would return at 10; WKRN would not have a proper evening edition at 6 until 1988, IIRC])

WLBT Channel 3 (NBC Jackson, MS): 10 P.M. late edition from around May '84 (owing to the reference to Raymond Burr's 67th birthday, among others), w/Bert Case, Maggie Wade, Michael Rubinstein on sports, and Steve Raleigh weather

ETA: one story has a reporter outside a Circuit Court in Meridian, MS with a microphone for WLBT's Meridian satellite station at the time, WLBM Channel 30 (that one is now a standalone, WGBC, according to WLBT's Wikipedia entry):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLBT

Also, here's the ID from that newscast:

10 hours ago, n925tv said:

CNN is still on television, color me shocked! First time tuning to their channel in the past little while, and it's so refreshing to see such objective, non-biased reporting in their chyrons. (rolls eyes)

 

Doesn't matter what your politics are, if you care anything about this business, you should realize how bad this looks towards the profession. Report without bias first, ask questions later, and share opinions late at night. 

 

 

 

 

 It seems from those shots that CNN is as bad as Fox News!

50 minutes ago, newsteam13 said:

From Friday night, September 2, 1983. The LAST 30-minute MacNeil/Lehrer report with that groovy funky Bernard Hoffer theme (wah-wah guitar, bongo drums, etc)

 

 

From the following Monday night, September 5, 1983. The FIRST Hour-Long MacNeil/Lehrer NEWSHOUR with the updated, more symphonic Bernard Hoffer theme (done by an orchestra).

 

 

Was just coming here to post thereto-- you beat me to it! Noticed that on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour broadcast, no announcement is made by either MacNeil or Lehrer about the change of direction/focus (that the former MacNeil/Lehrer Report of a half-hour is now an expanded MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour [albeit Robert MacNeil did note at the bottom of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report of 9/2/83 that such a change would be effective w/the broadcast of 9/5/83, which is, incidentally, a bit of celebrity trivia, in that the date of debut of the NewsHour was also the 54th birthday of Bob Newhart]).

Bumping this up: long before social media provided the storylines of the daily serials at the click of a mouse or the press of a phone key, the networks then did their own promos for what was to come on the daily serials, and you never knew what would happen unless you followed those serials very closely.

Here's a promo from May '81 for Another World (using NBC's Proud N and Serif Gothic promo font of the time):

1 minute ago, T.L. Hughes said:

I don’t think Tegna was behind the retitling of WTHR’s news brand necessarily. WWL still uses the Eyewitness News branding for its newscasts, five years out from the company’s spinoff from Gannett. I think it may be a station-dictated move in conjunction with the changes to the graphics and music, just like when WMAZ dropped the Eyewitness News moniker for its newscasts about two years ago.

Great point! That is why I said "or Tegna to make them that way" in parentheses: because I wasn't sure who was behind this (whether it was the station, or the owner). All that said, I appreciate the clarification; nonetheless, that is sad that one of the last remaining holdouts of the EWN title on NBC stations is no longer (we are now down to 3: WBRE Channel 28 in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA; WRCB Channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN; and KOB Channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM).

2 hours ago, TheRyan said:

The imagery is pretty good on the graphics, notwithstanding that I don't particularly like the gfx pkg in general.  But "C Clarity" is a sorry replacement for "The Tower".    And of course they just had to drop a perfectly solid brand name for something uninspiring.

What would possess WTHR to no longer be Eyewitness (or Tegna to make them that way; don't know which)?! This makes Indy a seemingly vanilla town where news titles are concerned now, because when WTHR was Eyewitness, they had something that stood out for an NBC station.

Not long ago was the 66th anniversary of that classic CBS See It Now broadcast w/the late, great Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954, on Sen. Joseph McCarthy-- here is that broadcast from YouTube.

7 hours ago, FiveNews said:

AirchiveSloan is a legend! So is the KNBC jazzy close. Those bumper cuts are legendary as well. Awesome work here! This made my day. The 4pm and 5pm news is also on his site as well. Love how "anchor heavy" LA was at the time. Different teams for all shows....John/Linda 4pm, Colleen (still there at 5pm) and Jess at 5, Keith/Kelly at 6pm and Keith/Kelly at 11pm. The good ol days.

That they were on KNBC in the City of Angels then-- that said, here's a late edition from 10/14/88 where John Beard is in with Kelly (Keith must have been off for some reason):

And the morning edition (Today in L.A.) from 10/13/88 (headline is the Dodgers' defeat of the Mets to advance to that legendary 1988 World Series [legendary owing to what would eventually be Kirk Gibson's famous 2-run homer off Dennis Eckersley]):

5 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

 

And for comparison, here's a Tuesday edition of CBS News Morning from the time when the franchise was a six-days-a-week operation:

 

 

That was also after the title of the daily show lost the day-of-the-week modifiers that it had under Schieffer, and started simply to be called Morning.

More from btm0815ma: the full broadcasts of Sunday Morning for Dec. 6, 1981 and Dec. 2, 1984 (for which only the openings existed before; now we can see the full broadcasts of each, commercials and all)

6 hours ago, Oliverolang said:

Speaking of KCRG, Bruce Aune’s last newscast is tomorrow.  Bruce is retiring after 34 years at KCRG.  

He's gonna be missed up there in Iowa after that good, long run!

KCRG Channel 9 (ABC Cedar Rapids, IA): TV-9 Eyewitness News evening edition, July 22, 1987

WNBC NYC '85: inside what it took to put together the evening edition of News 4 New York then