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Teledoce (a TV station from Montevideo, Uruguay) used an imitation of an old Nightline opener from 1997 until 2015.

(despite being a carbon copy, it's a very good open)

 

The original open

TVI (Portugal) vs. ABC (US)

Similarities between these two themes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3YVrQUGYzs

If you thought this is Inside Edition, you were wrong! These were America 2's news bumpers between 1993 and 1994.

Italy's RAI Uno had some very interesting openers for its program TG1 Speciale featuring Rondo Veneziano's song "Sinfonia per un Addio"

 

1987 version

 

1990 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Upt-BUj4kw

 

Current version (certainly looks like an After Effects template)

TVN (Chile's public television network) premiered some beautiful IDs in July of 2001.

It combined a giant glass-made logo with some of that country's most unique landscapes.

 

And check out how those IDs were developed:

TVN's opener of its evening newscast from March 22, 1995 (begins at 0:29)

I'm posting this because the theme used in the open (a very good one) is slightly different than the traditional one, introduced in 1996, seen in the video below beginning at 3:39.

Two Seven Network promos with NBC music packages:

 

ADS7 (Adelaide) promo from 1985 with "Let's All Be There" featuring Kevin Crease, Anne Fulwood and Keith Martyn:

 

Seven News promo from 1988, shortly after they began using "The Mission":

Legendary Argentinian anchor Santo Biasatti did his final newscast on Canal 13 yesterday.

He resigned after refusing to be reassigned to do special reports. Mr. Biasatti is 74 years old and worked at Canal 13 from 1990 until 2017 as anchor and reporter.

 

This is his brief farewell message:

He didn't want to cry on air, so he left the studio immediately after that message (and never came back), and his co-anchor María Laura Santillán continued the newscast alone until 9:30pm, the usual end time.

He's one of the best in the business and a very good JOURNALIST! Hope he'll be back in another channel soon!

Three idents from Azul Televisión in Argentina that aired from 1999 until 2001, when the channel was owned by Australia's Prime Television. These pieces were designed in the US by Pittard and Sullivan.

 

A full broadcast of the 12PM news on Canal 8 in Mar del Plata, Argentina from August 1991.

Check out the opener: the music is great but would fit better in a program like Hard Copy or A Current Affair.

 

*Despite cable was available there, Mar del Plata was essentially a two-station city, having Canal 10 as its sole competitor. Both stations cherry-picked programs from Buenos Aires, but they aligned with Telefe and Canal 13 later in that decade.

A very young Melissa Downes anchors a BTQ7 update in 1998.

She's been with QTQ9 since 2001, and was promoted to main anchor in 2008.

A very interesting report from Jana Wendt (then with 60 Minutes) describing the anger of Melbourne viewers when HSV7 was bought by Fairfax in 1987 and Mal Walden was sacked. He later joined ATV10 and retired from that station in 2013.

Another bizarre holiday campaign, but from Canal 9 (1996), when Alejandro Romay still owned the station before selling it to Australia's Prime Television in 1997.

All the channel's stars (including its owner) are disguised! This is one of my favorites.

Telefe's bizarre holiday image campaign from December 1995, highlighting pieces of the programs they aired since 1990:

That was the way they did it: pompous, cheerful and family-friendly.

Seven Network ident from 1995.

This is not related to Nickelodeon!

SBS World News opener from Friday, December 21, 2001, anchored by a younger Anton Enus.

Telefe's 12PM news open from Monday, March 19, 2001, with the headlines included.

The music was innovative and the graphics a little bit flashy, but I like that.

Seven Network's signpost and image campaign from 1998, during the "Everyone's Home" era.

Speaking of elections, this is how the BBC kicked off Election Night '79 (the BBC logo at the beginning of the open was added for the rebroadcast):

 

 

For some reason, West German election coverage included live musical interludes, as you can see in this promo for the 1980 election on ZDF:

 

I really like the BBC election theme. It should have been remixed.

Nine Network's graphics for their coverage of 1999 state elections:

Those graphics are very amateur and didn't fit with Nine's elegant image, despite the music is great.

What is the WHOA promo theme? It was used in Brazil by SBT for most of the mid-late 90s and early 2000s (except for the CBS Telenotícias tie-in era)...

 

 

 

The WJHG open carries some hints of WMAR from a couple years earlier, too.

 

WTVY had no business using that 80s world map animation in 1995 (though there's also a hint of WEAR ripoff in that 5pm talent open).

 

More Jornal do SBT, but from 1994.

 

This is really bizarre, but the management at SBT decided that, because they couldn't beat Rede Globo's soaps, they should add these 5-minute updates to fill the schedule and wait until Globo's soaps finished. It looks that the people who watched SBT's soaps were loyal Globo viewers!

Some promos from Canal 13 in Buenos Aires (1990) shortly after being bought by Clarín.

At 0:07 there's the a teaser for the evening news, where you can see the opener (a very humble one): thankfully was later reformatted.

This commercial break aired during an episode of Hunter.

Two WCVB short promos from c.1994: the first with the late, great Dick Albert, the second is to announce the expansion of their morning newscast, which started at 5AM! It was a really unconventional time to start back then.

WCVB preempted ABC World News This Morning from the very beginning (1982) and didn't air it until was moved to 4:30am, around 2001, but they always cleared ABC World News Now.

[quote name='compubit'][I][B]Carolinas from September 1994[/B] I hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving week! [/I] Newscast opens and other clips from the Carolinas in 1994. Please pardon the quality on some of the clips - they were often recorded off-air from my car on this trip... [MEDIA=vimeo]243589515[/MEDIA] WSPA Noon; WJZY 10pm; WCCB 10pm; WCNC 11pm; WSOC 11pm; WFMY 6pm; WGHP 6pm; WYFF Noon; WLOS Noon; WBTV 5pm; WSOC 5:30pm; WCNC 6pm; WXII 6pm; UNC-TV 6:30pm; WLOS 11pm; WIS 11pm[/QUOTE] @compubit I've two questions for you: 1- How did you record TV from a car? 2- When you traveled to the Northeast in 1994, did you visit New England?

Clips from Illinois & Indiana (along with a Memphis) from August 1994

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WAND 5:30pm; WICD 10pm; WICS 6:00am; WLFI 6:30am; WSBT 12pm; WYIN 10pm (split); WSJV 10pm; WYIN 10pm; WMAQ 6am; WCIA 6pm; WHOI 10pm; WHOI 6am; WLS 4pm; WBBM 4:30pm; WLS 5pm; WBBM 6pm; WLS 10pm; WFLD 6am; WPSD 12pm; WREG 5pm

I didn't know that Paul Douglas worked at WBBM. It's surprising!