Jared DiCarlo

2 hours ago, bmasters1 said:

Gary Sprinkle

Best name ever. Right up there with Joe Shortsleeve and Dick Wood.

Probably the oldest surviving footage of a TV sign-off out there, from May 1969!

A full newscast of WRGB from March 4, 2000 (10 days before I was born!). The weatherman is Mike Augustyniak (now at WCCO). This was also in the early days of WRGB’s usage of the CBS Enforcer theme.

Jess Marlow loses it on live TV after a KNBC news helicopter crashes, killing both of its occupants.

Ray Glasser (videoholic) has been uploading some great stuff over the past few days, including this awesome interview with Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford!

10 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

KTVU Noon 7/1993 - from the early-mid 90s period they used Brave New World for the Noon and early evening weekend newscast

 

 

They were still using tube cameras in 1993? Look at that characteristic “smearing” of the ambulance lights at the beginning.

Here's a WXYZ sign-off from 1983, only a few years before ABC sold it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDMzani-fWo

On 11/16/2020 at 1:41 AM, Yankees4life said:

What even is this open 

 

Looks like something a college news station would make.

Here’s something a little unusual. Back in 1996, WAGA had a story on the making of Cartoon Network’s hit show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast! Features footage of George Lowe (the voice of Space Ghost) recording his lines, as well as the writer’s meeting and animation process.

On 7/17/2020 at 10:18 AM, capsgm2002 said:

Late-70's video from West Palm Beach:

 

 

“News People” is one of my favorite news themes. Here’s an instrumental cut from the package as used by WIS-TV in their morning sign-on from 1980:

23 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

WNAC news, 1980:

Why am I posting this? Because today marks 40 years since the April Fools prank where they reported that the Great Blue Hill ski resort was erupting.

I really hope that somebody out there saved footage of that prank. But hey, if the BBC was able to save their “spaghetti trees” footage, then I’m sure the Great Blue Hill thing is around somewhere.

Anyway, back on topic, the user known as “btm0815ma” has been uploading some

great stuff lately. One of which being this newscast where Dan Rather talks about a recent incident where he was assaulted on the street by a crazy person. Although not mentioned here, the perpetrator allegedly said to him, “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”, which later inspired the name of a popular R.E.M. song.

Speaking of Dan Rather, here’s one of the newscasts that led to his downfall as CBS’s lead anchor, in which he shared fabricated documents about George W. Bush’s army career.

Here’s WTWO in Terre Haute with a logo that looks suspiciously similar to the one that WMAR in Baltimore was using at the time. 
 

Speaking of which, the logo that they’re using now is a rip-off of WGRZ!

4 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

In memory of Ed Dague, the man who shaped Albany TV news. Say hi to Ed Hopkins for us.

 

Here’s Ed filling in for the weather after Bob fell off of the roof at home:

4 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

Albany, NY just lost a broadcast news legend today. Ed Dague, longtime WNYT and WRGB anchor, has passed away at the age of 76. 

Ed Dague, longtime WNYT anchor, has died

https://wnyt.com/news/ed-dague-former-wnyt-anchor-has-died-/5562128/?cat=10114

 

(Via WNYT.com)

There goes another part of my childhood.

On 10/31/2019 at 8:03 PM, TSSZNews said:

 

Even more interesting on that KJRH tape - there's a cut of Finale used in one of the weather promos.

The long-gone cable news channel Capital News 9 used that same cut for their weather reports. Jeez, it’s been years since I last heard that music.

Here’s a vintage WABI newscast from January 28, 1982. It also has some hilariously 80’s commercials.

14 hours ago, newspulse said:

not much to say about this one and I know I'm at the tail end of the acceptable years for classic video but i'm just surprised that WCIA was using the old WBBM graphics in 2007. who else was usin these? also really vibin with the enforcer cut in this close.

we finally have nexstar endboards showin up in chicago and it'll always feel weird to me bc i associate seein those with being downstate, lol.

 

WRGB also used these for a while.

16 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

Ed Hopkins sounds completely off on these KJRH talent bumps (Beth Wringle?!)

 

To be fair, KJRH was his first client back in 1982.

A rather interesting story from WRGB about a local school’s newscast. Not sure exactly when this aired, probably around late 90s?

15 hours ago, 8Viewer said:

WXFL, Tampa, 1988 promo spot and news teaser:

 

 

That’s a young Brad Pitt in the thumbnail! He appears in a couple of commercials in this upload.

ABC coverage of the crash of Korean Air Lines 007. 

As a bonus, have some TWA 847 coverage too.

Here’s a vintage 1965 look at KNTV in San Jose, back when it was still an ABC station.

https://archive.org/details/casjhsj_000045

Obsolete Video’s latest discovery is this 1973 KABC commercial break, complete with a brief glimpse of the sign-off news at the end!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLaZZ2tK4Ds

On 9/17/2019 at 5:46 PM, WAVY 10 Fan said:

And off the heels of the loss of Cokie Roberts, it's being reported that former NBC and ABC correspondent Sander Vanocur has passed away at 91.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/veteran-television-newsman-sander-vanocur-dies-91-65675917

 

Among the things Sander was known for would include being a panelist on the first Kennedy-Nixon debate and being the last surviving member of the "Four Horsemen", as NBC used to call their 1960s convention floor quartet of Vanocur, Frank McGee, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman.

He was also the news anchor in the 1994 film, Without Warning, which is where I mostly know him from.

3 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

In memoriam of the late Ed Hopkins:

 

Say what? Is that why they got rid of his voiceovers?!? It all makes sense now!!!

Anyway, Rest In Peace, Ed, you’ve earned it.