Jared DiCarlo

Courtesy of the Internet Archive, here’s some news from January 21-22, 1981. The Today Show, GMA, Nightline, and even a bit of local news are included here.

https://archive.org/details/BAVC1004575_News12181_prores

A vintage WRGB report from 1989, featuring Liz Bishop.

And here’s WTEN’s John McLaughlin reporting on a hostage situation in Schenectady.

On 9/14/2019 at 11:32 AM, Info Junkie said:

As late as November 1986, WESH had still not yet used the new NBC peacock:

 

Try telling that to WTOV in Steubenville, who continued using it until late 1987!

On 8/28/2019 at 7:42 PM, Info Junkie said:

Some demos of WNYT’s and KNWA’s 2004 graphics package by VDO(?).

Man, I miss these graphics so much. Thanks for finding this!

7 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

My thoughts on Steve Stone is he’s a bit TOO excited. The way he says some of talent names such as “Jerry Gretzinger” is a bit too fast. Can’t wait to hear how he says “meteorologist Reed Kisselback.”

Can’t say I’ve ever heard of this Steve Stone guy before. Does he do work for any other stations?

Damn Aussies are always copying us

On 5/17/2019 at 12:51 AM, Chris Hadley said:

On the Internet Archive is a huge collection of Koppel-era Nightline broadcasts, via the Vanderbilt TV News Archive:

 

https://archive.org/details/godaneinbox?&and[]=subject%3A"ABC Nightline"

 

From 1980-83 and 1988-89, the Cronkite/Rather era CBS Evening News:

 

https://archive.org/details/cbseveningnews-1980

 

Late '60s ABC Evening News, plus World News Tonight (1980, 1991, 1993, 1998-99):

 

https://archive.org/details/godaneinbox?&and[]=subject%3A"ABC Evening News"

 

As previously posted on the Marion Stokes documentary thread in the tape room, here is some of what's been digitized already:

 

https://archive.org/details/stokestvarchiveexperiment

The link seems to have been deleted.

On 2/23/2019 at 12:57 AM, johnnya2k6 said:

In memory of David Horowitz, who died earlier this week at age 81: Here’s a full episode of his show “Fight Back!” from 1992 (near the end of its run); it started as a local show called “California Buyline” on KNBC in 1976 and then “Consumer Buyline” before going national in 1980.

 

Why didn’t anyone tell me that David Horowitz died?!!??

This clip doesn’t really have any news in it, but it’s a rare example of WNYT’s early 90’s graphics package. 

8 hours ago, KentBrockman said:

That's not a rip-off, that's the actual package. At the time, CBS syndicated the look to affiliates like WGCL who needed a quick cheap look to hide reminents of the failed Clear News concept.

My mistake. Still, it’s pretty odd to see it being used by a local station.

Here it is in action, by the way:

https://youtu.be/ngDDajdApP4

Here’s a rip off of the early 2000s CBS Evening News graphics package

A video that used to be on ClipSyndicate until sometime last year. It’s about WNYT’s 50th anniversary. I thought I would post it here given the occasion of the set being replaced.

And here’s another one, featuring Bill Lambdin as the reporter. He retired in August 2014.

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This isn’t really news, but I wanted to share it anyway with all the recent talk about the new graphics. It was used to promote FOX’s upcoming NASCAR debut in early 2001.

I know the updated look came in right before the Athens Olympics started. I was out of the area when it happened and when I came back it was a little shocking how well they did it. The 2002-04 "sub look" they wedged into the 1997 opens was flat out awful, a horrible blue/purple gradient, Arial fonts, just a massive mess and unless you poke around the Internet Archive largely invisible.

 

I know that those beautiful opens that went with the first generation of L.A. Groove were junked when the second generation came in. Outside of all of their images in the NewsChannel 13 era, next to the Prime News era those were their best bar none.

Some of those “first-generation” opens were on TVARK until it went dark for an update last year. I doubt they’ll still be there once it comes back.

KTHI (now KVLY) in Fargo, ND used to have these graphics that look suspiciously like those of NBC News’ graphics of the early 90s.

According to an online blog, WNYT debuted their glossier look along with L.A. Groove on August 12, 2004. I remember the graphic change well (though I was only 3 years old!!!) and they kept the graphics until April 2012 when they went HD. However, WNYT went through some minor tweaks (including different L3’s, slogan change to “Coverage You Can Trust”, and newer cuts of “L.A. Groove” by 2006).

What blog did you find that information on?

That promo is from sometime in 2004 as it was after when Bob Kovachick shaved his mustache and the weather center had already been redone yet were still using their 1997 weather graphics.

 

Here is another promo from the same time period for the same doppler.

 

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In fact, going through this person's Vimeo account there seems to be a LOT of late 90s-mid 2000s WNYT promos.

 

A pre-1998 station promo

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A 1996 Olympics promo, complete with clips of Chris Kapostasy (Jansing)'s Torch Relay run

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"No one has more experience than Ed Dague", someone in 2000-01

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More later!

I saw those clips after I discovered the first one.

Elsewhere on Vimeo, someone uploaded a couple of specials that WRGB did about severe weather. I'd link them here, but unfortunately, I'm on my Kindle right now so it's kind of hard for me to do that.

A short WNYT promo from some time in the late 90s-early 2000s that makes fun of WRGB’s Doppler Radar.

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While I’m on the subject of classic TV, have any of you guys ever been to the website of the Wolfson Archive? It has a treasure trove of South Florida TV clips (most of which seem to be from the master copies!) that are really worth checking out. Just search for the call letters of a certain South Florida station and you’re good to go. http://www.wolfsonarchives.info/search-the-catalog/

My first post! Just wanted to bring this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l5C5QL3wl4

I don't know if it counts as a knockoff or not. But it might be, because these are the only two stations I've seen with this look. If there are more, I'd like to know.