Chris Hadley

Speaking of sports, here are some rare satellite feeds posted recently:

1988 NBA All-Star Game:

4th quarter and post-game, 1987 NBA Finals game 6 (Celtics/Lakers):

Raw feeds of the '86 and '96 MLB All-Star Games:

1984 Los Angeles Olympics men's marathon, again from the raw ABC satellite feed:

3 solid hours of CNN Headline News from overnight December 30, 1986, via KCRA in Sacramento:

A full hour block of CNN Headline News from July 13, 1987 - the day that CNN and HN moved from its Techwood Drive studios to its then-new location at CNN Center:

Previously posted on YouTube, here's the very first CNN broadcast from CNN Center on the same date:

When CNBC's predecessor, the Financial News Network, went bankrupt in 1991, CNBC acquired its former rival. Here's how FNN covered that and other Wall Street developments on April 3, 1991, just over a month before the network signed off for good on May 21, 1991:

WWL-TV's Eyewitness News at Noon from January 20th, 1989 (Inauguration Day for newly elected President George H.W. Bush):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9uXn7c68k

Right at the beginning of this video, here's a cool mix of the CBS '85 "We've Got The Touch" campaign theme w/VTS' "The Place To Be" campaign for then-new CBS affiliate WRAL in Raleigh (now NBC):

On 7/18/2020 at 1:54 AM, Samantha said:

@TheGuru That race is really interesting from a production standpoint, and I imagine that truck had its hands full all day. Notice how only the final 20 laps have a US flag graphic on them.

  

 

I distinctly recall Russert's death announcement on NBC. It was a Saturday, and the network was in the middle of a golf tournament and (out of nowhere) tossed to NBC News. I knew as soon as Brokaw (who had already semi-retired) appeared that something quite unusual was up.

I remember watching it live too, but the report interrupted the second round of the U.S. Open Golf Tournament and Brokaw was there because Brian Williams was overseas and set to anchor NN from wherever location he was (I forget at the moment). It took place on a Friday. And yes, I felt the same way about Brokaw's appearance too. Such a sad day.

This was how CBS covered the death of Peter Jennings:

21 hours ago, newsteam13 said:

 

What an awesome way to commemorate CNN'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY (1980-2020)!!!!! The FIRST 24-hour cable channel devoted to news. My, my, my! The network has indeed come a long way since the first 3-hours in 1980 anchored by Sacramento's husband/wife team Dave Walker and Lois Hart

The same channel this copy of the first CNN newscast originated from also has rare rehearsal footage of the first 24 hour newscasts w/Walker and Hart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJU7VIfrhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg3tIXoGGgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ULpPZH6EA

Also, ABC News Nightline w/Ted Koppel previews the then-soon to launch CNN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNDC1_qf8s

In better condition, video-wise, than other postings of this broadcast on YouTube is the first 3 hours of CNN from June 1, 1980:

16 hours ago, TServo2049 said:

Also, on the subject of WRAL, I don't think it's JAM. I'm also not sure it's the same singer on both those videos - they sound similar, but quite a few female vocalists from the South do.

 

And that KSN thing doesn't sound like the usual Dallas vocal group we'd hear on JAM stuff, either.

 

My current thoughts about WRAL 1982's possible place of origin go to a city that produced a lot of broadcast advertising music, but which nobody ever really talks about: Nashville. The reason I am thinking this is not even because of the music (though the vocalist on that WRAL promo vaguely reminds me of Janie Fricke, of all people), but because of the animation.

 

Allow me to introduce you to a Nashville-based production company called Cascom. For those who have never heard of them, but know about the stock animations you see in a ton of old news opens and promos and stuff, especially for smaller stations - think of the laser outline cameraman with the mustache, the four spotlights, the rotating globe in the shiny ring, the city in the distance with the searchlights, all the stuff in that WLIG open - that was them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjjYyCIg64

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjjYyCIg64 (I keep getting an error that YT doesn't allow embedding of this video, so just click on the link.)

 

(And apparently, they were also involved in the distribution of those even more ubiquitous Cranston-Csuri CGI graphic templates that showed up everywhere in the mid/late 80s; they never owned nor were under common ownership with Cranston-Csuri, so it must have been some kind of licensing agreement, or maybe they contracted Cranston-Csuri to do them for lack of their own CGI production. I'm really not sure.)

 

Cascom produced those generic animations (well, excepting the Cranston-Csuri stuff, of course) and syndicated them as a generic package, but they also did custom stuff (some of which was repurposed into the generic effects package - for example, the really long demo has a package of elements you can see in promos online for a couple Australian stations like SAS-10 Adelaide, and you can also spot starburst effects from United Artists Theaters trailers and camera shutter effects from General Cinema policy trailers, which they animated under contract for an Atlanta-based outfit called Cinema Concepts, which later merged with Cascom around 1987 or so, but evidently split back off from them later). The WRAL animations really look like the Cascom stuff I've seen - even knowing that so much of these backlit animation graphics looked similar and used similar tricks, no matter who made them - so if the animation was done in Nashville, might the music have also been done there?

 

The fact that WRAL 1982 also showed up on KTXL, a station who definitely used Cascom's generic graphics, and had custom animations that looked very similar, also makes me wonder. So does the presence of a vaguely familiar voice in the "Take Off With Forty" song (and also possibly in "Go for the Stars"), who reminds me of the female vocalists in old Pepper-Tanner/William B. Tanner jingles. Those were done in Memphis, and I believe that some Memphis session singers (like Janie Fricke) eventually moved to Nashville, they're close enough that there could have been back and forth. I'm not that sure of the extent of Cascom's involvement in broadcast music, but it is food for thought.

WWL in New Orleans used the "SIP 1 (Station Image Package 1)" for their news opens, and the "globe" animation for their movie opens. However, they intercut clips from movies in their library and added their own titles to those opens, as seen here. I'm wondering where the music came from, though. (This was from ewjxn's collection, but I brightened up the original video):

Nightline's tribute to pioneering ABC News/Sports head Roone Arledge on the day of his passing - Dec. 5, 2002 - with comments from Ted Koppel, Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters, Jim McKay and Frank Gifford:

Full CBS News coverage (w/local coverage from KPIX in San Francisco) of the Bush/Dukakis election from November 8, 1988:

NBC reports on the Loma Prieta earthquake minutes after it struck Candlestick Park before game 3 of the World Series on Oct. 17, 1989:

CNN coverage of the earthquake - part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 6:

Coverage of the Mexico City earthquake via the CBS Evening News w/Dan Rather from Sept. 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th:

6 hours ago, nicksair said:

In the latest series of AirchiveSloan's collection... Did anyone ask for a nice, clean, clear, long cut of Gari's On Your Side from KTTV in 1988??

 

Here you go!!

 

 

Just got done editing the full 1 minute version of said close from various sources. Here it is, for your listening pleasure.

Please feel free to move this to the News Music/Voiceovers board if needed...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x8unlaIbSXRxcEs7waUVUqsJietgJetw

ABC News' coverage of the start of the second Iraq War as news broke of the first air strikes on March 19, 2003:

In May 1989, Dan Rather and the CBS News team arrived in China to cover the summit meeting between Communist Party leaders and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev - a meeting that played against the backdrop of historic pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. The full week of CBS Evening News reports from Beijing comes courtesy of btm0815bma. 

Monday, May 15th:

Tuesday, May 16th:

Wednesday, May 17th:

Thursday, May 18th:

Friday, May 19th (a few hours prior to when CBS and other outside media were forced to cease communication by the Chinese government as the crackdown on the student protestors intensified during government-imposed martial law): 

Dan Rather leads CBS News' coverage of the start of the second Iraq War on March 19th, 2003 (courtesy btm0815ma):

ABC News Nightline coverage from the same evening:

Also from C.M. Sloan, CNN Headline News from early November 25, 1988 (not 1998):

From my new NOLA TV archive page, here are some WWL-TV newscasts from July 22, 1996.

12 PM w/Bill Elder, Don Westbrook and Phil Johnson:

https://archive.org/details/wwl07229612pm

6 PM w/Dennis Woltering, Angela Hill, Mike Hoss (in for Jim Henderson) and Dave Barnes:

https://archive.org/details/wwl6pm072296

10 PM segment w/Nancy Russo forecast, final story and repeat of that day's Phil Johnson editorial:

https://archive.org/details/wwl07229610pm

From WGNO, circa March 21, 2006:

https://archive.org/details/wgno2006

From WVUE, the end of its 9 PM newscast followed by the 2001 edition of its annual "Weathering The Storm" hurricane preparedness special:

https://archive.org/details/wvuestorm2001

All these came from tapes recently acquired by jacky9br (who posted the earlier WVUE Fox 8 9 PM news from 7/22/96).

From January 26, 1981, a segment from WWL's Eyewitness Morning News w/co-anchors John Quaintance and the late Andre Trevigne. Features reports from Dennis Wolter(ing), Taylor Henry and the legendary Bill Elder.

Via WPXI in Pittsburgh, an hour block of CNN Headline News from November 22, 1986:

First segment of WDSU's 10 PM NewsCenter 6 from December 10, 1986:

Featuring WDSU's version of the '86-'87 "Come Home To NBC" campaign ID:

Long before WGNO had an actual functioning news operation that tried to compete with WWL, WDSU and WVUE, the then-independent Ch. 26 - like many indies around the country - carried prime time news briefs in lieu of traditional half-hour newscasts.

For years during the pre-ABC era, these news briefs were anchored by Mel Leavitt (legendary WDSU newsman/sportscaster) who hosted public affairs programs on Ch. 26 in addition to booth announcing for the station, as you'll hear in the movie opens on this clip:

From The SBC Archive, Peter Jennings' historic 24 hour coverage of the worldwide New Millennium celebrations on ABC (playlist in 12 parts):

Dan Rather's coverage of the New Millennium celebrations on CBS:

NBC's coverage of the New Millennium celebrations with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, among many: