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I know, you're getting tired of this Phoenix material, but is it worth it or what:

 

First off, a video featuring Mary Jo West, one of the trailblazers of women in TV news. It even includes another sample of that late 1970s KOOL-TV theme:

 

Secondly, I follow a Google+ page that posts excellent Phoenix historical stuff, and today it was all TV news:

 

KOOL 1977 print ad with the team of Bill Close, Mary Jo West, Roy Allred and Bill Denney

KTAR-TV 1966 print ad: "14 GOOD REASONS for watching NEWS on Channel 12", with the news team of Ray Thompson, Frank Peddie, Bob Vache and Bill Stull

KTAR's studios in the 70s: gotta love the hanging sign with the old NBC peacock!

 

And if that's not your cup of tea, maybe a WRCB news update from 1984 is? Or

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From stevations' channel

 

1986 WNYW Channel 5 News Close:

 

1986 WNYW Channel 5 News Update (poor audio):

 

And somewhere, an audio compilation from WAVY-TV that includes part of a Channel 10 Eyewitness News broadcast...from July 22, 1969!!! (just after the Moon landing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlVDj0O4HLM

Some new Internet Archive items but this is the only really interesting or new one, WAGA from 1987 with "Eyewitness News Morning Edition": https://archive.org/details/tobacco_ugw27a00

 

EDIT: This is the same guy who voiced KTVK and who the NMSA thinks is Casey Kasem (final five seconds of open are VO). Any clue on if it's really him?

A bit of CNN as seen in Japan back in 1984 -- it's a mix of CNN from the U.S. (this was before CNN International was launched) and Japanese-language, CNN-branded segments from Tokyo:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Ptglbft9o

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That bit at 1:30 in with John Young's voiceover is excellent and unexpected amid all of the Japanese additional material.

 

And speaking of Japan...jump forward five years and step aboard the News Shuttle! The open even includes an animated Space Shuttle.

 

If you're looking for something a little more familiar, there's always WLNE: this 1990 news open is the earliest known date for this theme.

Neglected to post this additional Japan open from 1993. The (morning) program is called "Oh!", but before that, a sign-on at 5:50 with station ID, slide with some sort of text including day and date (possibly some sort of "have a good day!" if Google Translate isn't completely crazy), and what appears to be an old slide over which the announcer even reads the station's calls (!), JONR-TV (notice the difficulty the announcer has with the R).

 

Like with all of this user's uploads, the local stations are in the Kansai region of Japan. This particular station is known as "ABC".

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