Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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Early 90s... Tulsa, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and Louisville

 

KJRH (Tulsa, OK) September 28, 1990 6pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235246895[/MEDIA]

 

OETV - KETA (Oklahoma City/Tulsa, OK) September 28. 1990 6:30pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]234256895[/MEDIA]

 

WCPO (Cincinnati, OH) May 3, 1991 6:30am

[MEDIA=vimeo]234257333[/MEDIA]

 

WRCB (Chattanooga, TN) May 10, 1991 11pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235242450[/MEDIA]

 

WDRB (Louisville, KY) August 18, 1991 10pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]234597782[/MEDIA]

 

Jim

[onthesea 292]

Early 90s... Tulsa, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and Louisville

 

KJRH (Tulsa, OK) September 28, 1990 6pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235246895[/MEDIA]

 

OETV - KETA (Oklahoma City/Tulsa, OK) September 28. 1990 6:30pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]234256895[/MEDIA]

 

WCPO (Cincinnati, OH) May 3, 1991 6:30am

[MEDIA=vimeo]234257333[/MEDIA]

 

WRCB (Chattanooga, TN) May 10, 1991 11pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235242450[/MEDIA]

 

WDRB (Louisville, KY) August 18, 1991 10pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]234597782[/MEDIA]

 

Jim

Have you got any WCVB or WJAR newscasts?

[Samantha 2898]

The carpet ad two minutes in on the WCPO clip has the 80s-90s voice of KMOV...

 

And whoever made that WRCB open was thinking TVbD!

 

There's a 1991 KOB "News 4 New Mexico" tease toward the end here...

 

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And whoever made that WRCB open was thinking TVbD!

I'm trying to recall who did WRCB's. When I worked at KAMU in the late 80s, there was some internal feeds for stations, where they'd showcase a designer, to promote creative ideas (i.e., when stations had graphics staffs, and that was a PBS station with no local news...). I believe it was whomever designed the WDIV graphics late 80s/early 90s using First News (where "News 4" flies in and "bounces" off the screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vfR6KD6QZc,

WKXT Knoxville's Great News open (Logo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdk3NfOwEEI)

WBAL's Pride Inside Open (though this isn't the one I have somewhere):

 

WFMY was also a client as was KJRH with their 80s' 2 logo. The design house used a lot of static "cut out"/silhouetted shots and "flying 3D Text" images (aka the end of the WRCB open).

 

I'll see if I can find the original feature...

 

Jim

[onthesea 292]

WCVB commercials from Sunday, June 19, 1994, during ABC's Sunday Night Movie.

Includes a NewsCenter5 update with Anthony Everett at 9:24.

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Have you got any WCVB or WJAR newscasts?

I'm going through everything methodically, migrating from DVD to hard drive(s). I'm prioritizing the posting based on newscast age - the older the better. (I haven't run across my KCEN 1987 newscast yet, but do have the tape, if I need to re-digitize it...)

 

If I run across any pre-2000, they'll get posted, once converted and I don't run out of space for the week (I get 5GB upload/week, unless I upgrade to 20GB - which I'm thinking of doing, but need to save a little money up first). Once/If I upgrade, get ready for a slew of stuff, up through about 2006...

[compubit 674]

2 Bonuses: Twin Cities + classic KTRK clips

 

WCCO (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) August 3, 1998 12noon

[MEDIA=vimeo]235655240[/MEDIA]

 

KTRK (Houston, TX) 2003 - With a classic "MCTYW" open and some unforgettable Action 13 Commentary:

"Maaaarrrvin Zindler, Eye Witness News"

"Thank ya', Marvin" - Dave Ward

[MEDIA=vimeo]235659704[/MEDIA]

 

Jim

[Info Junkie 1286]

WFMY was also a client as was KJRH with their 80s' 2 logo

Yeah, judging by this snippet from early 1990, they could've used that same company's graphics as well.

[TexasTVNews 1378]

Jim, if you have KTVT's special about the switch to CBS... Please post it. Thanks.

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Another Phoenix gem from ewjxn: KTVK's 11 AM Arizona Morning from 1981. Looks a bit like early Good Morning Arizona, which launched 13 years later!

 

 

BTW, this promo shows what KTVK's midday news looked like four years later:

 

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In 1994, KPNX was the only Phoenix station not to change affiliations. This is how the station promoted its bond with NBC at the time:

 

 

And here are a couple of KNPX updates/teases from that period:

 

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And another KPNX promo with the same message:

 

[T.L. Hughes 903]

Found two more goodies for y'all:

KOKH's NewsTouch25 in 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=nySUjMYbLSA;m=2;s=59

 

A couple of things to unpack here. One, the 'stache that Kelly Ogle is sporting in the clip; and two, his obvious attempt not to speak in his Oklahoma drawl.

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WCCO, Twin Cities, 1975, 6 p.m. with Skip Loescher, later a CNN reporter:

 

 

WCCO, 10 p.m news, 1979:

 

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WCCO's 30th Anniversary Special:

 

[hmaxhanson 650]

From November 8, 1974, here's KOB-TV's Eyewitness News with the Tom Sellars Action News Theme:

[Info Junkie 1286]

KPNX weekend 1994 from ewjxn:

 

And he's also got some WXYZ in there (when exactly did they debut those graphics, it was definitely between Dec. 1995 & May 1996)

[Samantha 2898]

KXLY in 1987:

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

Here's more rare KOAT in the 1980s. It includes a news close using "Where You Belong" by TM Productions at 4:32 and a news open from 1983 at 4:54. The open from 1983 features an unknown news theme.

 

[Samantha 2898]

So this video is interesting if only to note that KOAT was still using the John Christopher Burns graphics but the desk on their set had hints of the Hearst package to come...

 

[hmaxhanson 650]

From December 16, 1980, an intro from WAVY-TV before The Daily News. The theme is an instumental track from NBC's infamous Proud as a Peacock campaign:

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Early 90s Syracuse

 

WSTM (Syracuse, NY) October 23, 1991 6:00pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235658028[/MEDIA]

 

WTVH (Syracuse, NY) October 25, 1991 6:30am

[MEDIA=vimeo]235658495[/MEDIA]

 

WTVH (Syracuse, NY) October 22, 1991 6:00pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235660249[/MEDIA]

 

WIXT (Syracuse, NY) October 23, 1991 5:30pm

[MEDIA=vimeo]235657564[/MEDIA]

 

Jim

[Chris Hadley 129]

WDSU New Orleans' "Breakfast Edition" from October 10, 1986:

 

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From 1992, a KTVK news tease and a promo:

 

 

And from 1985, several newsbreaks from WGN:

 

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Also from Phoenix, a complete 1988 KTSP newscast (10 p.m.):