Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[Info Junkie 1286]

KGUN’s WNDU 1986 open in full

[SoFloTVClassics 1005]

Clips From KMVT in 1987

 

WTOK News 1987

 

KJCT clips. '83-'84

[Samantha 2902]

The channel with the WTOK clips had this and they can't identify where it came from. No other Meridian station would have had a newscast at this time?

 

[Samantha 2902]

The KJCT clip has the KXLY 1983 theme for the headline bed/promo and the KLTV 1985 theme for the actual second of open.

[hmaxhanson 650]

The channel with the WTOK clips had this and they can't identify where it came from. No other Meridian station would have had a newscast at this time?

 

 

That was most likely WTZH Channel 24 (now WMDN).

[Samantha 2902]

Wow, did not know they had news in the 80s (Wikipedia sure doesn't). They had a news director in 1988, though, so they must have had news at some point before the station imploded at the start of the 90s and went dark.

 

Channel 30 was still WLBM, a semi-satellite of WLBT, so they probably had the newscast from Jackson. This sure isn't that.

 

Edit: Here's another WTZH news segment — confirming it's them! (Ignore the video description) It's tagged "Action Sports 24", so their news must have been called "Action News". (It does seem like this was the title for their news operation at the time)

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1005]

WBKO bloopers

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

And now for something really obscure... KPHO's carpet-on-the-wall set as seen in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987). The man playing the anchor -- I believe he makes a few more appearances in the movie -- was the station's real-life film critic, the late Bill Rocz:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=l6nmESN_3LU;t=49

 

I believe the set was gone by the time the movie premiered, right?

[Samantha 2902]

I believe the set was gone by the time the movie premiered, right?

 

Not quite.

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1005]

Not quite.

 

Boy even after all the years of stain master and scotch gaurd protection that set just makes me want to sleep on it.

[WWUpdate 1292]

KABC, Los Angeles; 11 p.m., 1972:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Vn-39L9OnPk;t=17

[onthesea 292]

A very interesting report from Jana Wendt (then with 60 Minutes) describing the anger of Melbourne viewers when HSV7 was bought by Fairfax in 1987 and Mal Walden was sacked. He later joined ATV10 and retired from that station in 2013.

[Samantha 2902]

WJBK in 1995...

 

[Samantha 2902]

KHJ in the mid-late 80s had "Simply Great News" with its 8 and 9pm news shows:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kATV26ZfsFk

 

A couple of samples of that KCBS-WNEV theme from news teases with Warren Olney, from 1987:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyW4L0-Ho0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YAJz7BMSC0

 

On the Spanish side are these KWHY news bits... Early 2000s? Very late 90s? I have no idea on a date.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfraWWYFl0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di8pCXvS36w

[Samantha 2902]

This is good stuff too:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBmvekq9_U

 

And listen to Beau Weaver slog his way through KTTV's license renewal PSA!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v__UCM6Bf7M

 

There's even a KDOC signoff:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISuneEi19WU

 

And another KBSC ON TV promo with Chuck Riley — who could sell absolutely anything, anywhere, anytime with that voice:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJoB5pXfyRQ

[Ntropolis 599]

WJBK in 1995...

 

 

Let’s take a moment to recognize how good Eyewitness Primetime is. Too bad it didn’t last long.

[WWUpdate 1292]

WTOP; Washington, D.C.; 1972:

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

Antenne 2's 8 p.m. news from 40 years ago this week, this time around with a Chromakey background (The bizarre coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa as Emperor of Central Africa -- a lavish ceremony that virtually bankrupted his country -- is the lead story):

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

KDRV ripping off WCVB

[SoFloTVClassics 1005]

KHJ 1965 film reel.

 

[Samantha 2902]

Sheesh, they had to cut out *everything* good out of the KDRV clip, didn't they...

[10Viewer 338]

Ed Planer saves NBC. When an update is about to go live and Chuck Scarborough is nowhere to be found:

 

[Samantha 2902]

Wow, never seen that before!

 

Planer died in 2011. He was a producer for Today at the time. Later he would become the head of the network's European news operation.

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

We take you back to 1980 and a rare look at WSAV as an NBC station during this period. A news brief can be seen at 5:19 and an ID at 8:43 featuring an unknown news theme WSAV may have used during this period.

 

[Guest]

After many years of searching and waiting, finally a mid-80's KHJ 9 O'Clock News open. Pretty slick and somewhat similar to WOR-TV's from the time. This one's from April, 1984 as evidenced by the top story. Shortly before I came along.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_IB5Uc9Hc