Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

And staying in Tampa, a close to WTOG's Eyewitness News in 1983:

 

I already put that there.

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

WKYC (1997 after the Cleveland Indians lost in 7 Games to the Florida Marlins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0XT3ROA-3jg;t=259

Ah! What a year it was for my marlins. Yippee!

[WWUpdate 1291]

KPNX, Phoenix: 10 p.m., 1986 -- no open in the final days of Action News:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCTuWyyHx4

[hmaxhanson 650]

KPNX, Phoenix: 10 p.m., 1986 -- no open in the final days of Action News:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCTuWyyHx4

 

Newspapers.com says that Action News became Channel 12 News on April 28th. That was also when they debuted a new set which I believe was used until they bacame "Arizona's News Station" in 93.

 

Here's KRTV in 1997 with Stephen Arnold's Newsleader:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=NSam7b4-9sc;t=43

[Samantha 2895]

As to the lack of an open, KPNX never bothered to produce a new open for the 10pm show when Linda Álvarez left for Los Angeles.

 

This was the 10pm open that belonged to that set:

 

 

They were also at that time in the middle of a two-phase brand transition. Around November 1985, KPNX debuted the sung We're Going Where You're Going image song and began using it as a close. Keep in mind that this accompanied not only Álvarez being replaced with Patti Kirkpatrick but also

(Dewey Hopper left and then resurfaced in Sacramento — his media career was best described as bizarre). There were very good reasons for KPNX not to have a 10pm open.

 

The April 1986 change was much more wholesale — revamped news set, new logo, end of Action News — and included a more comprehensive news package composed around the WGWYG theme. It was in 1989, again in two phases (apparently), that KPNX phased it out for work done by TVbD. As in 1986, the second phase included a new logo, but set changes did not occur until 1992.

[chris wilson 1]

It works fine for me - it is not a private video. Are you located outside of the United States? T

It works fine for me - it is not a private video. Are you located outside of the United States? That’s the only reason why I would imagine it would be blocked for you.

 

hat’s the only reason why I would imagine it would be blocked for you.

It works fine for me - it is not a private video. Are you located outside of the United States? That’s the only reason why I would imagine it would be blocked for you.

 

 

I am in england so can you send it to me privately please and do you also have a list of your vhs/dvds please?

[sfomspphl 490]

Take a look at around 3:30 in - looks like they did produce one for Patti.

 

I’m thinking the MO was cold open then talent at the first break.

 

That Linda Alvarez one ends with her saying “coming up next...” so it might be mislabeled as an open when it was instead used for the first break.

 

 

As to the lack of an open, KPNX never bothered to produce a new open for the 10pm show when Linda Álvarez left for Los Angeles.

 

This was the 10pm open that belonged to that set:

 

 

They were also at that time in the middle of a two-phase brand transition. Around November 1985, KPNX debuted the sung We're Going Where You're Going image song and began using it as a close. Keep in mind that this accompanied not only Álvarez being replaced with Patti Kirkpatrick but also

(Dewey Hopper left and then resurfaced in Sacramento — his media career was best described as bizarre). There were very good reasons for KPNX not to have a 10pm open.

 

The April 1986 change was much more wholesale — revamped news set, new logo, end of Action News — and included a more comprehensive news package composed around the WGWYG theme. It was in 1989, again in two phases (apparently), that KPNX phased it out for work done by TVbD. As in 1986, the second phase included a new logo, but set changes did not occur until 1992.

[WWUpdate 1291]

WGN, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1989:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrqqS1zdhE

[Info Junkie 1286]

Louis de la Foret a.k.a. Lou Forrest reports WVUE Newscene 8 in 1974:

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

WAVE 1987

 

[onthesea 292]

WAVE 1987

 

I didn't know that Rick Chambers worked at WAVE-TV. He's been in Southern California for a long time.

[sfomspphl 490]

KPIX 10/18/89 - Emmy winning newscast day after earthquake - broadcast from newsroom

 

https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231159

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

I didn't know that Rick Chambers worked at WAVE-TV. He's been in Southern California for a long time.

He also worked in south florida too.

[WWUpdate 1291]

WPIX, New York; 7:30 p.m. news, 1980:

 

[TexasTVNews 1377]

[NewsStar2 90]

This is about the fifth set I've seen that has the girders, the monitor banks, the rounded desk, etc. The most infamous one would be KNXV's "spaceship" set, and I've seen similar ones in use at WGNX (during the late indie/early CBS era), WOIO/WUAB (during the "Cleveland Television News" period), and maybe a couple others. Does anybody know who designed all these sets?

 

I'm reasonably certain it was The Express Group.

[Samantha 2895]

An open from CKND FirstNews in 1991:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=2TywDHrHnBU;t=159

[WWUpdate 1291]

Speaking of CKND, here's the station's 50th anniversary special from 2005 -- it includes a mention of CKND's pre-1975 existence as KCND across the border in Pembina, ND*:

 

 

Part 2:

 

 

Part 3:

 

 

* KCND is mentioned in Timothy Green's The Universal Eye, a 1972 book about television around the world:

 

"The village of Pembina in North Dakota seems a strange place to have a powerful television station. Only a couple of hundred people live there and the nearest American town of any size is many miles away. But the advertisers who queue up to buy time on KCND-TV Pembina have their eye not on Americans, but on the half a million Canadians living just north of the border in the city of Winnipeg. The investment pays off; the people of Winnipeg spend a fifth of their viewing time watching the Pembina station."

[hmaxhanson 650]

It's in DX quality, but still better than nothing, a news open from KTIV from 1999 with Mark Haffner's On Your Side:

[timanny 13]

As to the lack of an open, KPNX never bothered to produce a new open for the 10pm show when Linda Álvarez left for Los Angeles.

 

This was the 10pm open that belonged to that set:

 

 

They were also at that time in the middle of a two-phase brand transition. Around November 1985, KPNX debuted the sung We're Going Where You're Going image song and began using it as a close. Keep in mind that this accompanied not only Álvarez being replaced with Patti Kirkpatrick but also

(Dewey Hopper left and then resurfaced in Sacramento — his media career was best described as bizarre). There were very good reasons for KPNX not to have a 10pm open.

 

The April 1986 change was much more wholesale — revamped news set, new logo, end of Action News — and included a more comprehensive news package composed around the WGWYG theme. It was in 1989, again in two phases (apparently), that KPNX phased it out for work done by TVbD. As in 1986, the second phase included a new logo, but set changes did not occur until 1992.

 

I believe Dewey Hopper ended up at both KTSP and KTVK in the two years between leaving KPNX and arriving in Sacramento.

[Samantha 2895]

I believe Dewey Hopper ended up at both KTSP and KTVK in the two years between leaving KPNX and arriving in Sacramento.

 

He ended up coming back and doing local news cut-ins on an AM radio station here in the 2000s.

[Info Junkie 1286]

Geez, how many opens was WAGA using throughout the 90s?

[Samantha 2895]

My guess is that debuted in early '96 (we already had a 10pm open in March '96 with that look). It was gone by April 1997 because the station became "Fox 5".

[TexasTVNews 1377]

WIOIO's 19 News launch promos from early 1995.

 

[LexTVandRadio 418]

WLEX Graphics Archive - 1980'S