Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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WLEX Graphics Archive - 1980'S

 

Pretty close - The Network/Affiliate Graphics during the first half are from the 1990-91 era campaign "The Place to Be". Not sure about the news elements on the second half.

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KGO January 28, 1986 - Challenger coverage newscast with Van Amburg. He's one of a kind, great anchor, though takes a little liberty with speculation at times here trying to take on a complex national story.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=6gwnt3cBhRo;t=487

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WLEX Graphics Archive - 1980'S

This reminds me of WTVJ's Watch our team work news theme.

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So good to turn to anyone?

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Some Phoenix news clips (but no opens) from 1982 -- all of them about radio station KZZP:

 

EDIT: Well, the video got removed, so I'll take advantage of this break in our regularly scheduled programming to share a a few of my favorite non-news opens.

 

WQED, Pittsburgh; The Infinite Voyage (a science documentary series), 1989:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=E8DOV2VLTzs;m=1;s=57

 

Yorkshire Television, UK; Whicker's World (a current affairs travelogue), 1980 -- with a truly unforgettable final shot:

 

 

And from 1987, Our World, a short-lived ABC News series that looked back at important periods in recent American history:

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smjY8tCX_LA

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A WKYC weekend open from 1990, plus a Lincoln-Mercury commercial with John B. Wells on VO!

 

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Some Jacksonville news opens from 1984 in here:

 

 

WTXF in 1992:

 

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Bizarre promo for Canal 13's news service from 1993, which shows a homeless man sleeping in an alley covered with paper sheets while being ignored by a TV news van.

The promo begins at 0:39 and ends at 1:30.

I hope this commercial didn't affect the credibility of the station, which was #1 in news back then.

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A WKYC weekend open from 1990, plus a Lincoln-Mercury commercial with John B. Wells on VO!

 

 

Actually the VO was Mike Lewis.

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Actually the VO was Mike Lewis.

Mike was in the open. John B. Wells does the Lincoln-Mercury commercial before.

 

As long as Tegna owns this website now, it seems right that I should post classic clips from one of it's stations:

A nightime version of their 1979 open, this would have have to been no earlier than 1982, as this was after they moved to their current studios:

 

From September 1983, the first generation of "Clearly The One/The One For You":

 

An updated open from April 1985, this was after they bought a chopper:

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WVEC upload of their coverage of the infamous 1992 April Fools Day prank involving the WNOR-FM "FM 99" morning team of Tommy Rumble and Henry Del Toro (known as Tommy & the Bull) stating that Virginia Beach's Mount Trashmore was about to explode due to a large build-up of methane gas, as reported by Bonita Billingsley (later Harris)

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Here's a real biggie, WOR-TV's sign-on routine and news from July 29, 1984, 16 months after the move to Seacaucus:

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Actually the VO was Mike Lewis.

Wells himself also did some voices for WKYC until late 1989, as they were using Lewis by the San Francisco earthquake

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KTSM, El Paso; 10 p.m., 1988:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mFEdLsR6Y

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Dateline - 2008. KTVU hits the big 50!

 

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In honor of the NCAA national championship game tonight, here's the highlight video that aired on CBS after NC State won the 1983 title on a last-second dunk. Accompanying the montage is the Christopher Cross hit "All Right". It would be another four years before "One Shining Moment" would debut.

 

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KGO NewsScene Tonight open 11/1981

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Z6H_pmncoAY;m=6;s=22

 

KGO NewsScene 6pm open 11/1981

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Z6H_pmncoAY;t=34

 

Look closely and you can see the circle 7 painted on the studio floor.

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Also in that same video...

 

Promo for Channel 7 News (while the newscasts were still using 'News Scene' branding). Guess the changeover happened shortly thereafter. Lots of competition from a surging KPIX those days.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Z6H_pmncoAY;m=1;s=48

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With the recent report that Lou Dobbs allegidly gives advice directly to Trump through speakerphone, I thought I'd like to remind you of all what he was long before he became Trump's #2 fan:

 

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A five-part series on a disease called PBB that hit Michigan farms in the 70s, from WWTV in 1992:

 

 

And some WPIX from the same year. John Gotti's guilty!

 

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Clock and opener of SIC's Jornal da Noite from Saturday, May 22, 2004, anchored by Ana Lourenço and João Adelino Faria (both now at RTP) on the day that Spanish journalist Letizia Ortiz married Felipe de Borbón.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=n-CUwhSzuMQ;t=0

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A WDEF report from April 1997, good example of their last year using the “12” logo from the 1960s

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This is some sort of KGTV 1989 news special called "One Night in San Diego". There's some other stuff in the video too.

 

 

And some of KFMB's 11:00 "News Eight" from October 1989. Rain is adding to the misery of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Note the interesting live report by telephone from KMST's weatherman Carl Bell:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=umoHa5UU3b8;t=459

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A KTUL early 90’s clip of Judd Hambrick interviewing Tulsa news legend Jack Morris