Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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Here's a clip from KTVW, circa 2002. Note the "33" in the logo bug has a different font than other Univision stations at the time. Obviously they were trying to get familiar with the then new RudeHoney graphics package.

 

[10Viewer 334]

This just in from Omaha: WOWT from 1979:

 

 

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Edited January 22, 2019 by TexasTVNews

[Samantha 2895]

A bit more recent fare...

 

This KCTV newscast from 1988 even includes a political commercial voiced by Paul Anthony!

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

WCBS promotes Bernie Smilovitz on his 2-year break from Detroit in 1994.

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A KIEM morning update from 1989, does that look better than what they had throughout this decade?

 

 

Edited January 24, 2019 by hmaxhanson

[Info Junkie 1286]

Straight from Mike Piggott’s channel, it’s “Lafayette Live” TV-18 News from 1996:

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

Forty years ago today, a major blizzard struck Chicago. Here's WMAQ's special extended late newscast:

 

 

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JM5mMcnaFg

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBsgFjkVs2g

[MikePulse 318]

Entertainment Tonight’s 10th anniversary. 

 

[10Viewer 334]

Thirty years ago today...the execution of Ted Bundy. Warren Elly of Tampa's WTVT reports from outside Florida State Prison. Side note: John Wilson, then working for WTSP, was an observer in the execution chamber:

 

 

[Samantha 2895]

More footage from that missing kid story from December 1994 in Michigan (believe it or not, he's still missing!):

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

WNGE 1977 Morning newscast

 

1985 KTTV Newscast

 

WAVE 3 newsbreak 1986

 

WBKB 1994 Newscast

 

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

KKTV 1994 News close.

 

Florida News Channel 2001 Newscast.

https://youtu.be/kyVF1t_rCsM

[Info Junkie 1286]

And from the same market as KKTV, we have a KOAA open from 1993, still using NBC: The Place To Be long past its retirement:

Id also point out this was back when Cordillera was one of those companies that did things on the cheap.

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2 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

And from the same market as KKTV, we have a KOAA open from 1993, still using NBC: The Place To Be long past its retirement:

Id also point out this was back when Cordillera was one of those companies that did things on the cheap.

 

This still isn't as cheap and hokey as what KRDO was doing around the same time. Granted, that was a family owned enterprise but that open was just awful.

Other stations were still straggling onto elements of the 1990-91 "The Place To Be" look. I know WCSH used ID's from that going into 1994 and of course KPLC used elements until the VDO Liberty package came into play ca. 2003.

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5 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

And from the same market as KKTV, we have a KOAA open from 1993, still using NBC: The Place To Be long past its retirement:

Id also point out this was back when Cordillera was one of those companies that did things on the cheap.

A year later they were using PNP:

 

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

WMC News brief 1990

 

WLMT Newswatch 30 1996

 

WSJV Wake up News 2000

 

WCMH 1993 Hello Columbus

 

[Samantha 2895]

Nice to have a complete and non-glitched open of the first WPTY/WLMT theme! All the opens we have from those first few months are either bugged out or incomplete. The 9pm show with Harleston and Houston was the first in Memphis (and in the nation!) to be anchored by two African-American men. Also, I'm a big fan of that theme bed.

 

The first day of operation at WPTY News Watch 24 saw the 6pm newscast go out with a really harsh buzzing sound and the 10pm open air no fewer than three times (local newspaper accounts confirm this was how it went out!):

 

 

The first WLMT 9pm show had its own big blunder, when Houston, who had been poached from WDAF, welcomed viewers to News Channel 30...

 

 

Their launch was so bad they changed lead male anchors within two weeks of going on air and fired a producer in January 1996. Within five months, they had changed news themes.

 

The problems weren't just presentation and technical, either (they kind of raced the clock to begin broadcasts). The opening night sports report mentioned "Memphis University" instead of the University of Memphis. The station essentially failed to convince Memphians that they knew the city.

[Breaking News 826]

 

1995 KDNL [promos as FOX]

 

1996 KDNL [10 pm news as ABC affiliate]

 

1998[5 pm news as ABC affiliate; solid newscast 20 years ago]

 

 

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

A WGEM Open appears in this video 

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1 hour ago, Info Junkie said:

A WGEM Open appears in this video 

I was gonna post that before you did, a great use of Balls & Walls, and in such a small market too!

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WUSA / KARE 11 News Sunrise Nov 1, 1985

 

 

 

 

And here's a fun find - clips from KARE 11 Sunrise in 1990 - where they're using a smaller scale version of the national Today show living room set

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

Ever wanted to hear Doug Paul do am impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

[Samantha 2895]

The open to an edition of WKBD's "The Ten O'Clock News" from April 20, 1988. That "KDFW 1990" theme probably was used here first:

 

 

Is the theme related to this image song? WGAL used it, too, and this theme!

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Ramona said:

The open to an edition of WKBD's "The Ten O'Clock News" from April 20, 1988. That "KDFW 1990" theme probably was used here first:

 

 

Is the theme related to this image song? WGAL used it, too, and this theme!

 

 

KDFW, too. The news theme and promo song were also heard in San Francisco, but on different stations. KTVU used the news theme for their weekend 6:00; and KOFY had the promo.