Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[Samantha 2898]

WALA's Action News 10 at 10pm for December 23, 1991:

 

 

In Canadian material, this channel has a good amount of CKCO stuff including the station's 40th and 50th anniversary specials:

 

 

 

Also, I don't remember seeing this graphics package/open... (video is not embeddable)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3wPXRA7-54

[onthesea 292]

Mike Lynch is retiring this summer, and one of the best ways to celebrate his career is with this well-remembered campaign called "I Like Mike" from the late 1980s/early 1990s. I can't believe he's leaving WCVB.

 

[TexasTVNews 1378]

 

 

[qunewsguy 378]

Man that WGGB aircheck was awesome. The Dairy Mart silo building in the commercial at the tail end is in my hometown about a mile from my house! lol

[TheRolyPoly 2577]

On 5/7/2019 at 11:52 AM, onthesea said:

Mike Lynch is retiring this summer, and one of the best ways to celebrate his career is with this well-remembered campaign called "I Like Mike" from the late 1980s/early 1990s. I can't believe he's leaving WCVB.

 

 

He's NOT leaving WCVB. He's going part time as he'll remain for special assignments, major sports events and other things including High 5 and its annual Thanksgiving special.

[onthesea 292]

3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

He's NOT leaving WCVB. He's going part time as he'll remain for special assignments, major sports events and other things including High 5 and its annual Thanksgiving special.

Thanks for clarifying it!

[24994J 5621]

Before we had to suffer through the likes of "Teen Kids News," Chicago's WMAQ subjected its viewers to "Bubble Gum Digest."

 

 

[Samantha 2898]

A whole lot of KUSA's Good Afternoon Colorado from 1990. What is the music used? The VTS Making a Difference pack (WRTV 1991 which really should be KUSA 1990)?

 

 

[10Viewer 338]

WBNS bloopers from the '80s/early '90s:

 

 

Edited May 12, 2019 by 8Viewer

[10Viewer 338]

This is the WSYX reporter that is featured toward the end of the WBNS blooper tape!

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1003]

WKBD UPN 50 10 o'clock news 2001.

 

 

Channel 8 news snippet from Virginia. Unsure of which station.

 

Edited May 14, 2019 by SoFloTVClassics

[JacobC 44]

48 minutes ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

WKBD UPN 50 10 o'clock news 2001.

 

 

Oh my god, that was three nights before terror striked America, the day we’ll never forget

[SoFloTVClassics 1003]

KCTV 5 10 p.m. news 1989

 

KPIX 1993 newscast

 

WFOR 2000 the final KISS concert

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

Here is a KETV newsbreak and promo montage from the 1980s and 2003. Take note at 4:16, because the KETV promo for its weather department uses the KSN 1985 news theme.
 

 

[TexasTVNews 1378]

Vintage Waco TV (1990s)

 

 

 

Vintage Austin TV (1990s) (Part 1)

 

 

 

Vintage Austin TV (1990s) (Part 2)

 

 

[Samantha 2898]

Some of these montages have interesting stuff... This might be the best thing in them:

 

 

If only for their rarity, the KRTV and KECI glimpses are good:

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

If you listen closely, (I believe) KJRH used Soundtrack’s The Image Leader before they switched to WWL News:

And here’s a KETV news brief that proves it used the KSNW 1985 Theme waaaayyyy past its bedtime:

I suspected that. A fellow YouTuber told me that he watched KETV back then and they used the KSNW Theme from 1983 to 1988, and then switched to what is known as the KETV 1989 Theme afterward.

[onthesea 292]

A WCAU morning cut-in from 1991, anchored by John Blunt. Like then-sister station WBBM, WCAU didn't have a morning newscast at the time and aired the CBS Morning News back-to-back from 6 to 7am. When it switched affiliations in September 1995 and became an NBC O&O, launched a 90-minute morning show with a start time of 5:30am and expanded the noon news to a full hour.

 

[T.L. Hughes 903]

1 hour ago, onthesea said:

A WCAU morning cut-in from 1991, anchored by John Blunt. Like then-sister station WBBM, WCAU didn't have a morning newscast at the time and aired the CBS Morning News back-to-back from 6 to 7am. When it switched affiliations in September 1995 and became an NBC O&O, launched a 90-minute morning show with a start time of 5:30am and expanded the noon news to a full hour.

 

Wow, WCAU and WBBM were behind the times, weren't they? It seems weird that any major market Big Three station would have held out on airing a morning newscast through the early 1990s. Many started theirs as early as the late '70s, but most stations in the top-50 markets had expanded local news into the morning slot at some point during the '80s.

[24994J 5621]

36 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Wow, WCAU and WBBM were behind the times, weren't they? It seems weird that any major market Big Three station would have held out on airing a morning newscast through the early 1990s. Many started theirs as early as the late '70s, but most stations in the top-50 markets had expanded local news into the morning slot at some point during the '80s.

 

Can't speak for Philly, but Chicago was generally behind on the morning news trend. Updates in and around the network programs had been standard since the 60s, but no stations aired formal programs until WMAQ and WLS debuted in 1989. That said, there were unsuccessful efforts over the decade to expand. WLS, for example, was toying the idea of a full hour at 6am, but it never debuted.

 

 

(Chicago Tribune, 3/29/82)

[onthesea 292]

1 hour ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Wow, WCAU and WBBM were behind the times, weren't they? It seems weird that any major market Big Three station would have held out on airing a morning newscast through the early 1990s. Many started theirs as early as the late '70s, but most stations in the top-50 markets had expanded local news into the morning slot at some point during the '80s.

We should add KCBS (another O&O) to the list: in 1994 the station canceled its hour-long 6 a.m. newscast and replaced it with a back-to-back airing of the CBS Morning News. The morning show was reinstated on August 12, 1996, beginning at 5:30am.

Edited May 15, 2019 by onthesea

[SoFloTVClassics 1003]

WPLG Looking back at Laurie Jennings 30 year career.

 

WBZL (now WSFL) 2001 newscast with a kickass news intro. 

 

WSVN 2001 News snippets

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

Phone call for NMSA - it’s confirmed KRDO used the WRAL 1982 Theme!

[SoFloTVClassics 1003]

Someone say vintage KSL clips?

 

 

 

[Chris Hadley 129]

On the Internet Archive is a huge collection of Koppel-era Nightline broadcasts, via the Vanderbilt TV News Archive:

 

https://archive.org/details/godaneinbox?&and[]=subject%3A"ABC Nightline"

 

From 1980-83 and 1988-89, the Cronkite/Rather era CBS Evening News:

 

https://archive.org/details/cbseveningnews-1980

 

Late '60s ABC Evening News, plus World News Tonight (1980, 1991, 1993, 1998-99):

 

https://archive.org/details/godaneinbox?&and[]=subject%3A"ABC Evening News"

 

As previously posted on the Marion Stokes documentary thread in the tape room, here is some of what's been digitized already:

 

https://archive.org/details/stokestvarchiveexperiment