Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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What do we know about WMAQ's Daytime? This clip, featuring Nesita Kwan and Allison Rosati is from 1999; the setup gives out a vaguely "Good Morning Arizona" vibe:

 

 

[24994J 5630]

15 minutes ago, WWUpdate said:

What do we know about WMAQ's Daytime? This clip, featuring Nesita Kwan and Allison Rosati is from 1999; the setup gives out a vaguely "Good Morning Arizona" vibe:

 

I forgot that this existed, period, but I'm questioning the date, as Allison Rosati would've lead co-anchor, by that point. Why/how would she be doing a 10am show?

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1 minute ago, 24994J said:

 

I forgot that this existed, period, but I'm questioning the date, as Allison Rosati would've lead co-anchor, by that point. Why/how would she be doing a 10am show?

 

The YouTube description gives the date as March 1999, but we know how unreliable those descriptions can be.

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By the way, here's a clip of KTVK's Good Morning Arizona from 1996 -- you'll see some similarities (although not nearly as much as KBWB, which adopted KTVK's format lock, stock, and barrel in the late 1990, but whose footage from that era has never made it online, at least as far as I know):

 

 

[24994J 5630]

22 minutes ago, WWUpdate said:

The YouTube description gives the date as March 1999, but we know how unreliable those descriptions can be.

 

From that same account, a CLTV open from the late 90's, back when they were based in Oak Brook, IL, a decade before shacking up with WGN. Their former home, a business park, has since been torn down.

 

 

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Speaking of CLTV, we've already seen a 2003 clip of the cable news channel in this thread, so here's one from 2004:

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

WLNS in 2001:

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

WITI! 1983!

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

Here is a short KYW news tease from December 1983 using an unknown theme.

 

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CNN's Inside Politics, 1994:

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

November 1997, KSDK promotes its new look and set, graphics by Hothaus:

 

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KNBC news promo, 1977:

 

 

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KOMO 'Live at 4' open 1984. Looks like the KTRK Live at Five opening animation, plus a special set - looks great in the wide shot

 

 

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KTRK's Good Morning Houston, 1989:

 

 

[TheRyan 560]

5 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

KOMO 'Live at 4' open 1984. Looks like the KTRK Live at Five opening animation, plus a special set - looks great in the wide shot

 

 

 

That is a cool looking set.

[10Viewer 338]

8 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

KNBC news promo, 1977:

 

 

 

Damn, that's an awesome promo!! Big fan of KNBC from the '70s and '80s. 

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50 minutes ago, 8Viewer said:

 

Damn, that's an awesome promo!! Big fan of KNBC from the '70s and '80s. 

 

The overall style is very similar to the well-known "Team to Watch" KNXT promos from a few years later. I wonder if they were produced by the same company that had switched clients in the meantime? (I remember reading that the KNXT promos were done by Collier Concepts.)

 

 

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[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

WISC-TV in 1983.

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

3 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

 

The overall style is very similar to the well-known "Team to Watch" KNXT promos from a few years later. I wonder if they were produced by the same company that had switched clients in the meantime? (I remember reading that the KNXT promos were done by Collier Concepts.)

 

 

 

Clearly off from WUSA and Sky News used it too. But many are those promos too good to resist.

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On 11/11/2019 at 8:35 AM, Info Junkie said:

Also how is that the WAVY News Theme? It sounds Tuesday but I don’t think I’ve heard that cut before.

 

That's the theme called "Tuesday2". It was used on KGTV and WAVY.

http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/#3,1,251

[10Viewer 338]

The music in the WISC newscast must have been distributed to CBS affiliates. It was used in a 1981 WTVJ promo.

[TheOneManHerd 555]

16 minutes ago, 8Viewer said:

The music in the WISC newscast must have been distributed to CBS affiliates. It was used in a 1981 WTVJ promo.

I heard it in a WBTV promo, too. It has an uncanny resemblance to NBC’s Go Where The News Is promo that premiered not long after Steve Sohmer left CBS for NBC. 

[bixpchiphead 105]

7 hours ago, 8Viewer said:

The music in the WISC newscast must have been distributed to CBS affiliates. It was used in a 1981 WTVJ promo.

I seem to recall that this was the first Affiliate package CBS News offered to stations in the Dan Rather era...  WJBK Detroit used it for Newscast bumps during their "2 is the One: NewsBreakers"  era... Up I-75, WEYI Saginaw/Flint/Bay City also used this Affiliate package..

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On 11/18/2019 at 1:28 AM, TheRolyPoly said:

 

Clearly off from WUSA and Sky News used it too.

 

And ATV-10 in Melbourne, Australia, although that version is no longer on YouTube. Only a follow-up promo is still online:

 

 

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KUSI, San Diego; news tease, 1993: