Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[Info Junkie 1286]

It appears WSB was using News Leader by 1987:

 

[hmaxhanson 650]

A very early broadcast of NBC Nightside (it had began 3 weeks earlier) from November 25, 1991: 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

And here are some bits and pieces from the very first edition of NBC Overnight, a  quirky newscast  with great writing that truly set the standard for overnight news programming back in 1982:

 

 

[TexasTVNews 1378]

Skip to 40:53. I've heard that theme from CBS in 1994. Can someone identify the theme?

 

 

Skip to 3:15

 

[blizzard59 41]

WCCO recently posted to Facebook a reel of various reports done from Germany in the wake of the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989.

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

KMTV In 1979 with the “Dream Team”:

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

A couple of WABC news promos from 1968:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1wUTeglPY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myA2fDjMy0E

 

[Samantha 2898]

WJAC celebrates its 35th in 1984:

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

In this 1982 clip, Al Primo, the inventor of the Eyewitness News format, talks to CNN about his consulting work and the makeover of WBZ.  This is an old YouTube upload, but if you haven't seen it, it's worth watching:

 

 

For an in-depth interview with Primo focusing on his WABC work, see Ron Powers' The Newscasters: The News Business as Show Business (1977).

[Superdude 108]

Probably posted before, but lots of great promos here....

 

WTAE-TV 25th Anniversary- Dec. 16, 1983

[Chris Hadley 129]

From January 26, 1981, a segment from WWL's Eyewitness Morning News w/co-anchors John Quaintance and the late Andre Trevigne. Features reports from Dennis Wolter(ing), Taylor Henry and the legendary Bill Elder.

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

Before he hit it big in Dallas, John McCaa was the weekend guy in Omaha.

[hmaxhanson 650]

Here's KPTV from 1983 with the gray Cranston-Csuri graphics and "Eleven Gold" theme:

 

[Ntropolis 598]

This demo reel from Jeff Hertrick offers a rare look at ill-fated Martinsburg, WV Fox affiliate WYVN's newscast. Also includes some clips of his time at WTOC.
 

 

WYVN used the "USA News"-copycat production track "America's Station" from Firstcom.

[WWUpdate 1292]

From 1988, an entire 9 p.m. newscast from WGN in Chicago, before the broadcast was extended to an hour:

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

By November 1982, KETV still had the old logo, along with “Newsbeat” and the recycled 1980 graphics:

However they do have a slide at the end for their meteorologists (Jim Flowers, Rob Dixon, Don Novak), which were later used for the 1983 graphics with the KSNW theme.

 

Also of note (not news): an ATARI commercial from KMART

[WWUpdate 1292]

From 1994, a promo for WBBM's just-launched 4 p.m. news:

 

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

KOAT! 1986!

 

[sfomspphl 498]

KCRA May 1983 weather - still using 'KCRA and You' package - that puts the intro of the Where the News Comes First package sometime between May 83 and January 84

 

 

[susquvalleywgal 520]

 

January 1996. WABC-TV, New York, NY. Blizzard of ‘96. 
 

— Matt

[WWUpdate 1292]

WFLD, Chicago, 9 p.m., 1991; (Were these graphics done by John Christopher Burns?)

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

Or were those graphics by TVbD and the ones below by JcbD? (I'm assuming that the two companies were completely separate by 1991, and that each had market-exclusive clients.)

 

 

Edited December 9, 2019 by WWUpdate

[Info Junkie 1286]

6 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

WFLD, Chicago, 9 p.m., 1991; (Were these graphics done by John Christopher Burns?)

 

 

I think it was in-house. The graphics look a bit less slick and colorful than what TVBD and JCBD were going for at the time.

[WWUpdate 1292]

John Lennon was murdered 39 years ago this week. Here's how the story was covered on WBBM's 10 p.m. news::

 

 

[T.L. Hughes 903]

18 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

WFLD, Chicago, 9 p.m., 1991; (Were these graphics done by John Christopher Burns?)

 

 

 

12 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

I think it was in-house. The graphics look a bit less slick and colorful than what TVBD and JCBD were going for at the time.

Furthermore, the WFLD package shown in the clip lacked a key component of TVbD/JCBD's graphics of the 1980s and early 1990s. The layer effects of the name banners and title logos in the news open just slide from left to right, not zooming out or coming together at a split point. Basically, every package from those two companies had that element at that time; this package doesn't.

 

Compare the WFLD open to the WGN midday open and to these...

 

Edited December 9, 2019 by T.L. Hughes