Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[hmaxhanson 650]

1 hour ago, nbc9houston said:

From KPRC-TV in Houston:

 

Inside Big 2 News (October 1978):

https://texasarchive.org/2018_00996

 

Big 2 News at Six (7/20/1979)

https://texasarchive.org/2019_00673

 

 

 

From the same site, going even older with this newscast, the Jax World at Large:

https://texasarchive.org/2014_00092

[Info Junkie 1286]

10 hours ago, nbc9houston said:

From KPRC-TV in Houston:

 

Inside Big 2 News (October 1978):

https://texasarchive.org/2018_00996

 

Big 2 News at Six (7/20/1979)

https://texasarchive.org/2019_00673

 

 

 

The car commercial in the second one before the news is voiced by Ernie Anderson!

 

KXTV in April 1992, this look probably just had been rolled out:

I can possibly assume this was the same company that did KRON’s and WOWT’s 2D graphics due to the former being in nearby San Francisco.

Edited January 5, 2020 by Info Junkie
Found KXTV clip

[Yankees4life 563]

WDTN had an interesting open back in 75. Looks like they went the Action News route without the theme

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

WHO in 1985:

 

[10Viewer 338]

17 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

WDTN had an interesting open back in 75. Looks like they went the Action News route without the theme

 

 

Sheryl Previll later went by the name Sheryl Browne in Cleveland and Tampa. No idea what happened to her after her departure from WTSP in 1992. 

[Samantha 2902]

1 hour ago, 8Viewer said:

 

Sheryl Previll later went by the name Sheryl Browne in Cleveland and Tampa. No idea what happened to her after her departure from WTSP in 1992. 

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41828191/

 

Well, I didn't expect Tahiti... (The record goes cold after this)

[10Viewer 338]

1 hour ago, Samantha said:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41828191/

 

Well, I didn't expect Tahiti... (The record goes cold after this)

 

I do know she once dated Miles O'Brien back when he was a reporter at WTSP. 

[Marvin Dillweed 74]

WHAS-TV/Louisville, KY in 1975:

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1975 -- with a WPVI-style open:

 

 

Edited January 8, 2020 by WWUpdate

[WWUpdate 1292]

And speaking of WPVI-inspired opens, here's WLS from 1995 with a wintertime version of the 4 p.m. open:

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

Staying in Chicago, a WMAQ news update / tease from 1994 with Ron Magers and Carol Marin:

 

 

[Yankees4life 563]

Here we have a WBZ 11 PM News intro on Boxing Day 1986 (jump to 33:40)

 

[Info Junkie 1286]

8 minutes ago, Yankees4life said:

Here we have a WBZ 11 PM News intro on Boxing Day 1986 (jump to 33:40)

 

Dave Murray!!!!

[Info Junkie 1286]

A full newscast from WYFF, late 90s JCBD in all its glory:

The pitch is a bit lower, FYI.

[WWUpdate 1292]

Here are some newly uploaded short promos from WBBM's legendary "Nobody Does It Better" campaign:

 

 

By the way, we know that WCBS had its own, vastly inferior version of this promo campaign..

 

 

...but were there other versions elsewhere?

[TSSZNews 1052]

On 1/6/2020 at 1:35 AM, Yankees4life said:

WDTN had an interesting open back in 75. Looks like they went the Action News route without the theme

 

--Is that the only non-ABC/Cap Cities station to use those graphics? I can't remember the look being on anything beyond them.

[Yankees4life 563]

1 hour ago, TSSZNews said:

--Is that the only non-ABC/Cap Cities station to use those graphics? I can't remember the look being on anything beyond them.

WKBW also used these graphics and the then CBS affiliate KFSN used it too. 

[WWUpdate 1292]

From 43 years ago this month, WFLD's late-night coverage of Chicago's Blizzard of '67:

 

Part 1:

 

 

Part 2 (an update on the Apollo 1 tragedy, which happened earlier that day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCh32cTIuLo

Part 3 (ham radio reports on the blizzard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UEirnarrNM

Part 4 (news close): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJrZ8xJi5E

 

 

Edited January 11, 2020 by WWUpdate

[jcburns 7]

Hmm, don’t remember WYFF broadcasting in 16x9 back then! Still nice to see though.

[rkolsen 1686]

3 hours ago, jcburns said:

Hmm, don’t remember WYFF broadcasting in 16x9 back then! Still nice to see though.

No station in the US would be broadcasting in 16:9 in the analog era.  This must be something the uploader or YouTube did.  It would be technically impossible unless they were broadcasting a letter boxed feed. However many cameras and technology were only 4:3.

[Yankees4life 563]

2 hours ago, rkolsen said:

No station in the US would be broadcasting in 16:9 in the analog era.  This must be something the uploader or YouTube did.  It would be technically impossible unless they were broadcasting a letter boxed feed. However many cameras and technology were only 4:3.

That is what the YouTuber did. Used the ol Turner-style stretch-o-vision and upscaled the feed to 720p...

[sfomspphl 498]

This has the longest recording of the KARE/KUSA 9 Country / 11 Country closing theme I've come across so far

 

http://tcmedianow.com/wusa-kare-july-16-1985-10pm-post-star-game-coverage/

 

 

 

[newsteam13 400]

2 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

This has the longest recording of the KARE/KUSA 9 Country / 11 Country closing theme I've come across so far

 

http://tcmedianow.com/wusa-kare-july-16-1985-10pm-post-star-game-coverage/

 

 

 

 

Actually I beg to differ at the 28:02 mark
https://tcmedianow.com/wusa-kare-july-16-1985-6pm-star-game-coverage/

 

Although I remember this theme very well. It was first used on channel 9 in Denver (KBTV/KUSA) during its ABC affiliate days. Mike Landess and Ed Sardella delivered the news, Stormy Rottman and Bill Kuster did weather, and Mike Nolan did sports. I especially love the KUSA 9 Country News Opens, which featured the golden pipes of Mr. ABC himself Ernie Anderson.
 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

A never-before-seen WBBM promo from the late '70s:

 

 

[ChocoMingo 44]

Here's some rare footage of KRQE in Albuquerque from 1989, back when it was KGGM-TV.