Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[TexasTVNews 1378]

 

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[WWUpdate 1292]

WBBM, Chicago; 5 p.m., 1997:

 

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[Samantha 2898]

News. Out. Of. The. Box. 15 minutes of show elements and highlights in glorious 60fps at master quality! This might be the vintage news video of the year, and it's only January 8.

 

 

There's also some other material...

 

 

and

 

 

[newsteam13 400]

4 hours ago, Samantha said:

News. Out. Of. The. Box. 15 minutes of show elements and highlights in glorious 60fps at master quality! This might be the vintage news video of the year, and it's only January 8.

 

 

 

at the 5:52 mark - we get to hear the near-complete closing theme, which was part of the KIRO news theme package done locally by the Seattle Symphony. It was almost like listening to the theme from the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; it had a thunderous, pounding orchestral sound.

In My Opinion, News Outside the Box was the XFL of local newscast. I mean, it was a brilliant, totally badass idea, but unfortunately, it never caught on with the Seattle news audience. 

[Breaking News 835]

WFTV producing WRBW UPN 65 -1997

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

WGN, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1997:

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

On 1/8/2021 at 11:36 PM, newsteam13 said:

 

at the 5:52 mark - we get to hear the near-complete closing theme, which was part of the KIRO news theme package done locally by the Seattle Symphony. It was almost like listening to the theme from the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; it had a thunderous, pounding orchestral sound.

In My Opinion, News Outside the Box was the XFL of local newscast. I mean, it was a brilliant, totally badass idea, but unfortunately, it never caught on with the Seattle news audience. 

 

Some elements remind me of another failed format:

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1003]

Non news clip, but historic nonetheless. WBFS 1991 it contains a near complete Grant/Combine Broadcasting theme early into the clip.

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

WMAQ, Chicago; 6 p.m., 1993:

 

 

[WAVY 10 Fan 233]

Found this on the FuzzyMemories channel. It's a 1973 CBS News special called "What's the Presidency All About?" (apparently a Saturday morning broadcast {having preempted Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids} and which the description describes as almost like an extended version of the long-running In the News segments) and was hosted by then-CBS Chief White House Correspondent Dan Rather 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

From Chicago, a rare WFLD clip from the period after Kris Long left and before Walter Jacobson joined the station as the 9 p.m. co-anchor -- along with a pretty unconventional open:

 

 

[newsteam13 400]

5 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

From Chicago, a rare WFLD clip from the period after Kris Long left and before Walter Jacobson joined the station as the 9 p.m. co-anchor -- along with a pretty unconventional open:

 

 

 

Talk about FOX ATTITUDE right there...especially in the news open. Feels like WSVN up in here throughout the show!

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[24994J 5621]

8 hours ago, WWUpdate said:

From Chicago, a rare WFLD clip from the period after Kris Long left and before Walter Jacobson joined the station as the 9 p.m. co-anchor -- along with a pretty unconventional open:

 

 

 

I did a little digging in the past, and while he's not there, Walter had debuted as co-anchor at least a couple months before this broadcast.

[WWUpdate 1292]

And, just uploaded by Sloan's TV Archive, here's WFLD's weekend 9 p.m. news from 2001:

 

 

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[WWUpdate 1292]

Staying in Chicago, a rarely-seen-on-YouTube 5 a.m. edition of WLS's news from 2001:

 

 

[24994J 5621]

And even more rare, a WLS weekend newscast from that same weekend in 2001. This open has never been seen on YouTube.

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

Elizabeth Vargas and Mike Parker anchor this weekend WBBM newscast from 1990:

 

 

[Georgie56 3318]

And continuing with Chicago Memorial Day morning news in 2001, the 8am hour of Fox News In The Morning from WFLD.

 

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

And for completeness' sake, here's WMAQ'a 6 a.m. news from that day:

 

 

[Yankees4life 561]

Got some gems here

https://youtu.be/reyvrrdpw1E
https://youtu.be/drUOQvR9Tnc
https://youtu.be/H6qFl4wytEo
https://youtu.be/gBUvzNdyaS4
https://youtu.be/sgn2mWKlIZs
https://youtu.be/pW-kh51O8jQ
https://youtu.be/BMfy3fZa864

[Chris Hadley 129]

More CNN Headline News from its golden era. This block aired May 24, 1988, and the start of the video has that copyright bumper I've been looking for for years.

 

 

[newsteam13 400]

1 hour ago, Chris Hadley said:

More CNN Headline News from its golden era. This block aired May 24, 1988, and the start of the video has that copyright bumper I've been looking for for years.

 

 

 

Ahhh, the CNN Headline News I remember. It was where America could watch a 30-minute national newscast every half hour 24/7. World and National news that was ready when WE were. While we were having breakfast, on our lunch break, after dinner, before bed, whenever! We knew what was going on (across the country and around the world) every chance we got during the day EVERY DAY. That's just not the case anymore

[Samantha 2898]

Not exactly local news, but with plenty of interesting presentation: CBN NewsWatch Today for November 4, 1995, with a custom Gari package and voiceover by Hal Brown:

 

 

[Chris Hadley 129]

On 1/14/2021 at 10:00 PM, Chris Hadley said:

More CNN Headline News from its golden era. This block aired May 24, 1988, and the start of the video has that copyright bumper I've been looking for for years.

 

 

How great it would be if we had anything like Headline News today. Just news, no opinions, debates, or sensationalism.

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WTAP with what could be the last usage anywhere of News Image/News Image Plus: