Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[MediaZone4K 2165]

Today Show (2003): Allied forces take over Baghdad:

CNN (2002): End of Ground Zero cleanup ceremony. Was surprised to find the exact date the tragic site was finally cleared:

 

Edited November 27, 2021 by iron_lion

[H-Town TV Fan 214]

WCIA Newscope (November 30, 1987)

 

WCIA Channel 3 News at 6:00 from that same day.

 

KDKA Eyewitness News Update (December 19, 1989)

 

WFMY News 2 at 11:00 (November 17, 1982)

 

[VHSgoodiesWA 303]

WQAD Nightside open 1995, found on a YT channel that mostly had family home movies

WQAD clip 1998

KWQC news from 1997

 

Edited November 29, 2021 by VHSgoodiesWA

[H-Town TV Fan 214]

WRGB NewsCenter 6 New at 11pm (October 19, 1997)

 

[Daybreak 288]

YouTube has all of CBS Moring Shows openings from 1961 to present day and a couple of things caught my eye…

 

1. I did not know Diane Sawyer was on the CBS  morning program so long. I just thought she was there for like a year but from the video it seem she was a cohost for much longer. 
 

2. Out of all the cohost of this program, I distinctly remember Rene Syler and Maggie Rodriguez taking them getting let go from the show the hardest. 
 

3. I always said it was a huge mistake to fire Maggie and Harry to replace them with Erica and Chris. They were not that good and it was destined to fail.  

https://youtu.be/jTWV2lSeHvU 

[sfomspphl 490]

15 hours ago, Daybreak said:

YouTube has all of CBS Moring Shows openings from 1961 to present day and a couple of things caught my eye…

 

1. I did not know Diane Sawyer was on the CBS  morning program so long. I just thought she was there for like a year but from the video it seem she was a cohost for much longer. 
 

2. Out of all the cohost of this program, I distinctly remember Rene Syler and Maggie Rodriguez taking them getting let go from the show the hardest. 
 

3. I always said it was a huge mistake to fire Maggie and Harry to replace them with Erica and Chris. They were not that good and it was destined to fail.  

https://youtu.be/jTWV2lSeHvU 

 

They finally figured out mornings with Charlie / Gayle / Norah, but then...

 

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

I have been looking around on YouTube and you'll be happy to know that I came across a rare broadcast of "Action News Magazine" as aired over WPCQ-TV 36. You can watch it at here and it features a future Atlanta news legend in Amanda Davis. Yes, Amanda Davis worked at WPCQ before coming to Atlanta several years later. And it also features Robert D. Raiford who would go on to become a part of the John Boy & Billy radio show.

[MediaZone4K 2165]

(1990)Classic ABC News promo featuring most of the network's big shot anchors. Wish Charlie Gibson and Joan Lunden could have made it in too. 

 

The successive deaths of the Soviet Union's leaders in just 3 years: 

CBS Evening News (1982): Leonid Brezhnev's death

CBS Evening News (1984): Yuri Andropov's death

CBS Evening News (1985): Konstantin Chernenko's death, Gorbachev becomes leader

 

Edited December 4, 2021 by iron_lion

[H-Town TV Fan 214]

KTRK Eyewitness News Tonight (August 9, 1996)

 

[newsteam13 394]

2 hours ago, iron_lion said:

(1990)Classic ABC News promo featuring most of the network's big shot anchors. Wish Charlie Gibson and Joan Lunden could have made it in too. 

 

 

Charles Gibson, Joan Lunden and Spencer Christian came later.

 

In 1997 to be exact.

 

That was when Good Morning America moved from ABC's entertainment division to the News division. 

Edited December 4, 2021 by newsteam13

[H-Town TV Fan 214]

KUMV TV-8 Night Report (September 21, 1991) Sounds like a very early Bill Ratner sighting in the introduction of the newscast.

 

 

 

 

Courtesy of NW ND Farmer & Rancher / Video Archive, which has also uploaded some commercials (national and local) and station I.D.'s (including some from KUMV STILL using the NBC "Proud N" logo in 1991!).

Edited December 8, 2021 by H-Town TV Fan
Forgot to put parts 4 and 5 in the original version.

[WWUpdate 1291]

WLS, Chicago, 10 p.m. (rebroadcast), complete, 1992:

 

 

[24994J 5568]

21 minutes ago, WWUpdate said:

WLS, Chicago, 10 p.m. (rebroadcast), complete, 1992:

 

A couple notes.

• This is within the first month or so of News Series 2000 Plus' two decade run on WLS, though the station's top-to-bottom refresh was almost a year-long process.
  • Early 1992: in-show graphics and lower thirds
  • Fall 1992: WPVI-style opens and new theme, plus the move to the temporary set
  • Jan/Feb 1993: New set and a few anchor changes
• Looks familiar, but this is a temporary set. The late 80's model was reconstructed elsewhere, while the new one for 1993 was being built.
  • The easy was to tell is the wide branded panel behind the 2 anchors. The background on the hard set was narrower, so they could pull up the curtain to expose a green screen for reporter tosses.
  • Also, the entire run of that set, from 1987 to 1992, featured only circle 7's on the walls. The placement of ''Eyewitness News' was a preview of what would be on the new set, just in the old model's dark blue, and not the much lighter shade of the new.

Edited December 5, 2021 by 24994J

[DucNguyen0131 49]

Here's one in Albany for the 6pm WNYT newscast back in 2000:

 

[DucNguyen0131 49]

Now, here's the old NewsCenter 3 for WHSV in 1987!

 

[timanny 13]

On 9/29/2021 at 4:12 PM, RCA TK47 said:

Some May 1987 KOVR 13 NEWS promos (8:55) with anchor Dan Gray supposedly explaining why he moved to California and KOVR's GM Ed Pfeiffer asking viewers for feedback on how to make the then ABC affiliate better station.  I remember seeing these when KOVR originally aired them way back when 34 years ago and thinking to myself "This will never work".  This look didn't last long at KOVR... Neither did Dan Gray.  Although I think Gray was a pretty good catch for them though.  I still think he and Jennifer Whitney might've been able to right the ship there at KOVR a little bit if they were given some more time.  P.S. And a brief Rush Limbaugh cameo on the right @ 9:31. 

 

  

 

 

That look didn't last at all...but Dan Gray was there for a few years. They kept changing his co-anchor though; he went through three before they even got to Jennifer Whitney, each lasted about a year. Then they tossed him. He got a raw deal. 

[VHSgoodiesWA 303]

Some more re-uploads:

 

KIRO 11/23/90, partial, with a classic pairing of Aaron Brown, and the late Harry Wappler and Wayne Cody.

and part of CBS News America Tonight from later that evening...RARE!

Stu Seibel signs off from KIMA, 11/16/2007. I am so happy that I finally reuploaded this. Still alive and well retired in Yakima. Love that man...so much knowledge. 

KING 5 News open at the end here, 11/5/1990 - Don Porter, Jean Enersen

 

Edited December 10, 2021 by VHSgoodiesWA

[bmasters1 403]

On 12/5/2021 at 5:19 PM, H-Town TV Fan said:

KUMV TV-8 Night Report (September 21, 1991) Sounds like a very early Bill Ratner sighting in the introduction of the newscast.

 

 

 

 

Courtesy of NW ND Farmer & Rancher / Video Archive, which has also uploaded some commercials (national and local) and station I.D.'s (including some from KUMV STILL using the NBC "Proud N" logo in 1991!).

 

Why would KUMV be uber-retro in 1991 (using the 1979 bird and N, notwithstanding that today's 6-feathered bird would have been 5 years old by then)?

[WWUpdate 1291]

A 1989 promo for WBBM's The 10 O'clock News:

 

 

 

[Jared DiCarlo 53]

A special treat courtesy of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Here’s a Ten O’Clock News report from WGBH in Boston, followed by outtakes of Vincent Price for PBS’s Mystery! program.

https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_15-rn3028pt70

[H-Town TV Fan 214]

WCPO Channel 9: The Al Schottelkotte News open at the 2:39 mark. (December 29, 1981)

 

WBZ News 4 at 11 (July 16, 1995)

 

[WWUpdate 1291]

KMSP, Twin Cities, 9 p.m., 1996:

 

 

[H-Town TV Fan 214]

WXYZ Channel 7 Action News Tonight (November 10, 1998)

 

WDIV 24-Hour NewsBeat Update (1992)

 

[DucNguyen0131 49]

Here's some classic old treat:

 

[Samantha 2895]

Watch the close at 36:34; guess the Newsmat was still in place when they debuted that look!