Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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A 1983 edition of CNN's Prime News during the invasion of Grenada (but the newscast opens with an item about the shutdown of CNN competitor SNC):

 

 

A 1988 edition of CNN's Sports Latenight with Dan Patrick and Gary Miller. The two anchors would leave for ESPN in 1989 and 1990 respectively:

 

 

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WRBL Newswatch 3 1989

 

 

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WCBS 1993 blizzard look back

WCBS Y2K look back

 

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An anatomy of eyewitness news - 1969 WABC special showing behind the scenes look at newscast production 

 

 

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WSIL News 3 Weekend (December 8, 2002)

 

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From 1987, WCCO's special coverage of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 225, including bits of WJBK's coverage:

 

 

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WTVC TV-9 Action News Update open (May 1989)

 

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WGN 9 O'Clock News open, 2/21/1989 - Pat Harvey, Rick Rosenthal

Early Today in 2000, when CNBC was producing it. Nanette Hansen anchors

and a really rare find indeed! Montana Today from KECI Missoula, taped April 6th, 2000. Monte Turner is still around taking on a county role (commissioner?) for nearby Mineral County, home to St. Regis and Superior. Features include a school skit on the dangers of tobacco that parodies Millionaire.

 

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Some KPRC promos from 1982 (including some for 2NEWS):

 

 

 

 

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KJAC Channel 4 News Weekend Report open (November 1987)

 

KFDM Channel 6 News Update open (November 1987)

 

Edited June 15, 2023 by H-Town TV Fan

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Hot off the digitization press: WTNH Action News 8 from May 23, 1986. This capture runs a good 45 minutes.

 

 

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WFLA Anniversary clips 1997/2005

 

 

KTVO News 1990

 

 

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WJAR from December of 2000.

 

 

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Severe weather coverage tops this 1993 WMAQ newscast:

 

 

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KNTV 1990 preshow

 

 

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A 1998 promo ID for WMAQ during their NewsChannel 5 period:

 

 

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A 1976 WNAC news promo:

 

 

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Here's a 1982 promo for the Satellite News Channel, a short-lived competitor to CNN jointly owned by Group W and ABC. The promo focuses on SNC's regional coverage and features partner stations KOMO, WKYZ, WCCO, KPIX, and KTTV, which produced regional inserts for SNC viewers in their part of the country. The expense of these segments, which were distributed via different satellite feeds, contributed to SNC's financial woes and its eventual takeover (and closure) by Turner:

 

 

 

Here's a promotional video produced in 1983 to mark SNC's first year on the air, which would its last full year on the air:

 

 

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WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1980:

 

 

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KOLN-KGIN 10-11 News 1988

 

 

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NBC News Sunrise from July 16, 1999, anchored by Lori Stokes:

 

 

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Friday, February 16, 1990 full broadcast of 20/20 on ABC, from KTVO Channel 3 in Kirksville/Ottumwa, IA

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Record cold in Chicago dominates this 1982 WLS newscast:

 

 

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KBMT Eyewitness News 1986 intro

 

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A 1992 promo for WMAQ's First Thing in the Morning, a wacky, informal newscast featuring Allison Rosati and the antics of Bob Sirott, a former WLS-AM disc jockey:

 

 

 

By the way, Bob Sirott's and his antics were not appreciated by WMAQ's management and he ended up being let go by the station in 1993. He moved to WFLD where he reinvented First Thing in the Morning as the equally off-beat Fox Thing in the Morning, but now with a co-anchor, Marianne Murciano, who played along with his jokes. (The would eventually get married.) Here's a clip -- including the open -- from 1999: