Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[VHSgoodiesWA 334]

KTVB Weekend Report clip from May 1985!

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1037]

WPLG Ch 10 Eyewitness News 1988

 

 

WSVN 1988 Promo 

 

 

WSVN Today in Florida 1988

 

 

WSVN/NBC Today show, Today in Florida 7:25/8:25 Updates 1988

 

 

WSVN Channel 7 News 1988

 

WSVN Channel 7 News at 5:00/5:30 1988

 

 

Edited November 19, 2025 by SoFloTVClassics

[SoFloTVClassics 1037]

WGN 9 Nine o'clock News w/ Full closing theme 1991

 

WTVY Ten o'clock report (clip starts at 31:39) 1996

 

 

Edited November 20, 2025 by SoFloTVClassics

[H-Town TV Fan 250]

WTVY News Ten O'Clock Report (October 9, 1989)

 

WGXA Fox 24 News at 10:00 (November 24, 2003, exactly 22 years ago to this day)

 

KFSN Channel 30 Action News at 11:00 (July 19, 1988)

 

KABC Eyewitness News at 11:00 (January 31, 1987; clip starts at 3:41)

 

WJLA News 7 at 5:00 and 6:00 (November 3, 1993)

 

WDVM (now WUSA) Eyewitness News Nightcast (November 13, 1984)

 

[VHSgoodiesWA 334]

Here's another dump, right before the turkey:

 

KNDO 11/19/93, first 11 minutes of the Late Edition. Mark Johnson at the anchor desk.

A-block of the CBS Sunday Night News, 3/16/86, Charles Osgood, via KXGN!

There's an MTN News open (from KTVQ Billings) at the end of this KXGN commercial compilation from 7/10/1984. I have a Betamax that actually has the KX-5 MTN News on it. (!!!) Coming soon.

Bill Kurtis on the CBS Evening News 6/10/84

Brian Wood in for the (now-late) Aaron Brown on KIRO's Eyewitness News at 11. April 9th, 1990 from a 1:30am rebroadcast on 4/10

 

[24994J 5888]

Wednesday is the day 1995's The Beatles Anthology documentary series hits Disney+, and it's also the 30th anniversary of its premiere on ITV. The ABC run of it aired the prior week, so I dusted off my own VHS copy of the airings on WLS.

 

 

[TVLurker 389]

17 hours ago, 24994J said:

Wednesday is the day 1995's The Beatles Anthology documentary series hits Disney+, and it's also the 30th anniversary of its premiere on ITV. The ABC run of it aired the prior week, so I dusted off my own VHS copy of the airings on WLS.

 

 

Heavily curious but is there any future possibility of future videos being uploaded in 60FPS?

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

A shameless plug....

I've begun loading various airchecks on to my Youtube channel "TVandStuff".  Mostly ones from Cleveland, Columbus, Charleston-Huntington, and a few Youngstown ones with more on the way.  I recognize some usernames from this site who have commented and followed my account.

 

I"m in the process of re-uploading my first clips since I found a better converter and a better VCR for my VHS content.  I have other tapes in S-VHS as well as DVDs that I'll begin uploading in the coming weeks.  These will include newscasts from Panama City and Mobile/Pensacola and random other airchecks from my travels as well from around 2004-2005 up to 2012.

 

Stay tuned!

Edited November 28, 2025 by tyrannical bastard

[hmaxhanson 652]

3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

A shameless plug....

I've begun loading various airchecks on to my Youtube channel "TVandStuff".  Mostly ones from Cleveland, Columbus, Charleston-Huntington, and a few Youngstown ones with more on the way.  I recognize some usernames from this site who have commented and followed my account.

 

I"m in the process of re-uploading my first clips since I found a better converter and a better VCR for my VHS content.  I have other tapes in S-VHS as well as DVDs that I'll begin uploading in the coming weeks.  These will include newscasts from Panama City and Mobile/Pensacola and random other airchecks from my travels as well from around 2004-2005 up to 2012.

 

Stay tuned!

That's your channel? Who knew! Anyhow, good work on the news you've put up, cant wait for the Panama City ones!

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

17 minutes ago, hmaxhanson said:

That's your channel? Who knew! Anyhow, good work on the news you've put up, cant wait for the Panama City ones!

The Panama City ones will be from around 2005-2007 and include WTVY in Dothan, since it was the default CBS affiliate at the time.

[Breaking News 888]

WXIA- the lead anchors doing the 11 pm on Sunday, 1997

 

[H-Town TV Fan 250]

WAKA TV-8 News Midday (November 24, 1994; clip starts at 5:41)

 

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

This is a WJW rebroadcast on WBNX from September 13, 1996.

 

 

At the time, WBNX agreed to rebroadcast WJW's 10:00 p.m. primetime newscast at 11:00 p.m. 

 

Be sure to check out all the promos for all the shows that WBNX aired at the time.  One of their "gets" was an upcoming judge show that would air its first season on WBNX and go on until 2021 with original episodes. (WOIO picked it up the following year and then it's been on WJW since 2000)

 

Now that WBNX is a sister station of WJW, They restored the 11:00 newscast  on 55 that's been absent since WJW became a FOX station.

Edited November 29, 2025 by tyrannical bastard
correct video

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

This is a weekend broadcast from WSYX ABC 6 in Columbus.  It was Mike Bettes' last show there as their weekend meteorologist.

He would go on to be the chief meteorologist at sister station WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina, and then on to TWC...

https://youtu.be/YmmhTYpUFGk

 

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

Here's a who's who of Ohio University student journalists who went on bigger and better things....from WOUB TV's Newswatch.
One did not have to be a Journalism or Telecommunications major to participate, but the staff was largely all student volunteers running a newsroom for TV and radio.

John Klemack - went on to WOWK Huntington, KSTU Salt Lake, and now at KNBC in Los Angeles.
Frank Marzullo - worked weekends at WTAP Parkersburg at the time as well, then went to WFMJ in Youngstown and later WXIX in Cincinnati.
Larry Seward - later worked at KHOU in Houston and is at WFOR in Miami.

Kathleen Cochrane - Worked at WTAP, News14 Carolina (now Spectrum News), and WJW in Cleveland where she was infamously attacked by a cat during a live shot.  She later married Dean DiPiero, the former mayor of Parma, Ohio and later a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives.  Sadly, she passed away in 2018 after complications from a bout with influenza.

Yours truly was one of the camera operators, in fact, this was my very first time operating one of those huge Ikegami studio cameras. 
It didn't go so well...Take a look at the end of sports and see my botched "cookie cutter" shot.  I can still remember the director yelling "CAMERA 3....WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!

Thankfully the credits were wrong at the end  

 

[10Viewer 362]

WBNS weekend newscast from 1997. Those graphics were truly mind-blowing at the time!

 

 

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

10 hours ago, 10Viewer said:

WBNS weekend newscast from 1997. Those graphics were truly mind-blowing at the time!

 

 

They truly were.  Their prior logo and look (the one with the 3D "10") was very underwhelming.  And I think that was even a job done by local firm Cranston-Csuri, best known for their work with CBS Sports during the '80s and '90s. 

 

Their next package was a Giant Octopus job that started out blue and white and then evolved to blue and gold.... Who would have ever thought such a thing would have happened in the land of the Buckeyes?

Edited December 2, 2025 by tyrannical bastard

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

And for my subscribers on YouTube (TVandStuff), I revised all the prior uploads so now they're better quality.  I bought a crappy S-video to HDMI converter on YouTube that made the video levels out of whack, so I devised a better solution. 

 

For the Charleston-Huntington uploads.. I don't know if it was the stations themselves or Time Warner Cable in Athens Ohio that made them look so awful.  Those stations were fed via antenna to the head end.  Columbus stations were fed via fiber to Time Warner's hub at the time after Spring of 2001 (You can see the quality in the WCMH and WSYX uploads from 2000). 

 

At the time, I had access to WOUB, all the major affiliates from Charleston-Huntington, and 4, 6 and10 from Columbus since Athens was part of the Charleston-Huntington Market at the time.  Nowadays, Spectrum carries WSAZ, WCHS and WQCW, and all of the Columbus stations (including WTTE along with "Fox 28") aside from WOSU and WWHO since Athens is now part of the Columbus DMA.

Edited December 2, 2025 by tyrannical bastard

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

A WGHP open from 2005... with The Viper. WGHP replaced its decade-long run of Monster News with this package early in 2005.

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1037]

20/20 and WJLA news snippet 1979

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1037]

WTVM News 1991

 

WKYC Channel 3 News 1987

 

KTBS 3 News 1998 snippet (clip starts at 22:31) 

 

WRBL Newschannel 3 1995

 

KSLA 12 News 1998 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2025 by SoFloTVClassics

[bmasters1 432]

45 years ago today: Walter Cronkite in Washington on the CBS Evening News, the Lennon death the top story: 

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 1037]

TechTV 9/11 coverage 2001

 

 

 

 

[H-Town TV Fan 250]

KTRK's "Marvin Zindler: A Final Farewell" special from 2007. Now that Zindler and his longtime colleague Dave Ward are now reunited in heaven, I figured I would post this in the forum in their memories.

 

[VHSgoodiesWA 334]

Two Boise recordings in this holiday-themed batch.