bmasters1 432 Posted December 22, 2025 Posted December 22, 2025 WEWS TV-5 Eyewitness News, complete evening edition and mostly complete late edition, for Friday, December 4, 1987... WCHS Eyewitness News 8 evening edition, for Thursday, November 15, 2001... Plenty more where those came from; channel has mostly Dothan and Panama City, with some Cleveland. 1
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted December 23, 2025 Posted December 23, 2025 I'm going international on this one... Great Britain Today, December 23rd, 2025, marks 20 years to the day that the ITV News Channel went off the air for good. This was the final programme:
10Viewer 362 Posted December 31, 2025 Posted December 31, 2025 Complete WTSP (ABC) newscast from 1/24/89. The waning days of "Action News" and just before the computer hacking scandal was discovered. A wild year for WTSP
VHSgoodiesWA 334 Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Kicking off the new year with an unearthed KIMA NewsBeat! It's February 24th, 1988, with Julia Clark and someone doing sports that I don't recognize. KREM 2 News clips from May 1985, a Mt. St. Helens retrospective And a CBS Evening News clip from 5/18/85 with Bob Schieffer, also on St. Helens
sfomspphl 545 Posted January 6 Posted January 6 On 12/22/2025 at 3:51 PM, bmasters1 said: WEWS TV-5 Eyewitness News, complete evening edition and mostly complete late edition, for Friday, December 4, 1987... WCHS Eyewitness News 8 evening edition, for Thursday, November 15, 2001... Plenty more where those came from; channel has mostly Dothan and Panama City, with some Cleveland. That sax rendition of 'Good News' during the NBA scores at 1 hour in of the WEWS clip is pretty epic 3
SoFloTVClassics 1037 Posted January 11 Posted January 11 WPRI 12 News 1999 WRC News 4 1989 WRC News 4 1988 KCNC, KMGH, & KUSA Coverage of the Denver Broncos runners up parade after the '87 Superbowl. 1
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I'll never stop saying happy birthday to Today because its a one-of-a-kind morning news program. January 14th, 1952; 74 years ago Today. Its 75th Diamond jubilee is next year.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 This is amazing KOMO during their longtime locally-owned Fisher days. This is KOMO 4 News at 11am in full from Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 (got the day from a brief Wall Street market check during the news). KOMO legend, anchor and Problem Solver Connie Thompson anchors the newscast. She would join the station in 1974 and spend the next 46 years there until her retirement during COVID in 2020. She is truly one of KOMO and Seattle's greats. You'll also see Rachelle Murcia very early on, who's now the main evening anchor at KBAK/KBFX Bakersfield (since 2015), as well as Meteorologist Todd Johnson, who spent 13 years there at KOMO before leaving in 2008. Finally, Cindi Rinehart, the unofficial Queen of Soaps, gives a daytime soap preview at the end to also help promote KOMO's longtime afternoon program Northwest Afternoon, which ran for nearly 24 years from 1984 until fierce competition from syndicated programs at the time (Dr. Phil on KING, Rachael Ray on KIRO, Maury on KCPQ) forced its cancelation in 2008 (Cindi was the only one there for all 24 years of NWA; KOMO would replace with a new syndie at the time, The Doctors). First News at 4:00 would always air after NWA. KOMO was really really solid during these days. Its too bad Fisher took the bait and sold it to Sinclair out of all companies and now we know how that turned out. Also to note... - KOMO 1000 News, that was a thing. An interesting name but I always loved it before they would add Radio to the name a year or so later in 2006. Obviously, they no longer own it because its now Lotus who has KNWN AM 1000 and 97.7 KNWN-FM as Northwest Newsradio. - The newscast is still an hour-long to this day, and still on at 11am, though I think they once stopped it before bringing it back later down the road. - KOMO didn't own KUNS at the time. Someone else had Channel 51 before selling it a year later to Fisher which would turn the station into Univision Seattle. Its today's current owners at Sinclair who stopped that and turned it into arc Seattle in 2024 with CW programming mixed in. Enough analysis, context, and history lessons here. Here's the newscast in full, local commercials, KOMO promos, and all. Enjoy! 2
VHSgoodiesWA 334 Posted January 20 Posted January 20 A couple of new KGW clips in this batch. With teaching, weekend DoorDashing and also helping out with a friend's massive eBay storefront (he's paying me a nice cut of the profit and has a few other guys working for him on the side too...), time for VHS digitizing is pretty limited nowadays.
bmasters1 432 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 KNBC L.A.: 1984 News 4 LA promo w/remastered video, and stereo theme music (still a shame that didn't last as long in the City of Angels as News 4 New York did on WNBC in the Big Apple) 2
10Viewer 362 Posted January 29 Posted January 29 WTSP from September 2002. The graphics and set were short lived. The next month, they blew up this look for the red and white graphics they had until 2008.
10Viewer 362 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 WFLA "NewsWatch 8" Update from 1981 with the short lived 'gapped 8'"
H-Town TV Fan 250 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 WFRV Eyewitness News at 10:00 (January 25, 1988) WOKR (now WHAM) NewsSource 13 at 11:00 (January 10, 1994) WJLA News 7 at 6:00 mostly covering the Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion (January 28, 1986) WNDU NewsCenter 16 open (August 24, 1990) KOIN Newsroom 6 at 11:00 (March 31, 1986)
MediaZone4K 2661 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Inside the CNN Newsroom during the Challenger Disaster, as we just passed the 40th anniversary of tragedy 2
sfomspphl 545 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 On 1/28/2026 at 3:40 PM, bmasters1 said: KNBC L.A.: 1984 News 4 LA promo w/remastered video, and stereo theme music (still a shame that didn't last as long in the City of Angels as News 4 New York did on WNBC in the Big Apple) Nice remaster though I think the music only saw play in this promo, and wasn’t a primary news theme. 2
bmasters1 432 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 6 hours ago, sfomspphl said: Nice remaster though I think the music only saw play in this promo, and wasn’t a primary news theme. You're right-- that was NBC's Let's All Be There promo music of '84, as used for KNBC in the City of Angels for News 4 LA.
bmasters1 432 Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Bumping this up: CBS Sunday Morning, week of June 2, 1985 (has a Wazee Digital watermark, but I'll live with it, if it means seeing Sunday Morning in its prime from then)
H-Town TV Fan 250 Posted February 4 Posted February 4 (edited) WFXI/WYDO Fox 8/14 News at Ten (May 22, 1997) KFOR NewsChannel 4 at 10:00 (May 23, 1994) Edited February 4 by H-Town TV Fan
H-Town TV Fan 250 Posted February 14 Posted February 14 KGAN Channel 2 News at 10:00 (February 20, 1990) WRC Channel 4 News Live at 11:00 Weekend Edition (February 2, 1986) WRC Channel 4 News Live at 11:00 (February 3 and 4, 1986) WBBM THE 10 O'clock News clip (February 26, 1980)
VHSgoodiesWA 334 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 The KOMO newscast from 2005 is definitely first-rate. It was the 11am and I was at school at the time (and mom would have been over on KIRO watching Y&R) but I remember Todd Johnson, Connie Thompson, and Rachelle Murcia. Greatest anchor duo in Seattle history (Kathi & Dan), the late Steve Pool on WX, first-rate reporters. Channel 4 was incredible in those days. They have done some great work under Sinclair (Seattle is Dying, for example), but of course, the corporate mandates are killing the station in other ways. And now, back to Boise for these KTVB clips, both from 1988. Bob Holland and A.K. Lienhart is on the second clip. A.K. did TV news in Boise for many, many years. 1
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