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rockfishangel uploaded a video featuring some rare clips of Dave Baker. Watch for a 27 NewsFirst promo from 1985 or 1986 at 1:54. WKYT's slogan during that time was "You're The Reason".

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And here's the abbreviated newscast from 1990 that features that KCRA intro and open. Also get a taste of their jazzy bumper music from the late 80s / early 90s

 

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Wow, that looks impressive — and sounds much better than the replacement four-note Prime News and Ed Hopkins VO.

 

I think that's the same Chris Dunn now in Phoenix at KPHO.

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KTBS 1996, with the original Palmer package:

WDAM 1989. This is a Network Music theme:

WBRZ 1991. Noon broadcast. Pride Inside with original 1987 TVbD package.

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WAAY weekend, 1994? (Wikipedia indicates they were still using Eyewitness News, which is correct in 1993 as he also has some WAAY news briefs, but look, Ma, no Eyewitness here!). This is a "post-jcbD" open; the background looks like WXIA but nothing else matches that WXIA open, such as the talent name graphic which instead invokes a very different school of design: http://youtu.be/RvS4Uw846rI

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applesauce2100 (whose uploads mostly consist of WJBK, WSYX and WAGA material) now has a capture card...

 

— WSYX 1993 open (still using VTS Prime News — they would switch news packages before the end of the year)

 

Also...

 

http://youtu.be/MZ3KqfAfgr0 — WDAF 1992 open.

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Live from New York, here's a French TV newscast (the network is Antenne 2) from 1978, during nuclear arms talks held at the UN:

 

 

Antenne 2 had a few major technical difficulties with the live link, but it's still an interesting clip; it includes reports from U.S. television -- and even a weather forecast for the U.S. following the French one.

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This edition of Antenne 2's news from two years earlier contains a long report on the 1976 U.S. presidential election, beginning at the 20:10 mark:

 

 

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