WAVY 10 Fan 233 Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Don't recall seeing this mentioned before, but here's GaryW48's upload of the ABC News Gulf War update during halftime of Super Bowl XXV Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-92861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 334 Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 WBZ 1987 "Evening Edition" complete newscast: Â Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-92871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1292 Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Two more WLS clips... Â A promo from 1993: Â Â And the weekend 10PM news from 1981: Â Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1292 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 WBBM, Chicago; 6PM news with Bill Kurtis and Mort Crim, 1978: Â Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Some WVEC from early 1997… the original open with the Garamond 13 logo and Stravinsky. Also an explanation for why the set had a globe.  Also includes some WVEC clips from 1993.  Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieboy247 42 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Found some very rare clips from WLYH-TV. Â Â Action News Tonight (July 1983) (with, you guessed it...Larry Mendte) Â Action News Tonight Tuesday (September 24th, 1985) Â Sales Promo Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 233 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Just stumbled across a new channel with a lot of footage of local New York coverage of the first WTC attack as well as some of CNN's Gulf War coverage http://www.youtube.com/user/HDiNDEMAND Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
News 9 Viewer 100 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 From a special WMUR aired in 2011, Remembering Challenger, a 1986 NewsNine Special Report open: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1292 Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 YouTube user Sebastian Albaran has uploaded several compilations of 1980s news opens from around the world:  Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMg84wHrjM  Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqBpdxL3Sw  Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5sDAlvJ_tY   Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSUKN8G1Ow  Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DMZjrNhKQ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1292 Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013   Part 4:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSUKN8G1Ow    BTW, can anyone identify the Spanish-language station using the MCTYW theme and the Telenoticas de Accion brand at the 9:22 mark in the clip above? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Â BTW, can anyone identify the Spanish-language station using the MCTYW theme and the Telenoticas de Accion brand at the 9:22 mark in the clip above? Thanks in advance. Â WKAQ, Puerto Rico. Speaking of which, I just made a find of a 1991 theme that is not in the NMSA (Puerto Rico stations evidently have full NMSA listings): Â Â That's a great compilation. Probably wouldn't have seen most of those (a few, like the Seven National News/1983 open, I've seen). Â *** Â Also, KING 5, 1992. Two straight hours: a full 5pm newscast with commercials, NBC Nightly News and 6:30 Evening Magazine! The Internet Archive hasn't turned up anything new like this in some time: https://archive.org/details/Tobacco_egy27a00 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 490 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 KCRA 1990-92 open  http://earlgrizzell.com/Earl_Grizzell/WELCOME.html  It's about 2 minutes into the TV Production REel  The 1988-90 open is about 6:55 in.  Looks like he did the 1988 and beyond updates to 'Where the news comes first.' Still unclear who did the original orchestral theme around 83/84. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 81 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 The U.S. Copyright Office lists Grizzell as composer of "Where the News Comes First" with a registration date of April 6, 1987, and a "date of creation" of 1986. Â NMSA says the theme debuted in 1986, not 1983/84. I believe that 80sTVThemes.com said the CGI intro debuted in 1984, but I am sure that was an error. There are clips from 1986 with the orchestral theme, but older graphics. And there's a YouTube clip with a different cut, which seems to be from December 1985. Â As far as I can tell, even though Grizzell's demo reel only shows the 1988 version, he wrote the original package, and it likely debuted sometime in 1985. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 490 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 My guess is the original was a VTS Productions package. His bio has him working there from 1986/1987 onward.  So maybe they had him work on updates to it.  This clip from late 1985 has just the original music as the opener   Then a few months later in early '86 we get that clip with the more majestic version, but interim graphics. So guessing the original debuted a year or two before 1985 whenever that desk with the blue stripe debuted.  Their 1986 set was from a move to a new building, so my bet is that's when the more majestic open was commissioned, and the copyright wasn't filed until '87.  Would love to find the reels for all of these! Classic package. Maybe have TVPMM reach out to him. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-93967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 233 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 1984 WTKR Editorial (from stevations; again the picture leaves a lot to be desired unfortunately) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 81 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Interesting observations. The only kink is that the copyright registration only mentions Grizzell, with nothing about VTS. That implies he wrote that musical signature himself. Â UPDATE: Just got off the phone with VTS founder Hal Brown, and the actual history of the package is exactly the reverse of your theory. Earl Grizzell did the original package (the one in the "Fantastic Four" clip from Dec. 85), and the revisions were done at VTS after Grizzell joined. Brown remembered going to London multiple times to record the symphonic versions. But since Grizzell was the author/owner of the original musical signature, only his name was on the copyright registration. Â So it's Grizzell's theme, but he did the revisions to it at VTS. Â I will probably still contact Grizzell, just for final final confirmation. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsteam13 394 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Those symphonic versions of the KCRA theme: I remember hearing it from 1984 to 1988 on KRDO Channel 13, the ABC affiliate in my hometown of Colorado Springs, Colorado. I also recall the WFAA-like news opens, which had aerial footage and photos of KRDO anchors (with their signatures in the lower thirds), and it had that background music. Does anyone have those symphonic versions of "Where the News Comes First"? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliverolang 41 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 NewsActive3's opens Part 120: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 403 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 [yt]JPeQFMsQeAk[/yt] Â There is something I did not know about WAFF Channel 48 (NBC in Huntsville, AL). Go to the 21:05 mark of Part 107 of NewsActive3's openings and promos, and you will find (in fact, a lot of this clip shows it) that Channel 48 had NBC's 70's Trapezoidal N, even in 1981 (on its opening and on its ID). I thought that 48 would have converted its ID to have the Proud N with it. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 490 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Cool - would be great if the cuts could be donated to the TVPMM. Might be more amenable to approach it that way.  Interesting observations. The only kink is that the copyright registration only mentions Grizzell, with nothing about VTS. That implies he wrote that musical signature himself. UPDATE: Just got off the phone with VTS founder Hal Brown, and the actual history of the package is exactly the reverse of your theory. Earl Grizzell did the original package (the one in the "Fantastic Four" clip from Dec. 85), and the revisions were done at VTS after Grizzell joined. Brown remembered going to London multiple times to record the symphonic versions. But since Grizzell was the author/owner of the original musical signature, only his name was on the copyright registration.  So it's Grizzell's theme, but he did the revisions to it at VTS.  I will probably still contact Grizzell, just for final final confirmation. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 The part at :23 of this WBNG 1996 open sounds too familiar to me, like it's in another news theme. Can someone help me identify it? This theme is in the NMSA as WBNG 1996 but we haven't had anything but a talent open for it prior to today. It almost sounds a bit like WRAL 1988 but that's not a perfect match. Â Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 WVEC 13 News promo from 1985: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 233 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Â WVEC 13 News promo from 1985: Â I see you just beat me to that one. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 50 minutes worth of DXed clips, mostly from around the Mid-Atlantic states, from 1996-2003, including some news opens... Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsGcLjMzIxs Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 334 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Big find: WFAA 1983 news open with the previously unheard version of "NewsBeat": Â Â The open is at 3:03 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/869-classic-video-thread-pre-2008/page/74/#findComment-94735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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