Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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WTOP-WDVM Call Letter Change (6-27-78)

 

WXYZ Channel 7 Action News at 11pm (1987)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O2IFlcd24Q

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KXLY 1987 weekend open (Great News Package):

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVqvRQzoSZE

 

It's been a while since the guy posted an open.

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KREM 1988 11pm:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiiFAcTLPc

 

Not sure if I shared this one. It's a promo (essentially a redone news open) for KREM in 1995 with Brave New World and a John Christopher Burns-designed graphics package:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rEjFm4Vvbs

 

If Crommy's firing back up the Spokane open machine, it means good news.

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WSAZ News Open from 1989 (They used NewsCaster like WVUE in New Orleans)

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"The NFL Today" opening, Nov. '88

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WLS, Chicago, weekend news, 1977:

 

 

WLS, Chicago, 10PM, 1981:

 

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TVQ 10, Brisbane, Australia, 5PM open and close, 1994:

 

 

TVQ 10, Brisbane, Australia, 6PM open and close, 1989:

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlqNhDVRN4Q&feature=related

 

CBS SB XVIII pregame opening ("The Super Bowl Today"), 1/22/84 (audio out of sync with video)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Looh5iLqM

 

"NFL on TNT" opening 1991

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tgc2Rod9Ik

 

CBS SB XVIII game opening

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OS1w4zl3g

 

NBC '85 Wimbledon opening

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WTVT Tampa weather 1991:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Tga0WAPA8&feature=feedu

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Here's a pretty interesting clip promoting KHOU's news team from 1968, featuring some familiar faces (including the late Harry Kalas).

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AVEzmt1kU4

 

1985 NBC MLB "Game of the Week" opening (with an apparently more orchestrated version of the 1984 opening theme)

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WMAQ, Chicago, weekend news, 1978:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZiohW_oaU

 

WMAQ, Chicago, 10PM news, 1982:

 

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A very rare WGAL weather promo and promo/ID slide from 1982.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MFO1hz-VCA

 

ABC SB XIX opening (S.F./Miami, from Stanford Stadium), 1/20/85

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NBC News Digest, 1984:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFJLivYihg

 

And here are the same NBC News graphics being used in a 1980s Australian open:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ0m-Cn6270

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And those NBC News graphics make another appearance in this compilation of 1980s South African news opens:

 

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NewsActive3's opens and promos, part 82:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcdB4KUmRg

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Here is what I think is a full open from WFLA Tampa 1984.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLf-VJa4HaQ

 

NBC '84 NFL game opening (Cincinnati/Cleveland, from Cleveland Stadium)

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8 minutes and 46 seconds of 1979 25th-anniversary promos from WISH-TV in Indianapolis, including some shots of the set then and clips from old newscasts.

 

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/video/classic_clips/wish-classic-25th-anniversary-promos

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Sounds like WISH used the "Take A Look" package. I had suspected they did. I'm sure that KXTV and WVEC also used this package.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFlsKyyd6DU

 

Opening from NBC's coverage of the '83 AFC final (technical difficulties included)