Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[Ntropolis 593]

 

eyeontv has struck again with a Telesound demo reel from 1982 featuring many opens you may recognize, and several previously-unknown uses, including...

• KSBW: Look for Us
  
• WCKT: Count on Us
  
• KNTV: Count on Us
  

There's also "Saturday Live" from KRON featuring Streets of..., production elements, and a boatload of promos. Truly a huge haul!

 

 

Seriously digging that WTKR stuff! I saw that News 3 open on TV Ark but it never had a year attached to it. Now we know, and that also means the NMSA is wrong on the dates there... it currently lists And You from 1984-86. I always thought those dates seemed wrong. By the looks of it, And You was gone by at least 1985.

[WAVY 10 Fan 232]

 

Seriously digging that WTKR stuff! I saw that News 3 open on TV Ark but it never had a year attached to it. Now we know, and that also means the NMSA is wrong on the dates there... it currently lists And You from 1984-86. I always thought those dates seemed wrong. By the looks of it, And You was gone by at least 1985.

 

Glad to see some of this as well.

 

Also noticed on his 1977-78 WBZ promo compilation, it sounds like Danny Dark (who was a CBS staff announcer and wouldn't be associated with NBC until the 1981-82 season) can be heard in some of the spots

[nbc9houston 21]

A 1979 Special Report on KNBC dealing with oil price fixing:

 

From that same year, a short weahter clip from KPRC:

[10Viewer 319]

1980 WCKT bumper spot for their "new team for the '80s" with 'Tuesday E' in the background:

 

[Samantha 2878]

KRTV 1984 open. The theme has been seen before on KTVQ (from 1981) but is not in the NMSA:

 

 

WTSP, February 1986 (ignore the date on the video, the lead story should say it all):

 

 

CKKX (Calgary 2/7)* Newsfirst (10pm) and Sports at 11 intro, 1991. Apparently Hello was on the way out. Where have I heard this theme before?

 

(John Tesh?)

 

*Station went through different callsigns. It was CFAC until 1989, CKKX until 1993 and then became CICT with its rebrand to Calgary 7.

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

 

KVOA, KGUN, SIN and so much more from Tucson in 1980! KVOA's using Cool Hand Luke, KGUN has a close theme beginning at 16:55, and a couple seconds of a KOLD close using the McGraw-Hill style "TheNews" name.

 

 

The theme used in a KGUN newscast close from 1980 is "And You" by Telesound.

[Samantha 2878]

Thanks for the ID there! I'd been looking for that recently too.

 

WAGM partial open and first story, 1991. That's right, WAGM. The theme is the 1989 CBS affiliate package:

[ChesapeakeTV 310]

 

(John Tesh?)

 

Correct there. That's "The Black Hole" - there's a sample of WICZ using it in the NMSA.

[10Viewer 319]

This 1980 KVOA weathercast may have been posted before, however, at the very end, the bumper sounds like "News People". Anyone else agree?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZNY8JZz62U

[Samantha 2878]

Sent to the NMSA already — he said it's not important enough to list but will keep it on file. Yes, that's News People.

 

But he will be getting these:

 

WANE 1984:

KCNC 1988 (Image VII but NewsCenter 4):

[ChesapeakeTV 310]

 

WANE 1984:

 

And we have yet another appearance by these graphics...

 

WTVD update with the KING 1985 theme. 1988:

[Samantha 2878]

 

And we have yet another appearance by these graphics...

 

WTVD update with the KING 1985 theme. 1988:

 

Yeah. I'm guessing they're the work of Image West or some other large firm.

[WWUpdate 1290]

As promised a few weeks ago, I got a chance to scan and upload various Phoenix news ads from my 1979 TV Guides:

 

 

 

[WFTV Channel 9 80]

How long did KTVK use that Circle 3 logo? It really reminds me of KIII's logo. I wonder if KIII got their 3 logo from KTVK.

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How long did KTVK use that Circle 3 logo? It really reminds me of KIII's logo. I wonder if KIII got their 3 logo from KTVK.

It couldn't have been very long. There is a clip on YouTube of KTVK using a different logo in 1978 (

), and another clip indicates that KTVK had already moved on to its next logo -- the one seen in Raymie's avatar -- by December 1980, when John Lennon was shot (

).

[Samantha 2878]

KTVK went through a bunch of logos in quick succession in the late 1970s and early 1980s:

 

The one used with the Outlet/WAGA open (circle in square)

The KIII 3 (used either from late 1978 or 1979 to 1980)

The italic circle 3 (at left) which debuted with the Eyewitness News name, apparently in 1980

The red, straight circle 3 (which they have used in some form ever since)

 

The one from December 1980 was being phased out by 1982 at which time the station picked up Tuesday's The News Image.

[10Viewer 319]

I've been trying to locate clips from the early '90s from WINK and finally found a great clip. It features "CBS Affiliate Package" and the early '90s CBS News graphics:

 

 

The close is at the end. Also notice Glenn Schwartz at the end.

[Samantha 2878]

Another military newscast, from Iraklion Air Station in Greece, 1985:

 

WAVE 1987 11pm open. Another new theme:

 

Meanwhile, the Oklahoma Historical Society's uploading of the WKY/KTVY/KFOR archives continues. Here's a sample can (of film) from 1958:

[Ntropolis 593]

WRAL News with Bob Vernon from 1994:

[Samantha 2878]

WKYT open, August 1, 1986. This theme is in the NMSA as WKYT 1991, though quite clearly it came about five years earlier: https://archive.org/details/tobacco_gmw27a00

[ToriElectra 291]

That WRAL open looks very similar to the open used by WFMZ in 1999:

I'm not sure if they ripped off WRAL or if they were made by the same people.

[ChesapeakeTV 310]

It's likely they were made by the same people - and that those people also did the first package WRAL had with In-Sink. Compare the animation at the end of WFMZ's open with

.

[johnnya2k6 171]

Radioman1968's been on an uploading spree lately, posting a lot of rare Atlanta TV gems!

 

WSB:

(briefly had the "It's 11:00 p.m.; do you know where your children are?" made famous by WNYW)

 

WAGA:

(WSB brought it back sometime in the '80s)

(yes, WAGA did beat WSB in the ratings for the first time ever!)

Managers tapes from

and

 

WXIA:

 

And many others...

[WWUpdate 1290]

My old TV Guides give us some idea of the call-letter and logo switch from KOOL to KTSP.

 

This 1981 ad features the long-running KOOL News logo:

 

 

 

KOOL announced the callsign switch to KTSP with this ad that ran next to the listings for October 2, 1982:

 

 

 

But for some weeks afterward, news ads still featured a modified version of the old logo (minus, of course, the "KOOL News" branding):

 

 

 

By late November 1982, the new logo makes an apperance, but the station's news operation is branded "TV10 News" (and Mary Jo West is apparently gone from the station, since neither the ads for the 6 nor the 10 P.M. news mention her):

 

 

 

Finally, by January 1983, the "NewsCenter 10" branding, which would survive for the rest of the decade, is in place:

 

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KTVK went through a bunch of logos in quick succession in the late 1970s and early 1980s:

 

The one used with the Outlet/WAGA open (circle in square)

The KIII 3 (used either from late 1978 or 1979 to 1980)

The italic circle 3 (at left) which debuted with the Eyewitness News name, apparently in 1980

The red, straight circle 3 (which they have used in some form ever since)

 

The one from December 1980 was being phased out by 1982 at which time the station picked up Tuesday's The News Image.

 

Here s the evolution of KTVK from 1979 to the late '80s -- an era of substantial turmoil at the station -- as seen in TV Guide ads:

 

September 1979:

 

 

 

November 1981:

 

 

 

April 1982:

 

 

 

December 1982:

 

 

 

May 1983:

 

 

 

October 1983:

 

 

 

May 1988: