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A 1982 CBS News report on the national news explosion of the early '80s:
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On the subject of small TV stations, here's a look at a station described as "America's smallest and lowest-rated" -- including its three-person news department -- from about 40 years ago:
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I don't know if this was the only reason, but at the time, the news divisions of NBC's five O&Os were under direct control of NBC News and their news directors were also NBC's bureau chiefs. (Reuven Frank talks about this in his biography.)
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And speaking of towns barely able to support news operations, here's a special Cub Scout open from the now-defunct KNAZ in Flagstaff, Arizona: If the set looks vaguely familiar, it was a hand-me-down from sister station KPNX in Phoenix:
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Gari's Great News Package as heard on DDQ-10-4-5a in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia:
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WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1967 (We've seen brief clips of this newscast before, but I don't remember ever seeing the whole thing):
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From FR3 (now France 3), an early French attempt at a WTHR/CityTV-style walk-and-talk format, 1987:
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Here's Chile's Canal 11 / Universidad de Chile Televisión using Tuesday Productions' Take a Look in 1986:
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Here's Dignity by Network Music... ...and here is it being used by ORF in Austria:
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With Phoenix once again shattering daily temperature records, I thought I'd repost this -- and by the way, the meteorologist in the clip, Royal Norman, is still at KTVK:
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From 1993, here's Nightline on TV3 New Zealand using the World News Tonight cut from Score's ABC News package:
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KNXT's The Big News from 1972:
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Here's Jiangsu TV in China using the theme (at the 0:28 mark):
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A year later, both Coleen Williams and the newsroom set were gone:
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WLS news teases, promos, open, bumpers, etc. from 1994:
