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WLS, Chicago, special report, 1963:

WLS, Chicago, weekend news, 1981: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9XCfuQ5SpE WLS, Chicago, newsbreak, 1994:

And from a few years later, here's 20/20... New Zealand style:

TV3, New Zealand, new look:

And now for something completely different... Sarajavo TV news open from 1992, when the Bosnian war began -- w/ a very dramatic theme: You'll find more recent European news opens in THIS thread.

YouTube user TelevizjaTrizondal is back with a brand-new compilation of current European news opens. His latest compilation includes examples from Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Finland, Germany, and France:

NewsActive3's opens and promos, part 82: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcdB4KUmRg

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

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

WMAQ, Chicago, weekend news, 1978: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZiohW_oaU WMAQ, Chicago, 10PM news, 1982:

TVQ 10, Brisbane, Australia, 5PM open and close, 1994: TVQ 10, Brisbane, Australia, 6PM open and close, 1989:

WLS, Chicago, weekend news, 1977: WLS, Chicago, 10PM, 1981:

WMAQ, Chicago, 1990, 5PM news (with coverage of an in-flight emergency):

WBBM, Chicago, 10PM news tease, 1989: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxXVi5jcZs

WMAQ, Chicago, 10PM news, 1983:

A similar montage of Chicago was used for a while by WBBM in the '70s:

BTW, an almost identical-looking set was used by Germany's SAT.1 a few years later:

WLS, Chicago, 10PM, 1994:

WBBM, Chicago, 6PM, 1995: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOrvqTCi4zo

KPNX, Phoenix, weekend 5PM open, 2000:

KTVK, Phoenix, Good Morning Arizona Sunday open, 2000: KTVK, Phoenix, Tonight Arizona (weekend editon) open, 2000:

KTVK, Phoenix, midday news promo, mid-1980s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmVma6lAWk

BTW, you may have noticed the slogan "The Place With More Stuff" in the open. Here's KTVK's promo campaign from roughly this period (introduced in 1996): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xiAfhpkdW0&feature=related

A compilation of French news opens -- New Year's Day editions --, from the (very psychedelic) 1970s onwards:

KTVK, Phoenix, Good Evening Arizona 5 PM open, 1998 (3-4 years after becoming an independent station): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKokKiQyV0g