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What a great compilation. Thanks for the link! I've just read on Wikipedia that George Putnam "was widely believed to be the inspiration for the character of Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show." That was precisely my thought when I saw Putnam at 1:18 in this compilation! BTW, Kevin Sanders (at 0:35) was a high-profile anchor in Australia in the early days of Aussie television.

WMAQ, Chicago, news update, 1985 (w/ Ron Magers): WCIU, Chicago, Stock Market Observer, 1984: A higher quality clip of WBBM's famous "Nobody Does It Better" promo, 1977:

KCRA, Sacramento, 1975 open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBvH3VA7ZW8 KTVU, Oakland / San Francisco, 1977 open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9g3w3zDmpM KRON, San Francisco, 1977 bumper and close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOFAd-9Y-vc

Here's Serbian TV news from 1991, at the height of the Milosevic regime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Fys2lrh64 Is it just me, or does the open sound a bit like a part of the famous HBO in Space theme?

WLS, Chicago, AM Eyewitness News, 1983: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxiyNhUauNA

You're probably familiar with this 1970s promo for WBBM in Chicago... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oHsJk0i0mE ...well, here's a (far inferior, IMHO) version that aired on WCBS in NYC:

WLS, Chicago, 1979 promo (begins at 0:14): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEjKnxjNDss

WBBM, Chicago, 1981 newsbreak: WBBM, Chicago, 1991 open: WFLD, Chicago, 1982: WLS, Chicago, 1983 open (poor picture quality): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr6qyC7b-X4

KPNX, Phoenix, 1997 promo:

With one of the world's more dramatic, effects-laden news opens, here's Newstime from Germany's ProSieben: Staying in Germany, here's a compilation showing the evolution of RTL's news from the 1980s until today, including two American themes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoYOpo6hNo

WBBM, Chicago, 1999 open and first few minutes (Blizzard of '99 coverage): A year later, here's Carol Marin anchoring the 10PM news on WBBM: This attempt at a more serious, in-depth local newscast was a ratings failure.

WLS-TV, Chicago, Eyewitness News Brief (w/ Jim Rosenfield), 1991: WBBM-TV, Chicago, Channel 2 Weekend News, 1986: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVit3e0Of1I

WLS, Eyewitness News Brief, 1981: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ6sDWRsjMM

WLS, Chicago, 1984 (a long clip from videoholic2008): http://youtube.com/watch?v=uhz_H3ud3F8

Nova TV, Croatia, 2007: ^^^ I love this look.

German-language Swiss TV news from 1989, with coverage of the Loma Prieta (Bay Area) Earthquake:

From POP TV in Slovenia, here's a very American-inspired newscast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idlmxcv1Tk

Channel 4, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2002 (open) -- w/ Gari's Image News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niT7Y-w4KrM Slovenian TV news from... 1977: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tud9vyW5pXg 1993: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ihyo4tfgvQ 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuQfsuR90zI BTW, thanks, fox1! You did get my e-mail last month, right?

Slovenian television news from 1989, including a commercial before the start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42RvuoLw9IM This is my first-ever upload to YouTube -- yes, I'm behind the times when it comes to the Internets.

CNN, 1981: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbCV0j3Z65o

TVNZ One News at 6, New Zealand, today (Sept. 25) -- open, teases, tosses, bumpers, weather, etc.: (Fox 1, you've got mail.)

I'm going off topic again, but the real Bobbie Battista in the very last clip of this blooper reel (at 6:48)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aXcewKEm38 ...reminded me of the clips above so much that I just couldn't stop laughing.

BTV6, Ballarat, Australia; NewsCentre 6 open, 1980s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCC2RGpjNo&NR=1

Slightly off-topic, but here's the real Bobbie Battista from 1979, when she was at WRAL:

Compare it to this 1986 open from KTSP (now KSAZ) in Phoenix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuyFe2KRb8E