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Incredible WLWT 1983 News Open with chroma key set:

 

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

 

I saw it. That was really cool.

 

Now to my stuff...

 

1991 WTVZ ID and Sign-On (with a cool guitar solo at end of sign-on...and SOMEBODY yawning 33 seconds in)

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

 

1991 WAVY Topical (Alveta Ewell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81lmu2UCrls

 

1989 WAVY Promo/ID (Hillary Howard)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kz3lvKFGTo

 

1988 WAVY Tease/ID (John Castleberry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_SM2eylGIU

 

1988 WAVY Promo (syndicated show called "The Next President")

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

 

1987 WAVY ID (with "Stereo" tag)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QXJ4zGQ3bw

 

1987 WAVY PSA (Drunk Driving; features Barbara Ciara)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzVp96VYrGU

 

1987 WAVY PSA (For Kids' Sake; emphasizing fruits and veggies)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bxg5ka-ZI

 

1987 WAVY PSA (For Kids' Sake; featuring Les Smith)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8wKd3zQMyw

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I saw it. That was really cool.

 

Now to my stuff...

 

1991 WTVZ ID and Sign-On (with a cool guitar solo at end of sign-on...and SOMEBODY yawning 33 seconds in)

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

 

By the way...the music before the sign-on was the promo campaign "Don't Let Fox Weekend Pass You By!" Here's the full video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNSRfa80xA

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This “NFL Today” opening is from the 1988 NFC final between S.F. and Chicago, 1/8/89. Watch for a treat towards the end-- after the opening, the chopper people, as they are trying to get a beauty shot of the Chicago skyline, are out of position over Lake Michigan, and frantically have to attempt to get back into position as the “NFL Today” title moves into position at the top of the screen for Don Robertson’s billboard; the chopper’s attempt to assume the correct position for the skyline shot would only make the audience kind of dizzy. Fortunately, the skyline shot problem is rectified by the time that Don introduces Brent “live from Soldier Field in Chicago.”

At this time, the studio show still had the long-established Brent Musburger and Irv Cross, but Phyllis George was long gone, and Jimmy “The Greek” was fired in the 1987-88 season, I believe. Instead, in their places were the late Will McDonough and Chicago Bears great Dick Butkus. Look for their portions of the opening; you’ll notice Will and Dick by the fact that the lettering used for their names had virtually no depth to it. Dick’s intro, although lacking depth in the lettering, was similar to that of Jimmy “The Greek.”

This would be the last time that CBS would use its “computer robot” opening for “The NFL Today,” as NBC broadcast SB XXIII 1/22/89, two weeks later. Next season (1989-90), CBS would adopt the short-lived opening that was previously posted here.

At the time of this broadcast from Chicago, it was only 10° outside, with a wind-chill factor of -33°. The winds were blowing pretty hard too.

Here’s the clip:

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

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This “NFL Today” opening is from the 1988 NFC final between S.F. and Chicago, 1/8/89. Watch for a treat towards the end-- after the opening, the chopper people, as they are trying to get a beauty shot of the Chicago skyline, are out of position over Lake Michigan, and frantically have to attempt to get back into position as the “NFL Today” title moves into position at the top of the screen for Don Robertson’s billboard; the chopper’s attempt to assume the correct position for the skyline shot would only make the audience kind of dizzy. Fortunately, the skyline shot problem is rectified by the time that Don introduces Brent “live from Soldier Field in Chicago.”

At this time, the studio show still had the long-established Brent Musburger and Irv Cross, but Phyllis George was long gone, and Jimmy “The Greek” was fired in the 1987-88 season, I believe. Instead, in their places were the late Will McDonough and Chicago Bears great Dick Butkus. Look for their portions of the opening; you’ll notice Will and Dick by the fact that the lettering used for their names had virtually no depth to it. Dick’s intro, although lacking depth in the lettering, was similar to that of Jimmy “The Greek.”

This would be the last time that CBS would use its “computer robot” opening for “The NFL Today,” as NBC broadcast SB XXIII 1/22/89, two weeks later. Next season (1989-90), CBS would adopt the short-lived opening that was previously posted here.

At the time of this broadcast from Chicago, it was only 10° outside, with a wind-chill factor of -33°. The winds were blowing pretty hard too.

Here’s the clip:

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

 

And I noticed in the intro for the actual game, Pat Summerall mentions the temperature climbing to a balmy...17 degrees.

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And I noticed in the intro for the actual game' date=' Pat Summerall mentions the temperature climbing to a balmy...17 degrees.[/quote']

 

Here is the opening of which you speak, the opening of the 1988 NFC final.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHaf6xEi190

 

Cincinnati had won the AFC final earlier that day, 21-10 over Buffalo.

 

You are right about the weather for this NFC final-- it had warmed up a little, although it was still very cold.

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  • 2 weeks later...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d3o-b29FrE

 

This clip from 1987 includes an "NFL Today" halftime report with Brent Musburger and Dick Vermeil,

plus some halftime analysis of the Philly/Washington game from Verne

Lundquist and John Madden. The video is somewhat shaky, I believe.

 

Oh, yeah. That must be from the mrwrestlingtape channel. I've got him as a subscriber, and he has plenty of those halftime clips (mostly from Eagles games).

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This is a Prudential "At The Half" segment from a CBS NBA game between the L.A. Lakers and Philly, 2/22/87. Take a close look at the opening-- the graphics remind me of the billboard that Don Robertson delivered for "The Prudential College Football Report" when Jim Nantz presented it (with the golden frame quickly snapping into place and the CBS Sports horizontal logo in the middle of that frame); only this time, Pat O'Brien is the presenter, the name of the segment is changed to "At the Half," and the CBS NBA music is used for the opening. When this opening was used for the "College Football Report" in 1985, it had this scary-sounding music that seemed to have been a derivative of the College Football theme at that time. It was, however, modified for the 1987 season to use a short cut of the current CBS College Football theme, I believe.

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From my Super Bowl XXVI DVD (most of which were reruns from the WVECSpirit days)

CBS Sunday Night Post Super Bowl Promo (Clinton interview/some con-man that had already been exposed on Inside Edition)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2kPFq29sr4

 

1990-93 CBS Sports ID (this time combined with the Olympic ID for the Winter Games covered by the Eye the following week)

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

 

CBS Monday Promo (NEW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abmMKy5roPc

 

WTKR Transition to Eyewitness News Promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-GtG6WPWU

 

Super Bowl XXVI Close (NEW; has a really poorly timed tease by 'TKR anchor Jane Gardner about the Redskin nickname...and some song by Prince playing)

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

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Lots of Great Philly Videos, Including Some Little Rock, New York, and Network Videos from PhillymediaWATCH:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=PHILLYmediaWATCH&page=1

 

Houstontvnews Has Some More Videos, Including Some WDSU Videos!:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Houstontvnews

 

WKBW 1987 from Retrontario:

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I tried posting some of my stuff from WWL, WDSU and WYES on Youtube but I couldn't post it because the files were too large. It's not much, but it is from the late 80s, about 1987-88. All of these were leftovers from some tapes I had of "Doctor Who" taped off WYES. They include:

 

A WWL 4 pm newsbreak with Bill Elder

Ending of a Doctor Who episode with "Nature" promo and WYES sign-off from 1988

Commercial breaks with WDSU 10 pm news teases, and a short open

 

If anyone knows how I can reduce the file size without losing some of the key parts of the material, please let me know. It would be great to see more New Orleans material on Youtube, there simply isn't enough of it.

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I tried posting some of my stuff from WWL, WDSU and WYES on Youtube but I couldn't post it because the files were too large. It's not much, but it is from the late 80s, about 1987-88. All of these were leftovers from some tapes I had of "Doctor Who" taped off WYES. They include:

 

A WWL 4 pm newsbreak with Bill Elder

Ending of a Doctor Who episode with "Nature" promo and WYES sign-off from 1988

Commercial breaks with WDSU 10 pm news teases, and a short open

 

If anyone knows how I can reduce the file size without losing some of the key parts of the material, please let me know. It would be great to see more New Orleans material on Youtube, there simply isn't enough of it.

 

It may depend of what format you're saving the file you wanted to upload as. If you tried saving it as, say, a MPEG file; there would be no way to successfully upload it. Also, I'm curious as to how long the clips are. I believe YT has only a 10 minute cap per upload unless you're registered as a YT director or something, so there may not be a way to get it up without trimming some stuff.

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That's the problem right there. I had saved them as MPEG files. None of the clips run at or over 10 minutes, I would say they are less than 3 minutes long. I still have them somewhere on my computer. What format should I save them as?

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Here's some more uploads from my personal archive (Note: All of the videos here were from the October 10, 1988 Monday Night game, but no MNF stuff, because I don't want to take a chance on getting booted again)

 

1988-89 ABC ID (Something's Happening on ABC)

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

 

1988 WVEC ID (Spirit of Hampton Roads)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maK-ycMU5Hs

 

1988 WVEC Tease/Open (combined in similar fashion to the 1989 WTKR Open I uploaded)

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

 

1988 WVEC Promo (Close-Up Story)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noIWH4jd2dg

 

1988 WVEC Promo (C.I. Travel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfOGKP2JLvE

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Here is my Youtube page:

 

http://www.youtube.com/figure8xo80

 

I have already uploaded the WYES video, I have the WDSU videos, but it now appears that I have lost the WWL materials. If anyone has any newscast opens, promos, station ID's or commercials from the New Orleans or Baton Rouge market pre-2000, please email me at [email protected].

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