Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[VHSgoodiesWA 224]

And now I present to you, back from the dead...the oldest KIMA NewsBeat clips I have! And of course, thanks to Eric and the AVTB folks for giving me some storage space back on YouTube.

 

 

 

[sfomspphl 382]

3 hours ago, RCA TK47 said:

Some KCRA footage from what looks like the late '70s (I don't think the year 1982 is correct) showing off their transition to tape and live microwave technology.  I love how Bob Whitten is showing off the LiveCamera 3 van and it's microwave equipment... but it looks like its not even installed yet. 

 

 

 Cool find - those styles look more like mid 70s. For a history museum you’d hope they get dates right - they’re almost 10 years off on this one!

[RCA TK47 267]

2 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

 Cool find - those styles look more like mid 70s. For a history museum you’d hope they get dates right - they’re almost 10 years off on this one!

Looks like they've updated it to 1974 for the thumbnail.

Edited May 7, 2021 by RCA TK47

[24994J 4773]

Local morning opens from the 90's are typical hard to find, but here's 2 from Chicago (1998).

 

Robin Meade on WMAQ:

 

Mary Ann Childers (and Dave Price) on WBBM:

 

Meanwhile, back to nightside opens (1997).

WMAQ:

 

WFLD:

 

Edited May 8, 2021 by 24994J

[sctvhound 27]

WYFF Noon newscast from Christmas Eve 1997 (includes talent open).

 

 

Edited May 9, 2021 by sctvhound
Changed year

[Yankees4life 480]

1996 KDKA news open (skip to 28:48)
https://youtu.be/h894kuUgbQI

2004 WGME news open (skip to 39:11)
https://youtu.be/4TY4gHH8sPM

1993 WGME news open (skip to 52:19)
https://youtu.be/6wyJrd2kxRo

[Jared DiCarlo 52]

On 5/6/2021 at 11:28 PM, SoFloTVClassics said:

 

Guess they created that set out of a bed bath and beyond catalog.

Reminds me more of the TV-AM set

[Yankees4life 480]

1993 WRAL news open (skip to 28:54)
https://youtu.be/WQRcsgK0WwQ

1993 WRAL news open (skip to 29:53)
https://youtu.be/mEw57JJEKkI

[VHSgoodiesWA 224]

First couple of minutes from KIMA's Weekend Edition at the end of this video. Taped 3/17/02

 

[PBC5NewsUnova 65]

Here's 2 hours of KUVN from 1996 which features NOTICIAS 23.

I also want to share this, a rare news open of KVEA from 1989:

Easily the best looking news open for a Telemundo station at the time.

[8Viewer 308]

1993 WFLA "NewsWatch 8" Update using the 1992 graphics that would get dumped in August of '93. The backdrop behind Diane is unusual and I suspect this might be just before the switch to "NewsChannel 8"

 

 

WTSP 1993 morning news promo with Al Ruechel and Madeleine Holland:

 

 

[WAVY 10 Fan 230]

Some uploads from the series of Knoxville uploads from WBIR 

 

 

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan 285]

Back in the late 1970s, stations like KSAT in San Antonio, TX and WPLG in Miami, FL used Klein&'s "The One & Only" music package. Well, did you know that Guam Cable TV used that theme for its newscasts? 

We take you back to 1990 where Guam Cable TV used Klein&'s "The One & Only" to introduce their local news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2qkhktd8Q

(You can view the open at 2:04:27)

[WWUpdate 1242]

From Tucson, here's KGUN's 50th anniversary special, 2006:

 

 

[WWUpdate 1242]

This just-uploaded clip contains a complete KNBC open from the Newservice era (at the 2:28 mark):

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by WWUpdate

[newsteam13 323]

WALA using THEIR OWN Take on the NBC News 1983 Graphics Package for the open and close. Not to mention using the NBC Nightly News electronic theme from that time period. WALA is now FOX 10, while NBC is at WPMI 15 (aka NBC 15)
 

 

[VHSgoodiesWA 224]

Several minutes of KAPP Local News at 11, from 1/8/2003. Anchor is Janice Miller

 

Meanwhile, that night's 'Up Close' from ABC has been reposted. This was the short-lived filler program that aired at 12:05 in between the end of Politically Incorrect and before Jimmy Kimmel went on the air. One person of interest was interviewed for the whole half-hour timeslot.

 

[Jared DiCarlo 52]

MSNBC coverage of the Elián Gonzalez story in 2000

 

[VHSgoodiesWA 224]

Time to go back to some childhood memories. Dan & Kathi...the best TV news anchors in Seattle. Ever. Kathi, you are forever and ever missed.

 

Meanwhile, I just reuploaded this rare 1995 KRCR newscast that looks like it's 5 or 6 years behind the times. Small town TV at its finest, and crude graphics especially in the WX forecasts.

And back to Seattle for part of KSTW's 10 O'Clock News from Feb 6, 1993. 

 

[24994J 4773]

Is this specifically "news"? Not really.

Is it a clip from just this week? Technically.

Is it funny and less than 2 minutes of your life you won't mind not getting back? Yes.

 

 

[SoFloTVClassics 819]

KTUU Channel 2 News 1992

[VHSgoodiesWA 224]

KTVM clips have returned from the dead, nearly-complete 9/17/91 newscast and a clip from 1989.

 

 

And current "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!" scorekeeper Bill Kurtis on this clip of the CBS Evening News from Labor Day 1984.

 

[8Viewer 308]

A pair of WTSP "Action News" promotions from May 1989:

 

 

[Detroit-TV 18]

A promo for WXYZ Detroit from 1984:

 

 

[E. R. 54]

 

From Papua New Guinea's first television network, EMTV (at one point owned by Nine Network Australia):

A history of their news operations, including audio of their version of the "Who's Who of News" campaign, plus shots of their news set:

 

A 1989 tape consisting primarily of advertisements, but glimpses of the title sequences for National EMTV News (one segment showing that they too used Nine Network's version of "Tar Sequence" and the ABC News globe - they're still using the 2000 National Nine News version of that theme to this day, actually) and Bisnis (a business program in Tok Pisin, a creole language) plus their version of "Still the One" (also in Tok Pisin) and the open of a weather bulletin from former Nine affiliate QTV in Queensland near the end of this video:

 

 

And as a bonus, a 1987 promo from that campaign:

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by E. R.