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KHON in 1996, after they became FOX affiliate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXSKYqIuE4

 

That is an excellent package and one of my personal favorite news opens. Also note how stiffly traditional the KHON news is compared to all the Fox promos before it; heck, KHON next month is rolling out a 9pm news for the first time in its history.

 

Is it me or do I see a bit of an Australian influence in the actual format of the news open and tease? Three stories at the top and the open is/was a common format for Aussie news opens. (It's worth noting that this user has boatloads of other, non-US news material of interest, particularly from Australia.)

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WAVY opens the SportsWrap Vault again; this time posting a 1988 sports report by John Castleberry from when Norfolk's Old Dominion University thought they would be reviving their football program (it would be 21 more years before that happened).

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Some really interesting CNN clips from the early '90s just uploaded by user fox1 at tvforum.co.uk:

 

The end of Morning News and the beginning of World Day:

 

 

Daybreak Saturday:

 

 

Earlybird News:

 

 

Business Day:

 

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Wow, I've found a lot. Some international material too but it's worth it.

 

"New York Views" open, 1990. Was this WPIX? The theme sounds a lot like Michael Karp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8MyE5D8fT0

 

Another example of the Nine Network with the CBS news ticker theme for news flashes, this time from 1991:

(of course, I spotted this theme in use in 1997!!!)

 

KHNL's news from February 1996:

 

Another WKY News Can, this time with footage of people working in the station from 1958 after it had just won an RTNDA award:

 

HTV Wales from 1989 with a pretty solid news theme:

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ATV (Atlantic Canada) "Live at 5", 1994. The station had used The News Image in prior years:

 

 

The 1995 date is correct for the KMTV newscast. That's the second KMTV news open spotted in 48 hours.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsp02_FHw8k

 

Japan "NNN News Plus 1" from August 15, 1991. Bilingual newscast with Japanese audio left channel and English audio right channel (!). The top story, a remembrance of the dead in World War II.

 

And some CNN Japan from 1989 (also partly bilingual but not like the NNN newscast — I think this is actually a "let's learn English" news program!!!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH-2kOyH8mI

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"New York Views" open, 1990. Was this WPIX? The theme sounds a lot like Michael Karp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8MyE5D8fT0

 

 

 

Definitely WABC, hosted by Roz Abrams. You can't tell from the last second blurred image, but i assure you that's her. Here's a clearer open of the same theme from 1989 with Roz.

 

That theme is also definitely from Michael Karp. Headline under WABC from the 'credits' page.

http://michaelkarpmusic.com/credits.html

 

The show would later be altered to just "Views" in the later 90s, with a theme created by Sheldon (Shelly) Palmer. That later theme I remember well. Here's Palmer's site with the 'views' demo listed under 'Television & Radio Show themes'

http://www.shellypalmer.com/production/music-production

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0814btm's channel has been putting up a lot of CBS Evening News broadcasts from the beginning of the Gulf War.

 

This one has the entire first 10 minutes of the January 22, 1991 broadcast (where protesters from the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP crashed the CBS Evening News studio at the top of the newscast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVp0iBHeDQo

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I found a couple of rare WPVI clips from the 1970s.

 

(1)

- This video starts with a news open that was used on WTVD, WKBW and other Capital Cities stations during the 1970s.

 

(2)

- This video, uploaded by longtime WPVI/WFLA news anchor Bob Hite, contains a segment from one of his newscasts during his tenure at WPVI. It contains a news open that WPVI used during that period.
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I recently found very rare video of KIEM during their "Eyewitness News" era and CBS affiliation. These videos were uploaded by Jon Crane who was a KIEM reporter during that period. You can view a video of KIEM by clicking on

and a news open can be seen at 5:54.

 

A ton of WTSP 1980's segments as well:

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KGET in 1990. This is the Otis Conner WXII/WROC theme in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-AK5XEh6U

 

This is interesting for the theme. I believe this is the oldest clip with this theme. WROC was using something else in 1991. WXII was still using its last Otis Conner package, the Wall to Wall News remix (along with the best TVbD knockoff graphics ever made—what a treat indeed, a knockoff design and knockoff music). In 1992 KTXS still had a different theme, and who knows what WITN was doing.

 

Of course, the non-TV news theme that pointed us to Otis Conner, the KCBS San Francisco News and More radio package, dates to 1988.

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Hi there! :) My name's Sean! :) I'm 23 years old, and I've got autism. I've been watching a lot of NewsActive3's videos on YouTube, and there's two news intros from one of NewsActive3's news intro compilation videos, and one of them has the voiceover announcing just the anchor's last names before saying "you're watching (so and so)", or something like that (now I know one of them is in Part 4 of NewsActive3's news intro compilation videos, from WBBM in Chicago back when Lester Holt was there), but that's not the one I'm looking for, if anybody could help me, thanks! :)

 

Sean

 

P.S. Again, it has to be in one of NewsActive3's news intro compilation videos, but it's not WBBM in Chicago in part 4, because again, that's not the one I'm looking for where the voiceover announces just the anchor's last names before saying "you're watching (so and so)", or something like that, again thanks! :)

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Hi there! :) My name's Sean! :) I'm 23 years old, and I've got autism. I've been watching a lot of NewsActive3's videos on YouTube, and there's two news intros from one of NewsActive3's news intro compilation videos, and one of them has the voiceover announcing just the anchor's last names before saying "you're watching (so and so)", or something like that (now I know one of them is in Part 4 of NewsActive3's news intro compilation videos, from WBBM in Chicago back when Lester Holt was there), but that's not the one I'm looking for, if anybody could help me, thanks! :)

 

Sean

 

P.S. Again, it has to be in one of NewsActive3's news intro compilation videos, but it's not WBBM in Chicago in part 4, because again, that's not the one I'm looking for where the voiceover announces just the anchor's last names before saying "you're watching (so and so)", or something like that, again thanks! :)

 

From what I'm understanding (it's late, forgive me) you're referencing this video. Now, is it the one you're recalling, or is this precisely the one you're not looking for?

 

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Oh, and welcome aboard. :)

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