On this day, 60 years ago - Channel Television, the ITV franchise in the Channel Islands launched.
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Here are some excerpts about Channel Television from American journalist Martin Mayer’s 1973 book About Television:
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Staying with Channel Television, here’s a historical compilation of local news opens used by the station since 1990 (older clips are difficult to find):
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Intro, headlines and partial segment of the evening edition of Informativos Telecinco from 24 November 2005, presented by Angeles Blanco and Alejandra Herranz. This Spanish network (owned by controversial Italian businessman/politician Silvio Berlusconi’s company Mediaset) had a slight populist (but decent) approach to news coverage at the time, which became even more sensationalist in 2006 with the hiring of Pedro Piqueras as main anchor and news director, who remains on those capacities to this day.
From Toronto: an abbreviated CTV ident from May 1999 (with the slogan “Canadian Television”), followed by the opener and partial top story of CFTO’s 6pm newscast, anchored by Christine Bentley and Tom Gibney. By the way: nice set and graphics! 
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As mentioned in the International News thread, RTL Aktuell got a new look this week. Here’s a historical compilation of news opens from RTL, from the time when it was a Luxembourg-based regional broadcaster to its eventual transformation into a major German network broadcasting from Cologne:
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Here’s CNN’s Newsnight from the same day with the same top story–the crash of United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 en route from Denver to Chicago, in Sioux City, Iowa:
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Bernard Shaw, a major CNN personality during the channels’ first two decades on the air, has died.
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Here’s part 2 of a post about CFTO Toronto, now taking a look at a full Saturday edition of Night Beat News from 14 November 1992 with Beverly Thomson and Bill Hutchison. The studio and graphics were used between 1989 and 1998 and were completely out of date by the end of the decade, considering this was the #1-rated station in the city. The opening and closing music is awesome! 
In Uruguay, Teledoce’s news service Telemundo 12 celebrated its 54th anniversary on 10 June this year. In the following video, they review highlights of most of the last 5 decades on the air, with a handful of promos, intros (some of them were based on National Nine News and ABC’s Nightline), themes and personalities that were part of the program over the years.
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Here’s the 1989 launch of CBC Newsworld, Canada’s first news channel. As you can see, the channel was anchored from various CBC stations before the operations were centralized a few years later for cost reasons:
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The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico had an terrestrial all-news station in the 1980s – an impressive feat for an island with a population of just over three million. Here are some bits and pieces of WSJN’s output:
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We’ve seen this clip (or a shorter version) in another thread, but here’s Anne Fulwood of ADS7 anchoring the news on KTVV (now KXAN) in Austin, Texas, as part of an Adelaide-Austin news exchange in 1986:
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Yesterday marked 50 years since the debut of M* A* S*H on CBS.
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With the FIFA World Cup taking place in Qatar in two months’ time, here are some bits and pieces of 1980s and '90s TV from that country:
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One thing that’s very unusual in many places around the globe today is a station or network signing on in the morning and closing down at night. In the past, it used to be quite common. Here are some examples of start-ups and sign-offs:
WJAR-TV in Providence, RI closes down for the day in November 1987 with a meditation (sermonette), a goodnight message read by Jim Mendes (one of the station’s announcers, who also had a public affairs show at ‘JAR on the weekends), followed by the US’ national anthem and some static.
Telefe in Buenos Aires, Argentina kicks off its broadcast day on a Sunday morning in August 1999, with a slide and some rock music. An announcer mentions the tracks played while the time and temperature are shown on the screen. Later, it makes way to the station’s ID and coverage of Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
ARD in Germany signs-off in February 1978 with an in-vision continuity announcer handing over to an edition of Tagesschau, followed by a credit roll with the next day’s schedule.
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Moving from one international anchor exchange to another, here’s a 1978 newscast from Antenne 2 (now France 2) anchored from London and with the BBC’s Angela Rippon as the co-anchor:
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And for a week in 1976, special U.S.-themed editions of Antenne 2’s news were broadcast from the CBS News facilities in New York to mark President Giscard’s state visit to the United States:
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One of my favourite television idents from Fuji Television (JOCX-TV Channel 8 Tokyo).
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In the mid-1980s, ABC’s (U.S.) Nightline broadcast several specials from South Africa and made quite an impression on South Africans:
This is what the resulting program, Network, looked like in 1986. Despite the more modern form of the program, it would take SABC several years to genuinely liberalize itself.
And here are some promos and IDs for SABC’s TV4 circa 1990. Note the bilingual, English and Afrikaans, nature of the channel:
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And staying in South Africa here’s a 1986 newscast from SABC’s TV1. Note that the opening graphics are the same ones introduced by NBC several years earlier and also used by Seven in Australia.
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We’ve seen a clip of KARE’s historic 1986 live helicopter coverage of a Minnesota tornado before, but here’s a much longer clip. It opens with a bit of special coverage, goes to a commercial break, and then continues with full breaking news coverage during the 5 p.m. news (at the 2-minute mark):
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