From 1986, first-ever live coverage of tornado from a helicopter:
Staying in the U.S., he first edition of ABC’s World News Tonight from 1978. At the time, the newscast was anchored from three cities – Washington (mostly for political news), Chicago (for “heartland” news), and London (for overseas news):
An interesting documentary about WCAX, the dominant TV station in the beautiful U.S. state of Vermont. For years, WCAX was a family-run operation, and this video is definitely worth watching for anyone interested in the history of American television outside the big cities:
A 1982 British program on the future of television in the UK, focusing on cable and satellite:
And from WBBM in Chicago, here’s the station’s 2008 farewell to its historic studios – the site of the Nixon-Kennedy debate and one of the first newsroom sets:
I originally uploaded these videos to YouTube in 2008-ish, but I got a copyright strike. Some other people managed to download it and upload themselves - which is lucky because I lost the original video files! 
Presentation of ABS-CBN’s flagship tabloid television news programme, TV Patrol, from 2004. Recorded off DXYL-TV Channel 4 in Bacolod, Negros Occidental. NTSC signals are a funny thing, so red popped up as hot pink for some reason.
Headlines, introduction, Election 2004 billboard with lead story headline.
Commercial break segways.
The theme music is an in-house variation of Frank Gari’s Allegro News Package, which was first used by KPIX San Francisco. ABS-CBN still uses the theme signature to this day.
From 1980, an English-language newscast from Hong Kong’s Rediffusion TV (RTV):
And from 1992, here’s SABC’s coverage of the (still whites-only) referendum that ended Apartheid in South Africa:
An English-language weather forecast for a country that no longer exists: Yugoslavia. Subtitled in German, it was produced by the TV station in Novi Sad for foreign visitors to the country:
Here is Allegro as heard on KPIX in 1995:
Very weird it wasn’t mentioned what the referendum was for at all, weird coverage
Staying in South Africa but skipping forward to the post-Apartheid era, here is the final edition of am2day from 1999. Even though the morning show was popular, SABC2 decided not to renew the contract of the company that produced it:
The English-language news from TVB Pearl in Hong Kong, 1981:
Here’s a description of the Hong Kong television landscape of the colonial era from Timothy Green’s 1972 book The Universal Eye: World Television in the Seventies:
An interesting 1968 promotional / sales film for Kaiser Broadcasting, which operated independent (unaffiliated) UHF stations in several U.S. cities:
Sky One “We’re the One” 1989 promo.
Courtesy of gepree68.
A fascinating 1983 sales video for WBBM in Chicago, featuring the station’s distinctive news theme:
Staying in Chicago but moving up three channel places, here’s an out-of-this-world 1977 promo for WMAQ. Intended to promote the station’s ENG (electronic newsgathering) technology, the promo can be described as 1970s-sci-fi-meets-acid-trip:
Here is what the aforementioned Timothy Green has to say about TV Patrol – or just Patrol as it was known then – in his 1972 book:
In the early evening ABS-CBN run a two-hour programme called Patrol which is really just a public noticeboard for the city of Manila. All kinds of local titbits turn up. Insurance agents are advised that their exams have been postponed. Boy scouts are told where to report to a jamboree. Payment is offered for 500 cc of a rare type of blood urgently required to help a fourteen-year-old boy suffering from bone cancer; anyone who can offer a transfusion is asked to phone the studio immediately. Even photographs and descriptions of several children missing from home in the slums of Manila are given. Patrol calls itself ‘the public service programme that makes a city move’ and it outranks the imported Bonanza in the ratings.
Ident for Channel 12 of Córdoba, Argentina. See any similarity with an Australian network?
This ident was done by Globograph, a motion graphics agency in Brazil, owned by television network Rede Globo.
Inspiration taken from Channel Nine.
From 1992, a behind-the-scenes look at CityTV, the pioneering independent TV station in Toronto, Canada, known for its tabloid, streetwise local news:
The 1996 launch of Fox News Channel:
I was interested to read about the “Heidi” debacle that bumped an NFL game off NBC just minutes before the losing team made a staggering comeback, and viewers unable to see those crucial minutes. It happened on 17 November 1968… I was only vaguely aware of it in recent times, but interesting to read more into it.