The 1996 launch of MSNBC:
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A dark day for the news media, journalism and US politics
Similar can probably be said about the Opening of Sky News Australia (remember - the highly respected and current ABC News NSW lead presenter Juanita Phillips introduced the first ever SNA bulletin) on February 19, 1996!
I donât think you can compare Sky News circa 1996 to Fox News. I think itâs only in the last few years when News Corp took full ownership that it adopted its focus on opinionated right wingers.
From what I gather Sky News Australia was fairly straightforward news reporting when it started.
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An edition of East German televisionâs main evening news (Aktuelle Kamera) from the summer of 1989, just months before the collapse of Communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall â much of the newscast is devoted to the opening of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea:
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A 1994 promo introducing CNN International to potential advertisers:
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Fox News had already started being opinionated before its launch. Hereâs an advertisement for the channelâs launch in 1996.
(credits: Broadcasting & Cable Magazine)
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WBBM in Chicago introduces its viewers to the magic of ENG technology and live minicam vans, 1978:
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From 1952, the first broadcast of the worldâs first morning show â NBCâs Today. (For another presumed first from that day, skip ahead a bit and youâll see an on-screen news ticker!)
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And hereâs how Plymouth-based TSW, another ITV broadcaster that lost its franchise that day in 1991, covered the sad news:
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TSW, now known as ITV West Country.
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Almost. As a result of the franchise decision discussed in the coverage above, TSW effectively ceased to exist and was replaced by Westcountry Television (the direct predecessor to ITV West Country) on January 1, 1993. The new broadcaster launched with new facilities and mostly new staff; it was an entirely separate legal entity from the old TSW, even though it served the same license area.
You can see the midnight launch of Westcountry Television here:
In 2009, ITV Westcountryâs regional news moved from Plymouth to Bristol, the home of ITV West, and it was reduced to a 15-minute (later 20-minute) localized segment within a combined news broadcast. This is how the news was announced:
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From January 1993, the first edition of London Tonight after Carlton replaced Thames as the weekday ITV broadcaster for London:
âNewswatchâ, the main newscast of WTBS, then an Atlanta station mirrored by satellite to other locations, thus becoming Superstation WTBS. The satellite channel became TBS and the Atlanta station became WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV), an independent station owned by Turner.
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For all of you dying to know where my username comes from (but a great clip regardless â along with an unforgettable theme):
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Some unused American network IDs created by Computer Animation Industries in the early 1970s:
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that NBC one at the end - trippy.
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The NBC one reminds me of the twisty colourful Seven animation of the 1970s.
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Kinda reminds me of this:
YouTube: GraTV.
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