It’s a bit closer to this one
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I wonder if that ID actually went to air that way.
The NBC one? The three networks IDs in the compilation above were apparently never used. As someone pointed out in another forum, it’s possible that they were merely speculative animations.
Juanita Phillips, now of ABC News NSW, co-anchors this 1998 edition of CNN This Morning, produced by CNN International for its viewers in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region:
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I was referring to TelevisionAU’s post.
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From the early 1980s, an orientation video shown to new employees of Group W, then a major owner of local TV and radio stations in the U.S. The video provides an interesting overview of a major, yet often overlooked broadcasting company more than a decade before it merged with CBS:
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If you’re wondering about the Satellite News Channel mentioned in the video above: SNC was a joint venture of Group W and ABC and was intended to compete against Ted Turner’s recently launched Cable News Network. The channel heavily promoted that it was “all live” 24 hours a day, as opposed to CNN and CNN2, which carried some taped programming in the overnight hours. But the backing of two major media companies wasn’t enough: SNC launched in the summer of 1982, but folded by October of the following year. (It was actually bought out by Turner after Group W and ABC gave up on the joint venture, and Turner had it shut down.)
Here’s a promotional video produced on the occasion of SNC’s first anniversary – the only anniversary the channel would ever see:
From 1991, a few pre-launch promos for the KTLA Morning News in Los Angeles, one of the first morning newscasts to compete head-to-head against the network morning shows from New York:
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Anglia 1988 ID with announcer.
YouTube: David Seare.
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HBO’s legendary movie intro from the 1980s; by the way, the town is a scale model, not a computer animation:
HBO even produced a film about how this intro was made:
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Looks like something Nine would do.
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This 2017 version is loosely – and quite brilliantly – based on the 1983 original:
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KVOS in the U.S. town of Bellingham, WA, is another cross-border station: the bulk of its audience is in Canada – in the greater Vancouver metropolitan area. Here’s a sign-off/closedown from 1985 with the national anthem of both countries:
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In the 1980s and early '90s, the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the UK would regularly air IBA Engineering Announcements, first on ITV and later on Channel 4. The segment, about ten minutes in length, informed professional and general audiences about new transmitters, frequency allocations, radio stations, broadcasting technologies, etc. Sometimes, questions from the public were answered on the segment.
Here’s a sample broadcast from 1990:
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It’s a pity they didn’t do this in Australia. I would have watched it. Religiously!
If it was done here in Australia it would of course be done by the ABC.
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Here’s an edition from 1983, with plenty of information about cable television, among other topics:
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Staying in the UK, here’s the 1989 launch of Sky Television, which initially included just four channels: the original Sky Channel (rebranded Sky One not long afterwards), Sky News, Sky Movies, and Eurosport.
It all starts at the 1:12 mark:
Here’s a follow-up promo in the same style that aired in 1990:
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With the regional affiliation switch making media headlines in Australia, let’s take a look back at the major affiliation swaps that affected TV stations across the U.S. in 1994/'95. KCNC in Denver produced a half-hour special explaining why the shakeup happened and what its immediate effects would turn out to be:
Part 2:
Part 3:
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One of my favourite presentation looks from Deutsche Welle TV from 1999-2002.
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Vaguely psychedelic 2001: a Space Odyssey- style graphics? Check.
A set that rotates for no apparent reason? Check.
A puppet joining the news team? Check.
From 1977, a typical tornado warning on Chicago station WMAQ:
