Classic Atlanta TV News Openers

BarryATL · May 17, 2009

I have been trolling Youtube for old Atlanbta TV News Openers in particular stuff from before 1980. Here is one I found that is a montage from 1976-1977. It is interesting in that this is when WXIA made the switch from Pro News to 11 Alive. HUGE difference in the fell of the station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0VaqAc36gs

Junk Junk · May 17, 2009

I liked the last one (the one for 11Alive Newsroom). They don't make them like that anymore. Well, WPVI does, but not many more...

whit979 · May 18, 2009

Wow...I had no idea that WSB had been "Action News" for over thirty years. Perhaps one of the longest-running "news team" slogans in the country?

upstate29651 · May 18, 2009

Junk Junk said:
I liked the last one (the one for 11Alive Newsroom). They don't make them like that anymore. Well, WPVI does, but not many more...

WPVI's opens are stuck squarely back in the 70's, and does not befit the image of how good an outlet they really are. I've often wondered why a major market station like that would use, by today's standards, such a "hokey" open?

Heck, 11Alive is antiquated as well. RDU's WTVD used to go by that monkier back in the 80's. Why does 'XIA hold on to it? I can at least understand keeping "Action News" around, as it, like "Eyewitness News" can state a mission & purpose fairly easy across the deacades.

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FloydB · May 19, 2009

What's interesting is that the main anchors from WSB then are STILL the main anchors at WSB now! I know, for a time, John Pruitt left and went to WXIA then, obviously, back to WSB. But, wow, just wow.

bpatrick · May 20, 2009

WXIA tried to kill the "11 Alive" ID in the '90s,
but it's so ingrained in Atlantans' minds that they
had to bring it back.

WTVD called theirs "11 Together."

Junk Junk · May 21, 2009

And 21Alive lives on in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

RoddyFreeman · May 25, 2009

Back in the 70's, WBAL-TV in Baltimore used 11 Alive.

azumanga · May 25, 2009

upstate29651 said:
WPVI's opens are stuck squarely back in the 70's, and does not befit the image of how good an outlet they really are. I've often wondered why a major market station like that would use, by today's standards, such a "hokey" open?

As they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."