Oldest Local/National Newscast You Have On Tape/Beta

[KnoxvilleTVFan]

Since there was the topic of the oldest existant off-air tape anyone has on VHS or Beta, I decided to start a topic if anyone has the oldest local/national newscast.Here is that question:What is the oldest local or national newscast you have on VHS or beta?

 

[donnyg]

Hey Knoxville,I would have to say the oldest newscast I have on tape is 1983 WTVG Toledo with me on there giving the winning high school editorial for that year ;D

 

[TheRob]

I have KMBC/Kansas City from Nov. 20, 1983, but it's in bad shape. The abbreviated newscast aired after "The Day After" and a local discussion show on "The Day After", both of which I have on the same tapes.I also have a random WDAF-TV newscast from 1986, in a case where the tape wasn't stopped after some NBC show ended.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Oldest newscast I have is from CHCH/11 in Hamilton. It is the 11 PM edition of Newsroom 11 from April 4, 1985, anchored by Dan McLean. I also have the December 8, 1985 edition of CBC News Sunday Report, anchored by Peter Mansbridge. Somewhere I believe I have a close to a newscast on CFPL/10 from 1985 or 1986, but in any case I have a TV-London News promo from December 1985. From the United States I have a couple afternoon news updates and promos for WSEE/35 from Erie, all from 1988 (they were the ultimate bargain basement at that time). There's a couple tapes I haven't looked at in a long time that might have some other things...I think the CFPL close is on one of those, and potentially some CTV stuff as well.I wish my late grandparents' videotape collection wasn't destroyed. They potentially would have had stuff from CJOH, CKWS, and WWNY from as early as 1980, and stuff from the Vancouver area from 1978-79 as my grandfather was into videorecording very early on.

 

[mr_mark_taylor]

so it's not exaclty a newscast (but it does have the Nightly Buisness Report with a then unknown Neil Cavuto) but I have a tape of New Hampshire Public television from December 1985, the VHS also includes audio from WSSH "Wish 99.5" in Boston.

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan]

For me, I had a WBIR newscast from 1985 when they had the snowstorm at the time. I also had 2 University of Tennessee basketball games from 1985 on the same tape.Unfortunately, the tape tore my VCR up but I finally got to see a Knoxville newscast from 1985.

 

[Stanislav]

With VHS rapidly becoming obsolete, this is a good time to check sources like thrift stores, estate sales, etc. for old discarded off-air recordings. Even if it's just a network program, it might have old local station IDs and promos of interest. Sometimes it's fun just to buy a couple of unlabeled tapes that have obviously been used (and that you can tell from the packaging or shell style are pretty old) just to see what's on there -- hey, for 99 cents or so each, it's worth the risk. The best thing I found so far was 2 hours of CBS coverage of the Challenger Disaster from 1986.

 

[mjlarochelle]

With VHS rapidly becoming obsolete, this is a good time to check sources like thrift stores, estate sales, etc. for old discarded off-air recordings. Even if it's just a network program, it might have old local station IDs and promos of interest. Sometimes it's fun just to buy a couple of unlabeled tapes that have obviously been used (and that you can tell from the packaging or shell style are pretty old) just to see what's on there -- hey, for 99 cents or so each, it's worth the risk. The best thing I found so far was 2 hours of CBS coverage of the Challenger Disaster from 1986.

Hmm, never thought of that. I shall try that out one day.

 

[oldschooler1]

This might be cheating --- but, nonetheless, I have it on tape. It is a dub of the 11PM 'cast from September 2, 1975 ...All the way from the CBS net ID outcue at about 10:58PM to the US Open update at 11:30PM...Spots and local ID's included.This is from WHEN-TV, NewsCenter 5 in Syracuse. Ron Curtis is the anchor (god rest his soul), Jack Morse is on sports and...Al Roker is on weather. It featured "team coverage" (before they called it "team coverage") of a major rock concert at the state fairgrounds. Three film pkg's in a row. No wipes between them. No anchor "tag" at the end, either. Curtis just launches into the next story at the end of the third pkg. The 'cast also featured a story about a subway workers strike in NYC, a network piece from Phil Graham of CBS about a WV coal miners strike , and flash flooding around Pittsburgh, from KDKA, with their supers burned into the report. This was 14 months before WHEN (now WTVH) would get a "live truck" -- allegedly, the first in upstate NY (November 1976). TV5 used *some* supers in local stories, but not overly. Just enough to ID reporters and interviewees. Plain white, with their logo on the second line. You should see the weather 'cast -- no chroma key, all boards on rollers with magnetic symbols and numerals for temperatures.

 

[Stanislav]

This is from WHEN-TV, NewsCenter 5 in Syracuse. Ron Curtis is the anchor (god rest his soul), Jack Morse is on sports and...Al Roker is on weather.

1975 -- hope the loud ties and big sideburns weren't TOO distracting. Probably like looking at multiple copies of my high school prom photo.....

You should see the weather 'cast -- no chroma key, all boards on rollers with magnetic symbols and numerals for temperatures.

Let me guess -- one of those "dry erase" boards with the temps and fronts marked in grease pencil, right?

 

[skippy123]

I have most of, if not all of, Good Morning America's coverage of the wedding of Charles and Diana from 1981. Complete with David Hartman, Joan Lunden, and the antiquated manual weather board!

 

[rwells2265]

Here's where I get really anal and start qualifying .... oldest in one's collection which originated from a TV station's archive? Or does this have to be one recorded on a home machine?Oldest home-recorded newscast in my collection would have to be WTVA-9 in Tupelo, Miss. from February of 1981. Oldest I have, period, is a 15-minute KGO-TV 7/San Francisco newscast from 1965, originating from a 2" B/W tape master.

 

[KML0224]

Let me guess -- one of those "dry erase" boards with the temps and fronts marked in grease pencil, right?

WCSH-TV (NBC) channel 6 of Portland, ME had that in 1986-87 when I was living near there (Old Orchard Beach). Meteorologist Joe Cupo visited our school and I convinced him to add Hartford's temperature with that same pencil! (Their map used to show nearly all of New England.) ;D

 

[james32746]

Mine is a Today broadcast from July 1991 (recorded off of WESH-2) (actually it was my mother's tape not mine that I found years later).

 

[Tim L]

I had (not sure I still do) Newscast tapes from WEWS-TV 5 from March 1993 revolving around the boating accident involving 3 Cleveland Indians pitchers at Little Lake Nellie near Winter Haven, Florida. Tim Crews and Steve Olin died while Bob Ojeda was seriously injured. This was The Indians first year at Winter Haven for Spring Training after 46 years at Tucson, Ariz.

 

[Stanislav]

I have most of, if not all of, Good Morning America's coverage of the wedding of Charles and Diana from 1981. Complete with David Hartman, Joan Lunden, and the antiquated manual weather board!

I remember watching that on CNN, back when they were still a fledgling cable channel that no one really thought would take off (I think they had been on less than a year at the time of the Royal Wedding). Anyway, they were picking up the feed of the wedding direct from the BBC, and they cut to that feed several minutes too early, and several BBC promos and IDs were seen on CNN prior to the start of the ceremony! Wish I'd had a VCR to catch that (I did take a few still photos off the screen that are probably buried in the attic somewhere...)

 

[bk77]

The oldest tape I have in collection was recorded by my mom who died in 1996. It was a 1976 ( maybe early 1977 ) episode of the old kids show Wonderama with Bob Mccallister. Guest were The Jacksons doing their then-hit "Enjoy Yourself". Not only do you get to see some little GIRL going up to Michael saying how much she loves him but the tape even includes a promo for WTTG DC's channel 5 too. Back then their slogan was "Take 5" with the music coming from the Take 5 tune by Dave Kubrick (?).The oldiest tape I have that I myself recorded was an edition of TV Greatest Commericals hosted by Ed McMahon and Tim Conway. It aired in May 1982 on NBC. It's complete with all the commericals including a local WRC-TV 4 newsbreak with Jim Vance asking "what is a Pia Zadora", a promo for the local Charlie Rose show for an upcoming show about lesbian parents plus an ad for 105 WAVA, today a religious station owned by Salem, back then an Album Rock Station "..WAVA..Rocks The Nation !!". Oh, there are a number of NBC promos too for such 1982 shows like Fame, Gimmie A Break, and the now forgotten sitcom...Teachers Only all featuring the voice of Casey Kasem.

 

[stdjsb25]

I have KMBC/Kansas City from Nov. 20, 1983, but it's in bad shape. The abbreviated newscast aired after "The Day After" and a local discussion show on "The Day After", both of which I have on the same tapes.

I picked up that movie this weekend on DVD.....that's a really good and really chilling movie.....it's a shame that the discussion was not included in the DVD's bonus features.....interestingly enough, it apparently introduced the term "nuclear winter" into the vocabulary by way of Dr. Carl Sagan...........

 

[TheRob]

I have KMBC/Kansas City from Nov. 20, 1983, but it's in bad shape. The abbreviated newscast aired after "The Day After" and a local discussion show on "The Day After", both of which I have on the same tapes.

I picked up that movie this weekend on DVD.....that's a really good and really chilling movie.....it's a shame that the discussion was not included in the DVD's bonus features.....interestingly enough, it apparently introduced the term "nuclear winter" into the vocabulary by way of Dr. Carl Sagan...........

I hope the DVD doesn't vary from the original. A few years ago, I saw "The Day After" on TV Land ("movie of the week" week). They edited out the blast scenes where everyone becomes a living x-ray for a split second, before being incinerated. I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, where part of the movie was filmed. The acting isn't stellar by any means, but the message is clear.By the way, the local KMBC discussion show on that tape actually pre-empted a Ted Koppel discussion show that aired on ABC after the movie. Carl Sagan was listed as one of Koppel's guests.

 

[stdjsb25]

I have KMBC/Kansas City from Nov. 20, 1983, but it's in bad shape. The abbreviated newscast aired after "The Day After" and a local discussion show on "The Day After", both of which I have on the same tapes.

I picked up that movie this weekend on DVD.....that's a really good and really chilling movie.....it's a shame that the discussion was not included in the DVD's bonus features.....interestingly enough, it apparently introduced the term "nuclear winter" into the vocabulary by way of Dr. Carl Sagan...........

I hope the DVD doesn't vary from the original. A few years ago, I saw "The Day After" on TV Land ("movie of the week" week). They edited out the blast scenes where everyone becomes a living x-ray for a split second, before being incinerated. I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, where part of the movie was filmed. The acting isn't stellar by any means, but the message is clear.By the way, the local KMBC discussion show on that tape actually pre-empted a Ted Koppel discussion show that aired on ABC after the movie. Carl Sagan was listed as one of Koppel's guests.

The DVD of the movie is actually the international version, which has no commercial breaks and was released overseas theatrically.