I just thought I'd share this rare treat with y'all... A complete WDIV late night newscast (using the Nightbeat name at the time) that aired at around 1:00 am ET in the very late hours of October 1/early hours of October 2, 1988. The anchors are Nona Barbee and Bob Pisnor. Scott Wahle (later of WBZ in Boston) was on monitoring sports while Rick Griffin was doing weather. The anchor desk itself looks the same as it was back in the mid '80s, although that would later change.
This newscast was part of a full tape of non-stop recording of Olympic coverage from Seoul, South Korea (for which NBC was the U.S. broadcaster, and has carried most Olympics games since this one; ABC hasn't carried such a games since Calgary earlier in the year, and Los Angeles '84 was ABC's last Summer Games to date). Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas were manning the chair at various points. The only events shown on this tape were volleyball and a marathon. Later into the tape, was syndicated programming like America's Top Ten with Casey Kasem (announced by Charlie Tuna), At the Movies with Rex Reed and Dixie Whatley, The Spectacular World of Guinness Records with David Frost (yes, that David Frost), and a repackaged syndicated episode of More Real People, repackaged segments of the 1979-84 NBC series, before ending with a repeat of the newscast (in which the tape ran out).
Here's the entire newscast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvveeRJlRc
This newscast was part of a full tape of non-stop recording of Olympic coverage from Seoul, South Korea (for which NBC was the U.S. broadcaster, and has carried most Olympics games since this one; ABC hasn't carried such a games since Calgary earlier in the year, and Los Angeles '84 was ABC's last Summer Games to date). Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas were manning the chair at various points. The only events shown on this tape were volleyball and a marathon. Later into the tape, was syndicated programming like America's Top Ten with Casey Kasem (announced by Charlie Tuna), At the Movies with Rex Reed and Dixie Whatley, The Spectacular World of Guinness Records with David Frost (yes, that David Frost), and a repackaged syndicated episode of More Real People, repackaged segments of the 1979-84 NBC series, before ending with a repeat of the newscast (in which the tape ran out).
Here's the entire newscast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvveeRJlRc