The following video features various news and talent opens from Chicago's WGN-TV (available outside of the Chicago market through WGN America) from the late 1970s to present (none of the 2013 voiceover versions are available in this video). Here's what you can see in this video: (0:05-0:57) "Nightbeat" intros (1970s and c. 1980) (0:58-1:37) "The Nine O'Clock News" intro (early 1980s), weekend (?) intro (early 1980s) (1:38) "Nightbeat" intro (early 1980s) (1:51) "Newscope" intro (mid-late 1980s) (2:06) "Midday News" intro (mid-late 1980s) (2:16-2:37) "The Nine O'Clock News" intro (late 1980s-1991) and version with closed captioning tag (late 1980s-1991) (2:37) "Weekend Morning News" intro (1992-1993) (2:51) "Chicago's Midday News" intro (1990-1993) (2:59) "The Nine O'Clock News" intro (1991-1993) (3:14) "WGN Morning News" intro, with Doug Paul as voiceover (1994-1995) (3:29) "WGN News Sunday Morning" intro, with Beau Weaver as voiceover (1993-1994) (3:44-4:07) "WGN News at Noon" intro, with Beau Weaver as voiceover (1993-1994) and version with Doug Paul as voiceover (1994-1995) (4:08) "WGN News at Nine" intro, with Beau Weaver as voiceover (1993-1995), Weaver was presumably the voiceover for the intro from 1993 to 1994 (4:19-5:03) "WGN Morning News" talent intro, first version (1995-1997) and second version with Robin Baumgarten mentioned as "Skycam 9" reporter (1995-1997) (5:04) "WGN News at Nine" intro (1995-1997) (5:12-5:43) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (1995-1997) and Sunday talent bump (1995-1997) (5:44) "WGN News at Noon" intro (1997-2000) (5:45) "WGN Morning News" 7 a.m. intro (2000-2002) (5:58-6:32) "WGN News at Noon" intro and talent bump (2000-2002) (6:33) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2000-2002) (6:47) "WGN Morning News" 5 a.m. intro (2004-2007) (6:57-7:22) "WGN Morning News" 7 a.m. intro and talent bump (2004-2007) (7:23-7:49) "WGN Morning News" 8 a.m. intro and talent bump (2004-2007) (7:50) "WGN News at Noon" intro (2002-2004) (7:59-8:28) "WGN News at Noon" talent bumps (2002-2003 and 2006-2007 versions) (8:29) "WGN News at Nine" intro, with remixed cuts from Non-Stop Music's "WGN News Theme" (2004-2007) (8:36-9:06) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2004-2007) and version with anchors flipped (2004-2007) (9:06) "WGN News at Nine" Sunday talent bump (2004-2007) (9:19) "WGN News at Nine" intro, same as before though with 615 Music's "Chicago's Very Own" as the theme (2007-2008) (9:25) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2007-2008) (9:36) "WGN News at Nine" bump (2007-2008) (9:42) "WGN Morning News" 5 a.m. intro, with Bob Tracey as voiceover and revised graphics (2008-2011) (9:46) "WGN News at Noon" intro (2008-2009) (9:53) "WGN News at Noon" talent bump (2008-2009) (10:08) "WGN Midday News" intro (2009-2011) (10:15) "WGN Midday News" talent bump (2009-2011) (10:29) "WGN Midday News" bump (2009-2011) (10:36) "WGN Midday News" talent bump (2008-2009) (10:50) "WGN News at Nine" intro, with Bob Tracey as voiceover (2008-2011) (10:58) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2008-2009) (11:13) "WGN News at Nine" Saturday talent bump (2008-2009) (11:29) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2009-2011) (11:43) "WGN News at Nine" Saturday talent bump (2009-2011) (12:00) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2009-2011) (12:15) "WGN News at Nine" out-of-break bump (2009-2011) (12:22) "WGN Evening News" intro (2009-2011) (12:29-12:51) "WGN Morning News" 4 a.m. intro (with different announcer) and talent bump (2011-2013) (12:52) "WGN Morning News" 5 a.m. intro (2011-2013) (12:58) "WGN Morning News" 5:30 a.m. talent bump (2011-2013) (13:16-13:38) "WGN Morning News" 6 a.m. intro and talent bump (2011-2013) (13:39) "WGN Morning News" 7 a.m. intro (2011-2013) (13:45) "WGN Morning News" 7 a.m. talent bump (2011-2013) (14:00) "WGN Morning News" 8 a.m. intro (2011-2013) (14:07) "WGN Morning News" 8 a.m. talent bump (2011-2013) (14:25) "WGN Midday News" intro (2011-2013) (14:31) "WGN Midday News" talent bump (2011-2013) (14:45) "WGN Evening News" talent bump (2011-2012) (14:58) "WGN Evening News" bump (2011-2012) (15:05) "WGN News at Five" intro (2012-present) (15:16) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2012-present) (15:31) "WGN News at Nine" intro (2011-2013) (15:39-16:07) "WGN News at Nine" Monday-Thursday talent bump (2011-2013), Friday talent bump (2011-2013) and Saturday talent bump (2011-2013) The posting of this video is designed to facilitate criticism, commentary, scholarship, and research relating to the television broadcasting industry, and for purposes of historic preservation, consistent with the provisions set forth in Section 107 of Title 17, United States Code. © 2013 WGN-TV, owned by Tribune Broadcasting. Accurate captions are available for this video, activate the caption track and select "English" (the selection without the "automatic captions" tag) to view them.

• published: 24 Oct 2013
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