I was boppin' around YouTube this evening and came across this news intro from 1985. It's from the NBC-owned station in Chicago (WMAQ-Channel 5), back in the early days of Ron Magers' and Carol Marin's highly successful run on the station's 10PM newscast.
They left the station in protest in 1997 when station management attempted to bring in Jerry Springer to do commentary, but to this day they remain the best anchor team ever to grace television news. Today's "bubble-headed bleach blondes who come at 5" would do well take some lessons.
You can see the first few minutes of an actual 1989 newscast here.
And the 1985 intro is below.
Update: A reader from Los Angeles asked if Ron Magers is any relation to Paul Magers, the lead anchor at KCBS-Channel 2 in L.A. Yes, they are brothers.
