Before the cut to the restaurant scene in which all the newsroom ladies are dining and the suggestion is planted to play with the teleprompter, the name of the restaurant can be seen on a neon sign. Part of the sign, in Spanish, says "We spit in your food."

Ron Burgundy's dog is named Baxter. A tribute perhaps to the character made famous by Ted Knight on the hit 1970's sitcom 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' in which Knight plays a pompous, dimwitted TV news anchorman named Ted Baxter.

Near the end Ron is in a bar singing. At the end of the bar table near the door is Jerry Stiller, the father of Ben Stiller (who has a cameo in the gang fight scene).

When Ed announces that a woman is coming to work at the station, Brick panics because he has heard that bears are attracted to the smell of their periods. Believe it or not, this is actually true about lions.

Brick kills a rival reporter by throwing a trident in a scene lifted from the first gladiator fight in Spartacus.

In the brawl, the two horsemen with the net between them come after Brian and drag him. This shot (and the accompanying music) comes straight from the Planet of the Apes, the original release. Submitted by Joel Amos Gordon

Near the beginning when Champ is reporting at the Panda exhibit, there is a sign with bamboo and a panda on it. It would appear that the panda is pole dancing (a dancing move common in strip bars) on the bamboo.