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To paraphrase his time as a game show host, K-O ovbiously doesn't want to G-O.

He might have been incredibly frugal but his stations were decent. Buddy Bostick, who founded KWTX-TV, died Wednesday at the age of 98. Here's the piece of advice he left us in 1985 on the topic of news music... "Buy the music... Buy it just like you buy your cameras and like you buy your transmitters. When you buy it, you own it and you use it until it is no good and you can throw it away."

My post on Buddy Bostick's death must have drawn this out of the shadows... In keeping with Bostick's frugal philosophy, KWTX held onto news music far longer than it should have. They were the last station to use Tuesday13 (abandoned in 1990) and didn't ditch The News Image until 1997. Only a handful other stations were even still using the package in 1991! The news open itself strongly suggests someone regularly watched WFAA... In 1997, KWTX atoned for its news music sins with one of the quietly best packages of the 90s (and while the open date is 2004, the graphics are clearly older)...

But...... Eh..... Oh the restraint I show for the sake of "peace in the valley".....