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I don't believe so.

This Lori Stokes and Rosanna Scotto teamup is a complete joke how many fools on here are going to say Oh what a great team

Looks like KGTV is now allowing the ad blockers on it's site. Unless my ad blocker got real smart.

WGN, Chicago; 9 p.m. close, 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=APhDWq6Q4Zc;m=3;s=22

Damn, my Random Weekend Anchor Generator (patent pending) predicted Krashesky, Babich, and Schwarz.

Do they take viewer calls though (thus justifitying the live aspect)? It feels like they could have just took that out (unless Dan Hampton has a bizarre exclusivity contract where he can't do late night TV) and pre-record the show (but with the Zach Miller injury they may have felt the need to have Joe from Palos Heights get in his feelings about it). I know WITI dispensed with their Sunday show for the week, but they had the excuse of the Packers being on a bye. But on another note, the Bears' surrounding content TV contract has been a mess for years. Part on WFLD, part on NBCSC, and with many different hosts for each show. They need to streamline it for sure.

More WGN... 9 p.m. open, 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=vooJJVKZLn0;m=1;s=43 9 p.m. open, 1990:

Here's the last of the Phoenix stuff I've found... There may be more, but right now, I have a whole bunch of other things in the queue. KTVK (Phoenix) May 2, 1992 6:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]239244838[/MEDIA] KPNX (Phoenix) May 3, 1992 7:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]238499110[/MEDIA] KSAZ (Phoenix) April 30, 1994 10:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]239244453[/MEDIA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btWsF1YO2zQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR1poyjFR-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vc10CCCPIE Some rare WRTV footage from 1981 — using what I believe is one of the unknown themes from their NMSA page.

The intro to WSLS' 11pm news from November 4, 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=4W8RRKk7TbY;m=2;s=51

Does anybody know the music? Disco NewsNine!

KPNX ran Wonderful World of Disney from 5-7pm, rather than 6-8pm (as was done in Central Time zone). I believe at that time, when the NFL ran long, Disney was "joined in progress", thus a 7pm newscast guaranteed that they full half hour (+ the full Nightly News West Coast feed) ran in their entirety. J

This is a real weird transitional look. TVbD elements in some places (the station ID, the "12 NEWS SUNDAY" text in the open) but the new theme music, stone textured graphics and set. It is worth noting here that "12 News At This Hour" cut-ins continued to use the The Coast theme after this new look was fully implemented. Their weeknight 6:00 also had a cold open, though the clip for it is *long* gone. (The other 1992 Sunday newscast is a good stand-in.) Only a few newscasts seemed to have had full opens in the post-TVbD era in 1992-93.

Very interesting— by this time KPNX was phasing out the TVbD graphics for some newer ones, but the old graphics are still used for the L3’s. KPNX for some reason used cold opens for their weekend news, never understood why. This probably must’ve been temporary on purpose, because exactly a year later they debuted “News Station”. I still think Wow & Flutter were responsible for the 1992 theme...

And here's a CNN report about WAMI's alternative news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjdid7nODxc Staying in France, but going five years further back in time, here's the news from ORTF's First Network on today's date in 1972: