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Has this ever been posted? Either way this is still cool to watch considering how rare KTVK stuff is from the early to mid ‘80s. This also shows their ID from the following set of opens (Arizona’s News People) debuted in 1984, as well as a “Turn To” promo.

Hello TVNT folks! This is my first post on this site after a couple years of lurking... Back on Wednesday, I was watching the 11 PM newscast on WXYZ and going into commercial, they displayed a preview banner that had their morning newscast run from "4 to 7 AM". Of course, the morning newscast promos they aired during the commercials still mentioned a 4:30 start time, as does my program guide. Is this expansion something WXYZ is truly doing? If so, you can add the Detroit market to the slowly-growing list of markets with newscasts with 4 AM start times.

It was even used for coverage of the World Series parade in November 2001, though I don't think the video can be found anywhere now. Yup, that definitely shed some much-needed clarity when I found it 5 years ago. At the time, I quipped of the image promo at 5:13 in that clip, "Let's just say I may take back every word I've said about repetitive Turn To campaign songs." BTW, Jim Scoutten at this time was also anchoring Eyewitness News (in addition to filling in).

Bonus video from the South... WBRC (Birmingham) September 10, 1994 [MEDIA=vimeo]239748690[/MEDIA]

Disney's trying to get bigger (note, this would not include TV stations/FOX News/FOX Sports) [MEDIA=twitter]927604378013503493[/MEDIA]

WCVB is #1 because of the quality of its newscasts, not the quality of its Facebook page or Twitter feed. Don't judge a TV station by its social media accounts.

Here is a video link to the incident that killed his sister.

Someone explain how WCVB is #1 in the Boston market? Today their Facebook page posted another obnoxious caption photo that read “Sunday without the Patriots is Boring!” Focus on local and national news!

A promo for WTVT's 5:30 news in 1986:

It had existed since the fall of 1981, in fact — and kept the name for 15 years! With its launch on September 7, 1996, Fox Sports Arizona and ASPN (or Cox Sports — Dimension had been sold at this point) began sharing a channel on the Cox cable system. Cox Sports held the rights to the Suns, but Fox Sports had Pac-10 football (including its opening night telecast of an ASU football game and quite a few games in the Sun Devils' Rose Bowl season, though it was not until 1998 that the university moved its own games from KTVK) and the newly relocated Coyotes. If you want to be more confused, ASPN apparently picked up Prime Sports programming. (Prime Sports' LA feed was even available for a time in Tucson!) It wasn't until June that Prime wanted to set up its own Arizona channel: "Prime move? Prime Sports, the subsidiary of Fox-Liberty Sports, is negotiating with Cox about leaving ASPN for a separate channel of its own. It would house the Diamondbacks (in two years), along with with Coyotes and its Pac-10 football and basketball packages. If a separate channel is landed, Cox may pay as much as a 50-cent-per-subscriber increase to Prime, which, in turn, undoubtedly will be passed on to subscribers in the monthly basic cable cost. Johnson says negotiations are ongoing, but said a decision hasn't been reached and ASPN remains a viable outlet." In between that (which turned out to be what happened) and September 1, the Prime Sports brand was dropped for Fox Sports. While it was announced that the rest of the RSNs would not change until October, the new Arizona network was exclusively referred to Fox Sports Arizona in the paper, though apparently it did use Prime Sports Arizona for two months. The Suns remained with Cox for some time after. For the 1998-99 NBA season, Cox Sports was replaced with the more general-themed Cox 9 (later Cox 7, then YurView Arizona — the rebrand also allowed Cox to give KAZT channel 7 on cable). Fox Sports picked up the Suns at some point after in the early 2000s. YurView continues to dabble in sports besides high school, particularly with GCU, though it has also telecast Arizona Rattlers and other smaller sports events in the past.

Happy Midweek! 2 Post-network Switch newscasts from DFW. KTVT (Ft. Worth) August 25, 1995 10:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]238499973[/MEDIA] WFAA (Dallas) August 26, 1995 6:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]239354663[/MEDIA] J

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WOKR in 1987... WHO in 1989... A March 1994 KPNX tease with Sean McLaughlin (!) and Ron Hoon (!): Not news material, but certainly rare. ASPN (not a typo!) was something of Arizona's first RSN, as it had the rights to the Suns and high school football telecasts (it's the predecessor to what's now YurView Arizona in that regard):