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Northeast US, October 1994 Sorry for the heavy WNBC rotation, but I love that theme. I also found it interesting WCBS was still using the "I Love Chicago" theme for the traffic open... I'm a fan of WBAL's open - to me, at least, it's in the class with WBTV's from the same timeframe. I have more from this trip (some Canada/northern NY, as well as west Tennessee), coming soon! [MEDIA=vimeo]243785255[/MEDIA] Jim

Haven't seen anything about a suspension of Jim Dolan. Was this reported somewhere?

I have the one I've posted from WBRZ in 1994 - I suspect I also have a WAFB from the same trip (different tape, though), and just ran across the WBTR/19 "Baton Rouge Today" open. I have some New Orleans from the early 90s somewhere... Also, I'm beginning to wonder - did I do any work in 1994??? Jim

WMC, Memphis; new set promo, mid-1980s:

Hearst has done the same thing. Your turn, Graham and Scripps' ex-MGH stations.

Fantastic clips...that WNYT look in particular has some of the oddest Prime News cuts I've ever heard paired with a strange take on the "flying monitors" graphics. Very interesting, and can't wait to see what else you have in store for us!

[quote name='onthesea']@compubit I've two questions for you: 1- How did you record TV from a car? 2- When you traveled to the Northeast in 1994, did you visit New England?[/QUOTE] Back in the day... 1) I had a Sony VideoWalkman [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Original_Sony_Video_Walkman.JPG/220px-Original_Sony_Video_Walkman.JPG[/IMG] as well as my Super-VHS deck and an 8mm tape deck, and 2) a DC/AC converter (plugs into the cigarette lighter and provides 120V out), and 3) a thing called (as I was originally taught) an aerial, but nowadays it's called an antenna. If you connect them up, you could record stuff off the air! It was amazing! In reality, I just hooked stuff up and recorded - I'd take the 8mm and S-VHS decks, tune them in using the screen on the Video Walkman, then lastly tune the video to record. I learned that you have to be careful with grounding and the antenna to the car, or you end up with white noise (you can see it in some of the videos...) As for Northeast 1994, I don't think so - I have some Burlington, VT, but started in NYC, moved my grandmother to outside of Albany, then did the loop trip up I-87 to Montreal, down through Toronto, and then back to Albany, then headed back to Texas with my mom (thus the Hagerstown/Baltimore, Knoxville & Nashville). I have more, but will have to edit it together once I get it off of tape... Jim

Not gonna lie, after seeing that NC Now open, all it was missing were announcing of "filmed before a live studio audience" + "in stereo where available" notice below. i was waiting to see what story they gonna tell on "tonight's episode". Cue the laugh track. Don't tell me they wouldn't 'fit in' between Full House and Family Matters. Perfect 'sitcom' open that captured the 90s, love it. By god, can anyone identify the WCNC nightcast theme. Is it production music? So addictive. I keep hearing that theme as background for WFAN Radio's 'Benigno and Roberts' football picks segments every friday. Yes WBTV's open is the standard of modern times, holds up so well.

WCTV 1975 Newscast and promo.

To answer your question, mornings was new format (branded as "NewsDay"). There was no midday newscast, just hourly updates. (I believe those were branded "The News Now", and used News Tonight graphics.) I think weekends were branded "The News Saturday/Sunday" (using the former weeknight team sans Steve Bell). The only place Eyewitness News remained was 6pm on weeknights. In that clip, MAN does it stick out like a sore thumb. The only thing that indicates the 6pm and 11pm aired on the same station is the mic flag. Why they didn't immediately kill EWN to begin with remains a mystery - I have a gut feeling it relates to Steve Bell's contract but that's just me. Anyway, Steve Bell and Eyewitness News were out by the first week of January. Bruce Hamilton was in for NewsBeat. Even that didn't last. By the end of 1992 they paired Hamilton with 11pm anchor Jennifer Ward, and all evening newscasts (weekday and weekend) carried the News Tonight name. Branding coherency returned in 1994 when Larry Kane, Stephanie Stahl, and the blue set all arrived with KYW News 3. They did have a noon newscast during the Eyewitness News days - not sure when it was introduced or how long it lasted, but there was a midday news. That was canned during the revamp in 1991. KYW did reintroduce it with the switch to CBS, with a far better lead in. The KYW talk here shouldn't overshadow the presence of peak Action News. The opens have the best master of MCTYW that they've ever used, the "newsmat" set is classic and the anchors are in peak form. This was the newscast I grew up with and the nostalgia here is STRONG.

WSB 1987 WXIA 1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=ohMaO9QSv4A;list=PLUpFQO-jXqaWn-tqdnP5mO82Kyj0EQDue WGNX (WGCL)

We've seen his last 10pm newscast, now TCMediaNow has uploaded Dave Moore's last 6pm newscast at WCCO from December 6, 1991:'

And a few more... A KNXV 5:30 p.m. newscast from May 14, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243397434[/MEDIA] A WISH-TV 6 p.m. newscast from October 19, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243536472[/MEDIA] A 10 p.m. newscast from WJRD (now WVUA), again from August 29, 1998: [MEDIA=vimeo]243536746[/MEDIA] A WBZ 11 p.m. newscast August 16, 1998: [MEDIA=vimeo]243537918[/MEDIA] And finally, a WTHR 11 p.m. newscast from October 18, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243537517[/MEDIA]

For the user who wanted it, some weather forcasts and ids from KCBJ (now KMIZ) from 1982, when they were an NBC affiliate. You'll all be in shock and awe at how extremely low budget they were were back then, it doesn't get cheaper than this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=cQi1bid61F8;m=4;s=54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=ztNYujr0thA;m=6;s=20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=8fFMQO0ggh8;m=6;s=42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=rubOptSQ234;m=7;s=37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=MaD6gHJpsOA;m=7;s=2

WKMG 1999 45th anniversary special

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The bed in that second clip sounds like it accompanied their news theme of the era, especially the last few seconds. Interesting to hear this very early John Young (the first opens with Hello also used him). His work for another Atlanta client—Turner—was far more notable and what landed him national interest. He would remain based in Atlanta until moving his VO business to Nashville (where he'd been a radio personality at one point in the 60s) in 2009. On 440int (a massive list of people that were in radio), Young is quoted as saying... "When Ted Turner grabbed me to do his promo voice and TV work for TBS/TNT/CNN while in Atlanta, it changed it all; they seduced me from radio but opened doors with many opportunities; working harder than ever but loving every minute."

KATV wasn't thinking straight but the music was magnificent.

Some newscasts from the ATL on March 24, 1997

Awesome. Out of curiosity, have you managed to pick up any newscasts from New Orleans/Baton Rouge?

UNC-TV has the very first edition of North Carolina Now from January 19, 1994 available online: http://video.unctv.org/video/2365158112/ Eventually, the cheesy sitcom intro was dumped for a more conservative style. I'm not sure when this debuted, but it lasted through much of the 2000s up until 2011: In early 2011, the theme and logo were updated: In January 2016, North Carolina Now retooled itself as NC Now, going from airing from every weeknight to every Thursday night, dropping the host, and keeping the feature stories, but no more one-on-one studio interviews, etc. http://video.unctv.org/video/2365636628/ Unfortunately, it appears NC Now is no more - the last episode was produced in April 2017. I'm not sure who did the 1994 theme, but I have a guess that the 2000s, 2011, and 2016 themes are custom compositions by Charlotte's Concentrix Music & Sound Design (as listed in ) who have done a bunch of award-winning work for UNC-TV.

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Ten Russia Coverage Promo 1991 (TVQ10 Eyewitness News Brisbane) Seven News Perth 1990