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Feder reported yesterday that Sandra Torres who left WBBM last month has landed a role as a reporter for both WMAQ and WSNS.

Wasn't Rudy Kalis canned from his sports position only to be brought back later as a morning anchor? Hopefully the suits have a change of heart, but the damage has been done and even if they gave her a wad of cash, there is no way DK will EVER go back to WSMV.

KSHB's chief met Gary Lezak formally came out. It was one of Kansas City's worst kept secrets. Still a very sincere post. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2308536252505958

Man, it seemed like for 1993, everybody except KABC and KCAL were trying unconventional news intros. I love those KCBS opens-- the hyped up music and the ALL of Southern California mantra really works, but they ditched those intros disappointingly fast. As for KCOP, Real News was kickass, the closest to a direct American copy of Toronto's CityPulse, but thanks to nobody knowing it existed, it got neutered by May of 94. 13 really should've marketed it better, maybe done 24-Hour News Source style updates like CityPulse had (where they'd show the busy newsroom and you could hear the police scanner). And that's the clearest intro for that look yet-- I've been wondering who composed the theme for Real News, it's so badass and I'd love to have clean cuts.

Two opens from Sky News, United Kingdom, 1991 (with Great News): DDQ-10/5A, SDQ-4, Toowoomba / rural southern Queensland, Australia, 1986 (with Hello News):

oh boy... here we go... the race to the bottom is about to reach lightspeed... no... LUDICROUS SPEED!

I'd argue what made those opens work was the voice of Chuck Riley. That guy could sell anything with his pipes. The Nick Michaels re-recordings are just...flat.

About the KFOR open, I think it originally featured the custom 1990 theme when it was implemented. I have a tape that features a partial 24-hour news update from c. 1992/early '93 that included a slightly updated version of the original 1990 theme being used with that same graphics package; presumably, the Newsmusic Central theme didn't get introduced until sometime between May sweeps and September.

Oh Mona! The last time he had a "hit"...Elton John was at the top of the AM radio charts. Don't let him anywhere near San Diego.

Now that was just extreme.

And you got the booming loud Chapin for the rest... “ACTION NEWS... THE ONE ON 2!!!”

Can you upload that tape to YouTube?

A little over the top (the KXTV thing is splitting hairs though) but I can't say I disagree. Look at the results. WFAA, once untouchable, now isn't. WWL, never-lost-in-decades, lost for the first time. The mass talent exodus, both on and off camera, at their legacy stations has been sad to see. It's no coincidence that many of their formerly-dominant stations have gone off the rails. They're all about letting the social media tail wag the dog on news and hiring cheap MMJs to lug around a camera and churn out "content." I feel like Tegna has made a business decision to forgo high ratings and instead run #2 stations at a bottom-dollar pricepoint, keeping the margins healthy. It's sad.