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Maybe an exit strategy is being drawn up.

Your Friend 4 — wait a minute, Oregon? We're not in Greenville anymore... Compare to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=G9JZ1ozbivo;t=870 So I'm a little conflicted here. This is reported as being VTS. But boy oh boy, this is so un-VTS-y. Both stations were Peters clients. Is there a relation?

Portions of KDKA-TV 2's Eyewitness News from March 2, 1996. KDKA-TV 2 aircheck from 2/17/88 featuring promos for Pittsburgh2Day, Evening Magazine and two Newsbreaks with Patti Burns.

Wow! Good for them! And they’re also now the senior morning anchors among all the networks.

[quote name='TServo2049']On that note, is the long 2 Together promo still up anywhere? I saw it about a decade ago, but did it ever get reuploaded after it disappeared from YT? I think I can hear the same 4-note motif that's in the KUTV 1981 package open, at the very end of this promo, seeming to provide still further evidence that said package was by Peters and tied into the image campaign. But I would certainly love to watch that longer promo again, to see if it has a more audible example of a "2 Together" musical logo.[/QUOTE] It's in the NewsActive 3 collection...which part, I couldn't say off hand. EDIT: @TServo2049 Found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=G9JZ1ozbivo;t=659

Big news out of Mobile.... Bob Grip, primary anchor at WALA FOX 10 will be retiring after this year.

Bye Mr. Fred ...Next stop WGCL!

If you think that sucks... Then don't ever get married.

Holy moly, it's Troy Hayden. On KVIQ! In 1991! A quick Canadian detour for MCTV's Sault Ste. Marie news in 1993: KTLA Morning News Early Edition in 1996:

WCNC just got the new website look today

I interned at WABC when Kenny was News Director. Everyone looked up to him. He was good tough and tenacious leader WABC has gone downhill under Camille's leadership.

Though unlikely, it would be wonderful if they brought back Kenny Plotnik. I know he's now helming the ship at NBC Boston. But WABC/EWN felt like it was at a peak while he was there.

This is news music-related, but I recently found out that a radio station in Puerto Rico used TM's "All The News" package back in the 1980s. The station: WAEL radio in Mayaguez. You can listen to the clip at 8:38.

Alan was on the 7pm newscast tonight. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I assume Hosea and Rob were both off tonight.

On that note, is the long 2 Together promo still up anywhere? I saw it about a decade ago, but did it ever get reuploaded after it disappeared from YT? I think I can hear the same 4-note motif that's in the KUTV 1981 package open, at the very end of this promo, seeming to provide still further evidence that said package was by Peters and tied into the image campaign. But I would certainly love to watch that longer promo again, to see if it has a more audible example of a "2 Together" musical logo.

I've never seen that EQ Vance graphics package, either! And based on the update open you posted...did he do the KCBS Action News "For All of Southern California" set!?!?!?

Sounds like WMC was a brief user of 2 NewsTeam by Chris Crane. Anyone have any more clips from this era? Seems like they used it with Turn To News. Not sure if they ever used 2 NewsTeam for the opens...anyone have any?

That 3D animation positively screams Andrew Welch. KSNW had a virtual set in place. I kind of think very similar-looking KUTV might have had something like this... They *were* sister stations under the Hatch family, too, and this logo animation at the end screams early Welch: And this is a Welch virtual set, no doubt:

Well, she needs to rest because Wednesday is the blood drive, and she needs to be well for it.

Phil's doing the 10. She put up the good fight.

Yeah, I could tell Cheryl caught something because her voice was slightly lower during her weathercast at 4:30.

He was off since at least the middle of last week, and Cheryl's been hinting that she's getting run down by some illness (Tracy has the flu, and Jerry might be under the weather, too), so they probably asked him to do a few shows tonight to relieve her a little.

Yep... Or even more sinister... Sometimes talent will show up to other stations to visit friends...and "be seen" exclusively for gossip and negotiation reasons. Make 'em think you are being shopped....when you are not. ...and sometimes that backfires.

The 1997 Television Factbook says K66FN Salt Lake City signed on March 1, 1996, owned by Rolando Collantes. (A Salt Lake Tribune article suggests the sign-on was at least a month earlier.) This station is today K39JS-D, an Azteca América outlet simulcasting with KSVN-CD 25 in Ogden. The callsign came from KSVN 730 AM which has been a Spanish-language station for nearly three decades now but previously was known as "K-7". You're seeing KSVN in 2001 (the mention of the 154th anniversary of Pioneer Day seals the year). Collantes is the owner of Azteca Broadcasting Corporation, the current licensee, which has no relation to TV Azteca itself other than a business partnership and a shared name. His stations hooked up with la televisora del Ajusco in 2002, dropping Univision. In 2004 and 2005, they carried live Spanish translations of the LDS General Conference. Of all the Utah rarities I've wanted to see, this was one I didn't even know existed!

I mentioned it in the shoutbox when I watched WFOR one time and was surprised to see Diane Magnum on-air. Summary: Jen didn't want it because she didn't want to do TV permanently again. Vanessa got into a feud with WFOR because of a vacation in L.A. and went to tour KCBS-KCAL while at it to possibly find a job there, which made WFOR management mad, which is why she left. So glad to see Diane again!

I REMEMBER those! They were on back when I had an obsession with John Gray (idk why, I was just a little kid), who around that time replaced Ed Dague at the anchor desk. I don’t really remember Ed that well, but I remember John Gray. When WNYT replaced those opens I recall being very upset that they were ditched. But I began to get used to L.A. Groove - so much so I had a killer earworm of it!

It's what used to be FamilyNet (the 'barely alive' Retro TV of the pre-digital era when it was owned by the Southern Baptists); Sony tried to make it a MeTV killer under a lease from the new owners Rural Media Group (RFD TV) for a couple of years, but it didn't move the needle that much, so Rural took control back in July and put on their rodeo/western sports archive, along with westerns and such. On another note, Sony's Get TV has basically become the home of old Sony sitcoms after their Antenna TV agreement expired at the end of 2017. It's definitely not an equivalent for Encore Westerns by any means.

KOTV, Tulsa; 5 p.m. open, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXKFL4Xyeo