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That's pretty damn interesting... most of my child and adult life they've been last place. Combine the 3pm Ellen lead-in with Barbara and Les, two of the longest tenured anchors in the market...that's pretty damn good. On the flip side...what does this mean for the other two stations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=4gpVeBa6ZwU;t=10 A 30 sec. promo of WXTV's 50th anniversary and what do I see? A rare small little snippet of "Noticias 41" from around 1987 or 1988. This is most likely around the time when they changed their old "Reportar 41" newscast title to the current.

Wow... Look at this long form stuff on the KGTV site... I think it looks really good. https://www.10news.com/longform/chula-vistas-ghost-town Anyone else seeing these at the other Scrapps stations?

I'm shocked at how KCCI has essentially ignored this story, just hoping it goes away. The local paper did a fairly lengthy story. The Nexstar station in the market did one, too. It's gone viral, Hearst. Might wanna do something before your reputation takes a bigger hit than it already has.

I thought I'd put this here from the Classic Video thread... Call me crazy, but I liked this set more than anything they'd have for the rest of the century. Ratings had been declining for a few years, and with Frink and Coleman already gone (and Terry Murphy and John Drury also on to other jobs), there were targets on Flynn and Daly's backs. Prior to this era, they experimented with breaking up the two men, each getting a different co-anchor at 4:30 (expanded from 5), and 6. They then rejoined at 4:30 (and the 10 they never left) with new co-anchors at 6. That lasted little more than a year, before rising star Mary Ann Childers was shifted to weeknights with newcomer Paul Udell for the infamous '4:30' newsmagazine in 1981. The timing is a little murky, as I don't think Udell ever fronted the 10, and he lasted less than a year at the station. By 1982, it was Childers and a reassigned Tim Weigel at 4:30 and 10, with Joel and Fahey on the hour-long 6pm newscast (I'm unsure how long it had been 60 minutes, but would be cut down to 30 when Wheel of Fortune and Floyd Kalber came along for his solo run). Even worse were the replacements on weather and sports. Steve Deshler had left for the network job at CBS, and all bridges had been burned with John Coleman, so they installed (foot) Dr. Dave Eiser, kind of a folksy goofball that couldn't compete with Coleman and later Jerry Taft's delivery. Al Lerner was promoted to lead sportscaster, but wasn't the right fit, though he had a long run in sports radio in Chicago. Fahey spent much of 1983 on medical leave, eventually dying that August. With the original anchor team fractured, and falls to last place on the other newscasts, things were dismantled late that year and rebuilt throughout 1984, with the additions of Drury, Kalber, Yu, Deshler, Taft... , the installations of a new set, graphics, the theme signature that still exists today, and reassignments for Daly and Weigel. Dennis Swanson is largely responsible for the rebuild, though it was Joe Ahern's run in the 1990's that made their run at #1 legendary. They were #1 again by '86, and haven't let go.

Welp, he wasn't kidding. If you're in the Naples, Florida area, who knows who your Uber driver might be... [MEDIA=twitter]965767069584318464[/MEDIA]

Figured I’d add a screen grab of WLKY circa 1987 in here too.

When is KMSB severing the umbilical cord with KOLD and getting its own newscasts?

Rick Thomas has done it again, it's KNBC's Weekend Newservice from April 6, 1974: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=VlLafFp1P1c;m=1;s=28

Everyone rejoice! I had a fear that they'd go too simplistic with the logo, just dropping the '9' and replacing 'news' with 'sports', like they did with the old look. Glad they played around with it, a little.

Oops: http://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/about-those-strange-closing-alerts-on-9newscom-this-week/73-524665741?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a996dfa04d301381ffad752&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather 1989 (Hurricane Hugo) Dan Rather anchors CBS News coverage of Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean in 1989. Recorded via TMC/Antenna Sicilia Italy re-broadcast. I recorded this video from Malta at my grandparents' house - they received Sicilian TV channels over the air from 100km away, and TMC Monte Carlo/Antenna Sicilia aired the CBS newscast every morning! It was my first exposure to American TV news and, as a primary school kid (and especially in comparison to British TV of the time), I was in awe of the "big-budget", movie-style atmosphere of the newscast, centered around the anchor with his big name in the titles, and their epic news theme.

Way to chase that younger demo... What is it with these twinks lately?

The fact that talent agents are heavy advertisers on his blog (and his own feed includes spoonfed PR from agents) kind of gives the game away.

That is true, they are number one because they are in the number one city, which happens to like ABC programming. So they do have that advantage. I do agree, I don't think they'd be on the same boat if it were a different market. They just need to be refreshed. I feel like the broadcasts have been stale and the on-air presentation is kinda lazy if you will. I'm hoping with the new leadership things will change.

I’d be stunned if that wasn’t a Tuesday theme.

No open, but this is one heck of a KTVM jingle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=XbfupMvEjpE;t=721

I've never seen that WOI gold logo before.

More KFOR from 1993...but still with the Gilmer custom theme:

Maybe we are overthinking, maybe he just needed time off. As an employee, it is the law for workers to have two days off. Lester has not taken time off for the last couple of weeks. I know that television can be a 24/7 business but he probably needed to take some time off.

I'll answer over here... https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?threads/the-definitive-abc-7-thread.12805/page-119#post-203014

The following 1983 WLS newscast is really interesting; it's from the On Your Side era and features extensive coverage of the mayoral election that took place the following day. And because it's an in-studio recording, it includes conversations during commercial breaks: I've always liked the On Your Side era, but since it was short-lived and was followed by another anchor reshuffle, I presume WLS experienced declining ratings at the time. Does anyone know more about this time in the station's history? And the timing has always confused me -- the KABC-like set was introduced before Joe Ahern joined the station, right?

Has no one mentioned KCCI meteorologist Frank Scaglione apparently soliciting minors? He's no longer employees, and it sounds like management isn't telling their employees much either. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/02/19/kcci-tv-des-moines-meteorologist-accused-inappropriate-behavior-snapchat-twitter-frank-scaglione/350171002/