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WTSP news promo from 1986 when, believe it or not, they challenged ratings king WTVT for the lead:

Longtime WZZM morning anchor Lauren Stanton is stepping down after 18 years to pursue her & husband's business venture... http://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/morning-features/morning-news-anchor-lauren-stanton-stepping-down-from-wzzm-13/69-527153139

Surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, also from the FuzzyMemories channel; an almost-complete NBC News Special Report (interrupting the network television premiere of the 1976 King Kong movie) where President Carter, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin returned from Camp David following the successful peace negotiations between Egypt and Israel.

CONFIRMED: Willie Geist mentioned at the end of the show this morning that Studio 1A is getting a "makeover". I KNEW IT!

One thing I’ve noticed with TEGNA is not afraid to send their reporters on long stories. Mike Valerio of WUSA was on a 24 hour flight to Tarawa, a remote pacific island, on bringing buried WWII soldiers home. It’s not his first trip there either. I think he’s made two others. Apparently he’s their chief International investigative journalist.

ATN7's full 6pm newscast from Wednesday, July 9, 2003, anchored by Ann Sanders.

Agreed... but somewhere there’s a consultant telling them leave the anchor in his/her usual seat, the viewers will be confused if they’re sitting elsewhere...

This is not television but still relevant to the International scene nonetheless and this caught me off guard while looking up CBC stuff on Wikipedia. Apparently, CBC Radio 2 has now become CBC Music. https://cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/articles/360000745054-Radio-2-is-changing-names-What-you-need-to-know-

Very evident the attempt to tie in with the network news theme and the network logo, too.

I feel like local TV design in general is kind of circling the drain. Between standardization sucking the creativity out of everything (though somehow the new Hearst graphics are amazing) and the fact that the trend towards flat design has inspired everything to look pretty bland or similar, I am not sure what stations ought to do. At least the new TEGNA graphics have some inspired color choices though.

A video that used to be on ClipSyndicate until sometime last year. It’s about WNYT’s 50th anniversary. I thought I would post it here given the occasion of the set being replaced. And here’s another one, featuring Bill Lambdin as the reporter. He retired in August 2014.

A Halloween impersonation prank from WNYT, 2001. This gives a rare glimpse into their former secondary set, eventually disused in 2004 but with the backdrop recycled for their temporary set currently in use. This video began a tradition of goofy Halloween closes at the station which continues to this day

This must be where this open comes in... WAGA was one of many TV stations out there that would use new opens for each year - the period from 1977 to 1981 had several different ones!

Heartland doesn't really have much design foresight aside from passing down some warmed over graphics packages from big markets that looked passable 10 years ago. They're hoping that a team of consultants and "late breaking news" will be enough to solve any branding problems in their markets.

There's a massive article in El Nuevo Herald (Miami) on Spanish-language TV, and hoo boy, what's going on over there (besides a well out of date Telemundo logo)? "Tears, fears, frustration, intrigue and painful goodbyes. They're the ingredients of any good telenovela. But on Friday, those feelings jumped from the world of fiction and flooded their creators, the employees of America's main Hispanic television networks. Only a few don't fear for the future of their jobs. Between young bilingual Hispanics moving toward a la carte TV in English and the hostility of Donald Trump to immigrants bringing the addition of new audiences to a halt, uncertainty reigns in this fragile industry." At Telemundo, even with new studios about to open, the issue is layoffs at Telemundo Studios, where more than 100 people lost their jobs in technical positions and the facility "felt like a funeral home". Apparently the latter is the result of an increasing shift toward production in Colombia and Mexico spurred by high executive production costs. At Univision, the problems have been more widely reported: Falco's resignation, the abruptly canceled IPO, and a series of reassignments of other top Univision executives to positions at Televisa. Morale at UCI is low given that investors and the company's financial advisors want to see cost cuts on the order of $200 million.

Robin and Michael were both off this morning, so Amy was once again in his chair while Ceclia Vega sat in the center. Personally, I think the remaining regular anchor (George in this situation) should be seated in the middle, but that's just me.

Flashback Friday - WAVE 3 1987 - Today in WAVE Country with Andy Culpepper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=b90v21th8fg;t=45 The Same Andy Culpepper who won the big one on $100,000 Pyramid in 1986.

Nope. He left right around the time she arrived. And returned just a few months before she took an “extended vacation”.

The singer solo on the front part sounds like Wayne Nelson of Tuesday Productions to me. This must have been some sort of TV sales revenue generating campaign. Years ago, I saw a "Buy the Pinebelt First" spot for WDAM in Hattiesburg, MS with full vocals, so I'm guessing this campaign made its rounds during the late 80's and into the mid 90's across many smaller to mid-size markets. I remember that same logo/animation layout, so this was perhaps, a turn-key deal that involved music, animation and related material for a set price.

WISH LIST: a return to "The Mission" and the return of a one-on-one interview area. I was thought this was iconic Today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=fvOoxfgBLvM;t=130

You know what I just realized? That KTVX clip at the end of this NewsActive3 compilation IS their 1994 package with Total News.

Seems more like the sad thing that's claiming all the other ministries on radio and television unless they aren't prefixed by 'mega-'; budgets, an ignored kind message, and no real successor to those who pass on. That's how the Green Bay Sunday Mass on WBAY ended up going away; the media person in the local diocese passed away and the church didn't have anyone else to do it (WBAY was originally owned by the St. Norbert's order), so they went with a generic brokered national mass. And thanks to infomercials and house-flippers, the time is easier to sell to them than precious studio time with staff on hand. It probably would have been gone with Hearst, Sinclair, Ion or any other station group.

Hell naw hell if camille were news director when natalie went into labor hell she would have retaliated against her etc

A close to WAVE TV News in 1987: Kentuckiana weather got so bad that summer that WLKY was knocked off the air at one point: It took them until next morning to get full power: