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New from Radioman: October 1990: The Briarcliff Mansion (otherwise known as WAGA) puts on a new news set for Eyewitness News. While the opening was clipped, everything to the close - in all its early 90’s sluttiness - is there. New Years Eve 1993: The last of John Pruitt on 11Alive (it was that weird period when the Alive was out). Note he didn’t say retirement - he said resignation. The exact phrase: “The day will come when ”.

[quote name='Raymie']A WHIO bump from 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jMplEHNzlc[/QUOTE] I'm afraid you've been bamboozled @Raymie. All the uploads that guy does are stolen from other channels (mostly ChenowithRules and its sister channels). Here is the original source of that clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=UyrBzBaj8ak;m=1;s=27

According to this, it appears that Sinclair "must-runs" may have found their way into more prominent positions in the regular newscasts at KOMO-TV Seattle, with one running during a 6 pm newscast: https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Sinclair-must-run-segments-Seattle-KOMO-12773700.php Originally reported by Joe Veyra at Queen Anne and Magnolia News: [MEDIA=twitter]976632135615315968[/MEDIA]

KNIN is owned by Raycom but managed by Scripps’ KIVI.

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article in El Nuevo Herald (Miami) on Spanish-language TV, and hoo boy, what's going on over there (besides a well out of date Telemundo logo)?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.

Slight mistake on the 4PM Special Report. Instead of the standard peacock the rotating Nightly News bug played out for about 50 seconds before switching to the correct one. Now does anyone know if the bug is inserted by the 1A control room or NBC’s NOC? For what it’s worth during Today the rotating logo bug and peacock isn’t inserted (or atleast seen on the switcher program monitor). If you’ve ever seen a BTS picture that area is absent.

First the GM, now the ND. Shit's 'bout to go down. http://www.robertfeder.com/2018/03/22/cbs-2-news-director-jeff-kiernan-bails-milwaukee/

You must be picky. You were used to Ellen on WPTV; why do you want her back on that station? Is it because they have higher news ratings?

I wish they had stolen the rest of their package.

I hope that’s the case! I will say he’s good at the 8am hour when it’s lighter and he can play off the audience and he’s also good at lifestyle/sports/celebrity interviews. But at 7am, sorry, I don’t want to see Michael Strahan interviewing the former NYPD commissioner about a terrorist incident or talking about Washington politics and California mudslides.

A surprisingly good news theme (given the underwhelming open) from the early '90s in Edmonton: Can someone identify this? I think it might be KCTZ's news theme from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=MwVwRLFX1hQ;t=232

[MEDIA=vimeo]247424634[/MEDIA] I have to give it to compubit on this find. A custom KTRK close in 95 Shern Min and Larry Audas still at KPRC with the V1 Hometown News look in 1995 Fran and Mike on the evening news of KRIV Plus the last little bit with Bill and Jan Carson (shocked she was still at the station in 1995) for the Rodeo with another custom cut of Hometown News Plus on this one: [MEDIA=vimeo]249612960[/MEDIA] KPRC noon newscast anchored by Emily Akin, who was the stations consumer reporter. I think this is one of if not the only times she anchored a newscast