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WEVU/WZVN 40th anniversary clip.

I dig this WCCO open from 1996! Very mind-blowing.

KMGH has had tons of missing eras for years, I’m glad they’ve (mostly) turned up. I believe that Newsmat set debuted alongside Bertha Lynn joining Jim Redmond at the anchor desk, as according to ads in 1984 the former was still anchoring with Ann Wade. Now let’s see the WHBF open that was once only heard on the NMSA: That camera zoom on the anchor is pretty jarring...

Supposedly one tower worker was killed. The station was part of phase 1of the spectrum repack.

KSTP's Eyewitness News at 6:30 open at the end of a 6pm show from 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Lplxhy_lNxM;t=1755 (The graphics and color scheme make me think a bit of KCTV from this era)

While we're on KMGH...here's that Newsmat set and graphics still in use in 1989 Also you get to hear one of the synthesized Great News cuts. For some reason, most of those didn't make it into the package set that's been floating around the trading circuit. Guess Gari kept it out of the package when they released the later series. Also here's the open from that era / another one of those missing cuts. The vamp is without a voiceover.

Wasn't Ken supposed to be the logical heir apparent to Frank Somerville? Correct me if I'm wrong.

So Id guess they debuted the Newsmat set and graphics around the summer, as by May they still were using the old set:

Bobbie Battista anchors CNN Headline News via WTBS, March 13, 1987:

I wonder if Haffner had a deal with the graphics people... (WATE also had an open like this)

WJXT 1974 set from 44 years ago involving what happened to a threat from a channel 4 reporter. WDIV (the original WWJ) 1976 tornado outbreak. You can find more WBZ flashbacks like this one.

Over an hour of promos from WLEX 96-98. Some duplicates.

It made complete sense to do it (and they had lots of requests for it once the spectrum merge happened). I always wondered why they didn't make it part of the loop in the first place when they switched to the Local AccuWeather software with non-com tweaks.

Two gentleman who don't get enough credit when groundbreaking racial diversity is discussed in Chicago TV history. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1670851022964703

WJXT 1986 challenger disater.