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Sometimes it's good to pass it on, since one of our friends here posted up the vids, it's time to share the favor: A rare look at THE Ten O'Clock News (formerly The News at Ten) off WLVI-TV56 in Boston in 1995, Week 3 of the then-new WB network.

The WLVI open is interesting. Very WGN-esque. Here's its competitor, the WBZ 10pm for WSBK, from two nights prior:

I think Stacey is decent. McGinnis is OK, but I still miss Schwarz on weekend mornings. Rivera could improve, IMO.

More WRC material — 6pm and the never-before-heard morning open from the 1986 set:

Keyword is "filling in." He was a prominent face at MSNBC and had a consistent slot for a while. Then he didn't. It was pretty clear that his time at NBC was up. He probably could have stuck around NYC to try to find something else, but think of how many other people are doing that while salivating at the chance to get hired fulltime somewhere? The other big factor is probably money. Meredith is no small company, and they were probably able to offer him something worthwhile to be main anchor, even if it's a last place station. Plus, didn't he work for CNN in Atlanta for a while and/or his husband also has connections to Atlanta? As far as career development goes, I suppose it's a step down from being a midday anchor on MSNBC, but it's probably a step up in terms of quality of life.

WOOOWWWWW.... *mind blown* Say hello to Minneapolis-St. Paul! Btw if you’re wondering the first thing I do when I make news open compilations is go through ALL of NewsActive3’s compilations and take notes on where a specific station open is in there (ex: WBAL’s 1995 open pops up in Various Newscast Opens Part 21 at 6:25.) This can take up to several weeks.

Here's another rare goodie, KAKE News 10 from October 2, 1995 anchored of course by Kansas TV legend Larry Hatteberg. The open and graphics are very ahead of its time (possibly a Vance package?), and makes Wichita look like a huge metropolitan city. And, Multimedia Broadcasting had a cable company?

Maybe I'm being a bit over dramatic, but i've seen other annoying anchors, "cough cough" Suki "cough cough".

Remember, they also tried Dan, Adrienne and Whit Johnson as a 3-person team a few weeks back.

Weigel is launching yet another multicast network: Start TV will debut September 3 on Weigel- and CBS-owned stations (with many of the CBS-owned affiliates carrying the network on subchannel slots currently occupied by sister-network-to-be Decades, though Weigel appears to be moving Decades to its own stations in markets such as Los Angeles and Chicago). The network will focus on police and detective procedural programs with strong female leads (such as The Closer, Medium, The Good Wife, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Profiler and [early 2000s Lifetime series] The Division).

I'm sure we'll see several people rotate into the chair in the coming weeks. Right now, I'd put my money on Diane Macedo, who's been anchoring WNN and ATM.

Sooooooo much better... best graphics for the area

I’ll raise you an ATV, Hulkie. For a time, this was used to open up the broadcast day in the Midlands. (Two different sequences, but the same song. While the first one is focused on two children and an adorable dog, the second one is endless aerial shots of the region.) It would’ve lasted a long time, had the Independent Broadcasting Authority interfered. (“NO LYRICS!”) But the song is...you get the idea.

Yes, after doing some research, here's a brief history of Multimedia Cablevision. The cable system began in 1979, when Multimedia Inc. purchased 35% of Wichita's Aircapital Cablevision from Kansas State Network Inc. (yes, that Kansas State Network, apparently), in a deal in which it also was given the option to acquire the remaining 65% at a later date. In 1980, it was granted the franchise rights to build a cable system in the Oak Lawn suburb of Chicago. It expanded into suburban areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa during 1980 and 1981 (the cities themselves -- including some adjacent unincorporated communities like my hometown, the OKC suburb of Forest Park -- were served by Cox Cable and Tulsa Cable Television, respectively [the latter of which was eventually acquired by TCI, which transferred the Tulsa system to Cox in 2000]). Gannett sold the cable division -- which, by that point, operated systems in Oklahoma, Kansas and North Carolina -- to Cox Communications in 1999, effectively giving the latter universal reach throughout Oklahoma's two largest cities. (Multimedia was almost forced to sell off its suburban Oklahoma City systems when it merged into the Gannett Company in 1995, because of Gannett's ownership of KOCO-TV at the time and FCC rules repealed in 2003 that banned common ownership of a cable system and a television station in the same market, though it was allowed to keep those systems under a waiver until Gannett swapped KOCO and WLWT to Hearst-Argyle Television in 1997.)

WEWS has gotten flack from Newburgh Heights residents (a city in Cleveland, OH) over its handling of its attempt to interview a rape victim. The police chief showed up and questioned them before telling them to leave. Once body cam footage of the situation was posted on the Newburgh Heights Police Department Facebook page, the station got slammed with non-stop hate (no one stood up for the station, though WEWS since apologized). The chief even posted that the station was receiving death threats. Now FTVLive has reported the fallout over the situation. The two news managers responsible for sending the reporter and his crew over to the victim's house have been fired. It is not reported which two managers got the axe, though news director Jeff Harris is leaving for the same gig at WBBM in Chicago.

Fred and Linda are good and maybe they should be on the anchor desk at Noon and 4pm. However, WSB-TV has never been that station that laid back, but everything is hard news. Justin and Jovita they do well. Maybe John Bachman was more youthful looking and seem more exciting than Justin. If your looking for happy and friendly and laid back that always been WXIA. WAGA just follows what WSB does. After 30 years of operation WGCL is still trying to find it niche.