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A fantastic KENS close from 1985: WJZ's Eyewitness News from 1992 — the 11pm open with the candelabra tower top animation:

Also even though this is somewhat non news, Marvin Zindler on Late night with David Letterman: I wonder if this miffed KPRC that Marvin was being shown on NBC

This quote really hits the nail on the head: [Marvin Zindler] says TV news is a "kindergarten game of show and tell. You show people and then you tell them what it is. Journalism does not show in the dictionary, I don't care what dictionary you have, as having anything to do with television or electronic media. I say it's show business and they all get mad."

The FNC graphics are their own ball of wax, but I've *never* been a fan of the creative and brief of Fox O&O stations, with a few exceptions like the KSAZ satellite dish open set. It's tired on a meta level.

FOX treats WNYW like trash. They treat KTTV better than WNYW. And at somewhere in heaven, WHBQ must be calling heavens on earth for getting dumped by FOX for COX. WHBQ was trashed under FOX and treated like royalty under COX. Amazing times we live in.

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Here are the Conflict Markets where new homes would be needed: DMA 28: Indianapolis DMA 30: Utah DMA 32: Connecticut DMA 43: West Michigan DMA 45: Susquehanna DMA 47: Hampton Roads DMA 50: Memphis DMA 55: Richmond DMA 57: NE Pennsylvania DMA 68: Des Moines DMA 80: North Alabama DMA 98: NW Arkansas DMA 102: Quad Cities Note: Please do not attempt to resolve conflicts by selling to your BFF, poker buddy, car dealer, etc for pennies on the dollar.

Susquehanna would not be clean, as they are ranked 2nd and 3rd. Memphis is not clean either.

ABC-era WVUE reports from Bill Moller's Youtube channel, including one picked up by GMA (intro'd by Kathie Lee Gifford) in the second video: Also has some WESH material at the end:

News San Diego Weekend Edition!!!!

The big problem with subchannel news is three things; people who shun you because you aren't airing what's on nationally at that time (probably one reason Hearst can't make their MeTV shows work), lack of promotion, and horrid advertising. WITI couldn't sell an ad to save its life on Antenna TV when they had to shift the regular shows there during the World Cup, so it was a continuous loop of PSAs and the occasional national class action ad. And most of the time whenever you try to market a network the way it wants to be (Justice Network wants you to air local pieces, the long-dead TheCoolTV wants local artists to submit videos), nobody cares. They just see it as another place to watch reruns of a certain genre or don't even think of it as an OTA subchannel, especially on cable.

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/8/9/big-loss-in-the-bay-area Famous in my book! Nexstar and KRON just lost a good reporter and a household brand. I hope Penny-Pinchin' Perry is happy.

Ladies and gentlemen (and especially Capital Region news geeks), I got two words for ya: they’re back.

One website? I've not seen or heard of one before. You get scattered reports from industry mags, local papers, and blogs, but it's very likely that's as much as you can hope for, for now. Especially since a certain firm named Nielsen likes to be tight-fisted with their data.

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Shep signed off after 30 minutes of, what he called, "a special edition of the FOX 5 News at Ten". He said if the engineers can get the computers working again at WNYW then Steve and Dari would be anchoring tomorrow night.... wonder if things will be back to normal for GDNY?

I think WHTM is still #2. Not sure if WPMT is ahead of WHP.

Huntsville and Richmond, along with Susquehanna and Memphis, are also conflict markets.

I know it was announced a month ago, but I think STIRR is a ridiculous name. Is it an acronym for something? I would also assume the entertainment shows and movies will be coming from MGM like Comet & Charge.

I need to check but I think FTVLivea tweet earlier in the thread said it came from the Fox News building. I’m not sure but I assume the weather graphics could be loaded easily or already available for Fox News reporters who file reports for stations. Sometimes weather computers handle chroma keying internally and have the ability to choose router sources. The weather computer if it was set up to handle keying internally could easily select the correct camera and output the right program. Assuming the cameras and the distribution system were still up they could easily send it back to Fox HQ.

A couple of photos from Twitter: [MEDIA=twitter]1032243596920008705[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=twitter]1032244284228026368[/MEDIA]

Damn the gfx looks good, can WNYW adapt that + make it their own, please? Their gfx now is tired at best. Hell is it possible shep can make 'special editions' of the 10p news down the road? looks so polish. And you're right NCFLMedia, WNYW is trash because FOX treats them as such. The building, the set, computer imploded (basically they're archaic, no?) dated graphics, the MUSIC. Add on others if you want. I recorded in its entirety thru youtubetv (the other half hour was FOX Fall Preview with Martin Mull) I'll see if i could rip it off as such.

Shepard Smith anchoring from FOX HQ tonight.. said computers "imploded" and thats why FOX5 is off the air. They are using FNC graphics and all.. with Fox 5 reporter live shots. I'm wondering if in reality it has to do with the construction issues

Some BTS stuff of KINT-TV from 2007.

Alot of news going on today.. as of 5:02pm there is no newscast on Channel 5.. they are showing an episode of "Real Estate with Rosanna". Somethings up. And... Street Soliders with Lisa Evers aired at 6

They must be trying to keep the league happy at this point.. 2021 cannot come any faster.

WBAL seems to make it work on MeTV enough to do a 10PM newscast 7 Days a week. They’ve done weekday 10PM newscasts since March 2012 and on weekends going back to at least March 2016. They did do a 7AM newscast in 2011 that lasted until 2015 when it was exchanged in favor of a 4:30AM newscast on the main channel - from what I understood the cancellation may have been contractual (the success of the 7AM show led them to create the 10pm). They also heavily promote the 10PM newscast in their 5PM show and in ads through out the day. From what I understand the 10PM is very competitive with WBFF’s 10PM newscast. Also it helps that atleast in 2016 that WBAL was the highest rated MeTV affiliate.

KTBC Channel 7 Austin 1980 Promo KENS 1983 ID KENS 1985 News ending WEWS 1986 Eyewitness News

I can't even see PBB working in PHX because people are too well behaved in AZ. I'm really kinda shocked that nobody local in the B.A. picked him up. He is also a pretty solid beat reporter.

In the memory of the late, great Ed Brandon (1942-2018)

Promo for WWHO’s 10pm news - 1995. Originally entitled News 4 Prime and later the WB-53 10:00 News and finally NewsChannel 4 at 10 on WB 53... it was produced by WCMH from 1994 to 1998, until NBC sold the station to Paramount/Viacom. NBC, for a time, stunted with an hour of news on WWHO. After the 10pm news ended, a same-day repeat of EXTRA aired from WCMH... this was before the Leeza Gibbons era of Extra and it became all celebrity fluff. It was originally anchored by Cabot Rea and Jane Yamamoto until 1995 and they were replaced by Mike Jackson who remains at WCMH to this day and Deena Centofanti who is now at WJBK. 10pm news didn’t return to WWHO until 2005 when WBNS entered into a news-share arrangement with them under Viacom. It carried over through the sale to LIN.

I’m thinking Nexstar would start news operations from the ground-up for KDAF and KIAH.

I'm watching - it's actually refreshing compared to FOX5's regular 10pm broadcast and great to see Shepard Smith anchoring, though I wonder why the local anchors aren't able to anchor from FOX News HQ..?

News clip of KWEX, somewhere between 2003 to 2006, showing off the custom in-house lower thirds graphic and logo bug.

Verifying thru my YoutubeTV account, wow. No wonder TMZ Live finished basically on the dot at 5p. News usually start 2 mins before 5. Just waiting for the shoe to drop on what happened. For their sake, i hope it was evacuation from building due to condemnation, if any.

Looks to me like it was intentional since they had everything cued up to go right after the opening, it's interesting for sure.

That's an awful lot of speculation based solely on reports of Sook meeting with Delrahim.

WUPW FOX (36) Toledo News at ten 1996 1989 KGMB Promo

No sir, I don't like it the new ticker... too boring. Which means ESPN is probably in for another big graphics package change.

I just love that you ended your post with "Happy National Bacon Day" That gave me the lolz - thanks :-)

Duopoly news, however, can do well in some instances (See: KUSA on KTVD, WSOC on WAXN).

Thus creating one of the biggest "what could have beens" in the history of network television news; as CBS was reportedly planning to add her to the 60 Minutes team in 1973 (as it was, the first black member of the 60 Minutes team would be when Ed Bradley took the spot vacated when Dan Rather was promoted to CBS Evening News anchor; while 3 years later Diane Sawyer would be the first woman to be a correspondent for the series). Also among the dead in that crash were Illinois Congressman George Collins and Dorothy Hunt (wife of E. Howard of the then-brewing Watergate scandal; reportedly carrying about $10,000 in hush money)

WBTV 2001 coverage of the death of Dale Earnhardt sr. WABC A.M. New York KGTV 1975 News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPj7_6L2mbs

KNBC, Los Angeles; 11 p.m., 1974 (go to 3:57 if not taken there automatically): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=hlHK1R5qIbY;m=3;s=57 This theme is listed by NMSA as a close-only theme -- but here it's used for the open.

I'm hearing rumors, new rumors out tonight, that WFMJ may FINALLY get into the 21st century themselves by launching a 5:00 p.m. newscast. No official word on that yet (or even if its just a half-hour or a full-hour) but if it does happen, you heard it here first on TVNT.

Weather was also at FNC building.. along with FNC weather graphics.. Traffic this morning just used cameras no maps.

And gave them a TVBD package that (in my opinion) still looks brilliant after 17+ years (1:20-2:36):

8:30am: Introducing Anthony Scaramucci who is live in the temporary studio (to talk recent Trump news), Scaramucci says the East 67th St. studio is “from the King Kong era of New York” and at least this studio “is modern”. He cuts himself off, saying, “sorry, am I being too critical?” Lori’s response: “No, you’re telling the truth.”

With all the news breaking this afternoon you'd think they would atleast simulcast the mothership or use an empty studio at broadcast out of that if there's a problem at the station

First saw it at Boston Logan this morning. That made me think of the CNN "flip" ticker they used to have.