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It's interesting to see how long it took WJAR to adapt while the other stations bought during that period (WVTM, WVIT, KNSD) were redone at a much faster pace. Of course, WVTM under Argyle looked quite bland and WVIT was always a bit of an afterthought under Viacom/Paramount ownership.

I think NYC and Columbus were the only O&Os to use the NewsChannel 4 branding at this time. The Outlet stations weren’t fully NBC-ed until I’d say 2001... when WJAR dropped their Outlet era 10 for the WCAU logo. WCMH was NBC’ed much earlier... dropping News 4 in 1997 for NewsChannel 4. That set was gone by 1998 and the NewsChannel 4 Mobile Newsroom was gone by 2002.

How did this user get this before Michael Pannoni did? It's WBAL's sign-off routine from March 4, 1988, about halfway into their CBS era. It included a news headline summary, and a sermonette (whose intro and outro dated back to the first NBC era): Also on the tape was this promo & an ID with the CBSpirit graphics:

Shown to station managers in 1997, to preview GE’s SixSigma program which was being rolled out to NBC and the O&Os at the time. Includes: - WNBC/New York - KNBC/Los Angeles - WMAQ/Chicago - KNSD/San Diego - WVIT/Hartford - WCMH/Columbus - WVTM/Birmingham - WTVJ/Miami - WJAR/Providence - WCAU/Philadelphia - WNCN/Raleigh

Saw this awhile ago while searching vintage Hawaii video and forgot to post it. Loved that morning theme music they had before the relaunch later that year.

Cleveland is now home to three pieces of shits (3 because of the new format, 5 because of Scripps and 19/43 because they just joined way too late in the news race + the "taboo" format turned viewers away) and just one runaway winner (8 because it does news the best + most veteran anchoring/reporting staff).

Some KOVR from 1987: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=-VWugGCMpq0;t=2255 This isn't the short-lived era, unfortunately; it's the mid-80s Newsmat stuff.

According to the listings, the 11pm Saturday newscast is back to just 30 minutes.

I know, lolz. Should the NMSA change this theme from KTNV 1987 to (maybe) WBRZ 1983? The actual WBRZ 1983 on there I think was first used at WFSB. I know the Discovered Music Composers thread has had a discussion on this before. Also, not next time, but in the future, I might do Salt Lake City compilations. If I can pull off videos from rare markets like Albany or Fort Myers I can do them. Plus I love SLC news so much...

WANE News 15 1985 WESH 2 News 1993 KNXV News 15 1994

That really is incredible. The video's caption references it, but for those who didn't go to the YouTube page, third co-host Bob Kennedy, plucked from a successful morning show on WLS, died not long after this was recorded, and before AM America would debut. The show would launch with Bill Beutel, Stephanie Edwards, and news anchor (and third wheel) Peter Jennings.

A closed-circuit preview of AM America, ABC's short-lived morning show, 1974:

I'm curious where they're going to go with this. Jeopardy! has used affiliates' personalities in the past to give clues about their city, but not about their station. [MEDIA=twitter]1045034303086882821[/MEDIA]

WKEF ripped off WCMH’s first NewsChannel 4 graphics package in 1997:

Scott Jones of FTV live poses the question of who copied who? WTAE or WATE? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/9/26/whos-copying-who Other than the similar color schemes, call letter font and call letter differences, that's where the similarity ends IMHO.... I will have to fault Media General for copying Scripps for their on air look of WATE and several other of their stations...