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New KCNC opens, some you've Never Seen before. https://youtu.be/tYxh_SwLU6o

I actually might... I’m targeting Atlanta as well... Jacky has been updating the ID montages from Shreveport, too.

Congrats to Shirleen, who is pregnant with baby #2.

We do know McGraw-Hill was the client. Transdiffusion, whose archive is mostly UK stuff, does have a Tuesday reel from 1979 narrated by Bo Donovan (!): The date on this item cannot be earlier than '79 as it includes two TV image songs from that year: WCCO's "4 Friends" (which was commissioned in light of the affiliation shuffle consuming everything else in that market at the time) and the WRTV theme for their ABC affiliation switch. The other TV item on the reel is KCRA from their brief "News Team 3" era (also as in this promo and this newscast). (It also includes radio work from a variety of stations.) The part that matters to us belongs at 8:15, when Donovan introduces News People by saying it was "for McGraw-Hill Television". The sample is sung for "channel 10", so it can't really be anyone else, not that you'd suspect otherwise with a San Diego shop...

The closing theme at the beginning of the video sounds weirdly similar to the theme All My Children was using during that same timeframe.

It is with a very heavy heart I tell you that Doug Johnson, the longtime Chief Weathercaster at KPRC (NBC) Houston has passed away today. Doug anchored the weather at KPRC for 33 years until his retirement in 1994. Doug along with the late, great Ron Stone were two great KPRC legends throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s until Ron's retirement in 1992. From hurricanes, thunderstorms, hail and hot sunny days... Doug was there to cover it all. Tribute of Doug Johnson is on the KPRC's website. Condolences goes out to Doug's family and to his extended family at KPRC NBC 2. Rest in peace, Doug and Godspeed. And say hello to Ron Stone from all of us. https://www.click2houston.com/news/doug-johnson-longtime-kprc2-weatherman-dies-at-79