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Reginald Roundtree is and always has been a great reporter

I think this was exclusively for ABC affiliates at the time, go to 2:23 in the following video and see a number of ABC stations that used it:

Before he hit it big in Denver, Bill Stuart worked at KETV under the name Bill Hamilton.

WJLA/1997 WRTV/1985-5pm

A full 5 months after the driver of a pickup decided to ram into the side of the building at KDFW in downtown Dallas, the impact spots have had nothing but the plywood treatment. No word on what will be done, nor any new stories about the man.

A compilation of slates and countdowns from PBS stations going back to the ‘70s, including a 1977 one from Mississippi Public Broadcasting (when they were Mississippi ETV):

WTOC open from 1997 with NewsChannel. And a weekend talent open from the same station included in this report. Two WIS-TV opens from 1990 (weekday and weekend). End of vid includes credit roll

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...

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

WEAR in 1991 — looks like someone watched WPLG at some point: