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Here's related source material for that clip. The station's promotions department posted some portions of their 1989 sales presentation. The first one here is for news, the second featuring their 6-10am morning schedule- World News This Morning, Eyewitness News This Morning, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

That is how you broach the topic on your own air. Exemplary work in remaining impartial and covering a news story about your own station.

A KTRK open from 3/2/89 with a certain meteorologist missing in the open.... And back to that meteorologist. Here's the news segment on his sudden resignation.

I don't think we've seen this particular 1980 promo from WBBM's legendary "Nobody Does It Better" campaign:

But they still give them a stinging rebuke. Safe to say any new Sinclair deals are still DOA and they will have a grilling when it comes time to renewing licenses.

A 1989 promo for WLS's 10 p.m. news:

Omaha is quickly becoming one of my favorite TV markets!!

A lot of people give Nexstar way too little credit lately. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Media General merger is the best thing that ever happened to them and the Tribune merger will probably enhance them even further. Nexstar has improved the way they operate their stations tremendously since they merged into Media General, adding newscasts on stations, and trying to serve underserved audiences, to name a few. We're being way too hard on them. In my opinion, the way Nexstar operates could perhaps be viewed as better than Tegna or Scripps, depending on the perspective. Nexstar is working hard to shed their negative reputation.

"go away"??? where are they going to go??? gray and nexstar own over 300 stations combined... if they had to "go away" i can assure you many of those would cease to exist... poof... it will happen... eventually... there will be no buyers left... and it will be easier to liquidate assets and shut down... than wait around and try to sell off... happens all the time in a lot of industries... restaurants... stores (how many retailers have gone bankrupt in the past 5 years???) and one day it will happen to tv... then you will wish the grays and nexstars were still around... these companies are keeping the industry from reaching mach speed on the down slope to the end...

Here's KAKE from 1994 when it was known as "Today's KAKE":

You forgot a couple: Meteorologist Chris Franklin as "Where's Waldo" & AM Anchor Leslie Spoon as "Carmen Sandiego". And Reporter Meghan Kee as "Little Red Riding Hood". The Times-Picayune have the rest, including the ones from WVUE.

Here'e your yearly Mardi Gras costumes from the WWL-TV crew. Caresse Jackman as "Storm". https://twitter.com/CaresseJ/status/1103031050161262593?s=20 Paul Dudley and Kristen Pierce (Men In Black) https://twitter.com/DCMonteverde/status/1102986132411858946?s=20 Duke Carter channeling his inner Beyonce? https://twitter.com/dcarterII/status/1103016158503014402?s=20 Sheba Turk (Queen of Hearts), Eric Paulsen (Alice), Dave Nussbaum, April Dupree (Rabbit), Doug Mouton and Than Troung (chickens). https://twitter.com/AprilDupre_/status/1103006858447650816?s=20 Chef Kevin Belton (The Mad Hatter) https://twitter.com/ChefKevinBelton/status/1103001743011528704?s=20 Jade Cunningham, now-retired Carl Arredondo and Richard Lecompte (Black Panther) https://twitter.com/carl_arredondo/status/1102983823346810880?s=20

From my apparent tradition of uploading the number of videos matching the birthday I'm celebrating, here are two news-related videos from this birthday batch. 1990 WTKR Promo (Sports: Bob Rathbun) December 7, 1992 WAVY News 10 Tease (Alveta Ewell)

<raising a bottle of water> To John. Thanks for all the hard work you did at WFAA and good luck on your retirement.

They used WFAA Newsbeat theme.

KETV in 1982, I sniff some hints of KFVS from the same timeframe here...

New from my VHS tapes. KPIX Eyewitness News open and close from January 24, 1982. This was the 6:30PM newscast that followed Super Bowl XVI, a super bowl in which the 49ers won.

WPLG's special report on the approaching hurricane Andrew, 1992:

Go to 12:26 in that WBKB video for an awesome promo touting the efforts by the then-5 ABC O&O stations to improve such things as awareness of community issues and race relations.

WBKB (now WLS), Chicago; midnight news, 1964:

From eyeontv, a series of WDVM "The One to Watch" promos from 1983. https://youtu.be/N9XeihqSLx0

Bill Elder wraps up the 5pm news from WWL in 1996. Phil Johnson provides commentary and Dennis Woltering previews some of the stories for the 6pm newscast.

Bumping this up after a month to say that Sinclair and Bottom Line with Borris was mentioned on last night's Late Show: