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Maybe 15 years ago

https://www.google.com/amp/s/editdesk.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/qa-with-wtvd-meteorologist-brittany-bell/amp/ According to this article, 4:30pm and 5:30pm. I wonder if she handles the 12 noon show too.

So much for a proxy fight. The shareholders of Tegna have re-elected all twelve of its existing board members.

I hate to say it, but you know who is the one free agent that would save this channel? Lou Dobbs.

There's no way this goes further than a few months. Some of these stations have been carrying double-blocks of The Simpsons, Friends, Family Guy, and Seinfeld in these timeslots since the minute they went into syndication, and have been dealing with MNTV becoming nothing and The CW now being out-rated by the Spanish nets and Ion. I know that the first-run sitcom market is beyond anemic at this point, but risking the last steady local ratings for a national newscast likely to be ignored feels like such a dangerous risk to take, especially in markets where SBG doesn't have a sister Big Four station.

That's probably up to the board that now controls the church and WBNX (set up while Angley's health was failing). It's seems more likely now that Ernest has passed and it was the same story when Rex Humbard resigned from his own church in the 80s (moving to Florida), setting the stage for WBNX (originally owned by another related entity and purchased by Angley) and the later purchase The Cathedral of Tomorrow and related entities soon after. Easy duopoly bait for Tegna, Scripps (since Inyo owns WVPX and WDLI) or Nexstar. Or it could be sold to someone like Marquee or even Weigel to be a repository of subchannels. I doubt they'd try to keep 55.1 as an independent like they did with flagship WCIU before it picked up the CW.

Local morning opens from the 90's are typical hard to find, but here's 2 from Chicago (1998). Robin Meade on WMAQ: Mary Ann Childers (and Dave Price) on WBBM: Meanwhile, back to nightside opens (1997). WMAQ: WFLD:

Looks like they've updated it to 1974 for the thumbnail.

And now I present to you, back from the dead...the oldest KIMA NewsBeat clips I have! And of course, thanks to Eric and the AVTB folks for giving me some storage space back on YouTube.

Some KCRA footage from what looks like the late '70s (I don't think the year 1982 is correct) showing off their transition to tape and live microwave technology. I love how Bob Whitten is showing off the LiveCamera 3 van and it's microwave equipment... but it looks like its not even installed yet.

I think Lionsgate owns the rights to Geraldo since that was the company that blocks videos of the show on YouTube.

Street Smarts is on YouTube now, and that one dating show that led to your channel takedown is also streaming on YT now. I'm a bit surprised that Johnny is allowed now. It's not just on Antenna TV, but there's also a 24/7 channel devoted to it on Pluto TV. Their main channel on YT has some rare stuff, like a 1985 Drew Carey stand-up skit. Those Carson episodes have a lot of value.

WB is where my nightmares began. Anything Sony is a no-no of course. Vintage ABC soaps were on YouTube for years and years, and then Disney had time on their hands during the pandemic to take 'em all down. I'm sure the Susan Lucci fans are not happy anymore. The stupidest copyright strike I ever got was for a commercial...never post anything from Cancer Treatment Centers of America, at least commercials from about 1999 onward. They are known to take down their commercials (and they gave me a strike for a random CTCA commercial on a KMGH break from 2001). To make it fair on all of us - they need streaming apps for these shows. If they feel so protective of their copyright content, make us pay for a streaming app that has classic Y&R, All My Children and General Hospital. It's not like I can find the complete 1987-88 season of General Hospital on DVD complete with bloopers, you know. This is why I keep Yakima TV content alive on places like the Internet Archive (and now stored again on YouTube via AVTB). Former viewers have thanked me for posting classic commercials, and I've had people who worked at KIMA and KAPP thank me in the comments for uploading newscasts and sign-offs. Except in KTVO's case, at least they still have some of their archive left. KIMA threw it all out around the time Stu Seibel retired. He told me personally. That alone is why I continue this effort. KAPP and KNDO aren't left out either, because they too were based in Yakima for decades (dueling studios on 24th near the airport), and of course when they vacated for Tri-Cities, nothing was archived either....... For all I know, I may have the only copy of that NewsBeat at 11 or NewsCenter 23 broadcast, even if partial. By the way, the best comment I ever got, and I mentioned this earlier, was Ken Crockett's daughter Lori. She was so thankful that I had posted several KIMA NewsBeat clips with her dad on them. She ended up making a Christmas collage and surprised her dad with a compilation of clips I had found for last Christmas. He loved it because he hadn't seen himself on KIMA in 30 years. Those comments melt my heart. People still care. When T.J. Close passed away in 2019, our long-time (30+ years) lead anchor for KIMA, Stu Seibel emailed me and asked me to copy off the Flood of '96 special he hosted for his family members in AZ who had never watched it. I did exactly that, copied the 28-minute program onto an SP-quality DVD, double-checked it, and he personally thanked me for my efforts.

Not the case with Sony. Everything from the earliest seasons of Trebek's Jeopardy to Chuck Woolery's slightly forgotten Wheel of Fortune to even the polarizing Patrick Wayne Tic Tac Dough version. It seems like most people go to either Dailymotion or the Internet Archive to put Sony content.

Yeah any newer material stuff will absolutely without question be blocked. I know my channel viewers prefer more modern stuff but I can't upload modern stuff not because I don't like it or anything like that it's just that I can't take that risk like that.

Yeah, those episodes got taken down on YouTube a while back. As i mentioned, those episodes are on Pluto TV so that's why they got taken down.

Those 1982 episodes are the ones on Pluto. Didn't know that Fremantle has blocked slightly newer TPIR and LMAD.

Follow up regarding Hohmann's replacement. Morning Meteorologist Dan Schwenneker will take over Chris's evening slots as the new chief beginning 5/31. WDSU's morning meteorologist Kweilyn Murphy will take Dan's morning slot on Channel 11.

I'll chime in here since I'm one of the game show content uploaders here in this forum. I've seen other YouTubers that have uploaded Sony content and here's the thing about Sony: Sony is definitely relaxed if you were to say upload things like say the ending credits, intros things like that you can probably get away with saying the name of the game show without any issues and they for the most part never had any issues with uploading smaller type stuff, they did block them occaisionally but most of the time they blocked the more recent stuff. When it comes to uploading full episodes of Sony game shows mentioning the name of the show in the title and/or description is the quickest way of getting your channel terminated, by the same token doing things like what Sam Mitchell does with his "Mitchell Game Show Theater" and the late David Downs (R.I.P) did with "Fan Favorites" you'll notice the majority of them are all Sony stuff and overall what I've noticed is that if you were to occaisionally upload full episodes of Sony stuff, odds are you'd be fine, however uploading too many Sony Game Show episodes is asking for the channel to be taken down, in fact I might make an effort to at least make 1 or 2 uploads of Sony shows on my own channel and that would be it because I certainly don't want mine to be terminated for the things I just mentioned above.

Fremantle also recently took a lot of Drew Carry Price is Right episodes off YouTube a couple months ago. Most notably the more recent ones from like 2012 to now. They didn't take down the earlier Drew Carry episodes or the Bob Barker ones (they did block some episodes from 1982 and 1983, but that's most likely because of Pluto TV.) Oh, and Let's Make a Deal too.

Like I said, ViacomCBS is the most extreme example film and TV wise. Many years ago, during their fight with YouTube, they wanted to turn over IP addresses who watched their material unauthorized. Just a newscast open should qualify as fair use, but fair use has to be 30 seconds or less I believe. Some game shows are allowed, others will lead to strikes. Any of Sony's or WB's game shows will result in strikes, although someone said a few years ago Sony's not always consistent. NBC targeted episodes of the original Weakest Link back in 2018, even though at the time those episodes didn't air in reruns since around 2005. I don't have a YouTube channel, but I'd have commercials on one channel and actual shows on the other. Most commercials aren't targeted. VHSGoodiesWA had at least 2 strikes on his channel, one for a Cancer Treatment Centers of America ad for 2001, and a 2001 break taken down simply because one of Don Henley's songs played in it. (Henley's known to be aggressive with copyright takedowns). If it's 30 seconds or less, I'd file a counterclaim for fair use. The law states that owners must consider fair use before issuing any takedowns. Too often, this never happens though. I think any material that hasn't been released in many years should be public domain quicker, say 15 years if the material isn't released. Won't happen as long as Disney has lobbying power.

Speaking from a positive experience, I wish more stations/companies would just claim the copyright of the content, and monetize it for them. My effort remains up, and they make a few pennies off of it. Fine by me, since 99% of us aren't in it for money and would never think of trying to profit of our uploads.

This is a thing with all of the major social media platforms. It's pretty aggravating in my opinion, especially considering that the "misinformation" label is so vague, and not applied evenly. I also don't think it's the place of these platforms to determine what's "true" and what's not, as that's very subjective, and they likely don't have trained staff who can make that determination. I stay away from modern-day material from CBS, ANYTHING from legacy Viacom. Individual stations I will not post include KESQ and WMC-TV as they've pulled my stuff before (over a decade ago, but I still have a sour taste in my mouth). I focus on local stations and just avoid national content if I can help it. The local stations usually understand, and appreciate, what we're trying to do as archivists. Or the chain owner's corporate legal team doesn't think it's worth going after an individual for a newscast that aired once. OTOH, the networks have bigger legal teams that have the time to search YouTube looking for content to pull (*cough* Viacom *cough*).

From what I’ve read, the format of the evening edition will be structured so that stations can choose to carry either 30 minutes, an hour or all 2 hours of the program.

I actually disagree. I am pretty sure it is for actual risk minimization. Many stations still have weather and sports people working from home.

A couple of newly uploaded clips featuring my absolutely favorite era of CNN (in terms of music, graphics, set, and just overall look & feel):

To its credit, this new L3 (if the white boxes were added to all graphics and not just the breaking news one) looks better than GMA and CTM's, which isn't saying much. I'm surprised to hear myself say this but the generic white box would have elevated the look in this case. GMA is just a big blue box and CTM's graphics (as someone stated) looks like an unreal news program on a TV show. Their best L3 was their debut look in 2012. Except for the previous package, Today has really struggled with lower thirds since they axed the 2009/2010 look.

Mark Giangreco's interview from earlier today:

The 1990 Pilot of The Joker's Wild with Pat Finn. Enjoy.