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7 Australia and NBC have a lot of similarities so I'm not surprised

And the first to re-add the 7-9am portion on WWL-TV. They'd do so in a heartbeat.

Given the competition they have at this hour(s), they're going to need someone with a strong presence (it's admittedly what the viewers at this hour want) unless they just boost CNN International hours and air lots of Newsroom. In my opinion, Jake just isn't the "face" of the network they must be seeking for primetime. Not really sure who or what could be that right now.

Even if NBC (and ABC) drop 10pm programming and compete with Fox stations with newscasts, there's still plenty of dayparts where Fox can counter the networks with local news. Most notably, 7-9 am when Today and Good Morning America are on. NBC ties up 9-11am with even more Today and ABC stations are locked in at 11am with The View. CBS may be the first to drop morning news if they finally give up on the 7-9am hour after decades of failure. And WWL would have the last laugh!

Besides... they really don't need 6 meteorologists in SF...

Kwtv is set for the first broadcast to be Sunday November 13th. And while the set is still technically not available for the public to see pictures of yet until the debut Karl Torp is working at the downtown studio today and posted this from the set’s Bob Mills weather center.

Maybe now sales/marketing/creative service will get an idea of how hectic and busy the newsroom is when they go off sell or order stuff the newsroom must do before asking anyone "downstairs" if the logistics will work.

KWTV employees were given a tour of the new facility on Thursday they were only allowed to post photos of the new newsroom that will House everyone from Sales, News, and 9 Outdoors (billboard advertising) the studio is being kept under wraps from the viewers until launch day sometime next month.

KATU channel 2 News 1985 WCNC Celebrating 55 Years!

WJZ 1995 the big switch.

KTVK, Phoenix, 9 p.m., 2006:

KGNS Pro News 8 1992 ( along with Telemundo's occurio asi clip) WKEF 22 Alive weather segment 1987

The 1987 stock market crash ("Black Monday") as the story broke live on Financial News Network (now CNBC): Part 1: Part 2:

WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1996:

WLS Eyewitness News excerpt (February 23, 1979) WFAA News 8 Weekend Update (October 14, 1979)

Surprised to see ABC using the bulletin branding as late as 2004. I wonder when they completely dropped using that and just stuck to special report. Special Report is a little overused for repeating events such as the impeachment trial or January 6 hearings. The live coverage designation, like back in the day, would be better suited for such events.

Noticiero SIN (Univision) 1983 clips, along with some Spanish snippets and WLTV snippets.

WSRE Newsline 23 1979

6:30am segment of WAVY News 10 Today from August 1994

WMC-TV 1981

Here's KXAS from 1984, with what appears to be a Collier Concepts open:

WTVF Eyewitness News at 6:00 open (August 11, 1980) WTVF Eyewitness News at 10:00 open (June 16, 1981)

Well, here's a full open from the same year (though someone cropped it a little too close):

Portion of a KUTV 1977 News Open (with Al Ham's On Top of It All... and you can see where Peru's Pantel got their influence from) It's worth nothing that there are several full KUTV newscasts from the late-70's available from the University of Utah archives, though you'd have to be on campus or request these tapes. https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv245086/

Staying in Chicago, a WMAQ weekend newscast from 1979:

KRBC Big Country News Nightside (July 20, 1987)

Here's another report about a high-profile Twin-Cities-to-Chicago move, this time meteorologist Paul Douglas' high-profile switch from KARE to WBBM. Unlike Magers, Douglas did not settle in Chicago. He joined WCCO three years later.

Rebuilding Together: KDKA Eyewitness News Special, 1985 WTNH 1980 Action News 8 KTVK Total News 1980

One of the all-time great station campaigns, WJZ's "Pictures In The Skies". A campaign that, hilariously, Al Sanders did not like. "What does that mean?!", he would exclaim. That tidbit just adds to the campaign's charm, IMHO And I might as well shoehorn this in too, a version of "Pictures" with the incomparable Ernie Anderson.

WPEC 1979-80 Newscast/Clip

WLNS TV 6 News 1983 WDIV News 4 Detroit 1983 WXYZ 7 Action News 1983 WZZM TV13 Eyewitness News 1983

KOIN 6 Live at Noon (February 15, 1982) WPTA 21 Alive News at Noon (May 7, 1998) WPTA 21 Alive News at 5:00 (February 1, 1999)

Today Show clip and KGW News 8 Morning Update featuring an interpreter (October 29, 1982)

This week in history 5/11/81, Bob Marley died. One of the few pieces of coverage I could ever find. It's a surprisingly short obit considering Marley's magnitude. You wouldn't even realize that he died that long ago given how often his songs are played today. CBS Evening News:

Another day, another departure from WNYT. Jerry Gretzinger, who anchored the 4:00/4:30/6:00 newscasts, will be leaving the station as of March 11th after 4.5 years. Gretzinger is the tenth on-air personality to have left WNYT since December 2020, on top of longtime GM Steve Baboulis and several longtime photogs, and is the second departure this year after reporter/fill-in anchor Jacquie Slater left the business in January.

The anchor changes at WNYT weren't the biggest news to come out of there today. Steve Baboulis, GM since 1996 and an employee of the station since 1977, is retiring. Steve is much of why WNYT went from also-ran to powerhouse and while his "it worked I the 90s" attitude has been a little detrimental as of late, this is a huge loss for a station that's had a rough year personnel wise.

Any idea as to who did the pre-1998 WEWS graphics?, it lasted until they got rid of the longtime "Circle 5" logo (which lasted for over 30 years) and replaced it with a new logo and graphics done by Novocom. They debuted the Novocom graphics around late April 1998. But according to a comment on YouTube, they kept the 1995 set until it was replaced in October that year.

Can’t imaging working in their Southeast bureau: “Reporting from the Southeastern bureau of North Central West Virginia’s News Station, I’m…”

Besides WBAY-TV, WTHR (pre-1997), WHP-TV and WGEM-TV, WICZ-TV in Binghamton, NY also used a variation of the "Balls and Walls" package before the switch to Fox in 1996.

Any idea who did the WEAU-TV news opens & graphics around the same time? (late 1990s)

Speaking of TVbD, their Vimeo page is still up!

I'm pretty sure they commissioned that look before anyone else. Here's how it looked in 1992, about a month after they moved into their current building:

I guess KUSA-TV also used some variation of TVbD's famous "Balls and Walls" package (sans the globe), before the switch to NBC in September 1995.

Do you know which agency did the 1997 WCAU NBC10 news graphics & opens?, these graphics debuted in Fall 1997 after they dropped 615 Music's "Impact" (which they used since the affiliation switch to NBC in September 1995) and introduced a new theme ("NBC10 News Theme" by Eve Songs).

In a rare case we do know this. This was an EGAD project! The music — which has somehow never gotten to the NMSA — was done by Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon (Pinnacle Music), two veterans of Non-Stop; they also wrote the KSL 1998 package.

I'd like to know as well ... The 1999 WLBT package looks very similar as well. I'd almost say that it has a VDO vibe to it.

WPVI knockoff on SNL from 2019:

This is pretty blatant as it gets. Someone in Italy likes the FOX Sports graphics

I just watched the archived video of yesterday's 4:00 via NewsOn (and a pox on NewsOn for limiting screenshots with their latest redesign). Seeing this in full screen in HD quality confirms that there might be something brewing. That logo, if it is more than just a placeholder, gives me serious vibes to the Ackerley logos of the late 90s which took Upstate New York by storm and are still active at WIVT. In contrast to every 19 WOIO has had as CBS, better than every one they had this side of the later Malrite era CBS 19.

News Station gone from WSYR. Next stop...WIVT, the station using 17-year-old TVbD graphics? If there's any real bad sheep in that area of the country, it's WIVT. Seriously, those graphics are old (they blew KOTA out of the water years ago).