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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...

I wonder if Nexstar will change the network's name since it'll clearly be a very different beast from what it's been. Then again, we live in a world where BBC America mostly shows American movies and cop shows and the Travel Channel mostly shows shows about ghosts, so...

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!

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)

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/

KRBC Big Country News Nightside (July 20, 1987)

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.

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)

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.

It was very homey... So much so, that back in the summer of '89, I took a nap on that couch on the left. The powers that be did not like that.

WSVN Newsplex mid 1990s! Very CNN. It matched with their hard/tabloid news station format they were aiming for. Today (NBC) 1990. Gorgeous Manhattan apartment style set that was used from the mid 80s until Sep 1990. Love the window level view of the skyline, and the sunrise toned rainbow behind the anchors. The living room area was very detailed with various trinkets and pieces that make it look realistic as if it were going to be used for a soap or sitcom.

I loved KOTV’s set that was used from 1994-2013. The only major changes they did to that set was moved the weather center to its own area, added the kitchen added a different interview set updated the backgrounds and got rid of all the gray to blue then to the brown.

I like the set WBAY-TV 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin used in 1987 (when still with CBS) which was mostly white/gray with a blue world map background and red carpet. The world map background would survive a few makeovers in the 1990s (when they joined ABC) until it was retired with a completely new set in 2003.

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 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.

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:

Here is WKYC in 1976, just a few years off of their old TV3 look, with a set much like it's fellow O&Os. Much of the shakeup may have been due to Virgil Dominic, who worked at WKYC up to the 70's, but was recruited down to Atlanta to try and make something out of WQXI/WXIA (which would also become a Gannett station by way of Combined). He returned to Cleveland to launch NewsCenter8 which vaulted them to the top and along with NBC's waning fortunes sent WKYC in to desperation mode.

It does have a Gannett vibe to it. At the time, WKYC was an outlier as an O&O. WJW had beaten them to the punch by launching NewsCenter8 as much as the NBC stations were branded at the time, and had to resort to Action News, years before WOIO even existed. By the late 70s, the News Ticker theme had given way to Classical Gas/Streets Of, and in the Gannett-esque era, You've got a Friend. WKYC was such a farm team of a station back then, with people like Al Roker, Amanda Arnold, Tom Ryther, Wayland Boot, Doreen Gentzler, Dawn Stensland, Steve Browne, Terry Burhans, and later picking up second and third-winders like Doug Adair. Jeff Maynor, Dick Feagler, and Jim Mueller. Even in marketing, they resorted to a Klein& promo to promote themselves in 1979.

I always wanted to know who did this set back in the 80s for WJXT, WDIV, WSB & WTVF. The style was very modern for the 80s era and the last picture of WTVF they did change the anchor desk in the 90s.

For WJW there are these sets. The one who made these sets is a mystery.

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

Most importantly, it was this very desk that viral video history was made....

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.

I'd like to know who designed the Gannett stations' sets, despite adding the "red white and blue" color to them.