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I've noticed several comments in the chat box about the lack of crawl during Megyn Kelly Today. The ticker that's used during the regular Today Show is controlled and put on air by NBC. The affiliates get parameters and notices before hand where they have to upload the files to a device called the NameDropper HD. It does what it exactly says it handles the branding of the station from the top of the hour IDs to the Today Show time, temp and ticker. All of the Today's items are handled by this device. I don't think it's smart enough to handle two different types of graphics configurations. In the end it's a really simple graphics engine. In order for a headline to be displayed in the Today's ticker a producer would have to manually update a TXT file. Every new line of text instructs the device to insert the Today sunrise logo or a station logo. I think there is a plugin for ENPS and iNews so it could be updates from that app, which automatically updates the file. In order for the ticker, time and temp to be displayed it has to be triggered by someone in the Today control room or NBC's master control. Edit: I almost think the tickers triggered by someone in master control as there's sometimes a delay between the background disappearing and the text disappearing. CBS also uses the same hardware under their own name called LIDIA.

I am already in love with her. People will pay to see the old stuff, it's really just a matter of finding someone to do it in each market. When you consider that in 1960 most tv stations only did about 1 hour of news daily at the most, so it's really not such a giant effort to clear a bankers box of old a/b rolls in a day or less. Just time and money...like everything else. ...and someone that actually cares about local history. Thanks RKO for posting that.

I believe I have Fresh News for KPHO and KNXV early ABC, and possibly transitional KSAZ. I'm still digging. Unfortunately getting stuff off of tape is a real-time activity... (Though I usually start the playback/recording process and go do something else...) Plus I royally suck at labeling my tapes... And I have hundreds of tapes to go through... I believe I have the full 12News Sunday 7pm Newscast from 5/3/92 - It's recording right now, and we'll see... Jim

My point is that new ownership of WPHL (be it Sinclair, Fox, or whoever) would likely spell the end of 6abc's production of it.

I'm going through everything methodically, migrating from DVD to hard drive(s). I'm prioritizing the posting based on newscast age - the older the better. (I haven't run across my KCEN 1987 newscast yet, but do have the tape, if I need to re-digitize it...) If I run across any pre-2000, they'll get posted, once converted and I don't run out of space for the week (I get 5GB upload/week, unless I upgrade to 20GB - which I'm thinking of doing, but need to save a little money up first). Once/If I upgrade, get ready for a slew of stuff, up through about 2006...

Well, here's stuff from one rare market I've never seen before. The oldest known WEYI footage! An hour-long WJRT "Video Scrapbook" on their 30th anniversary in 1988 (the news stuff is toward the back) WJRT used Hello in the mid-80s...and then a local radio station in Flint created a parody of the Hello image song! Some kid for a public access show did a whole behind the scenes of WNEM circa 1990... (Note: 43 minutes!)

I meant sales - too late on a Saturday night... I thought that some of the new rules required the sales staffs to be fully separate. Jim

I can't stand irika, Kate was much better, hell even ann state was better than her, but MaryAnn would be awesome!

Parts from my 1998 trip around the US. First up: Toledo, OH: WUPW (Toledo) August 25, 1998 10:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]237298286[/MEDIA] WTVG (Toledo) August 25, 1998 11:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]237297866[/MEDIA] WNWO (Toledo) August 25, 1998 11:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]237300997[/MEDIA] Jim

So it's just a local tagline that they used to not bore people?

Yes. Don't know if KCNC still does it, but theirs looked like this in 2012: I've also seen WKMG override the ticker with their own as well.

That would make the most sense. With the future of the 10pm newscast uncertain, that would give each anchor team an even 90 minutes on-air.

Looks like that Will & Grace interview was awkward to at least one of the cast members: http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/debra-messing-regrets-megyn-kelly-today-appearance-1202574006/

2 Bonuses: Twin Cities + classic KTRK clips WCCO (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) August 3, 1998 12noon [MEDIA=vimeo]235655240[/MEDIA] KTRK (Houston, TX) 2003 - With a classic "MCTYW" open and some unforgettable Action 13 Commentary: "Maaaarrrvin Zindler, Eye Witness News" "Thank ya', Marvin" - Dave Ward [MEDIA=vimeo]235659704[/MEDIA] Jim

I'm trying to recall who did WRCB's. When I worked at KAMU in the late 80s, there was some internal feeds for stations, where they'd showcase a designer, to promote creative ideas (i.e., when stations had graphics staffs, and that was a PBS station with no local news...). I believe it was whomever designed the WDIV graphics late 80s/early 90s using First News (where "News 4" flies in and "bounces" off the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vfR6KD6QZc, WKXT Knoxville's Great News open (Logo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdk3NfOwEEI) WBAL's Pride Inside Open (though this isn't the one I have somewhere): WFMY was also a client as was KJRH with their 80s' 2 logo. The design house used a lot of static "cut out"/silhouetted shots and "flying 3D Text" images (aka the end of the WRCB open). I'll see if I can find the original feature... Jim

Early 90s... Tulsa, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and Louisville KJRH (Tulsa, OK) September 28, 1990 6pm [MEDIA=vimeo]235246895[/MEDIA] OETV - KETA (Oklahoma City/Tulsa, OK) September 28. 1990 6:30pm [MEDIA=vimeo]234256895[/MEDIA] WCPO (Cincinnati, OH) May 3, 1991 6:30am [MEDIA=vimeo]234257333[/MEDIA] WRCB (Chattanooga, TN) May 10, 1991 11pm [MEDIA=vimeo]235242450[/MEDIA] WDRB (Louisville, KY) August 18, 1991 10pm [MEDIA=vimeo]234597782[/MEDIA] Jim

Here's a Baltimore Sun article about the effort of one woman to digitize the WJZ library. She made a pitch to the station that she'd digitize them if they give her the licensing rights.

Another Phoenix gem from ewjxn: KTVK's 11 AM Arizona Morning from 1981. Looks a bit like early Good Morning Arizona, which launched 13 years later!

That has got to be one of the worst CG takes on Helvetica I've ever seen. Bad kerning, weird letter heights...the works. (And yet the weather summary is surprisingly sane.)

I don't see Megyn lasting. The people who watch her at FOX don't watch NBC. I see her show being cancelled within a year and the return of TODAY'ss Take

They like to (tend to) do different things without any sort of rhyme or reason (they don't like stability). I too have noticed these changes, but I wouldn't go as far as to say this is 'official'. Things could be completely different in the next few weeks/months ahead. Just never know with them.

Live from streetside Studio 5... WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 2004: