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WABC, New York; late news, 1976; the Yankee's American League Pennant win is the top story:

According to his Twitter, he was on MSNBC this afternoon after Alex Witt.

Part of the death of TV is its own doing, like a habitual smoker that has lung cancer but refuses to give it up, partially out of denial that they've done this to themselves. That said, even companies like Sinclair can only keep it up for so long.

Charter and Viacom agreed to extend the deadline short term as negotiations are proceeding. Some have made a valid point - most Viacom channels won't be missed if taken off and others have no specific purpose anymore. Viacom has a lot of work to do to make itself relevent again.

Here's a real treat, WBKP from 2000 using Move Closer to Your World. Yes, really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=l7M9Z6USG9Q;t=5

Two very big shoes to fill at WRAL. It won't be the same after 2018, that's for sure. When you lose big news anchors like Bill Leslie and David Crabtree who have personified WRAL News for decades, its like Charlie Gaddy and Larry Stonger... its hard to swallow and they're irreplaceable once they leave. Truly irreplaceable.

As he celebrates his 35th anniversary at WLS, here's Alan Krashesky...weatherman? While these are quick clips, stuff from this era at the station is largely considered rare. After that brief stint, he became early morning news anchor, leading into some random chick's show. Don't know what happened to her. Finally, a nice clean cut of the debut broadcast of the 6:15 'Eyewitness News This Morning' from 1989, a few months before it would expand and add traffic anchor Roz Varon.

KREM 2 News in 1996 (!!)

Currently 1:45am EDT Viacom stations are still on Spectrum Cable. Viacom is still running the crawl inform subscribers what is going on. Latest word is Talks are ongoing but could wake up to the largest Cable Blackout in American history.

I don't know how much effort is required to add and subtract, but I believe her bio went up after only after Mike was fired. That said, they managed to move Ron and Linda's bios to the bottom of the page and even more their retirements for about a month before they were permanently removed.

Yes please! As I've seen more mid-90s Phoenix TV material, I'm starting to understand just why News 15 was a jarring event and why its promotion was so on point. Phoenix — I mean, Arizona — TV newscasts of the period were really samey, and the way they were promoted was very sugary. Even KSAZ, which had a bit of an edge to its image and tried to cultivate that through the early Fox years, was and still is at its core a very traditional sort of TV newscast. KTVK had presentation that hadn't changed significantly since, like, 1987; KPHO had finally managed to truly come out of the 80s just months before, and even then changes in the anchor lineup and presentation barely masked the outdated feeling of their main newscast. KPNX was also in this mold. KNXV was scrappy, really fast-paced, and sugar-free. Their story density was amazing; they aired 43 stories in their first 33-minute newscast (August 1, 1994). While the station toned down some of what it might have done under Fox, it found that a fresh approach to news, with quite a bit of attitude, was going to be successful. News 15 impressed a lot of people — it was the second-place finisher in the 1995 local Emmy race, covering 1994, despite only having five months on the air. Between 1994 and 96, KNXV was something else. Then it went tabloid, started to pursue ratings, and it quickly fell into a hole. Outside of a time in the mid-2000s and arguably recent years, KNXV has been often describable as "barren". However, they're pretty good if a little over-the-top, and they have the best Twitter presence in town.

Here's more -- these promos give some indication of just how revolutionary KNXV's initial format and style were for the Phoenix market:

Now for some material from the sister channel to the one I found yesterday: Grab a box of tissues, here's WABC's 11pm news from just 10 days after 9/11. A very serious newscast, no happy talk or banter. At the end is a long credit role that acknoledges Don DiFranco, the station's engineer who was killed when the towers collapsed. Plus an expanded edition of Nightline from that same day: And as a bonus, the Politically Incorrect that aired afterwards. After 9/11, the show would do cold opens for the rest of it's run: Now on a happier note, here's a news teaser from WECT from February 9, 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h=2;id=OLiyFX9nt6s;m=33;s=43 And a December 1990 KIMT newscast from the directors POV (you''ll have to click the link to view): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybRRrsOUotM

Speaking of Des Moines, is it just me or does WOI's promo music from 1984 sound similar to KNSD's 1985 theme?

I looked at News 12's website and they usually do service for only the Bronx, Brooklyn, Connecticut, Long Island, Hudson Valley, and Westchester (the latter in which they're from New York). I guess that makes sense since my grandma lives in Northwest Connecticut and she might have the channel in her Charter package.

No we've never got that. I believe that starts in Dutchess or Ulster.. maybe even Orange

TEGNA struggling to find investors is a good sign the downward spiral is starting to reach top speed. If big companies like TEGNA start selling off, they're just going to inflate the other remaining companies. Eventually those companies will start to struggle and... Well, you can guess what happens. If nobody is buying, we're just going to see stations shut down. Like it or not, TV is dying and the only thing keeping it afloat are companies like Sinclair who are still in a buying mood.

From ABC's new show, The Mayor (taken off a story from Variety on the new show's ratings): A Scripps station in NorCal perhaps?

Some Rochester material from 1992: A WOKR midday tease and weather promo:

Really? I used to like this station. Now they're slowly becoming very tabloid-y like WHDH. Plus, their weather graphics are the worst of the 5 Boston local news stations. And don't even get me started on their Facebook page. It has become the digital equivalent of a tabloid newspaper. Every other day they post a photo with an obnoxious-sized caption in capital yellow or white letters.

It was more cheesy than bad (we're talking about the turn of the millennium here for what it's worth) but yeah...

That's why WCVB is one of the best TV stations in the US.

Didn't know that Marler and Marshall ever worked at KATU.... and yeah, that is one bad slogan.

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