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I never really understood having them both at the same time.. WBBM had them both too at the same time back during the pre-budget cut Ahern era; however, I believe Roeper only popped once a week on a newscast or 2 to review the week's movies while Zwecker was the daily entertainment reporter. Roeper is his own "brand". He doesn't need to be on a newscast daily. It seemed more like something that management just offered him a couple years back and he just said, "Sure, whatever, I'll do it." The one I really don't care for on GDC is that Jake Hamilton. I just find him annoying as hell. He almost seems as if he really is hocked up on something. He's way too much especially on the earlier (4am-7am) hours of the show. He's just like that Marcus Leshock. He comes off as way too annoying and it appears way too obvious on WGN's morning news that the other morning personalities don't seem to care for him.

Now for a little Atlanta 1994: WAGA, WGNX & WXIA [MEDIA=vimeo]237475991[/MEDIA] IMHO, that WXIA package would do well in HD... (especially with the Serifed fonts) Jim

ATN7, Sydney, Australia; 1978 -- some of the spectacular landscape shots in this open remind me of KOOL from this era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=vyVgfPjgO20;m=2;s=22 And for comparison, this is what the open to KOOL News (one of several versions) looked like:

Last thing from Phoenix for a while - I think I've gotten everything I can for the near term... (I'm also on a business trip for a week, so I'll be posting pre-uploaded content through early next week...) KPHO April 1994 - Fresh News! [MEDIA=vimeo]237486605[/MEDIA] Jim

Twas Chuck Mangione... Bellavia. I can tell you that this music was also used as a newscast close at sister Meredith station WNEM BayCity/Saginaw/Flint. I suspect when the GM of 'NEM was promoted to that position at KPHO, he also brought that music as a close with...

It's almost too syrupy for Beau Weaver, but I think that's him. Also, Carns and Powers on a Sunday night (that's May 1, 1994 BTW)? Very curious indeed. Did KPHO run their main anchor pairing Sun-Thu? ——— I figured it's worth noting just how much Arizona material we've gotten just in the last month. It's like a laundry list. For KTVK, we got some material from as far back as 1981 and additional newscasts. We cleaned house at KPHO and identified no less than three unknown generations of opens and two new NMSA entries. (The "News 5 Theme" from 1981-86 is really, really good!) The Visionary was a total surprise, and Fresh News was long awaited (and finally put in its proper time slot). We even got to see the Arizona 5-Minute News for the first time. It really struck me how, through 1994, KPHO was constantly a couple years behind the curve. No wonder they were having trouble in the early '90s — had KNXV Fox 15 News been able to go ahead as originally conceived, KPHO's news would have been blown out of the water almost immediately. The KTSP/KSAZ material wasn't all new, but we finally got some vision on The Vision era — though I am going to be fiending for that image campaign. (Another excellent theme — and something I'd been waiting years to see.) And anything relating to the affiliation switch is gold to me. For KPNX, the 1992 theme open finally showing up was a surprise, but the Real News search is on. Additional material from some eras of KPNX that don't show up often was a nice treat. As for KNXV, the vintage promos and stuff are nice, but the only meat and potatoes KNXV I want to see is from 1994. Someone has to have recorded that first newscast — 43 stories in 33 minutes!

I chose Vimeo for several reason - mostly, I have better control over the content (quality, access, etc.). I've seen too many cases of entire histories of newscasts gone when someone gets kicked out of YouTube over content. Plus, I'm fed up with the ads all over YouTube. I'm paying for the hosting, so I can better manage the content. If a question is raised, I can address it, rather than having a flat-out ban. It's content I can control (in that it's stuff I recorded or was recorded specifically for me), and I feel that Vimeo provides the best option for my needs. Plus Vimeo flies a but under the radar, whereas YouTube is more "in your face". I'm not trying to monetize anything - just want to make the content available to fellow enthusiasts. (Plus if I dumped everything at once, there'd be a giant productivity loss from y'all!) Jim

#MeanwhileInOrlando... Obviously, with big Billi making himself at home here, Fox 35 has gone whole hog with with being WSVN Central Florida, slogan, teases, studio setup and all. But with transforming into "The News Station" of Orlando comes a different sound. This is today's 5:00 open; you can hear the bumper cut with a peculiar SoFla influence. But if you listen closely to the open... SOUNDS like Inergy. But it isn’t. And the 6:00 open has that unmistakable rock sound. Could this be the long-rumored Stephen Arnold Fox package everyone's been talking about? (As you can also hear, they still use the OSI pack. On a related note, I messaged Big 13 today about them possibly going back to Impact. From what they tell me, they have to toe the line, Skytower and Phoenix be damned)

TIL Terrell Brown's middle name is D'Angelo. Janet Davies called him that during today's Columbus Day Parade.

AFAIK, ESPN regularly offers the MNF games to the highest bidder whenever the game can't air on the ABC O&O (because Dancing with the Stars is more important for ABC.) That's why, if the Bears have a MNF game in December when DWTS is over, the MNF game will be on WLS. Otherwise, it gets sold to somebody else in the market, typically WGN, WCIU, or WPWR.

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!)

Last segment of América 2's 7PM news from May 24, 2001, anchored by Enrique Llamas de Madariaga. He was one of the anchors who popularized the conversational way of presenting the news (very common here in the South), always providing commentary between stories.

From Phoenix, another KTSP newscast from the tail end of the NewsCenter 10 era:

Whoa. That's an INCREDIBLY blatant WSVN ripoff!!!

Just wait until I post the KKTM newscast open and close... I've never seen a plywood set - where you can see the grain of the plywood... (That one may have to go onto YouTube...)

Yeah, the listing has been taken off their website, so it's certainly not happening anytime soon. I will be curious, though, if the network will allow them to pick up a part-timer with Podesta leaving. Hell, I wish they'd add to/update the online bios to settle the score on where people stand and who's official employees.

You could just put the full newscast on YouTube, as they'll let anybody upload anything. They don't even have that 10-minute limit anymore.