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I think this will make Info Junkie's and Raymie's day -- it certainly made mine; some bits and pieces of KNXV during the station's piecemeal Fox-to-ABC affiliation switch:

FINALLY! I've only seen that logo once before — a one-second billboard shot in KCNC's The Big Switch special. (No, seriously!) It was ditched when KNXV became the full ABC affiliate just months later. Apparently the GMA promo is not alluding to KTVK airing GMA out of pattern. For whatever reason, KNXV began airing the show on an hour delay when it was picked up in late August and was only able to clear it in pattern by the time this aired.

Oh God Philly After Midnight! I forgot about that one! Basically that was a reincarnation of their old AM Philadelphia/AM Live talk show. WPVI would pre-empt whatever show ABC was running right before noon to show it. When ABC launched The View, they kind of told 6 that, yeah, you kind of had to air it. So the show was moved to 12:35, after Politically Incorrect, and renamed suitably. It stuck around for a few years, until I think another Disney/ABC mandated syndicated show took it off the air for good. And niiiice on the Action Newscast that followed it. They "evolved" a lot of the elements of that 1998 look all the way up until they got the new set and graphics this year... almost twenty years!

This one has to sneak in there... [MEDIA=vimeo]237344183[/MEDIA]

Been waiting for digitaldave to post this again... I saw it a few years ago but it was taken off of Youtube. WAVY's "5:30 First News" open from 1992. My guess is that this came out in 1989 when the 5:30 newscast debuted. Certainly channels what then-sister station KXAS did with the "Night Team" opens... music intertitled in between the story teases.

Which was followed by a replay of that night's 11 pm news: WPTA's 6pm news from the last Sunday of 1999: An NBC News Special Report on the OKC bombing: Nightline from the same WPVI tape: Two thirds of the late news on the old KNTV from late April/early May 1994, with lots of program promos:

I've gone video hunting again. All of these are from the same YT channel: The first 12 minutes of the KGO 5pm news from February 27, 1997 (just after this short lived look debuted): A chunk of World News Now with Anderson Cooper from March 2, 2000: A pop-up news teaser from KMBC from February 25, 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=FlQHSUruFhg;m=28;s=34 From earlier in the same tape as the WNN clip, a promo for WPVI's Philly After Midnight, which was a reincarnation of AM Live/AM Philadelphia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=xr4PuM1J03c;m=10;s=43 And the episode itself:

Cheesy music and vocals (the latter of which they ended up dropping), graphics that are slightly better than the 3d view on Google Earth (surely they could have afforded to get drone or helicopter shots), and an overly loud rooster sound effect to start your all-American day.